President Saddam Hussein's Address ON the 13^th Anniversary of

The Great Victory day August 8, 2001

In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate

"Our Lord! Let not our hearts deviate now after you have guided us, but grant us mercy from your own presence; for you are the Grantor of bounties." Holy Quran (III. 8)

"We hurl right against injustice, it strikes at it then it will be frustrated" Holy Quran

Great loyal people of Iraq,

Godly martyrs,

Manly men of our valiant armed forces,

Noble women of Iraq,

Sons of our glorious Arab nation,

The days and the months revolve, and once again we are in the presence of August to give it an account of what we have achieved, after extending our due reverence and veneration to it. We would like to reassure August, having first endeavoured basically to win the satisfaction of the Merciful, the Compassionate, and to reassure with August all the people we have just addressed and all the good people in the world. We would like to reassure them and reassure August with them that its spirit of victory is still alive in the great and lofty construction carried out by the people of the summits and in the great struggle in the Grand Battle, the immortal Mother of All Battles, and that the harvest of victory is progressing along the lines of the promise we gave to it. And none will suffer frustration but those who are frustrated of their purpose.

Brothers,

While thinking of addressing you, I wondered : Is victory achieved only when the elements of strength are gathered, organized and mobilized, and when the timing of each action is chosen to suit its right moment according to the property of its objectives? Or is it the translation of faith, after it rises to its level together with the readiness for sacrifice, into items in a realistic and successful working plan, that achieves victory and renews itself and its means after developing the available strength to create what is additional in it and not merely using it as it is, as the first hypothesis postulates?

Victory, brothers, is achieved through both hypotheses when they fuse and interact under the supervision of an experienced, devoted, open-minded, potent and faithful leadership that cherishes its deep roots. The energy that nourishes victory and the guiding light on its main and subsidiary routes spring first from the hearts and the souls before looking for them in the field of things and other conditions. But feeling them inside the hearts and souls of their pioneers and those who hold titles of leadership in them, each according to his responsibility, power and authority, and the inner feeling of the possibility of achieving victory inevitably in the light of the faith inside the hearts and souls alone -- this feeling is the foundation without which total victory cannot be achieved. Hand in hand with this inner feeling goes good management, arrived at through the accumulation of experience, knowledge and the trust of the people and the army in their leadership, after having tested their leadership in all rounds of struggle and jihad and in other fields of life.

From this trust and with it, after the trust in Allah, the Great Omnipotent, and on the basis of justice, fairness and care for people's lives on the part of whoever leads the people and the army, spring elements that merge with each other and, Allah willing, undergo a great interaction to produce the fundamental factors that make victory possible. Or rather, with the gathering together of the attributes we have mentioned and their active presence and genuine interaction, victory becomes decisive in the hearts and in the souls. The certainty of victory and the absolute feeling of its presence are not cancelled out by any partial disagreement with its final results in this front or that, in this partial time of the battle or that, when the causes of victory in the hearts and souls of the opposing adversary forces are not of this quality -- even when they achieve superiority in things or in some partial results which come contrary to the wish of the true freedom fighters and the patient, faithful people of the just and fair stand and of the high sense of honour who are on the opposite side--they will not turn into a decisive result which counters the expected victory. The thoughts of those who line up under the opposing banner will be confused, their faith in what they were expecting and working for will be shaken, their lines will be dispersed and their power will depart with the prolongation of time and as endurance and patience in the lines of the faithful go on until Allah gives leave for the preponderance of the line of faith, the right stand, the wakeful management and the renewal that is not cut off its necessities and its circumstance.

Thus should be understood the preponderance of having victory spring first from the soul basically, and impose its image through factors called for by necessity to be united and interacting with what is inside the souls, hearts and minds and their outer surroundings to render it, Allah willing, decisive and final and to have it as the inevitable result of what we have referred to.

