Foreword

“Indeed, there is for you in the Messenger of God

(Muhammad) an excellent pattern of conduct for him who
places his hope in God and the latter day and remembers
God much”. (33:21)

I t is obligatory upon all Muslims to follow the life style

of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) in their individual,
social, economical, political, and religious and every
aspect of life. Simultaneously, Muslims also have to
follow the footprints of the blessed progeny (Ahlulbait) of
Prophet of Islam, whose pious lives are exemplary for
all human beings. The holy Quran explicitly declares
their love and obedience obligatory upon all Muslims
without any condition and question. Allah says in the
Holy Quran:

Say: I do not ask you for any reward for it save the
love of my progeny. (42:23)

Say: If you love God, then follow me, God will love
you and forgive you your sins, and God is forgiving,
merciful. (3:31)
 O you who believe! Obey God and obey the
messenger and those vested with authority from
among you. (4:59)

Prophet Muhammad (SAW) and those vested

with authority, the chosen ones, the infallible Imams are
the role models for the Muslims in every aspect of their
lives. Their utterances, tacit approvals and their actions
are the final proof, exemplary and models not only for
the Muslims but for all human beings. They have proved
by their adventurous deeds that they are worthy of
being the true representatives of Allah in the whole
universe. The true believers are those who follow them
in every aspect and in every walk of life. The persons
who follow these infallible ones in letter and spirit are
glaring examples for others; they encourage every
individual of the ummah to sacrifice everything in the
way of Allah, as they are committed to the inspired and
noble cause of Islam. The life and works of these
devoted ones thus become a major source of inspiration
to all Muslims and Muslim nations and oppressed and
deprived masses of the world. It is on account of their
dauntless and continues struggle, devotion and self-
sacrifice to save their nations from the shackles of
oppression and the moral quagmire into which they
have fallen for too long. By virtue of their zeal and zest
they continuously make attempts to get humanity
emancipated from the whirlpool of mean materialism
and materialistic tendency.

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 One example of such dedicated and devoted
personalities who succeeded in moulding his life in
accordance to the way shown by the Holy Prophet and
Holy Imams and sacrificed his career, status,
designation, youth, life and everything for the sake of
Islam and Muslims is Martyr Dr. Mustafa Chamran.
In his life span of 48 years (1933-1981), Dr.
Mustaffa Chamran has remained almost over busy with
his social, political, religious as well as revolutionary
activities inside and outside Iran. His religious family
background coupled with his association with
revolutionary and radical type of ulma’s like Ayatollah
Mutahhari and Talqani, during his teen age is
responsible for shaping his personality to a great extent.
He attended the Quranic exegesis classes of Ayatullah
Talqani and simultaneously attended the discourses on
philosophy and logics of Professor Murtza Mutahhari
from the age of 15. He entered political life during the
days of the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry and
the premiership of Mohammad Mossadegh (1951-1953)
as a member of the National Resistance Movement, the
more religiously inclined branch of Mossadegh's
National Front. He was a basic member of Islamic
students Association of Tehran University. In 1963,
when there was an open public uprising against the
tyrannical regime of Shah, under the dynamic
leadership of Imam Khomenie, Dr. Chamran at that time
was a youth of 30 years. Obviously, the uprising and the
revolutionary activities throughout the country
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influenced Dr. Chamran to a great extent. Dr. Chamran
compiled a book titled “Role of Ulama in the 5th June
1963 uprising” in USA, which was published in USA,
after some corrections made by Imam Khomenie
(during his exile Iraq at Najaf).
The Almighty bestowed Dr. Chamran an
excellent reasoning power, well understanding of things.
He was excellent in his studies. He graduated with
honours in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from
the University of Tehran. Enjoying a government
scholarship for promising students, he proceeded to
USA for a period of 14 years and earned his Master’s
degree summa cum laude from the University of Texas.
He then went on to get his Ph.D in electronics and
plasma physics with excellent grades from the
University of California at Berkeley. He entered into
research and satellites and powerful radars with the
BELL company laboratories.
Dr. Chamran had a complete mastery of English
and Arabic besides his mother tongue Persian. He also
knew French and German. He wrote many articles on
political, tactical and ideological topics. Most of them
were published without any author listed. Chamran was
also the author of several collections of mystical poetry.
In his own opinion, his ideological and intellectual zeal
was more important than his scientific, political or
guerrilla activities. Dr. Mustafa Chamran, researcher,
scientist, crusader and challenging guerilla achieved

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martyrdom on Sunday, June 21, 1981 in the village of
Dehlavieh during the Imposed war on Iran by Suddam.
Dr. Chamran was a man of firm belief, profound
conviction and high commitment. His utterances,
writings, supplications and above all his actions reveal
that he had chosen Imam Ali (A. S) his ideal and role
model. Throughout his life, Chamran tried to follow the
footprints of Imam Ali (A.S) in his sagacity, God-fearing,
piety, conviction and commitment. His life reflects the
true visage of Abuzer Gaffari., who never sought his
peace of mind in adding the worldly fortunes but in
subtracting the desires. He spoke less, but worked
vigorously and incessantly. He believed only in action.
As Imam Ali said:

“Islam is submission, submission is conviction,

conviction is affirmation, affirmation is
acknowledgement, acknowledgement is discharge (of
obligations), and discharge of obligations is action”.1

Dr. Chamran possessed a restless soul that never

compromised with stand-stillness, stagnation and
status-quo. He didn’t content with what is going on, but
made up his mind to change and worked for change
and managed to change and got the change. His
activities in Iran and abroad focused on bringing a grass
root level revolution in the social, political, economical
arena of humanity. In his opinion, the ideological

1
Nahjulblagh, Maxim-125
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approach is a preliminary requisite prior to any other
motors of change.
His incessant and perpetual efforts in awakening
the religious and social consciousness amongst the
Iranian students in USA and interlinking various
students’ organizations and providing them guidance for
the social upliftment, reformation and revolution and
establishment of Islamic government in Iran,
establishment of various organizational set ups in
America, Egypt and Iran denotes his talent, efficiency,
sincerity and power of creativity. He founded Iranian
Islamic students union first time in USA. His most
important political activities abroad were organizing and
training guerrilla and revolutionary forces in Algeria,
Egypt, Lebanon and Syria. Chamran participated in
guerrilla activities in liberation wars against Israel and
the Phalanges.

Divine Trust
His excellence in his studies in the fields of
science and technology, his grip over rich languages of
the world, his power of understanding, power of
motivation and setting of organizational set up at
various levels, his unique method of teaching and
training and his capability and capacity at managerial
and administrative levels and all such capabilities as per
his own words, is a divinely gift that Almighty bestowed
to him. Above all these potentialities, the gift that he
thinks Allah bestowed to him is his sympathizing heart.
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In his opinion man has been deputed to this world on a
full-fledged mission that he called a “Divine Trust”. Man
is a trustee appointed by Allah and has a mission and a
responsibility. He is required to rehabilitate the earth
with his effort and initiative, and to choose between
prosperity and misery. It is the ‘divine trust’ that
Almighty has entrusted to mankind. The Holy Quran
says:
"We offered the trust to the heavens, the earth
and the hills, but they shrank from bearing it
and were afraid of it. On the other hand man
assumed it. Surely he has proved a tyrant and a
fool”.2

There are different interpretations about the divine trust.

Asceticism claims it to be as ‘love’. Moulana Roumi, the
great sufi saint says it is ‘determination’. A group of
Ulama says it as ‘knowledge’ and some are of the
opinion that it is ‘Wilayat’ (Guardianship). A group also
attributes it to Hazrat Ali (A.S). The Quran itself has not
attributed the ‘divine trust’ to a particular thing. This is
the sublimity of the Quran that it selects a word in such
a way that it has the scope to be interpreted
multidimensionality. Thus the scope of the word ‘trust’ is
not confined to one dimension instead it is understood
and defined in a wide range. Actually the ‘divine trust’ is
the collection of all the above attributions and
definitions. We can say all the above definitions are true

2
Holy Quran 33:72
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but not perfect. The ‘Trust’ is derived from the essence
instilled in the existence of man that can take him to the
highest boundary and to the perfection and ultimate
possible boarder in the world. The ‘determination’,
‘freedom’, ‘awareness’, ‘intelligence’, ‘power of
creativity’, ‘love, ‘understanding’ and ‘enlightenment’- all
of these and other things to which we are not
conversant with, perhaps man of future can search
them out and comprehend well, are the part of ‘divine
trust’. However, the man, the vicegerent of God and
trustee of Allah possesses the three main dimensions
i.e., committed will of awareness, freedom and
creativity.
The above three main faculties of man i.e.,
awareness, freedom together with the power of
creativity brings to man the sense of responsibility, a
spectacular gift, which has been given the name of
‘Divine Trust’ in the holy Quran and the noble religion. It
is man, who has to fashion his destiny with his own
hands. Man is being chosen by Allah to be His
vicegerent on the earth, having semi-angelic and semi-
material characteristics. He is instinctively conscious of
Allah but is free, independent, holding a divine trust,
responsible for himself and the world. He controls
nature, the earth and the heavens. He is inspired with
good and evil. His existence begins with weakness and
proceeds towards strength and perfection. Nothing can
satisfy him except the remembrance of Allah. His
intellectual and practical capacity is unlimited. He is
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endowed with inherent dignity and honour. Often his
motives have no material aspect. He has been given the
right to make a lawful use of the gifts of nature. But in all
cases he is responsible to his Lord. The two faculties
i.e., awareness, freedom makes a man responsible and
the faculty of creativity added with the first two makes
him a Trustee, and no other creature possesses such a
capability of carrying the responsibility of this trust on its
shoulders. Man is the only being responsible not only
for his own destiny but also for the fulfilment of a
divinely entrusted mission in this world; he is bearer of
God’s Trust in the world and in nature.
The ideal that Islam is seeking is also a universal
ideal for the entire humanity. It has been a mission of all
the prophets and all the sages to see that humanity
through its spiritual and moral perfection brings about
the establishment of a community based on justice,
peace and tranquillity, aware and responsible. But it has
not been an easy task to establish a just community
merely through devising the rules and regulations, and
passing resolutions and ordinances; by formulating the
panel codes for punishments and sentences or awards.
The only possibility of getting the conceptual ideal
society actualized and materialized is through practicing
and utilizing the man’s divine gifts of awareness,
freedom and creativity added with self-consciousness
and God-fearing, which is the job of religion under
dynamic and pious leadership.

