In 1962, the liberals sought to cut off the Imam’s connection with the Ummah in popular institutions/the order to form the Basij brought Jihad to life.
According to the economic correspondent of Fars News Agency, Jihad was a revolutionary institution that was established on 27 June 1358 by order of Imam Khomeini (RA) with the slogan of taking care of deprived and remote areas in Iran. This institution was promoted to the Ministry of Constructive Jihad on 7 December 1362 and became a ministry in the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Following the merger with the Ministry of Agriculture, in December 1379, it continued its activities under the title of the Ministry of Jihad Agriculture, and even now it is considered one of the ministries of the government. Of course, it was formed in 1379 at the same time as the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad was formed by the order of the Supreme Leader of the Basij Construction Organization.
The interesting thing to note in this issue is Imam Khomeini’s (RA) order to form a construction jihad. In this order, Imam Rahal said: “This great evil wall that broke, there are many ruins behind this wall, and we are forced to inform the nation for construction. let’s be In order to repair the damages that have been caused during Jaer Pahlavi’s rule in our country, and thank God, our nation has declared its readiness for construction. Dear students, specialists, engineers and marketers, farmers from all strata of the nation are volunteering to build Iran, which came to us in a ruined way, for this reason, we should call this Jihad as construction.
Imam Khomeini (RA) emphasized in the continuation of this message: “Rather, I ask people who want to go for pilgrimages like Makkah Moazama and Madinah Al-Munawrah as Istihab, that you who want to visit Makkah for reward or want to visit Makkah Go to Madinah Manorah or to the sacred shrines, today there is no higher reward than helping your brothers and starting this construction together, so that your own Iran will be built right and your brothers will be saved.”
One of the most important moments of construction Jihad took place in the imposed war, Jihad had the presence of engineering in the war and by building bridges, trenches, embankments and roads in different areas, it led to the advance of the Iranian armed forces in the war, which in this context can be used to build bridges. Ba’ath pointed to Arvand river. In the war, Jihad had a central base and 5 operational base bases including Karbala, Noh, Najaf, Hamza Seyyed al-Shohda and Ramadan. It also consisted of 6 engineering brigades and 3 battalions in war zones such as the engineering brigades of Khorasan, Fars, Isfahan, Kerman and Semnan provinces. Besides, 45 independent battalions from different provinces provided engineering and support services.
Considering the progress made in the construction jihad, we went to Ali Ilbeigi, the head of the Center for the Study and Guidance of Jihad Movements of the Basij Construction Organization of the country, to talk to him.Wego let’s sit He explained thisWego is as follows:
* A narrative of the beginning of the construction jihad before the revolution
Fars: The history of jihad movements has detailed and sometimes different accounts. In your opinion, when does the starting point of construction jihad go back?
Ilbigi: Since 1342 Jihadi movements with Move It was started by Imam Khomeini (RA) and over time it was directed from the followers of Imam Khomeini (RA) to the general public. The spirit of the Jihad movement has an effect on the people present and the people of the region, and the movement of the Islamic Revolution has somehow happened from this movement of Jihad.
In this way, the Iranian Islamic Revolution was a soft uprising that happened, and there was no news of armed movements anywhere in the history of the Islamic Revolution, while the other side was armed to the teeth, which clearly shows the impact of Jihad in the history of the revolution. shows.
Fars: In what way is the role of construction jihad in the direction of creating the Islamic revolution and the harmony of the nation?
Ilbigi: One of the basic issues that the revolution was able to conquer the hearts of was Jihadi movements. The Jihadi movements continued with the victory of the Islamic Revolution, and the Leader of the Revolution quoted somewhere that the war had not taken any martyrs from us yet, that the current of Jihad in this country gave martyrs, why? Because it was a real jihad. You write history, after the Imam’s order to plant wheat, the same jihad movement that had been formed since 1342 rushed to help farmers and people to harvest the crop. At this time, many anti-revolutionary groups planned to set fire to wheat silos and fields, and the first martyrs of the Islamic Revolution That’s the deal The anti-revolution movement with the jihadists was presented to Islam.
Jihad was the origin of the civilizational movement of the revolution
Fars: So Jihad was the origin of the civilizational movements of the Islamic Revolution?
Ilbigi: In 1358, the Imam issued the decree “All together for construction jihad”, after which the institution of construction jihad was established. This is the step of civilization that happened and Jihad became the driving engine of people’s movement.
Fars: In another sense, the grassroots movement of Jihad served the revolution, but did this movement continue in the same way as the beginning?
Ilbigi: The trend of people’s jihad was and still is, until 1362 we had an institution of constructive jihad and dependence on the government was at a minimum, but from 1362, this organization was seriously hit, and the current of thought that later led to other seditions hit this blow. Martyr Avini in the same period At one time, they have a manuscript that says that behind the front lines, we were the children of the revolution, and we gradually believed that it was an unchangeable destiny that the revolution should devour its children, and we had prepared ourselves to be devoured. That dear, Rajaee Shahid, said, “Everyone should sacrifice something for the revolution, and I am sacrificing my honor, and we, who still had the weight of the blood of those loved ones on our suffering shoulders, had accepted that we should sacrifice ourselves for Islam; The construction jihad, the Revolutionary Guards, the Shahid Foundation, the committees, etc. Is it not that the sun will not rise until the blood of Falak sits on the morning horizon? Let our blood sit on the horizon of the revolution and let the sun of justice rise from the absence of hundreds of years. Let the committees of the revolution become devotees of the revolution, let the name of “ministry” sit like an awkward patch on the jeweled throne of the IRGC; Administrations should not become Jihad, so that no “Jihad” is administered…”
On the one hand, we see that the administrative system of the country repels the true children of the revolution and every day it falls more and more into the lap of specialization, bureaucracy and corruption, and on the other hand, we see how the ship of the Islamic Revolution splits the waves and breaks the storms and with the power of Bismillah It overcomes all external currents and conquers the earth.
