🔵 One day, a man entered a village. At the entrance to the village, he noticed that a flood had rolled a very large stone from the mountainside, blocking the main path of the village. The poor people were in dire straits.
He cried out in the village streets for everyone to gather at the village mosque because he had an important matter to discuss with them.
Men and women, young and old, everyone in the village gathered at the mosque.
The newcomer told the people that he was incredibly saddened to see them caught up in such a situation, with a large stone blocking their main path, disrupting the tranquility of their lives. He was willing to solve the problem for them by moving the stone to please God and relieve the people of their distress.
Everyone was delighted by this news and joyfully embraced each other, thanking the stranger profusely.
The villagers, elated beyond measure, addressed him:
As you are doing us this great favor to please God, we are ready to repay your kindness with our wealth and lives.
Whatever you command, we obey.
The stranger was pleased with such loyalty and sacrifice and told them that for the next forty days, they should provide him with whatever he desired—bread, cheese, walnuts, dates, honey, sesame paste, local butter, yogurt, kebabs, chicken, rice, lamb meat, game, turkey, and so on in line with his appetite.
You do all this, and after forty days, come and see that I will do something remarkable for you.
The villagers generously provided everything he had demanded for forty days, counting the days and hours until the promised day arrived.
Then all the villagers gathered, and the hero of our story, as promised, appeared.
Everyone held their breath.
The man rolled up his sleeves and stood by the large stone. He paused for a moment, then bent down, calling for a group to come forward and place this heavy stone on his back so that he could move it to whatever distance they desired and open the way for them.
Could even a hundred strong men move that heavy stone?
The people looked at each other in astonishment.
The man lingered by the stone in a bent position for a few minutes, saw that nothing happened, straightened up, and said, “It seems you do not wish for me to solve your problem at all!
For forty days, I have been with you to help you for God’s sake. I need to attend to my own life as well. How long must I worry about people and ignore my own condition? After all, I have a life too.”
So he took his leave and disappeared from the villagers’ sight.
Truly, wasn’t there a single person in this village forty days ago to tell the newcomer: “First explain your plan for removing this heavy stone for us, and then we will be at your service!”
🔵 Ghalibaf says he will install a stopwatch in the city and create five million jobs. Raisi says he will triple the subsidies.
Curse the miser!
Let Ghalibaf create ten million jobs, and Raisi increase the subsidies tenfold. Who doesn’t like money?
Just tell us what your detailed plans are for the promises you are making.
Are you planning to print money?
Anyone can do that if they become president!
If you truly have a scientific and practical solution, you should state it on television, looking experts in the eye, not in front of the poor populace!
If in 1357 [1979], when observing the etiquette of questioning, we had asked Imam Khomeini precisely what his plan was for free water and electricity, for the material and spiritual advancement of the country, for elevating us Iranians to the status of humanity, for winning the war, for wiping Israel off the map, for occupying the White House and the Kremlin, and for saving the oppressed of the world, and then subjected Imam Khomeini’s program to expert judgment, I am confident that our current situation would not be what it is today.
Mohammad Mahdavifar
Demolition Specialist and Diver of the Sacred Defense
19th Ordibehesht, 1396 [May 9, 2017]