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Awareness: Awareness is the divine gift endowed
something special to man. This particular faculty
enables man to discover, explore, investigate and study
the cosmos and the greater universe hidden in his own
self. He is not contended just with living, eating and
spending his life span like other animals. Instead he is
the lover of the truth, nature, beauty, a researcher of
human essence and a canvasser of metaphysics.
Awareness makes a man self-conscious of his "human
condition" in his time and historical and social setting,
and whose awareness inevitably and necessarily gives
him a sense of social responsibility. And if he happens
to be educated he may be more effective and if not
perhaps less. So knowledge and quest for knowledge is
embedded in the very innate of man.
Man's domain both in the sphere of his
knowledge, information and outlook and in the sphere of
his desires, wants and inclinations is very vast and lofty.
His knowledge passes from the exterior of the things to
their inner reality, their mutual relations and to the laws
governing them. His knowledge does not remain
confined to any particular place or time. It surpasses all
such limitations. On the one hand, his knowledge
extends to the events which took place before his birth,
and on the other, it extends to other planets and stars.
He gets acquainted with his past as well as his future.
He discovers his own history and that of the world i.e.,
the history of the earth, the sky, the mountains, the
rivers, the plants and the living organisms.
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Freedom: The other natural gift co-related with his
awareness is freedom and free-will. God endowed man
with a free will and there is no compulsion to him. He is
free to do whatever he likes. All the things God has
created in the universe are bound to perform their duties
on the predestined course, they have been ordained.
The sun, the moon, the stars, the earth move (rather
they are moved) on their right course and on their right
orbits without any fail.3 The structure of the animals and
birds has been made in such a way that they bow their
heads while they move or while they take their food.
But, in the case of man, he has been made aware what
is right and what is wrong and is free to bow before his
Creator and there is no compulsion at all.4 God has
delegated man with the power of choice, power of
3
i “We ordained the moon to pass through certain phases until
it seems eventually to be like a bent twig, how the sun is not
supposed to catch up with the moon, nor is the night to
precede the day, all of them are to float in a certain orbit.
(36:39-40).
ii “..by the soul and that (power) which designed it and inspired
it with knowledge of evil and piety, those who purify their
souls will certainly have everlasting happiness and those
who corrupt their souls will certainly be deprived (of
happiness). (91:2)
iii “There was certainly a time when there was no mention of
man. We created man from the union of sperm and egg
to test him. We gave him hearing and vision. We showed
him the right path whether he would be grateful or
ungrateful (76:2)
4 “..by the soul and that (power) which designed it and inspired it
with knowledge of evil and piety, those who purify their souls will
certainly have everlasting happiness and those who corrupt their
souls will certainly be deprived (of happiness). (91:2)
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option and rejection.5 It is evident that by the
possession of the faculty of freedom there is every
possibility of getting his position elevated and exalted
simultaneously there is every apprehension of his
dilapidation. The man's significance and grandeur lie in
the fact that he possesses two poles (mud and the spirit
of the Lord). It is up to man to choose where to go,
towards mud or providence. And as long as he has not
selected either of the poles as his fate, struggle will
perpetually rage within him. The freedom of thought, if
applied in a right form, can emancipate a man from the
shackles and bondages of servitude of other-than-God
and the self styled gods. In Islam man is not subjugated
by God, since he is the Lord's trustee, and vicegerent
on the earth. God taught man and all the angels
prostrated themselves before him. Thus, such a two-
dimensional being needs a religion, which can protect
him from swinging to either asceticism or worldliness,
and continually keep him at equilibrium. Only a two-
dimensional religion is able to give reality to man's great
responsibility. It may be said that freedom and liberty
are the supreme blessings and it emancipates man from
the most bitter feeling of disappointment and
helplessness - a feeling that one has no independent
personality, a feeling that he is just like a sheep in the

5
“There was certainly a time when there was no mention of man.
We created man from the union of sperm and egg to test him.
We gave him hearing and vision. We showed him the right path
whether he would be grateful or ungrateful (76:2)
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hands of a shepherd and that he has no control even
over his food, sleep, life and death.

Creativity: The third most important latent bestowed to

man after awareness and freedom is his power of
creativity. The two faculties i.e., awareness and freedom
necessarily adds responsibility to the man and makes
him responsible. It is here that third instinct of
benevolence is given to man i.e. creativity. It is the
responsibility that makes a man to explore ways and
means, devise methods and techniques and discover
avenues and opportunities to get his duties and
obligations materialized. If Allah is the Creator of the
Universe, the man is the mender of the Universe; Allah
created the norms, man exploited them for their proper
utility. God created the eyes, and the man developed
spectacles, microscope and telescope and
sophisticated equipment to get his eyesight to penetrate
beyond the Mars and Neptune. It is man who exploits
and tames the norms of the nature to open new vistas
which leads him to the treasure of nature. It is man who
has to find the solutions to the gigantic problems
whether they are social, economic, political, physical or
biological nature. The nature has given him the ability
and faculty of talking and the man has the potential to
get the instruments of communication fabricated. God
has given him simply the feet, and the man can use
them to accelerate the speed of his transportation, from
cycle to aeroplane. This all is the faculty of creativity,
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which is hidden in the very nature and instinct of human
soul. Arts and crafts, music and poetry, science and
technology, worship and supplications are the different
channels through which man wants to express his
essence and his ‘inner-self’. Not only he thinks of the
remote future, but also applies his thought to infinities
and eternities, some of which he recognizes. Man goes
a step further from identifying the individuality and
particularity, and with a view to control nature, discovers
universal rules and general truths prevailing in the
world. From the viewpoint of his ambitions and
aspirations also man holds an outstanding position, for
he is an aspiring, high thinking and idealistic being. He
seeks objectives which are not of material and profitable
nature; objectives which are in the interest of entire
humanity and not confined to himself and his family or
to any particular region or to a particular period of time.
Dr. Chamran was a man of mission, who proved
to be the true holder of the divine trust, fulfilling the
requisite qualities vis-à-vis awareness, freedom and
creativity. He was fully conversant with the political,
social, economical, religious arena of the world, free
from the servitudes, bondages and subjugations of the
worldly compulsions and possessing the talent of
creativity. He met the challenges, faced them
courageously, and found out the ways and means to
tackle the issues and never succumbed to the pulls and
pressures. He was satisfied with what others made
perplexed and annoyed. He adopted extraordinary ways
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to resolve the extraordinary issues. He took pleasure in
pain, kept aloof from material gains, while others were
covetous to grab as much they could; remained
reserved while others spoke. He avoided pomp and
show and hardly addressed to any press conference
despite his considerable achievements. A true picture of
what Imam Ali (A.S) says about a group of his
companions who met the challenges and made
extraordinary adventures in the way of Allah, Imam Ali
(A.S) says:

“Knowledge has led them to real understanding

and so they have associated themselves with the
spirit of conviction. They take easy what the
easygoing regard as hard. They endear what the
ignorant take as strange. They live in this world
with their bodies here but their spirits resting in
the high above. They are the vicegerents of Allah
on His earth and callers to His religion. Oh, oh.
How I yearn to see them”.6

Chamran was having full conviction and

commitment towards Islam. He wanted to get it
implemented throughout the world in its real sense in
letter and spirit. He made incessant and tremendous
efforts towards this direction. Prior to his departure to
USA for higher studies, Chamran made efforts to unite
various units of students in Tehran University to form
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Nahjulblagh, Maxim-147
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students unions, convinced those students who were
influenced by communist ideology and succeeded in
moulding them into better Muslims and devoted
revolutionary activities. In USA also, during his M. Tech
and Ph.D he took initiative to unite various groups of
Muslim students and infused and inculcated in them a
new Islamic spirit who later on proved to be activist
towards Islamic revolution. He was instrumental in
arranging classes where he delivered series of lectures
on Islamic ideology, history and sociology. He sacrificed
his highest job opportunities like NASA, BELLS, etc. in
USA and opted to work for the betterment and
benevolence of the deprived, downtrodden and destitute
of Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt, Iran and other parts of the
Muslim world.
The life style of Martyr Chamran, his simplicity
and informality was rooted in his religious belief. In the
different stages of his life, Chamran maintained the
same unchangeable lifestyle in the vicissitudes of his
political, social and revolutionary life.
Chamran was a brave, wise innovative and
extremely courageous. Horrendously huge waves (of
the enemies’ plots) were matters of minute importance
before his strong will. He loved solitude prayers,
shedding tears (from fear of God) in the middle of the
night, poetry, spirituality and Gnosticism.
The present work is one of the series of books
titled “Role Models” published by Nashre Shahed,
Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. This work is based on
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life and works of Martyr Dr. Mustafa Chamran. It is a
research based compilation of Mulana Sheikh Ghulam
Hussain, a budding research scholar of Kashmir, India,
student of Houza Ilmia Qum, Islamic Republic of Iran.
The work is basically in Urdu and I feel pleasure to get it
translated into English. The author has utilized the first
hand original sources in Persian and has presented the
adventures life events of the great crusader, learned
scholar and scientist, above all the social activist and
revolutionary personality of Dr. Mustafa Chamran
significantly in chronological order for the benefit of the
readers. I hope the book will be a source of inspiration
for the students, social activists and particularly those
who want to contribute something for the upliftment,
betterment and benevolence of society, ummah in
particular and humanity in general.

Mir Mohammad Ibrahim

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 ‫ﺑﺴﻢ ﷲ ﺍﻟﺮﺣﻤٰ ﻦ ﺍﻟﺮﺣﻴﻢ‬

Chamran
The son of a poor family

M artyr Dr. Mustafa

Chamran is one of the
great personalities of Iran,
who spent his whole life in the
service of Islam and Muslims.
He achieved the highest
position from the educational,
religions, political, spiritual, revolutionary and
social point of view. He was a topper student in
his school, college and university. He was always
in struggle (in the way of Allah) wherever he
stayed and traveled from Iran to America, from
America to Egypt, Lebanon and from Lebanon
back to Iran. It was a routine for him to face the
challenges and shoulder the responsibilities.
There was no place for easy living and self-
indulgence in his life. During the early years of
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revolution, when Saddam on the behest of
superpowers wagged war upon Islamic Republic
of Iran, he was holding the charge of Defense
Ministry at that time. He relinquished the
portfolio and joined the war front. He organized
a guerrilla infantry consisting of revolutionary
youths and defended the Islamic and
revolutionary boundaries and eventually he was
martyred at the war front.
In what circumstances he was grown up
and nourished? His brother Engineer Mehdi
explains: “Economically, we lived a life of below
middle class group. We had no house of our
own. We were six brothers. Our family was
consisting of ten members including our parents,
grandmother and maternal aunt. We lived in
Sarpolak locality of Tehran in a rented house
having a space of 6'x6' one room with an
adjacent cabin. There was no additional space
for study in the said house. Martyr Chamran
used to study at the top of the house. Even
during chilly days of the winter, he used to wrap
up himself with the blanket and study there or
on the stair-landing of the attic, the only small
space in our house available for the purpose. Our
elder brother, late Dr. Abas Chamran, who
himself was a noble and exemplary person,
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preferred to study and do his school work in the
shop of our father instead at his home.” His
brother further enumerates that they had to face
tough and hard life and in those circumstances,
Martyr Dr. Mustafa Chamran continued his
studies and succeeded in achieving higher
academic degrees and top positions. He got
himself enlisted amongst the distinguished and
exemplary students.7
As per the statement of his brother, the
house was too insufficient that their father had
to purchase an old house consisting of three
rooms to live in. My father purchased this house
with the intention that after demolishment of this
old house, a new house shall be constructed. But
due to demise of our father the dream never
came true. The people get astonished to see that
how such a big family could live in this small
house, where there came out the students of
high clabber who were in a position to obtain
higher degrees in education vis-à-vis Ph.D and
Engineering etc.8

7
The Daily Jamoher-i-Islami, No. 7224, p.15, Jamade-Awal
1425.
8
ibid.
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 Religious Patronage

Despite the fact that Martyr Dr. Mustafa

Chamran was grown up in a family that suffered
poverty and difficulties, but it was having a
religious environment. His brother engineer
Mehdi illustrates the position:

(a) Religious Environment

“Our family was religious and revolutionary
one. Our parents used to offer their five time
prayers in the local mosque. My mother was a
devoted and prayer loving lady who memorized
the ‘supplication of kumail’ (Dua e Kumail) by
heart. Our parents were even committed to the
recommended prayers and fasting. My mother
was organizing every year female congregations.
Initially, we were not having a radio set in our
home. Later on when my brothers were grown
up, a radio set was purchased to listen to the
news and the radio was switched off immediately
after the news was over and absolutely no other
programme inadmissible from the religious point
of view was listened. When my elder brothers
were preparing for going abroad for higher

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studies, then they started listening programmes
related to learning of English language and
nothing more than that.