This is precisely the inspiration we, your brothers and comrades in the leadership, have received from your great history, great people of Iraq and high-spirited men of our valiant armed forces, and from the history of your glorious nation and their immortal heritage before examining closely the state of things at that time but, or rather, while examining it too. And this is what we exerted ourselves to do under all difficult circumstances for eight years, from September 4, 1980, when the Iranian aggression started as an organized military aggression with the shelling of towns, villages and economic establishments, to August 8, 1988, on which Allah favoured the people of Iraq and their free loyal army with His manifest victory along its description. Described thus, it is also a victory for the righteous people in Iran as it is a victory for the Arab nation and for the true believers. This is, brothers, the description of the victory achieved on August 8, 1988 and this is its nature, its foundation and the type of faith in it from the starting point until it became a final fact in the record of history.

On this basis, and along the same central concepts and their genuine constants, together with the required revolutionary compatibility and continuous renewal in styles, means, concepts, potentials and methods of treatment and behaviour, the proud and loyal people of Iraq and their valiant armed forces will win victory in the final results of the immortal Mother of All Battles. With them and through them, good Arabs will win victory. Their victory will be splendid, immortal immaculate, with brilliance that no interference can overshadow. In our hearts and souls as in the hearts and souls of the high-minded, glorious Iraqi women and high-spirited Iraqi men, victory is absolute conviction, Allah willing. The picking of its final fruit, in accordance with its description which all the world will point to, is a matter of time whose manner and last and final hour will be determined by the Merciful Allah. And Allah is the greatest!

Great people of Iraq,

Arabs, the best of all those who have struggled or sacrificed, descendants of the best of mothers and the worthiest of fathers,

Knowing the facts of life and dealing with them rather than with illusions, important as the two are for the revolutionaries to implement their practical programmes, including their great struggle to achieve victory over their enemies, may become a heavy burden for them unless they deal with these factors in the spirit of the faithful and optimistic revolutionaries who are capable of creativity, innovation and ascent. It will not do to deal with these facts in a shaken spirit and trembling, unsure souls and to succumb to their appearances as they are, and not with the spirit of confidence in the possibility of changing them radically and deeply to make them as they should be.

In any case, there is a clear dbetween the mentality of that who deals with things in the light of their present possibilities only, and that who deals with them in a spirit connected to the deep-rooted past on the one hand and to the future desired to be promising on the other hand. It is an energetic spirit which revolts against any feeling of weakness or impotence to look up to the whole future and be a living part in it. As the facts of life stipulate that they should be viewed as they really are so that the plan of changing them may succeed, the history of peoples and nations, the possibilities of additional creativity through constantly renewed high-mindedness and the desire for soaring up through strength on the part of those who want it --these are all facts and not illusions. The spirit informing the history of the nation and the people and their immortal heritage is the most important of the facts of life. It is, rather, the source of the main light in it, especially if it is interconnected with the faith and high-mindedness of those who believe in it in the present so that it comes to those who work on it like a glorious sunrise filling the whole horizon with brilliance, provided that it is preceded by a genial gleam inside the soul and a definite and total belief in it until victory becomes a fact at hand, seen by the naked eye.

In this spirit and on the basis of its laws and its relation to what ought to be and what should be in the manner and necessities with which the high-spirited men and glorious women of Iraq dealt, the manifest victory was achieved on August 8, 1988. It was achieved despite the predictions of those whose vision or resolution weakened or collapsed or was exhausted to the degree that they could not see it even in the remote horizon, while those who believed in the cause reached the end line in it carrying its banner and each according to the order and degree of their arrival, feeling as if they were taking the first step in the race, or rather, feeling as if they were unwounded or as if the ointment of the result had healed all their wounds. Thus this victory was born. With its birth, all the powers of evil in the world were provoked and mobilized after having seen that what the nation had been lacking was achieved on August 8, 1988, not only in its results but in its spirit also. The people and armed forces of Iraq started a new round with all that is required of the accumulation of experience, determined resolution and comprehensiveness and depth of conviction. The result, Allah willing, will not be but a brother to August. And as August was a brother to July, April was their sun, which dawned with the birth of the trustworthy nationalist Arab thought. It was the first faithful, truthful, virtuous and honest step on the road. July and August will have full brothers, as they had their sons in all the rounds of construction, in the spirit with which right encountered wrong with resolution, awareness, competence and faith of the high-born people to render the description of July and August and their sun, April, harmonious with the description with which Allah graced the true believers and disgraced the evil doers. The months of April, July and August will not be the only months of the Iraqis and the Arabs. With them will be all the months of the year because they are the months through which Allah has willed it to grand prosperity to the good and has made the shooting stars in them as missiles to drive away the evil ones. In these months, and for the first time in the history of mankind, the Babylonians devised astronomy and fixed the calendar of the year, the month, the week and the day, and the number of hours it contains.