On the one hand, the blood of our martyrs was spread on the arteries of the community, as the honorable Motahari (RA) said; The children grew up and became men very soon, and RPG men went to the wonderful scenes of Jihad in the name of Allah, but on the other hand, inside us, the double-edged sword of the revolution, it was as if they had confused the government’s side with the enemy’s side.
Not only was there no more mention of administrative economic revolution, but day by day this idea was strengthened that the system bureaucratic The administrations and the economic structure left over from the Taghut era are the appropriate bodies that the spirit of the Islamic Revolution needs. If this was not the case, then why does anyone have responsibility in the organization? bureaucratic He accepted it, even though he was one of the harbingers of the administrative revolution before that, nothing passed that he suddenly took prisoners from the opposite front, and from then on he took the consolidation of the foundations of the bureaucratic system to mean the stabilization of the Islamic Republic system, and they considered any kind of opposition as an attack on the principle of the system. .
There were many people who, with this threat, saw Hezbollah’s efforts to bring about transformation in the administrative system along the lines of the United States, and threw their claws into the claws of Islamic associations and administrative jihad, and considered any kind of revolutionary movement as a confrontation with the Islamic Republic’s system. The common feature that exists in revolutionary institutions, committees, Revolutionary Guards, constructive jihad, and Basij is the reliance on people who believe in Islam and the authority of the Faqih, and always define their existence based on the will of the leader and his wisdom.
The success of revolutionary institutions is completely due to this characteristic. If you remove this divine motivation, nothing will remain of these institutions; The spirit of the Islamic revolution wants its own form and figure, and the characteristic that distinguishes the form is the reliance on people who believe in Islam and the authority of the jurist, and always define their existence on the axis of the authority. This characteristic in itself has caused the manifestation of other characteristics in the organizational form of revolutionary institutions, which is very surprising.
This event was interpreted by Shahid Avini.
* The liberal trend sought to cut off the Imam’s connection with the Ummah in 1362
Fars: Can you describe the incident of 1362 a little more clearly?
Ilbigi: The liberal movement came in 1362 under the pretext of helping and organizing, to tie these popular movements such as jihad, committee, etc. to the government and behind the scenes wanted to cut off the connection between the Imam and the Ummah in these institutions. Based on this, the bill to become a ministry of construction jihad went to the parliament from the government side.
Fars: Of course, apparently, this liberal trend had a strict media connection, that is, the trend showed the significant blessings of construction jihad as if it were an irregular work and this work for other institutions. man base Others like the committee Finally delivered
Ilbigi: This trend somehow destroyed the construction jihad that someone did not understand Where did this flow come from? Abdullah Nouri went and sat in the Ministry of Jihad in those days. Now these figures are familiar to us, but we did not pay attention to the explanatory properties that day.
* Examining the blows inflicted on construction jihad in recent years
Fars: What is your precise interpretation of the current of 1362 and how do you evaluate its effects?
Ilbigi: In 1362, the most important blow was to shorten the hands of the people from the construction jihad, the leaders of the jihad say that at the beginning of the war, before the central council of the construction jihad institution did anything, the construction jihad council of the provinces involved in the war went to the war fronts without coordination with the central council. rushed and construction equipment Flowing The fronts did. The same veterans said that at first we wanted to rebuke those councils, but then we realized that it is the nature of the people of Jihad that makes them accurate.the most The decision was made at the best time and there is no need for the government’s decision, and until we come to our senses, we understand that we have formed the war support unit in the central council of the construction jihad organization.
Fars: In 1379, we witnessed the merger of Jihad with the Ministry of Agriculture. How do you see this happening in the continuation of Jihad movements?
Ilbigi: From 1362 to 1379, the ruling spirit left Jihad and this wounded body was buried in 1379, and the bill went from the government to the Islamic Council to merge the Ministry of Jihad with the Ministry of Agriculture. In the same days, Hazrat Agha did not want this spirit to be destroyed, and exactly on the same date, the order to form the Basij of Construction was issued. That is, they wanted to bury Jihad’s body, but with the move of Hazrat Agha Jihad, it returned to factory settings.
* The beginning of Fatimi 2 Jihadist exercises
Fars: You have developed a program called Fatemi Jihadgaran 2, could you give an explanation about this exercise?
Ilbigi: Today, this Jihadi trend has created a big exercise called Fatemi Jihadi 2, which continues until December 10 in Mazandaran. Why is this exercise called Fatimi Jihadgaran? When Hazrat Agha said in the meeting with the devotees last year: Hazrat Zahra (PBUH) is a symbol of selfless service introduced in the Quran, he said, introduce this selfless service of Hazrat Zahra and these jihad movements are the result of the movement of Hazrat Zahra (PBUH). ; After that, Jihadgaran 1 exercise was held in the decade of Mobilization, and Fatimi Jihadgaran 2 exercise is planned for the mobilization week.
The first step and the first day of activity is to participate in a rally in the province, and after that, all jihadist groups start their activities in one place. On the second day, a gathering will be held at the city level, and from there it will be sent to the region in question, and from the third day until the end, actions will be planned, and on the last day of the exercise, an exhibition called “The Glory of Hijra” will be held, which will show the achievements of Jihadi.
Fars: Thank you for taking the time to do this interview.
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