(b) Politically Conscious Family

His brother states regarding political
awareness in his family: “Our family was fully
conscious about the political trends of the time.
My brothers were fully conversant about all the
issues and activities in the University. My
father’s shop was a kind of meeting place for the
people who were interested in politics. People
were frequently visiting it and sharing their news
and views and used to read newspapers.”

(c) The Son of Courageous Lady

Martyr Chamran’s mother says, “I always
used to make ablution before I fed Mustafa.”
This is what a holy saying is there, “Lucky is one
whose mother is pious.”9
Engineer Mehdi says about his mother: My
mother was a brave and courageous lady; even
if some one praised ‘Shah’ (king of Iran) in the
mourning congregations at our hone, she got
angry and refuted it. Once during the rule of

9
Ashna e ba’nimazi tarbiate Islami, p.120.
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Shah, people organized a protest rally before the
parliament. My mother also took part in the
protest. She on behalf of protestors addressed
the armed forces: ‘Are not these people your
brothers and sisters? Why are you opening fire
on them? Why are you making massacres?’
While my mother was protesting against the
forces, a young revolutionary came forth and
said, Mother! All this will fell flat on these
people; they are dangerous people, better to
leave this place, please.”

(d)Legitimate Livelihood
Engineer Mehdi says about the legitimate
earnings of his father: “My father was strictly
contented to his legitimate earnings and
livelihood. He was fabricating socks that too
durable and up to the mark, but was selling
them on very economical rates as compared to
others. Once I told him; ‘Dear father,
qualitatively your socks are better as compared
to others, but you are selling them on cheaper
rates. At least, why don’t you sell them on the
standard rates?” The father replied: ‘Dear son, I
keep a margin of only two rails for a pair of
socks. It is not permissible for me to gain more
than that and if I do so, there will be no bliss in
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it’. He always tried to satisfy his consumers with
his good dealings. Those who started their
establishments with my father gradually
dominated the market. But my father had to sell
his shop and started his work in the corner of his
house and accordingly continued to earn
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legitimate livelihood for his family .

10
The daily Jamhor-i-Islami, Jamad Awal-1425 No. 7224 p
15.
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 Pleasure in Pain

Martyr Mustafa Chamran achieved

excellent positions due to his magnificent
efficiency, coupled with his zeal and zest from
the very beginning of his carrier when he was a
student. He was popular and favorite amongst
students and teachers during his schooling.
Despite all this popularity and repute, he was
never engulfed with ego, vanity and
haughtiness, instead there was humbleness and
sublimity found in him. He was a polite,
sagacious and a noble kind of personality. He got
overfilled with sorrow on observing distress and
misery of the deprived and destitute people, and
this kind of temperament instigated him for their
sympathy and commiseration. He has made a
mention of an event that took place during his
studentship:
“I was going somewhere during a chilly
winter night. It was snowing. I saw a beggar
shivering in the severe cold. I was not in a
position to provide him a warmth shelter and
rescue him from the severe cold, so I decided to
spend the whole night in this severe cold with
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this man and accordingly I did so. I spent the
whole night with the beggar and till morning my
health position got deteriorated and I was
severely fell ill- but what a sweet type of illness
it was!”11
Martyr Chamran was a symbol of sacrifice
and selflessness. Although he had a comfortable
and luxurious life available in USA, still he
preferred the company and services to the
deprived people of Lebanon. Also he preferred a
life of combat and resistance against Israel
though he could have lived a luxurious and
comfortable life in USA. He thanks Allah for
bestowing him the divine gift that is spirit of
sympathy in these words:
“Oh Allah! You have bestowed to me the
utmost and highest degree of every thing! Every
beauty and every attainment. I thank you for all
this. But oh my lord! The excellent thing that you
have bestowed to me, for which I am
inexplicable to express my thanks, is my
acquaintance and concern with affliction and pain
(sympathizing heart) which is like a fabulous
spring of immortality in my existence, in this
way, I am in search of nothing except the
11
Yaran-e-Imam with the narration of asnad-e-savak,
No.
26
ultimate truth. I am following no path except the
way of self-sacrifice. Nothing except ‘love’ emits
out of my existence.”12

‫ﺗﻤﻨﺎ ﺩﺭﺩ ﺩﻝ ﮐﯽ ﮨﻮ ﺗﻮ ﮐﺮ ﺧﺪﻣﺖ ﻓﻘﻴﺮﻭں ﮐﯽ‬

[‫ﻧﮩﻴﮟ ﻣﻠﺘﺎ ﮨﮯ ﻳہ ﮔﻮﮨﺮ ﺑﺎﺩﺷﺎﮨﻮں ﮐﮯ ﺧﺰﻳﻨﻮں ﻣﻴﮟ ]ﺍﻗﺒﺎﻝ‬

“If you are longing for a sympathetic heart

then serve the (religious mendicants) destitute.
You can’t get this spectacular jewel
Out of the kings’ treasuries.”
Dr. Iqbal

12
ayete muyahidan, p.5
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 A Sympathizer of
Deprived and Orphans

In one of his notes, there is a mention:

“Once one of my class fellows failed in an
examination. I was very much upset and wept
bitterly. On seeing my condition that student
himself came to console me and said please let it
be and don’t worry.”13
At any other place, he writes:
“Once my family members sent me to
bring bread from the bake-shop. In the way, I
met a poor man and gave money to him and
returned home. The family members asked me
about the money they had given to me for the
bread. I didn’t disclose the fact, because I didn’t
want to put an obligation to the poor man, even
in his absence. The family members punished
me well with the apprehension that I may not
have spent it in a bad way. I was being beaten
but never told my family members that I have
given that money to a poor person”.14

13
ibid.
14
Chamran az koch ta uruj, software, Shahid Chamran
28
 ‫ﮨﻮﺗﮯ ﮨﻴﮟ ﺟﮩﺎں ﻣﻴﮟ ﻭﮨﯽ ﻟﻮگ ﺍﭼﻬﮯ‬
[‫ﺁﺗﮯ ﮨﻴﮟ ﺟﻮ ﮐﺎﻡ ﺩﻭﺳﺮﻭں ﮐﮯ ]ﺍﻗﺒﺎﻝ‬
The best people in the world are those,
who are helpful to others.
(Dr. Iqbal)

The tendency of sympathy for other’s

miseries and worries continued to develop in
Martyr Chamran day by day. Eventually, there
came a day, when he sacrificed every comfort
and felicity of the world for the forlorn and
orphans of Lebanon. While seeing an orphan in
Lebanon, he felt restless in this way:
“Many a times while traveling in Lebanon
from one city to other, if Dr. Chamran happened
to see any orphan child weeping in the way, he
used to stop his vehicle and hug the child and
wiped away his tears with his handy and kiss
him with great passion and love and all of a
sudden used to burst into tears. The persons
traveling along him thought as if the child
happened to be amongst his relatives or is
known to him. But Dr. Chamran used to tell his
companions. ‘I don’t know this child, neither he
belongs to any of my relatives. However, the
importance lies in the fact that this child belongs
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to the follower of imam Ali (a.s), who has been
shouldering the burden of oppression since 1400
years back and his tears are symbols of
atrocities that have over taken the followers of
imam Ali (a.s) all along the history.”15

15
Majmu-e-khatirat, p.10
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 Be Down to the Earth

Though facing difficulties and tremendous

challenges of life, Martyr Mustafa Chamran
continued to go ahead. Whether it is the
domestic economic crunch or secular
atmosphere prevalent at the school or college or
facing the crises of payment of fee charges and
rent or paying a good bye to the portfolio for the
sake of religion, everywhere Dr. Chamran with
the help of his firm faith faced the challenges
and achieved the success. In his note during the
period of his studentship he mentions: ‘I
remember I used to go to University by foot
during the chilly days of winter, while it was
snowing too. I had even no penny in my pocket
for so many consecutive days and I had to travel
for one and a half hour by foot from my
residence to the institute. I was shivering with
the severe cold and despite all this, I never
asked anybody for any bus-fair. My father tried
to give me the bus-fair so many times, but I
never agreed. To accept money from somebody
was too difficult for me and during hard times it
even caused to me a great distress. I was now
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habitual to face the difficulties and this
behaviour has over shadowed my whole life and
it has affected my works and thought in the
shape of a philosophy at grass route level. Dr.
Mustafa used to work as tutor in the early years
of his studentship, by this way he earned some
money to coup up with his day today
expenditure to some extent as it was too hard
for him to express his needs even to his
parents.16

Yes, it is so. Instead of becoming

dependent on others, a man is able to overcome
the difficulties instead of adapting the way of
easy life and also his hidden capabilities get
exposed out, if he utilizes his own competencies.
By this way not only one becomes self-
dependent but also he is able to help others too.
Dr. Iqbal invites the Muslim youth to
become self- dependent in this way:

‫ﺍﭘﻨﮯ ﻣﻦ ﻣﻴﮟ ڈﻭﺏ ﮐﮯ ﭘﺎﺟﺎ ﺳﺮﺍﻍ ﺯﻧﺪﮔﯽ‬

‫ ﺍﭘﻨﺎ ﺗﻮ ﺑﻦ‬،‫ﺗﻮ ﺍﮔﺮ ﻣﻴﺮﺍ ﻧﮩﻴﮟ ﺑﻨﺘﺎﻧہ ﺑﻦ‬
‫ﻣﻦ ﮐﯽ ﺩﻭﻟﺖ ﮨﺎﺗﻬ ﺁﺗﯽ ﮨﮯ ﭘﻬﺮ ﺟﺎﺗﯽ ﻧﮩﻴﮟ‬
‫ﺗﻦ ﮐﯽ ﺩﻭﻟﺖ ﭼﻬﺎ ﺅں ﮨﮯ ﺁﺗﺎ ﮨﮯ ﺩﻫﻦ ﺟﺎﺗﺎ ﮨﮯﺩﻫﻦ‬
‫ﭘﺎﻧﯽ ﭘﺎﻧﯽ ﮐﺮ ﮔﺌﯽ ﻣﺠﻬ ﮐﻮ ﻗﻠﻨﺪﺭ ﮐﯽ ﻳہ ﺑﺎﺕ‬

16
ibid pp.4,5
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 !‫ ﻧہ ﺗﻦ‬،‫ﺗﻮﺟﻬﮑﺎ ﺟﺐ ﻏﻴﺮ ﮐﮯ ﺁﮔﮯ ﻧہ ﻣﻦ ﺗﻴﺮﺍ‬

Be drowned in your ownself to trace out your

ownself.
If you don’t belong to Me
At least you should belong to yourself.
If one is successful in achieving the wealth of
spiritual satisfaction, it never get detached.
The Corporal satisfaction is just like a shadow that
is never stable.
The utterance of the saint took me aback: ‘when
you bowed before an alien, then you are far away
from both the material as well as spiritual world.