And none will be despised but the debased!

Based upon all of this, brothers, we ask once again: Is victory achieved through mustering all potentials and directing each of them towards the target defined for it, and through choosing the right timing for any action ? To this we answer:

A victory like the victory of August, which we celebrate and receive cordially and in which we salute the godly martyrs and the brave men and glorious women, or rather all of the great people of Iraq and the whole Arab nation and the Arabs who contributed to it-- a victory such as this is not of the type or the description of the victories achieved by a technical condition and a ready-made strength only. It is rather achieved by a vision of the conflict in the middle of life as a whole. Only then can victory be potency for life, connected to its significance and necessity by deep faith.

The victory of August 8, 1988 was a victory of the faith we had and the way of life we chose over that which they affected and chose, imagining it to be faith and were deluded into believing that it would lead to it and that it was the right choice. Victory is the gist of a conflict with a list of comparisons full of items along the path of life and under all its titles, with each title, on our part, conflicting with its counterpart on the opposite side. The result of this conflict came precisely under this description: a manifest victory. Victorious in it were the faith we have and the quality characterizing our great people and their loyal representative in the front lines of the conflict, our valiant armed forces.

The manifest victory was achieved over what they had invented and called faith. Our life with its visions and concepts won along the path we chose. Before it and with it our faith won over their falsehood. Allah, Lord of the Worlds, was a witness, watching, with His wakeful eyes, over those whom He deemed worthy of a good reward and for singling out by His will, glorified be His name, those who deserve success and those who should fail. Thus came the victory with which He strengthened the Iraqis in their faith and their choice of life.

Along the same line will be the description of the victory in the immortal Mother of All Battles. That is because the eleven-year conflict with the evil aggressors in the Atlantic Pact, Zionism and its accursed freak entity and with those who allied with them or followed them like a hair in the tail of a treacherous biting dog, that conflict has defined all the titles of faith as we have them in the whole of Iraq. With them are defined the titles of our life and what we have chosen for it as path, image and condition, which are all conflicting now, as they conflicted for eight years in the Glorious Qadissiya, with their counterpart titles in the lines of the thwarted opponents. And then, the final victory on our side will not be the victory of massing a ready force and mobilizing it with technical success. It will not even be mere massing of a ready capability or a mere technical one only. That is because he technical list of comparison of what was ready on both sides of the conflict from the starting point till now, whether in strength or capability, in their technical sense points, from a narrow point of view, to the superiority of the enemy to us. But why do the Iraqis prove superior now, after trusting in the Great Omnipotent, and will prove superior in the final results too, Allah willing? They do so because the titles on the plane of faith and life, supported by the potency and the necessity of mobilizing the national and Pan-Arab spirit, will surpass the empty counterpart titles because these titles have lost, at the starting point, their legitimacy and the basis of justice and fairness in that legitimacy. They have lost the minimum requirement needed by a normal person to convince himself and others of the necessity of going on, exactly as it had been lost before by those who had chosen the conflict with us needlessly and whom we faced in the Glorious Qadissiya. Therefore, brothers, we will be victorious in the immortal Mother of All Battles too, as our people and our armed forces were victorious in the Glorious Qadissiya after faith won its victory over imposture, inventions and illusion, and after life won its victory over those who wanted it to be nothing but decayed bones in Iraq an, perhaps, the whole Arab nation.

In the light of these concepts and in the light of the facts of the conflict which we have been experiencing for the last twenty years in the Glorious Qadissiya and in the immortal Mother of All Battles, we find that it is our duty to address to you some observations about politics and some specific precepts on faith and life, on the methods of dealing with time and capability and how to develop potency and use it under certain circumstances, on how right wins victory over wrong after establishing right as the base for faith, justice and fairness and on all other things which were our guidelines in victory and patience.

And, brothers, because the Palestinian cause and the conflict in its field with the criminal Zionists, the usurpers of the land of Palestine and the lands of the Arabs, backed openly by the Black House and by certain people amongst the Arabs who are guided by personal interests and in whom both man and manlihood died, because this cause is now the most important field in the Arab-Zionist conflict and because Palestine is the full sister of striving Iraq and the immortal Mother of All Battles, we find that what we know and what we want to give as precepts to the Arab strugglers and freedom fighters should start with a letter addressed to Palestine and to my brother, the freedom fighter President Yassir Arafat and to all the Palestinian strugglers and freedom fighters, men and women, and through them, this time, to every honest and zealous Arab and to every free and trustworthy believer:

Brothers and bother President, leaders of the people of Palestine, do not look for victory outside yourselves and outside the circle of your people. What is outside yourselves, Palestinians, is of little manly qualities under the official titles and their related nomenclatures. It is covered by misleading darkness on the whole. So, like the avant-guarde amongst you, be a lamp to guide and be a beacon to whatever pleases Allah and pleases the honest people in Palestine and your Arab brothers and people all over the world. Be like your brothers and sisters in Iraq, where leadership and people have become one and where official titles are no more than an additional honorable commitment towards good citizenship and towards serving the people and uplifting the voice of right and the nation. Be on your full guard against anything that divides you, because if you are divided, Allah forbid, you will loose the foundation of your strength.

Be as you should be, brothers, and as you vowed at the starting point to have Palestine victorious through you. Your victory, with what support you get from the Arabs, will be a victory for the whole nation. Remember this, and remind those who forget it, and on the basis of what you are supposed to be: strugglers who hold the principles of the revolution and who fight on the side of their people and in the depth of their nation in defence of the principles and to confirm these principles through fairness, loyalty and honour.

Prove to everyone that presidency and leadership are a trust, a stand and a sacrifice. Thus you may add a new layer to their new model initiated by your people in Iraq and by your brothers and comrades in the leadership who are the people, the brothers and the comrades of every honest, zealous and loyal person in the Arab Homeland. Presidency and leadership in Iraq have acquired a new meaning connected by an honourable and a solid bridgehead to the conception and meaning of presidency and leadership in the Arab-Islamic history.

In any case, do not pay much attention to the terrorist statements circulated by the defiled Jews and Zionists in the world, supported by the criminal administrations in the Black House. Do not make these statements a passage to weaken the unity of your people and their national force which is mobilized entirely to liberate the whole of Palestine after it has been baptized and has performed its ablution with pure blood.

And do not give any weight, which may affect the struggle of your people, to those who call for the extinguishing of what they call fire at the expense of your revolution and the revolution of your people. Your struggling, patient, zealous and faithful people are being burnt daily. Yet, that by which they are being burnt is but the perfume of Paradise with which they cleanse themselves and thus draw nearer to their salvation from the Zionist presence. This presence has been sitting heavily on the chests of the Palestinian people and the chests of every faithful, honest and ardent Arab and Muslim since the criminal Zionists occupied the land of Palestine through the scheming of the criminal world Zionism and the execution of England and its politicians.

Do not fear a fire with which they intimidate you and intimidate your people. The real fire which leaves corpses to decay in their place is surrender. But the fire that leads to Heaven and to victory, if Allah wills it for his striving worshippers to pass through, will be turned cool and a means of safety for them by Him, glorified be His name, and He will make mercy and the uppermost Heaven the martyrs' reward.

Let him, whose garment is bought with ill-gotten money or ill-gotten oil or ill-gotten stand, burn without extinguishing the fire. Do not accept it from those who try to extinguish the fire to turn the Palestinian rifle into a fire extinguisher and thus open with it a road of death by suffocation, not only for our people in Palestine but also for the people of our entire nation, leaving the corpses of the suffocated without perfume from Paradise and without angles to enclose them and bless them in the name of the Merciful Lord.