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 Religious Sagacity in an
Irreligious Environment

Dr. Chamran got admission in electrical

engineering in Tehran in 1943. These were the
hay-days of communism and irreligiousness and
it was odd and embarrassing to be a religious
person during those days. There was venomous
propagation and publication against the religious
values from every side. Despite all this Dr.
Mustafa never gave up his religious sagacity and
punctually attended the Quranic discourses of
the grand Ayatullah Talqani. Simultaneously, he
was attending the philosophy and logics classes
of Martyr Ayatullah Mutahhari.
In an anti-religious atmosphere, Dr
Mustafa dared to be an active member of
Students’ Islamic Union. Ironically, there was no
space available for the Mosque in the
Engineering College of Tehran University. Some
virtuous and religious students had managed a
small room to offer their prayers, avoiding the
leery eyes of communist and secular type of
pupils. Dr Chamran added the charm of the

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prayer chamber by offering his regular prayers
there, after he got admission in the said college.
He not only used to offer prayers there openly,
but also used to take other friends too along with
him. Thus, it was the first college of Tehran
University where Martyr Chamran managed to
unite the students, who were full of religious and
national fervour and turned this small prayer
chamber into a centre of meeting point for all
these students. This activity enabled him to
defeat the students who were supporting
communism first time in the election.
The reality lies in the fact that the people
who are devoted towards their religion and are
bound towards ethical and human values should
not feel any kind of inferiority complex. Because
being religious is not a kind of vice, instead a
true symbol of attainment of human perfection.
Contrarily, one who is devoid of any religion and
religious sagacity should have a feeling of
inferiority complex and a guilty conscious as
irreligiousness is a kind of lacuna and weakness.
If irreligious persons are exposed to the truth,
they would find themselves most unfortunate
deprived ones not following the religious
obligations. In his supplications Imam Hussain
(a.s), the great son of Hazrat Fatimah (s.a) in
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the deserts of Arfat explains the importance of
religion in these words:

‫ﻣﺎﺫﺍ ﻭﺟﺪ ﻣﻦ ﻓﻘﺪک ﻭ ﻣﺎﺍﻟﺬی ﻓﻘﺪ ﻣﻦ ﻭﺟﺪک‬

‘Oh my Lord! What is there left in the lot of a

person, who has given you up and what is not there
in the lot of a person who has made an access to
You!’17

17
Mafateh-al-Jinan, supplication of Arfat
36
 Noble and Favorite Student

Martyr Chamran earned good name and

fame due to his efficiency and competence both
amongst students and teachers. He was doing
well to his social as well as religious obligations
along side his studies. He was also secretly
distributing posters and pamphlets in anti-Shah
campaign. He was having such a grip over the
contemporary political activities and happenings
that he always had an upper hand during any
debate or discussion. Although, all these things
invariably make one proudly, but in the case of
Dr. Chamran, it was totally different. He was
such a humble and noble personality that during
elections even communist and anti-religious
students preferred to choose him their favorite
and popular leader.
Vanity and haughtiness is a great obstacle
in the way of knowledge and science and makes
it barren and fruitless, whereas humbleness and
nobility illuminates it and makes it blissful. There
is a Persian couplet:

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 ‫ﺍﻓﺘﺎﺩﮔﯽ ﺁﻣﻮﺯ ﮔﺮ ﻁﺎﻟﺐ ﻓﻴﻀﯽ‬
‫ﻫﺮﮔﺰ ﻧﮕﻴﺮﺩ ﺁﺏ ﺯﻣﻴﻨﯽ ﮐہ ﺑﻠﻨﺪ ﺍﺳﺖ‬
“Learn humbleness, if you are in search of bliss;
the dune absorbs no water.”

All these human and Islamic characteristics

gathered in his personage due to his domestic
religious sagacity and his close intimacy with the
righteous and pious clergy (learned
personalities) and his perpetual and punctual
participation in their sessions. He used to attend
the Quranic exegesis classes of famous
18
revolutionary clergy, Ayatullah Talqani.

Some people are negligent about the

fruitful outcomes of morality and virtues, and
feel carefree about such things. Particularly,
such people who think themselves over and
above than others on the basis of wealth,
knowledge or status, consider morality as absurd
and useless thing, although nothing of the above
can be an alternative for the morality.
The Holy Prophet (SAW) unveils to us the
secret of popularity by this quotation:

18
The Daily Jamhore-e-Islam, No. 7224, Jamade Awal
1425 page-15.
38
 ‫ﺍﻧﮑﻢ ﻟﻦ ﺗﺴﻌﻮﺍ ﺍﻟﻨﺎﺱ ﺑﺎﻣﻮﺍﻟﮑﻢ ﻓﺴﻌﻮﻫﻢ ﺑﺎﺧﻼﻗﮑﻢ‬
“You don’t possess a wealth that may relieve
people from their sufferings and difficulties but you
can please them with your politeness and morality.”19

19
Mizan-ul-Hikmah
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 Dr. Chamran in USA

After completing his graduation from

Tehran University, on the basis of his
outstanding merit, he left for USA in the late
1960’s for higher studies under sponsorship of
Education Department. He completed there his
M.E degree in Electrical Engineering with high
Merit in the Texas A&M University and succeeded
in getting admission in University of California,
Berkeley for completing his Ph.D programmme.
Here under the supervision of eminent
professors of international repute he completed
his Ph.D degree with distinction only in the
period of three years in Electrical Engineering
and Physics in Plasma in 1963. He was fluent in
Persian, English, Arabic, French and German.
People get astonished for the fact that he was
busy rather taking a lead in the religious, social
and revolutionary activities even during the
period he was undergoing his Ph.D programme.

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 Lest You May Forget Allah

Martyer Chamran was true to his words

and strictly kept his promises. His mother was
worried about his behaviour in a country like
USA, where one’s religion, conduct, faith remains
always in threat and that too for a young man
like Chamran. His mother during his see-off at
the airport gave him some sincere advices:
“Dear Mustafa! I have nourished you like
anything. Now that you are leaving, I don’t want
anything from you, neither I expect any thing
form you. I only advise you that you should
never forget Allah.”20
This sincere advice of his mother provided
every support to Chamran everywhere and it
never left him anyway to deviate from the path
of religion, modesty and humanity. After
spending twenty two years of life facing so many
vicissitudes in USA, Egypt and Lebanon, when
Martyr Chamran returned back of Iran, on the
same airport addressing to his mother, (who was
now no more in this world) he wrote:

20
Khuda boadh deger hech nahood, p.175
41
 “Oh Mother! After spending 22 years I am
returning back to my beloved homeland. I
ascertain you that during this long period, I
never forgot my Lord even for a moment. Dear
Mother! The love of Allah has diluted with every
aspect of my existence to such an extent that I
cannot spend even a moment without Him.
Mother I am happy, not for the reason that I am
returning my country after spending a pretty
long time, but because of the fact that a great
arrogant of the time has faced a defeat and the
roots of oppression and corruption have been
eradicated and the breezes of independence and
stability have begun to flow.”21

Imam Ali (sa) says in Nahjul-Blagh:

"‫"ﺍﻧﻤﺎ ﻗﻠﺐ ﺍﻟﺤﺪﺙ ﮐﺎﻻﺭﺽ ﺍﻟﺨﺎﻟﻴہ ﻣﺎﺍﻟﻘﯽ ﻓﻴﻬﺎ ﻣﻦ ﺷﻴﺌﯽ ﻗﺒﻠﺘہ‬

“Verily, the heart of a youth is like an
empty land, it accepts whatever seeds
are grown in it.”

If parents, teachers and learned clergy fill

up the hearts of youths with sincere advices,
exhortations and guidance, all of them will play a
role like Dr. Chamran.

21
ibid, p.165
42
 ‫ﺩﻝ ﺳﮯ ﺟﻮ ﺑﺎﺕ ﻧﮑﻠﺘﯽ ﮨﮯ ﺍﺛﺮ ﺭﮐﻬﺘﯽ ﮨﮯ‬
‫ﭘﺮ ﻧﮩﻴﮟ ﻁﺎﻗﺖ ﭘﺮﻭﺍﺯ ﻣﮕﺮ ﺭﮐﻬﺘﯽ ﮨﮯ‬
‘Whatever emits from heart it surely has
an affect.
Although, it has no wings, still it has
strength to take a flight’.

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 Stoppage of Scholarship

The poor family of Martyr Chamran was

not in a position to meet his educational
expenditure in the abroad. As mentioned earlier,
the Education Department of Iran had sponsored
Dr. Chamran for higher studies in the abroad on
the basis of his outstanding merit. But Chamran
could not spare himself to remain silent in wake
of growing treacheries and atrocities of Shah
inflicting upon people of Iran and he started to
protest against the royal system from every
possible way and never worried about the
stoppage of his scholarship (due to these
activities) on the basis of which he had
proceeded for higher studies there. In his
opinion, it was obligatory on his part to raise his
voice against the atrocities of the king in USA,
even if scholarship is continued or otherwise.
Accordingly, due to his growing political
activities, his scholarship was discontinued. Now
in order to coup up with his day today
expenditures, he opted for a part time job, but

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never gave up his struggle against the royal
atrocities.22
One of his friends says that once I called
on him, he said to me, “the scholarship from the
Iranian government has been stopped in my
favour from today.” I was taken aback and said,
‘Is it a humor’. He said, ‘No’, ‘SAVAK has forced
my father to call me back from USA, but my
father has refused, after that the government
has taken this decision.” He further continued,
“this thing is in my interest, because I can now
continue my activities with more vigour and
zeal.”23
In fact the freeman is one, who give
importance to highest goals and lofty ideals to
such an extent that he is ready to sacrifice
everything for it. Contrarily, the poorest slave is
the person, who sacrifices even all lofty goals,
sacred morals, humanity and human values for
the sake of lust and luxurious material life.
Martyr Chamran has beautifully illustrated the
tendencies of these two types of people.
“Some people in this world are apparently
living, breathing, moving, and living a life, but in
realty are captives of the world, slaves of life and
22
Yaran-e-Imam be rivayete isnade SAVAK, p.6
23
Paveh surkh, p.38
45
wretched ones of the time. In order to escape
death, they undergo disgrace to such an extent
as they are dead….. but a freeman possibly may
face death even earlier; but as long as he lives,
he is alive in real sense. He lives a life with his
full conscience and determination. He is not a
salve of caprices and wishes of others, instead
others submit to him.”24

‫ﺍے ﻁﺎﺋﺮ ﻻﮨﻮﺗﯽ ﺍﺱ ﺭﺯﻕ ﺳﮯ ﻣﻮﺕ ﺍﭼﻬﯽ‬

[‫ﺟﺲ ﺭﺯﻕ ﺳﮯ ﺁﺗﯽ ﮨﻮ ﭘﺮﻭﺍﺯ ﻣﻴﮟ ﮐﻮﺗﺎﮨﯽ ]ﺍﻗﺒﺎﻝ‬
“Oh the bird of heavens,
better to die than to have a substance
that may curtail your flights.”
Dr. Iqbal

24
Majma Khatirat
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 Tendency Towards Study

Martyr Chamran was having great

eagerness towards Islamic studies. Even when
he used to attend religious sermons, he used to
put it in writing in any park. Not only he used to
study books pertaining to Islam but in order to
defend Islam in a right manner, he used to go
even through the books written against Islam.
He used to have thorough discussions on
communism with students at the college and
university level, critically evaluating this school
of thought with logic and reasoning. He
continued this practice in America too. By this
way most of the students got freedom from the
whirlpool of communism. During his abroad stay
this tendency of study helped him in preserving
of his religious sagacity and fervour in the sin-
city like USA. His brother Mehdi Chamran states:
“In the letters, we received from Chamran
from USA, he asked for dispatching of many
books. In response we immediately used to send
him the books of Martyr Mutahhari, Martyr Baqir
al-Sadr or the books purely based on Islamic