Finally, tell them, brothers under the leadership of brother President Yassir, together with your brothers in all the titles of leadership and its hierarchy on the land of Palestine, and let every honest and loyal Palestinian freedom fighter and every faithful and ardent Arab tell them this: Death is right and for those who struggle and fight a jihadic war, it is supposed to be an expected state at the starting point. Tell them that the death of a loyal, truthful and striving freedom fighter is a better life not only for him but also for all of those who share the same stand and faith with him. Tell them that the struggler President and all the strugglers do not fear the death schemed by the enemy if there is only one choice between dying as martyrs and surrendering or accepting whatever weakens the march of the people.

Do not give any chance to those who try, in line with what is called thwarting the plans of the Zionist entity, to bargain with alternative slogans such as saving the lives of Yassir Aaraft and the leadership in exchange for extinguishing the candle of resistance or dimming it or distracting it from its basic objectives. We will not accept it from anyone to wrong the strugglers, and you are strugglers, brother Yassir and my brothers in the Palestinian leadership. So, I do not believe that you accept to be wronged as we and every honest and ardent Arab do not accept it for any of you to be wronged with such misleading and flimsy calls. Manoevre them in politics, brother President Yassir, whenever necessary. You and the brothers who help you have an attested experience in political manoevring. But do not leave in your political manoevring any gap that may thwart the people or eliminate the unity of the strugglers.

Brother leaders of the people of Palestine, tell those who say to you (either the continuation of the revolution or the lives of Yassir Arafat and the leadership), tell them: We will have both: the continuation of the revolution and the lives of Yassir Arafat and the leadership. And then, you will live and with you, or in the forefront of you, lives brother President Yassir, as the martyrs who are alive in the conscience of their nation live, and with you will live the people of Palestine too. The remains of whoever chosen by Allah for martyrdom will be the perfume of Paradise and the niche for a glistening lamp that lights the path for those who walk on it now ain the future till Allah decrees what He decrees for his good worshipers.

The supporters of Satan will reap nothing but that which they have sown. The freedom fighters will be the perfume of this life, its lamp and its banner, and they will be the perfume of the second life and its fragrance.

And Allah is the greatest!

Brother Arabs,

High-minded Iraqi men and illustrious Iraqi woman,

I think that you have heard or come to know the hostile statements against Iraq, made there, across the Atlantic, in a place imagined by those who live in it and by the unmindful and those deceived by lies, to have become, in a moment of negligence on the part of time, the centre of polarization and illumination in their new world or for their imperialistic globalization. Yes, made there, in the house the Iraqis called (the Black House) in the U.S. . And here we have to apologize to all our brothers in humanity who have black skin because by describing it as black, we do not refer to the colour of the skin of its masters but to their deeds and to the colour of their intentions.

They deserve this description because of their criminal deeds against the whole of humanity and because of the evil burden they inflicted upon the Arabs and upon Muslims in particular.

Do you know the pretext under which the masters of that house prepare themselves this time to commit new crimes against Iraq? it is not the allegation that there are concentrations of troops near the Saudi borders, as they alleged in August 1990 or after. That allegation was shared by some who were misled and some who behaved wickedly out of joint evil purposes. It is not getting Iraq out of Kuwait, as they replaced their first lie by a new cover. It is not even getting rid of mass destruction weapons, which they wanted to be a cover for continuing their aggression and their aggressive intentions, even after Iraq pulled out of Kuwait. And it is not incompliance with the so-called U.N sanctions.

Do you know what the pretext is this time? It is saying that Iraq is threatening the American aircraft of aggression which break through its air, trespassing upon its skies, the sanctity of its sovereignty, its land, its people and its wealth. Yes, this is what their master-magician and his associates in the American-Zionist mass media band say.

How strange it is that those politicians still imagine that people can be deceived by these lies! I hope that this does not astonish you, brothers, Do not they who advocate this illusion hold big titles? Moreover, isn't it the attribute of those who share with them this title in these times to lie, to quack to slander and to wage aggression against people? Isn't this the attribute of those who are deemed big by the propagators of the globalization policy, led by the Black House? Or rather, isn't this the pivot on which turn the dealings with the world of this House which is a nest of poisonous wasps?

Doesn't this make you laugh? It does. The worst affliction is that which makes you laugh. Or rather, this low level of what is called the politics of our times drives people even to nausea.

People of rank in the United States, if you really care for the lives of your pilots and for your people, for whom you have widened the prohibited grounds, including your embassies, then you have to stop your harm and your evildoing against the world.

Stop the harm done by your cat's paw, the Zionist entity, and stop its crimes against Palestine and the Arabs, and against the sanctuaries of the believers. If you care that your pilots and your aircraft are not harmed by the fire of the high-spirited freedom fighters of faithful, trustworthy and great Iraq, take your aircraft and your battleships and go home. Stop your aggression and your aggressive attitude towards Iraq, and let the American people live peacefully and deal with the world respectfully and establish balanced interests with other peoples. If, however, your aggressive policy against all peoples, including the Iraqis, the Arabs and the striving Palestinians continue, you and those who support and encourage you will alone, and no one else, bear responsibility before Allah, before all peoples and before the American people.

Remember that your aircraft, of whose safety you talk, do daily drop, by your orders, elements of death and destruction on the people of civilization, faith, stand, principles and zeal. The Iraqi people and their leadership will not stand hopeless before that, because they were born free and have kept their sense of the value of their attributes and their role. And none will be despised but the debased evildoers. May evil befall every arrogant transgressor who persists in doing wrong against right.

And Allah is the greatest!

Now, brothers everywhere, we present to you some precepts which grew out of our experience in life and our struggle against falsehood, and as follows:

When you reach a post of authority, deal with the post and the decisions issued from it or in its name in the manner of one who is put to the test by authority and the responsibility of the post in it. Exert yourself to succeed in the test. Thus you will be well-pleased and well-pleasing before Allah, your self and the people. Otherwise, you will deal with authority as if it were a personal gain where you do not find yourself unless you use it deviantly or pervertedly and coersively. So, make the distance between you and the post clear, with a well-defined base for it. From the dictates of necessity and from several choices, choose the least harmful one. Otherwise, the best choice is that which brings you nearer to Allah and to the people.

Remember that the channel of evil is like the channel of stagnant water: the deeper it is, the more suffocating it becomes to those who wade in it, and the broader its unpleasant smell travels. So, perfume the channel of life with good deeds and leave the channel of evil to those whose benefactor is Satan.

If you have commendable attributes, do not imagine that all of those with whom you deal have the same, but do not imagine either that they are incapable of having the same or even higher attributes. In the first case, you may be frustrated when you discover the opposite of what you imagined about them. Doubting or neglecting the good attributes in them may make you miss the chance of dealing with them in a positive and a well-balanced manner. Always remember that your people deserve to be trusted by you, and that you should make good will and good faith in their actions and stands your starting point, provided that you guard against the evil elements and prepare the needed measures to protect yourself and your people against them.

Do not block the road at all times before an opponent who tries seriously to correct his mistakes. But do not draw your plans and organize your potency on this probability, for your opponent may surprise you with the opposite. You always have to prepare all that enhances your capability to protect yourself against an existing evil and an evil, which may take you by surprise. Open your door to whoever knocks at it asking forgiveness for an evil action or an evil design he intends to correct. Base your ruling on what Allah has ordered you to do and what He has forbidden to be done, and on the sublime principles you believe in, backed by the social practice which is stable on its right base. Take lessons from the past, but open your mind and your heart to the future. Be on your guard lest you be taken by surprise or trick. Trust in Allah in all of that.

Remember that the triumph of your enemy over you is bitter. So, do not delude yourself into believing that your strength is greater than it is, nor delude your enemy into believing that it is less than it really is, unless you want to trap him. Remember that if your enemy belittles your strength, he will inflict his evil upon you in a manner that it becomes impossible for you to avoid it. Strike the right balance between this and that. Endeavour to make your strength equal to your word or even higher than it is. Avoid evildoing, without leading your people and your friends to imagine that are weak. Make of you right a fence to secure your protection justly. Back out of a mistake if you make one. Know that Allah is the benefactor of the patient and the brave who believe in right against wrong.