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ideology published in Qum. This was a special
gift for him on our part.25
Apparently, sending of books by his
parents and brothers from Iran to USA seems to
be an ordinary step, but actually this is the root
cause responsible that how Chamran could
maintain and sustain the identity of a religious
family even in the corrupt kind of environment.
The reason for all this is the healthy literature
and Chamran’s enthusiasm of going through
pious and sound literature on one side and
providing literature those of Martyr Mutahhari
and Martyr Baqir-al-Sadr by his parents on the
other is responsible that Chamran could maintain
his identity. In real sense, the religious and
Muslim families nourish their children and youth
with reasonable gifts and moral based
endowments. Alongside their physical
nourishment they focus on their mental and
spiritual growth too. There is a narration:

‫ﺧﻴﺮﻣﺎﻭﺭﺙ ﺍﻻﺑﺎء ﺍﻻﺑﻨﺎء ﺍﻻﺩﺏ‬

The best heritage on the part of parents
towards their children is imparting of good
manners and high morals.26 Chamran was

25
The Journal, Shahid-e-Yaran, No. 37, p.12
26
Mizan-ul-Hikmah, No. 321
48
causious and devoted to his self-building and
spiritual training even on warfronts. One of his
students states:
“He was obedient to Allah, His Messenger
and the Holy Imams (a.s). He was true lover of
Imam Ali (A.S). He used to keep Nahjulblagh
along with him even on warfronts and used to go
through it whenever he found a gap.27

27
Journal Shahid-e-Yaran, No. 37, p.24
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 Political Activities in USA

According to contemporaries of Mustafa

Chamran, he was never idle; instead he was
always active wherever he went. He remained
busy in reformation of existing federations,
formation of new organizations, training and
mobilization of different caders, seeking
cooperation and coordination amongst
revolutionary types of people and groups, giving
directions to purposeless people and
organizations etc. His younger brother Mehdi
Chamran points out:
“He was a person of such a kind of
mentality that whatever country he visited, he
immediately laid the foundation of a sustainable
and stable organization in a well planned
manner.”
Mehdi says, when I asked one of the
companions of Mustafa Chamran about his
opinion regarding Martyr Chamran, he replied:
“You know better than me, however, only what I
can commit is that wherever Martyr Chamran
went, he created a movement. During his visit
from America to Europe, he laid foundation of
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Union of Islamic Students there. Also on his
return to Iran, he was instrumental in
segregation of communist and secular minded
people from those who possessed pure Islamic
faith.28
Some glaring contribution during his
studies in USA is laying the foundation of Anti-
Shah organizations particularly the foundation of
Islamic Students Union. Besides he was
influential for other Iranian Students Unions to
demonstrate against the royal atrocities. The
height of his popularity amongst Iranian
students lies in the fact that some other groups
enrolled his honourary membership in absentia
for their organizations. He released the monthly
‘Andesh Jebhe’ from USA, in which his essays
related to political, social and religious aspects
got published. It was through this magazine that
Iranian students got acquainted with the
oppressions and treacheries of the King of Iran.
During the presidency of John Kennedy, he
arranged a protest rally of 90 kms distance form
Baltimore to Washington and actively
participated in it. On the arrest of a revolutionary
religious dignitary of Iran, Ayatullah Talqani, he

28
The Daily, Jamhor-e-Islamic, Jamade-Awal, No. 7224
51
arranged a hunger-strike protest before the UNO
office. Accordingly, he managed a protest rally
against the mass-massacre by the King of Iran
on 5th June 1963 in Qum and Tabraiz. In the
same way he protested against Shah in front of
his guest house during Shah’s visit to America.29

29
Yaran-e-Imam, be riyate-asnade SAVAK, p.6
52
 In the Records of SAVAK

SAVAK, the then intelligence agency of

Iran kept a close vigil over Chamran during his
stay in USA for higher studies. His report of
activities there was being sent to Iran. One of
the reports is reproduced here:

From: USA No. 315/123 to 315 date 7-9-1968

Subject: Dr. Mustafa Chamran Savehi.

The above named person has done his Ph.

D in Electrical Engineering. He is married and
has four children, two sons and two daughters.
His wife is American. Her name is Pervana. Dr.
Chamran is living in Lane eight. His life is simple
and not a luxurious one. For example in his
drawing room of 10’x14’ size, there is a small
and simple furnishing of Iranian carpet. This man
is having the knowledge of different subjects. He
is very pious from the religious point of view. For
this very reason many of his friends, students
oppose him. They say, “It is very sad that an
intellectual like Mustafa Chamran is too devoted
to religion and faith.” But he keeps his emotions

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under control and is dong his work with patience
and forbearance. He satisfies the students during
discussions. Some time before, in one of his
lectures, while rejecting the arguments of
atheists, he substantiated his arguments in the
existence of God with a mathematical calculation
(formula). For this reason, the students are
having a great regard for him. He is extremely
sober and serious. He always tries not to walk
before anybody. He prefers to salute, before
anybody salutes him. He is suspicious about
communists. He quotes excessively Imam Ali
(a.s) in his lectures. He is against Iranian
government and openly denounces it.30

30
Imam Khomeni kay dost, SAVAK kay asnad ki roshni
main, with Extraction, p.135

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 Dr Mustafa Chamran
in Egypt

15th khirdad 1342 according to Christian

era 5th June 1963 on the occasion of banishment
of imam Khomeni there was an open mass
demonstration throughout Iran. The king ordered
firing over the peaceful public demonstration in
various cities in a bid to crush the public up
roaring, which resulted in martyrdom of
thousands of people. This news spread like fire
throughout the world. After this event, Dr.
Chamran although living in an affluent country
like USA got ascertained the fact that the king
has trampled down all the democratic and
legitimate kind of demonstrations. He, therefore,
came to the conclusion that there remained no
alternative except to opt for an armed struggle
against the corrupt regime. Accordingly, he
along with other associates left for Egypt for
attaining military training.
One of his friends who stayed with him in
America says that when I came to know that
Chamran wants to leave for Egypt, I got

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astonished and I wanted to stop him from such
move. I asked him why he wanted to leave
America and go to Egypt?
He replied, “What is the fun of getting
handsome salary and spending luxurious life
over-here when injustice is prevalent all over the
world”. This answer disturbed my mind, because
Chamran could live in an affluent area in USA
and could have his own aeroplane and ship, but
was trampling all this under his feet.31
Yes, it is so. The persons who are grown
up in the institution of Ali (a.s.) behave like this,
who in no case can tolerate the cry of oppressed
and the wailing of deprived and downtrodden.
They will never tolerate that oppressors are
given a free hand to shed the blood of the
oppressed.

‫ﺧﻨﺠﺮ ﭼﻠﮯ ﮐﺴﯽ ﭘﺮ ﺗﻮ ﺗﮍﭘﺘﮯ ﮨﻴﮟ ﮨﻢ ﺍﻣﻴﺮ‬

‫ﺳﺎﺭے ﺟﮩﺎں ﮐﺎ ﺩﺭﺩ ﮨﻤﺎﺭے ﺟﮕﺮ ﻣﻴﮟ ﮨﮯ‬
If any innocent is beheaded,
we get bewildered,
because the sympathy of the whole world
is in our hearts.

31
Paveh surkh, p.40
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 During those days Palestinian resistant
volunteers were also having their military
training in Egypt. For two years Chamran
continued to undergo very complicated kind of
guerrilla training and later on he began to train
other Iranian combatants in Egypt itself. He
established a formal underground organization
namely ‘Sama’. During this period he got
acquainted with different Palestinian groups and
developed close organizational relations with
them. He had to face so many difficulties in
Egypt due to Arab nationalism persecution. He
openly opposed this sort of ideology too. He
made it clear that the nationalism devoid of
Islam is instrumental in developing differences
amongst Muslims. He convinced even Jamal
Abdul Nasser that his ideology was dangerous to
both for Arab as well as Islamic world.

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 Why He paid
A Goodbye to USA

Dr Mustafa Chamran did his Ph.D from

America in Electronics and Plasma Physics. Due
to his high efficiency and creativity, he got his
job offer from various places. He was doing part
time job after attending his laboratory
assignment. He had married in America itself
and was having kids too. The difficult days of his
life were gone also and was improving
economically too. As from his childhood he was
having sympathy for the weak and Muslims,
therefore the modest and courageous believer
like Chamran couldn’t witness continuous defeats
of Arabs by the hands of Israel. In an interview
he said:
“The defeat faced by Arabs and Muslims by
the hands of Israel was to the extent that I
couldn’t bear it. It was beyond my forbearance
to see the insult and humiliation being inflected
upon Muslims and Arabs. So I decided to pay a
goodbye to USA and leave for Egypt along with

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the group of colleagues for undergoing military
training.”
As mentioned earlier, in Egypt too he tried
very hard to acquire military training with the
same zeal and zest as he attempted to qualify
his higher studies in America. He was admired in
Egypt too as he was appreciated in USA for
obtaining his Ph.D in electrical engineering by
great scholars of the time. Since he was
acquiring science and technology for the sake of
Islam and Muslims instead for his own interests,
he delivered his responsibilities with highest kind
of zeal, zest and sincerity.

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Migration Towards Lebanon

In 1966, Martyr Chamran returned back to

America from Egypt for some time, and thus the
jubilant days of his life began to start once
again. He got job offers from various research
organizations and he began to work as a senior
research staff scientist at BELL Laboratories and
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
In the meantime, the civil wars got
intensified in Lebanon. People belonging to
different religions, communities and tribes began
to establish their own armed groups. During this
turmoil, the Shia’s were being crushed. On the
other side, Israel was attacking again and again.
Everywhere there was destruction. His
conscience of sympathy for Islam and Muslims
got once again awakened. On the call of Imam
Musa Sadr in 1969 he once again returned to
Lebanon. The Luxurious life of America and
facilities available there in no way became an
obstacle in his ways. He writes somewhere in his
dairy:
“I was living a comfortable life in USA.
Every kind of facilities and felicities were
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available to me. But I left for Lebanon, breaking
away all the shackles of all joys and comforts of
material life to spend my life amongst deprived
and downtrodden people just to share their
deprivation and to open my heart for the
sympathy of these heart broken people. In this
way I may get a chance to spend my life in the
threat of death under the bombardment of Israel
and taste the sweetness of tears that may burst
out from my eyes in sympathy. Thus I may find
refuge only in the heavens for the cries of my
heart during sheer darkness of night. If I may
not prove worthy enough to be helpful to these
oppressed people, at least, I may be amongst
them and live a life like them and have their
sympathy in my heart. I did not want to be
known amongst rich and oppressing people. I
never wanted to live amongst them and taste
the facilities of their lives and make a deal of my
science and knowledge for the money and lust of
life.32

32
Yaran-e-Imam be riyate Isnade SAVAK, pp 9,10
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 The Saviour of Destitute of
Southern Lebanon

The parents of this son of a poor family in

Tehran were waiting for him to be back in Iran
after obtaining education in USA, whom they
expected to hold a highest portfolio in order get
rid of the long back poverty and miseries and
live a comfortable life. But Chamran was not
worried only about the poverty of his family and
poor brothers; instead the school of Islam and
Quran had created sympathy in his heart even
for all poor and weak people of the world. He
was not worried about himself, but he was
observing the poverty of Southern Lebanon, he
never thought about construction of a splendid
house on his return to Tehran, instead he was
anxious about providing shelter for the orphans
of Lebanon. He was not thinking about the
higher education of his brothers and sisters, but
was thinking about the eradication of ignorance
and illiteracy from Lebanon. Now his family was
not consisting of a few members, but all the
oppressed and deprived of the world were

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amongst his family members. He got inspired by
the Islam that all Muslims were his brothers and
all the elders were having the status of his
parents. So providing a helping hand and to
reach at their rescue had become his obligation
and target.
The condition of Southern Lebanon was
very bad. Ignorance, poverty, farness from
religion and civilization was at its peak. The
height of miseries faced by these people lied in
the fact that on one side the government of
Lebanon was showing a step-motherly behaviour
against them and had deprived them of their
fundamental right and on the other hand being
close to the boarder, they were the easy targets
of Israeli attacks every day. In nutshell,
whatever one may imagine about the
destituteness and helplessness it had become
the fate of the Shia’s of Lebanon. The poverty
and pitiable condition of the Shia’s of Southern
Lebanon was to the extent that the parents had
no alternative except to send their young
daughters to the capital, Beirut, where they
worked in hotels, offices, houses and in business
centers. Beirut at that time was considered to be
the Switzerland of the Middle East and a place of
entertainment for the Arab landlords. In such
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conditions the flesh trafficking was a thorough
fare for brokers and agents. The young boys also
got exploited due to unemployment. Imam Musa
Sadr couldn’t tolerate this pitiable condition of
Southern Lebanon. So he charted out a
comprehensive programme for resolving all the
problems related to political economical,
educational, cultural and security related issues.
Dr. Chamran was his close associate and
councillor in this programme.