If Allah grants you the ability to defeat your enemy, do not humiliate him. Just take your right from him or pardon him. If you humiliate your enemy after defeating him you will regret it when you realize that your opponent in that is the Great Omnipotent Allah . Thus, you will make your enemy, in his turn, regret his stand against you and try to take another stand in the light of his endeavour to enhance his strength and capability. The conflict continues with alternative success, in the light of strength and chance rather than right against wrong.

If you expect or desire to heal broken relations with an opponent, do not widen the enmity to the extent that neither he can bridge it to his advantage nor can you to yours. The enmity will thus turn into a total rupture. Attempts to heal it become mere cover to a wound whose pus increases by neglect or by applying the wrong medicine. The more pus a wound has, the more difficult it becomes to treat.

Make doubt an exception to the rule of trust and confidence in your relation with your people. But make it the rule of conception and behavior in your relations with foreigners at the starting point, and keep some of it all along the way. While the foreigners demand, as you do, that some steps of relative confidence be taken so that your dealings straighten within the limits of the relations you want to have along the description and the extent you both decide. Your people are worthy of your trust. You only have to prove to them that you are worthy of their trust and confidence in you at the starting point and all along the way.

There is an essential difference between a man who works hard in order to govern and a man who endeavours, strives and struggles in order to realize his objectives in the light of the principles in which he believes so that he may serve his people and his nation. The first likes people to say to him: You have spoken the truth-- even when he tells lies. The second is concerned that people tell him the truth. When he does something right, they say to him: You have done this right, or dispense with that if it does not win the satisfaction of the people. When he does something wrong, they help him with truthful advice and sincere work to set it right. They do this on the basis that people and leadership are one historic condition within its stage.

Therefore, if you are of the second type of men, unite for life with your people, open your heart and your mind to them on your mutual course of life, and trust in Allah. This is how you win the satisfaction of Allah, of the people and of self, and thus become a popular landmark on the course of the history of your people and your nation, even if you are merely a struggler or a citizen among your people, with no other titles.

A judicious mind is a treasure. But not all of those who have it, in its scientific standards and attributes alone , can find its true significance and true power. Not all of them develop its comprehensive and deep properties and set it on the direction it should take in order to have an effective presence.

Mind, according to this description, is not that with which you convince yourself alone, but that which convinces people of you and of your mind thus describe.

Find the jewel of your mind. Develop its properties. Use it in the right direction on the right way to achieve that which you want to achieve. With this, and with the presence of the live conscience and noble human meanings inside your self, you will find that regret will diminish and self-satisfaction will take its place, optimism will take the place of despair and pessimism, vivacity the place of laziness and wise courage the place of hesitation or rashness.

Bear in mind that a victory, which is true and meaningful and whose significance and effect are of an everlasting nature, is not that for which you look outside your self. It is that which, in the first place, you find inside self, for self is its first and last testing ground and the field that precedes every other field.

Bear in mind also that victory inside the self will become the guiding model for any other successive victory, provided that one is capable of keeping up its requirements, maintaining it on its right base and shaking off it the dust or rust that gather on it in the course of its progress or as a result of the changing circumstances and their factors.

And then, victories of what is inside the self become victories outside it too. On the basis of the description, field and title of each of them, they become foreseen results, if, during their stages of birth and becoming, they are backed by the requirements of good management and by other capabilities, after trusting in Allah, the Great Omnipotent.

Keep in mind what Allah, glorified be His name, said about patience and its significance, and remember the way the prophets and messengers of Allah led their lives, and the sayings of the Noble Messenger of Allah, Muhammed bin Abdullah (Allah's blessing and peace be upon him and upon them all). And consequently remember that the least self-chiding people are the patient ones.

If patience does not imply the mustering up of strength for what a more effective and a more successful action requires in the direction of the predetermined objectives, or if it does not imply the choosing of the right moment for an action which is greater in effect, deeper in extent and lesser in sacrifice, then it is nothing but despair in which chances are lost and dignity may be wasted. It should be described as submission and servility instead of being describe as graceful patience.

Patience is wealth. In order for it to be living wealth, used on the right occasion, under definite titles and on the basis of right timing, it needs a captain. That captain is you, man. Know, then, how to find it, how to develop it and how to use it. Otherwise, it will turn into what looks like wealth buried in the ground and is unretrievable. It may even turn into a heavy burden to you.

Rights are like wealth, the more they outgrow the size, type and extent of the duties set against them, the less control the captain has over them and the less balanced their use is. Nothing is more important for the legislator of rights and for him who demands more rights, after considering that which satisfies Allah, than balance between these rights and the rights of society and the duties that ought to or must be carried out by whoever makes use of the rights. Otherwise, imbalanced rights become a burden to the individual and to society. And if they do not lead to catastrophes, they will certainly disturb the balance until things are brought back to their right shape and right course.

Any imbalance in rights to the advantage of duties can be adjusted without endangering the safety of society or altering the flow of life in a radically negative way, provided that the imbalance is neither serious nor intentional. But the serious imbalance of granting rights at the expense of duties will cause society to miss great historical chances and may lead to its collapse if it becomes comprehensive and if it extends over a period of time which exceeds the temporary circumstance. Whoever legislates for life and society or leads in both of them must bear in mind that whoever encroaches upon rights to the advantage of duties which do not have the form of a legitimate obligation or are not called for by necessity, will have Allah as his opponent. And he whose opponent is Allah is heading towards an abyss.

I add the following to what I have said so that everything becomes clear. A ruler who lacks the qualities of leadership and principles is often enticed to impose on the people and the nation more and greater duties and obligations than the rights he decides or are decided for them. Many ordinary people, on the other hand, are enticed to talk about and try to gain more rights, even if that leads to an imbalance between rights aduties.

Do not sow for today only and do not content yourself with what you sow for tomorrow but work on both. Give each the special care it needs and the attention it requires. Remember that the best work is that which makes today's sowing lead to the fruits of tomorrow's sowing, provided that neither of them infringes upon the other so that each yields the good fruits the sower desires. Do not let tomorrow distract you from you today, neither today from that which you hope for and endeavour to gain tomorrow, after trusting in Allah.

Neither wisdom nor virtue has he who is ungenerous; and undiscerning is he who is without divine guidance.

There is no good in him who bases all his weight in life on the title of authority he occupies, whose appearance and action are derived from his feeling of superiority to people, whose wealth is built upon ill-gotten gains and whose endeavour to win people's loyalty is based on their fear of him.

Man gains and enjoys as much freedom as he liberates himself from the weight of things on him. He will be guided to truth along the best and shortest routes when he deals with life without gloves and when he knows as much of divine omnipotence as concerns him when he trusts in Allah and deals with His Omnipotence without mediators.

Great People of Iraq,

High-spirited men of our valiant armed forces,

Arabs,

This is what we wanted to present and say before August that emerged victorious by the will of Allah, while we welcome, celebrate and commemorate all the days, months and years of the long battle and its complicated circumstances in the Glorious Qaddissiya and in part of what we are undergoing now in the Grand Battle, the Glorious Mother of All Battles. We affirm here to the sons of our glorious nation a vow we, as strugglers, made early in youth when we were still in the secondary school, a vow which the heroic people of Iraq, exalted men and glorious women, have now made with us that we will remain the dutiful sons of our nation, shouldering loyally the message before Allah and history. We will foster every good deed and defend with honour great Iraq and the sanctuary of the glorious nation.

Long live Iraq and long live Palestine!

Long live Palestine and long live Iraq!

Long live our glorious Arab nation and long live all the

strugglers and freedom fighters in it!

Shame and disgrace on the enemies of our nation and our people. Disgrace and curses upon the criminal Zionists, the usurpers of the land of Palestine and the land of the Arabs!

Glory to the martyrs!

Glory to the martyrs!

And Allah is the greatest!

Allah is the greatest!

And let the debased be despised!