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 Towards a Bright Future

Ayatullah Musa Sadr, Known as Imam

Musa Sadr obtained his higher religious
education from the Ethical Institution of Qum
and Najaf, coincided with his post graduation in
Economics from Tehran University. On the
command of Syed Sharf-ud-Din, the religious
authority of Shiatie of Southern Lebanon, he
proceeded to Lebanon and took hold the
leadership of Shias there. Afterwards, he charted
out a comprehensive plan for benevolence and
betterment of these deprived and downtrodden
people. He established four major industries,
only in the period of four years in a bid to
eradicate the economical crunch.
Simultaneously, he established the centres for
carrier counselling leading to commercial
developments. The highest institution for such
purposes was ‘Jable Amil Technical Institute’.
This institute was established especially for
orphans, deprived, downtrodden Shia children.
There were almost such orphan children, whose
parents had lost their lives in Israeli invasions
and who were having no sheltering at all. These
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orphans and deprived were all time resident
students of the Institute and all the school
facilities were provided to them free of any cost.
Dr Mustaf Chamran was posted as Principal of
this institute on behalf of Ayatullah Musa Sadr.
The students were trained over here in technical
disciplines vis-à-vis carpentry, blacksmithing,
welding and were provided artisanship in
repairing of electronic and agricultural machines.
After completion of four years of training, these
children were able to easily earn their livelihood
and coup up with the expenditures of their
families. Dr. Chamran generated the money for
running of this Institute of such a highest
standard by deployment the students at work. In
his book “Lebanon”, he writes: In order to run
the expenditure of this school, we were forced to
do work outside the Institute. For example the
students of our institute were fabricating the
door and windows and we used to sell them in
the market. Similarly, our students were working
upto midnight and on holidays they were doing
the welding job. Also they were manufacturing
various kinds of nuts and bolts of different sizes
and get them sold in the market. In this way we
met some portion of the school expenditure. The
orphans and deprived students of our Institute
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were having such an expertise that they got nuts
and bolts manufactured easily. The visiting
experts got astonished by the technical know-
how of our students. Even if we had to test any
technical teacher at any time, I got it done
through my students.33
Not only the technical training was
imported to the students in this Institute, but
also it was a great centre of religious and
ideological education. The practical religious
education and training was also being provided
here. The students over here were having
acquaintance with technology, religion, defensive
techniques and organizational setups etc.
The students of this institution on the one
hand were working on overcoming the
economical crunch of Shias of Southern Lebanon
and on the other, they were defending the
deprived and downtrodden people of the regions
from the Israeli brutality and its barbaric
invasions by way of having military training.
Martyr Mustafa Chamran remained
Principal of this Institute for a period of eight
years and he trained thousands of youth in
various discipline vis-à-vis commercial, religious,

33
Lebanon, pp.63, 65
67
security, organizational setups etc. during this
period. In this way, he laid the foundations of
strong and stable future of Lebanon. One of the
students of this Institution in his address to the
assembly of foreign students in Nishapore said
about Dr. Chamran:
“Chamran was a practical image of an
Islamic human being. He was the last man to
sleep at night and the first man to arise in the
morning. He himself used to clean the utensils of
the students and used to spend full day in toil
and hardships amongst these orphan and
deprived students. The first rank valiant and
striving youth found today in Lebanon are the
outcomes of 20 years efforts of Martyr
Chamran.”
Martyr Chamran in his book “Lebanon”,
writes:
“This Institution was our centre, our
military headquarter, our training center and
also our home.”34 He further illustrates:
“Not only technical know-how was
imparted to the students here, but it was an
ideology infusing centre as well. The
congregational prayers were also led here and

34
Lebanon, p.68
68
simultaneously the classes related to
religionlogy, organizational setup and
caderization were also held over here.” (ibid,
p.65)

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 Baitul Fatah
(The House for Girl Students)

Jable-Amil Technical Institution was

established for technical training of the young
male shia orphans and destitute students. But
the other problem for the Shias of Southern
Lebanon was related to their young girls and
womenfolk, whose condition, according to
Chamran was worse than that of boys. Martyr
Chamran points out their pitiable condition due
to destituteness and deprivation in these words:
“Perhaps you may be aware that Beirut,
the capital city of Lebanon was the
entertainment resort for the Arabian Lords,
which was called the Switzerland of Middle East.
85% of the call-girls were the daughters of poor
Shias of Southern Lebanon. These girls due to
their poverty and destituteness used to come to
Lebanon in search of jobs in order to earn some
livelihood for their family, but gradually they
used to be dragged towards sex scandals
through the brokers. These poor fellows later
never got a chance to return to their homes.

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 Imam Musa Sadr and Martyr Chamran did
not content on the establishment of ‘Baitul Fateh’
only, but established a Nursing Training Centre
too, where nursing training to the matriculate
girls was imparted free of any cost. In order to
save the Shia girls from sexual exploitation, he
established a carpet-waving training centre.
Martyr Chamran was appointed the incharge of
this centre too. About three hundred girls were
being enrolled for training at a time here, who
after completion of the course returned home
along with all accessories related to carpet
waving and worked at their homes. Their woven
carpets were bought by the centre and sold in
the market and also they were paid their
monthly remuneration too.
Imam Musa Sadr in coordination with
Martyr Chamran opened many such institutions,
where technical training was imparted to the
boys and girls of Southern Lebanon to earn their
livelihood.

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Establishment of Political and
Military Centre for Shias of
Lebanon

The Shias of Southern Lebanon have been

the victims of oppression and tyranny in every
period of history. They have suffered the
oppression of Umayyad. In the world war first,
the Othmans’ forcibly dragged them to warfronts
against Balkan and Europe. The Shia youth who
refused to go, had to pay 75 dinar and these
people used to dispose off their land to save the
lives of their children. Those who were not in a
position to pay 75 dinar, they used to borrow
this amount from any capitalist and in return the
capitalist used to take the services of these
young men throughout their lives. If anyone
couldn’t pay 75 dinar, then his children had to
undergo the forced Labour. These wretched
capitalists had turned the people and land of so
many regions into their personal estates. One
such wicked capitalist namely Ahmad Al-Ase’h
had brought about half of the Southern Lebanon
under his domain. In the year 1948, when Israel

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attacked Palestine and other Arab regions, this
impudent capitalist made a sale deed of 14 such
villages of Southern Lebanon with Israel.
Similarly, there were other such capitalists who
had enslaved the lives of common Shia Muslims.
They were even exploited by America and Britain
too from time to time.35
After Turkish rule, when this region came
under the domain of European imperialism, it
was distributed amongst different powers.
Lebanon came in the hands of France. The
French people also massacred the Shias. Shias
challenged France, even they rejected to have
their identity cards too. When new government
came into power with the assistance of France, it
gave a free hand to the Christians in dealing with
the economical, political and military aspects of
the government. By this way the Christians got a
chance to consolidate their position and power.
The condition of Shias of Lebanon was very
bad. They were considered to be the second
class citizens of Lebanon. They used to perform
all sorts of low and inferior type of jobs. Shia
localities were the poorest and most backward,
where even the facilities of essential needs were

35
Lebanon pp. 30,31
73
not available. During the days when there was
not even a single school available in Southern
Lebanon, the people approached the richest
landlord of the time, namely Ahmad As’ed
(Father of the present Parliament Speaker in
Lebanon) for establishment of a school in
Southern Lebanon, he replied:
"My son, Kamil is already under study. It is
sufficient. Why are you worried about the
education of your children?"
There were no roads and electricity; even there
was no hospital in Southern Lebanon.
Imam Musa Sadar felt the need for taking
some basic initiatives in order to restore the
rightful social status of the oppressed Shia
Muslims. Accordingly, in coordination with Martyr
Chamran he laid the foundation of organisations
like 'Al-Shia Al ala' and 'Amal' organisations for
the political and defensive stability respectively,
under the complete supervision and responsibility
of Martyr Chamran. He motivated and prepared
the Shia youth to save their country against the
Israeli invasions with full expertise. These youth
of Amal Malasia proved to be the front-liners of
Hizbullah. Chamran prepared them ideologically
and militarily too sound to resist against the
enemy.
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 Men - full of Compassion

When Chamran returned to Iran after

Islamic Revolution, instead of opting for any
highest portfolio in the capital city, he preferred
to safeguard the boundaries of his Islamic
country and combat the puppets of world
plunderers and bully powers and thus served at
Ahwaz, the frontier area of Iran. He was the
mastermind in defending and safeguarding the
boarder cities and liberating these areas from
the illegal occupation of the enemy. Martyr
Chamran, the embodiment of mercy and
sympathy, never took a sigh of relief. This norm
of sympathy that overfilled his heart lead him to
be over busy and preoccupied in the holy
struggle. This feeling of sympathy, he thought,
was the greatest blessing of Allah. He wrote
somewhere.
Oh Lord! You have bestowed to me the
choicest of every thing, every beauty. I thank
you for all this. Oh Allah! The highest special gift
that You endowed to me, I am inexplicable to
express my thanks for that and that thing is
‘sympathy’! This sympathy is such an antidote
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that has made me a lover of the ultimate truth
and has intensified my intimacy towards self
sacrifice and devotion and there is lying nothing
but love in my existence.36

36
Martyr Chamran, Benish va Niyaish, p.50
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 Trust in Allah

Being a student of Islamic School of

thought, Martyr Chamran firmly believed that a
man is certain to face the defeat, in case he
trusts only on his personal capabilities. It was
due to this belief, he moved forward while
holding fast the chain of trust in God. He
illustrates about this firm belief in these words:
“Oh Great Allah! By virtue of the trust in
You; for the sake of performance of my
obligations, for keeping alive the remembrance
of the glorious valiant of human history, Imam
Ali (A.S) and for following the right track of Lord
of the World of creation, Imam Hussain (A.S),
frantically and in the extreme love, I dare to dive
in the truculent ocean of death and I am ready
to face the stormy vicissitudes boldly and
courageously; and stand against the dragon of
death and tear open the bosom of oppression
and paganism. I am challenging the whole world
while having full trust in You.”37

37
Payam-e-Inqlab, No, 261, p.7
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 The Lighting Candle

While Dr. Chamran was a man of full

determination and firm resistance in the battle
field, simultaneously, his heart was full of
compassion and love as well. He was thus a
glaring example and symbol of valour and
discernment. His heartfelt supplication acquaints
the heart to take a flight in the heavenly and
spiritual domain. His talk of love reflects towards
his devotion towards Almighty and indicates his
divine feelings:
“Oh Allah! I am a candle, lighting for the
effulgence. Oh Allah! I beseech to You for
making an end of my existence in this way and
allow me to continue lilting up to the end until
there remain no traces even of my ruins. Oh
Allah! I have entered the battlefield and am
confronting the enemy, who is supported by the
great powers of the world. I am aware about my
material and physical weaknesses, but I am fully
equipped with the weapons of martyrdom and
have come forward with the power of my love
and belief. I have stricken hard on the head of
materialism with a spiritual might. I have put my
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life on the stake so that I can emancipate myself
from the shackles and traps of materialism and
am able to talk by virtue of spiritual power;
provide light by the candle of love, go forward
through fast means of the truth; impose the
words of the truth by the lightening supplications
over infidels and hypocrites, tear away the
curtain of prolonged darken night and am in a
position to turn the bats of night blind for ever,
am able to be fully engaged in the battlefield
with the weapons of martyrdom so that I can
attain everlasting martyrdom and can’t see
anything except God and don’t go in search of
anything except Allah and I may not talk about
anything except Him and don’t submitting to
anyone except Him.38

38
ibid, p.7
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 Has Ali (A.S)
Ever been in Rest?

Martyr Chamran spent 22 years in USA,

Egypt and Lebanon, away from his own country.
He obtained of guerrilla war training for two
years in Egypt and spent more than ten years in
Lebanon in the services of deprived and
downtrodden people of Southern Lebanon.
During this span of 22 years his parents could
meet him only twice in Lebanon.
He was working here day and night for the
deprived people. He was busy during the day in
the Institute and after that engaged in teaching
and training of the youth and in the
organizational activities of ‘Movement of
Deprived’ (Harkatul Mahroomin) of Imam Musa
Sadar. Neither he could have any leisure time,
nor possessed any comforts of life. He was
having even low and insufficient budget for
meeting the expenditure of the Institute and
other activities too. Even he had to find out
himself the avenues of work on the basis of
these meagre sources he was able to make great

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achievements. On the one side he was worried
about the miseries of deprived people of
Southern Lebanon and on the other he had to
shoulder the responsibility of organizing the anti-
Shah resistance groups too. Once when her
mother saw him in this condition, she said:
“My sweet son, you should have some rest
too. Martyr Chamran told her, “Oh Mother, has
Imam Ali (AS) ever been in rest? We are
followers of Ali (AS), we should also avoid
luxurious life.”39
One of his Lebanese students say: “During
night, I found him many times resting his head
over his pair of chapels, while sleeping.”40 One of
the Lebanese friends of Imam Musa Sadar and
Martyr Chamran, the high official of Amal
organization, Syed Hussain Musavi (Abu
Husham) says:
“According to Imam Musa Sadar, Martyr
Chamran is the basic founder member and real
leader of Islamic Movement in Lebanon. He
spared no efforts in discharging his
responsibilities. He accumulated no wealth for
himself. He always travelled here incessantly and

39
Journal Shahid Yaran, p.12, Interview with Nasrullah
Chamran
40
ibid.
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got a chance to have a sleep only while going
with a job in a vehicle. He devoted himself
totally in the service of the downtrodden masses
of this place.”41
Martyr Chamran paid a goodbye to the
luxurious life of USA, rejected the job offer of
international companies of great repute and
preferred to undergo difficulties and hardships in
teaching and training of deprived, destitute and
war-stricken orphans and oppressed children.
Perhaps the sagacious and farsighted eyes of
Martyr Chamran could foresee the future of
Hizbullah shining like the bright sun.

‫ﮐﭽﻬ ﺳﻤﺠﻬ ﮐﺮﮨﯽ ﮨﻮﺋﮯ ﮨﻴﮟ ﻣﻮﺝ ﺩﺭﻳﺎ ﮐﮯ ﺭﻗﻴﺐ‬

‫ﻭﺭﻧہ ﮨﻢ ﺑﻬﯽ ﺟﺎﻧﺘﮯ ﮨﻴﮟ ﻋﺎﻓﻴﺖ ﺳﺎﺣﻞ ﻣﻴﮟ ﮨﮯ‬
There is some mystery in the background
that I have become a rival and competitor
for the waves of ocean,
otherwise I am aware
that safety lies within the boundaries.

41
ibid, p.44
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 Embodiment of Kindness

The high human values found in Martyr

Chamran during his studentship were even
acknowledged by his political rivals. The secret
intelligence reports of Shah’s time speak even
high of his human morals. In one of the SAVAK
communiqué from USA, there is a mention:
“He is a taciturn, humble, wise, studious
and a researcher.42 There is proverb in Arabic:
“Height of grace is what is acknowledged by the
enemy.” The spying agencies of a country always
try to find faults in their adversaries and get
them exposed and publicised in order to make
them suspicious among their supporters. But
here in the case of Martyr Chamran they could
find only good qualities in him.
One of his students says:
“In Khozistan, while combating
communists, Martyr Chamran instructed us to
distribute 50% of the quota of edibles received

42
Imam Khonmenic Key doost SAVAK kay record ke
roshini main, p.125
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from Tehran for the Islamic forces, amongst the
families and children of these communities.43
Chamran was possessing the unique type
of characteristics. He was firm like a rock while
resisting against the enemies and was an expert
in guerrilla war but was extremely humble and
sober towards common people. One of his
students says:
“I have spent many years with Martyr
Chamran in forests, deserts as well as in
turbulent and peaceful areas. I have never seen
him quarrelling with anybody. One cannot find a
man with whom Martyr Chamran had a hard
talk. Even he never paid any heed towards false
accusations, if any, levelled against him.”44
During the Iraqi invasion on Khozistan,
some communist minded youth too resisted
against Iraqis. I suggested Martyr Chamran to
hand them over to the revolutionary court. He
said, “You see, the war is against Iran. Let these
communist young men defend their country. But
you should mind two things: firstly, these people
may not harm us anyway; secondly, you have to
prove by virtue of your Islamic behaviour that

43
ibid
44
Journal Shahid Yaran, No.37, p. 19, An interview with
one of his students.
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you are on the right path. If you do these two
things, be assured we are successful.”45 When
Martyr Chamran happened to be angry with any
person, he used to cry out in anger, ‘Dear’ and
that too when he was very furious.46
His students, Shah Hussaini says, “Before
martyrdom of Martyr Chamran the work load at
the warfront was too much and I couldn’t meet
my family for one and a half year. My wife was
pregnant. The birth of my son took place in my
absence. When Martyr Chamran came to know
about this, he called my wife and children on the
Khozistan warfront from Tehran and I spent
some days with them. In fact I could bear this
separation only by virtue of good behaviour of
Martyr Chamran. He attracted people like a
magnate. There was such a kind of attraction in
this great person that one could hardly miss his
family.47
Yeh! The hearts are won if one gets
moulded in Islamic morality and not by the
power of wealth, status, knowledge and
efficiency.”

45
ibid
46
ibid
47
ibid
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 ‫ﺩﻝ ﺟﻴﺖ ﻟﻮ ﺩﻝ ﺟﻴﺘﻨﺎ ﺣﺞ ﺍﮐﺒﺮ ﮨﮯ‬
‫ﺍﻳﮏ ﺩﻝ ﮨﺰﺍﺭ ﮐﻌﺒہ ﺳﮯ ﺍﻓﻀﻞ ﮨﮯ‬
‘Let the hearts be conquered
as it is the bigger Haj.
If you are successful in wining one heart,
it is better than thousands of Kabas.’

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 Chamran
A Precious Divine Gift
It is said that only a jeweller knows the
preciousness of a jewel. Same is the case with
human heart. The superiority of a man is known
by a person who himself has gone through the
vales of grace and success and is himself
possessing such qualities of value and grace.
When Chamran paid a goodbye to his
comfortable life at USA and left for Lebanon to
serve the downtrodden people there, the
spiritual and political leader of Lebanon, Imam
Musa Sadar testified and identified this
spectacular jewel and found him the right person
who shall prove for him his right hand,
counsellor and advisor. The nephew of Imam
Musa Sadar, Dr. Sadiq Tabtabaie says:
“Imam Musa Sadar was having such a love
for Chamran that can’t be expressed in words.
He told me many times, Sadiq, you have brought
for me a wonderful heavenly and divine gift in
the shape of Chamran.”
Oh yes! After Imam Musa Sadar, Chamran
was really a second divinely gift for the deprived
people of Lebanon. One hardly believes, if these
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are the same deprived and downtrodden people,
whose reputation for their dignity, honour, glory
and steadfastness and stability has gone far and
wide everywhere. Chamran was like a lighting
candle for the deprived, depressed and
downtrodden people of Lebanon, who continued
to burn until it eradicated the sheer darkness of
ignorance, negligence, backwardness, nepotism,
feeling of inferiority and differences.
It is amazing, when this burning candle
like Chamran returned to his own country, after
the span of 22 years, the leader of deprived
masses of Iran, Imam Khomenie also found him
a divine gift for himself. One of the high officials
of Amal Organisation of Lebanon, A’adil Awan in
this connection says:
“In 1978 during the triumph of Islamic
Revolution, Martyr Chamran came to Iran to
congratulate Imam Khomenie along with a
deputation of Amal Organisation and Lebanese
Shiatie Majlis, for the success of Islamic
revolution.”
Imam Khomenie in his address to
Lebanese deputation said: “The spectacular
jewel that you have brought for us and for our
revolution is Dr. Chamran.”

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 The deputation insisted to get Chamran
back to Lebanon, but when they came to know
that Imam Khomenie is interested to utilise his
services for the revolution they got convinced in
his retaining. Chamran verily proved to be a best
gift for the Islamic Revolution of Iran, After
revolution, the administrative system was in
disorder. The influence of SAVAK hypocrites and
the followers of Shah were yet there in the
armed forces. On the other side, some people on
the behest of foreigners had started separatist
movements in a few frontier provinces. The
Communists and anti-revolutionary elements
started armed insurgency in Kurdistan, Kirman
and Khozistan. Some elements had seized some
government departments also. The guerrilla
army established under the control, command
and guidance of Mustafa Chamran, crushed down
the communists and hypocrites in Kurdistan,
although having less resources available at its
disposal. Thus Kurdistan was put under control.

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 Discussions on
Humanity in Polite Circles

There is no dearth of such people who talk

about eradication of backwardness and poverty
amongst the downtrodden and deprived. The
politicians are expert in raising the sentiments of
poor people by highlighting their problems, who
in turn become instrumental in bringing them
into power. Neither there is any dearth of
columnists, who abundantly write on this issue in
news papers and Journals. The poor people
consider them their saviours by virtue of their
writings. The organizations like NGOs come into
existence. Conferences and seminars are being
organized in the splendid hotels on the poverty
related topics. But the majority amongst all
these people are those who take advantage of
such issues to have an easy access over power
and other material gains in their own interest.
Contrarily, Dr. Chamran, a grown up student of
Ali’s (A.S) school of thought and influenced by
the teachings of Nahjulblagah was working for
the poor while living amongst them. He was like

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a sweet father amongst these students for whom
he had owned the responsibility of teaching and
training in Jable Aamil Technical Institution. He
used to live, sleep, take his meals amongst these
pupil. He himself was doing his job even cleaning
his utensils. In case there was any need of
repairs in the Institute, he himself along with his
students used to do that job. One of his
Lebanese student say:
“He was taking care of all the needs of
orphans and deprived children. Taking his bowl
and spoon in his hands, he used to stand and
wait for his meals in the queue. He also used to
play with them.”48
One of the Lebanese Prolific writers, Syed
Mohammad Sadiq Hussain writes about Dr.
Chamran’s caretaking for orphans: “Dr. Chamran
had brotherly and spiritual relations with these
orphans. He never acted as a dry type of
Principal; instead he treated them in a friendly
and brotherly environment. The children used to
share all their educational, ethical, psychological
even domestic related problems with him.”49

48
An Interview with Sheikh Mustafa Mo’amri Journal
Yaran, p.36
49
ibid, p.55
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 Dr. Chamran in one of his notes make a
mention about the modus-oprendi adopted for
helping the poor, destitute and orphans:
“I am not amongst those, who talk and
discuss about destitute and war stricken people
in the coffee houses and hotels while having a
cup of tea or whose source of world information
is only newspaper and radio. I am the person
who has observed the ground reality very closely
and lived a life alongside the victims. I live with
the people hailing from the villages from
Northern upto western parts of Lebanon. I share
my meals with them. When there is a bomb
blast or opening of a fire, I am amidst the
people. I carry the martyred and the injured
people on my shoulders. In case of firing
towards our side, we trust only in Allah in our
survival.50
It is appreciating that for a span of 30-35
years a clergy and a scholar with their full
existence, without any greed and interest made
tireless efforts for teaching and training of the
deprived, destitute and orphan children of
Southern Lebanon. Today, after 30 years these
children have took up the reigns of their nation

50
Majmua Khatirat, Chamran, p.18
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in their own hands and thus have not only been
successful in changing their lot, but also have
become an ideal and model for all other youths
of Islamic world. Is it not possible for the young
men of my nation to change the fate of their
nation by becoming a model of Dr. Chamran and
Imam Musa Sadar?
The time is crying out:

‫ﺍﭨﻬ ﮐہ ﺍﺏ ﺑﺰﻡ ﺟﮩﺎں ﮐﺎ ﺍﻭﺭ ﮨﯽ ﺍﻧﺪﺍﺯ ﮨﮯ‬

‫ﻣﺸﺮﻕ ﻭ ﻣﻐﺮﺏ ﻣﻴﮟ ﺗﻴﺮے ﺩﻭﺭ ﮐﺎ ﺁﻏﺎﺯ ﮨﮯ‬
‘Rise up, the world has changed,
The time is yours
The East and West belongs to you only now.”

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Chamran–A Bridge between
three Revolutions

Dr Chamran felt a prey of imperialistic

oppressions from the age of his studentship. He
was becoming restless with the agony of
downtrodden and oppressed people. He was
worried about Palestinian, Lebanese Muslims
including the black Americans who have been a
victim of racism. Chamran was continuously
awaking the students of Iran and other places of
the world in America about the pitiable
conditions of the oppressed nations of the world,
especially about the black Americans. In this
connection, SAVAK has written in one of its
reports.
‘Dr. Chamran is a supporter of
revolutionary movements; particularly he is a
supporter of black Americans. In his opinion the
only revolution that is not dependent on alien
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prove successful and fruitful.51 In a SAVAK Dairy,
there is a mention:
Today on 7th of May, 1968 (Tuesday), at 8
AM, a meeting of Iranian students was held in
Northern California, in which Dr. Chamran
delivered a lecture on Black Americans and their
movements. In his lecture, Dr. Chamran talked
in detail that how these Black Americans were
brought here, how they were made slaves and
how they were forced to work in the agriculture
lands.52
One of the Lebanese writers of great
repute Syed Mohammad Sadiq Hussaini opines
that Chamran was instrumental in bringing the
three revolutions at a time:
“Chamran was a full-fledged nation in itself. He
was having a concrete and solid thinking. He had
come to Lebanon only to help Lebanese Shias
and to support Palestinian revolution. In fact he
wanted to create a bridge between Islamic
Revolution of Iran, Palestine and Lebanon. His
activities were almost for the annihilation of
oppression. He was a flower of Shia School of
thought, a devotee of Islam and obedient to his

51
Imam Khomenie Key Doost SAVAK Key roshni main,
p.137
52
ibid.
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superiors. Simultaneously, he continued to follow
up his divine and sacred target, without any
geographical, sectarian, continental and national
conception.53

53
Journals Yaran …, No. 37, p.55.
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 An Unknown Solider

The persons, devoid of any ethical values,

who are lacking sincerity and belief and who
don’t feel the sublime and magnificence of
moralities, if do any kind of good work, they
want appreciation and admiration for it. They
expect well admiration besides name and fame.
If any way they are not admired, instead if they
happen to be accused despite their good deeds
or are being criticized they immediately get
disgusted and try very had to prove and present
their work in a praiseworthy manner. Contrarily,
the pious and vitreous obedient men of Allah,
who are overfilled with the sweetness of belief
and sincerity, who firmly believe in morality and
eternity of the world hereafter and who perform
everything while believing in omnipresence and
omnipresence of Allah and His messenger; who
believe in the fact that if an act is in accordance
with the pleasure of Allah, if the whole world
takes it ill, they never pay any heed to it and if
the work is not in conformity what Allah wants, if
the whole world admires it, it doesn’t carry any
weight at all. Such people are concerned about
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one thing only and that is their work should be
acceptable to Allah. Such types of people have
nothing to do with name and fame, instead they
like to be unknown and they enjoy their secret
service. Martyr Chamran was such a type of
man, who liked to remain unknown and used to
keep away from reputation. He had no ambition
for any worldly status and portfolio. This was the
reason that Imam Musa Sadar gave him the title
of ‘An Unknown Solider’.
“When Martyr Chamran came to know
about Musa Sadr’s stand regarding Palestine,
Shah of Iran, Islamic Combatants and Imam
Khomenie, he determined to mobilize his
programme and movement in Lebanon. Martyr
Chamran was a fan of Imam Musa Sadar and he
also gave him the title of ‘An unknown solider’.
He initially used to grasp well the thoughts of
Imam Musa Sadar and then used to put them
into practice”.54
“Martyr Chamran was having the position
of blood in the veins of Amal Movement. He
travelled continuously day and night for the
progress and development of this movement.

54
A’adil Awan, A high official of Harkat Movement, Yaran,
No.37, p.41
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There was no word of ‘exhaustion’ in his
dictionary. He could arrange and manage
solution to each and every problem. He earnestly
mean his business and believed in, work as
worship.’
He sacrificed everything to reach a
successful end of a job or a programme. There
was nothing like defeat in his existence. He was
the first man to initiate the work and the last one
to take his meals and go to sleep. He was a
leader of no match.55
The Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution,
Ayatullah Khamnie has spent sufficient time with
him during Iran-Iraq war. He says about him:
“The peculiarity about Chamran was that
he was never a formal and showy man in the
society. He appeared less before the press
conferences and never articulated himself. For
example, when he returned from Lebanon and
began to work in Prim Minister’s house, I heard
less about him, even for a long time I couldn’t
know if he is in Iran, while as other people who
were academically too lower to him, presented
themselves in a fascinating manner, organized,
press conferences and went here and there. But,

55
ibid.
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Chamran never did so. He was a very hard
worker; often he slept in Prime Minister’s house
and worked there during late hours. He used go
to his home very less. He was busy with his work
day and night.”56 The Supreme Leader again
says:
‘He was having higher qualifications but he
talked less about it. He was not among those
people who talked high about their degrees and
certificates. I was not aware about his academic
qualifications for about a long time, although
when we were fiends and close to each other. I
got it very late”.57

56
Ayat Mujahidan, pp 51,54
57
A’adil Awan, A high official of Amal Movement, Yaran,
No. 37, p.41
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 No Death Dread

Martyr Chamran was exemplary man of

great valour and courage. He was friendly with
hardships and ventures and faced them
courageously. He always took a lead wherever a
need for sacrifice arose. He was a brave soldier
who discharged his duties under the clutches of
death. He wrote in one of his notes:
“One of the members of revolutionary
guards met me in the Jable A’amil Institute. He
took me in a corner and said, ‘I have been
entrusted the responsibility to take care of your
personal safety. I am deputing three Palestinian
body guards, who shall always escort you, even
in your vehicle for your safety”. I told him, ‘what
has happened that you are talking so?’ He told.
‘As per reports, the enemy is in ambush to
assassinate you. Your life is really in danger and
such an incident will be a heavy irreparable loss
for the Palestinian residence movement and I am
responsible for your safety on behalf of
Resistance Leader.” I thanked him and said: ‘My
Allah is my Guardian’. He rejected my offer and
reiterated about his mission. At last I told him,
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“there are so many Jawans of Amal Movement,
in case of any need they will take care of me. I
once again thanked him”.
“Strange! Are these people threatening me
with the death? I am plunging in the death and
take pleasure, relief and satisfaction in it. I have
grown up in grief and pain and do dive in this
river. I have dwelled under rocks of grief and
sorrow. I am burning in the continuous fire of
deprivation and feel alienation from the world
and whatever is in it.”58
The Leader of the Revolution, Ayatullah
Khamnie says, “I have observed a number of
times Chamran pouncing into dangerous spots
where his martyrdom was certain, but he was
not harmed at all.”59 Martyr Chamran has written
somewhere:
“I am not afraid of dangers; neither have I
fled away from the death. When the storms of
vicissitudes go beyond my capacity, I remember
Ali (A.S), his pains and agony, his solitudes, his
supplications, his inner restlessness, the stormy
episodes that surrounded him one after another,
all get revealed unto me ….. then I get a sigh of
relief. And when I find no way of rescue, I take
58
Khuda boad wa digerey nabood, pp 155, 156
59
Majmua Khatirat, p.28.
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refugee in the bosom of the martyrdom and
follow the footprints of Hussain (A.S) with firm
steps and Iron will and voluntarily present
myself, my life and my existence to the
omnipresence of Allah…. And with full confidence
and satisfaction tread towards my fate.”60
Chamran was such kind of freeman that he
consider all those moments sweet and
memorable for himself in which there was every
apprehension of death:
“The beautiful moments of my life are
those, when I was certain that I am going under
clutches of death and was not expecting
anything from anyone and neither was thinking
about any ambition. During that night I saw the
stars having such a charm and attraction in the
sky that I never observed before”.
Oh yes! These are the people, who break
the pride of Shadads, Nimrods, Yazids of the
time with the sword of valour and courage, with
the dagger of belief and fear of God.

‫ﻣﻮﺕ ﺳﮯ ﺯﻧﺪﮔﯽ ﻧﭽﻮڑﻳﮟ ﮔﮯ‬ ‫ﻅﺎﻟﻤﻮں ﮐﺎ ﻏﺮﻭﺭ ﺗﻮڑﻳﮟ ﮔﮯ‬

We shall break the proud of oppressors
and extricate the life from the death.

60
ibid
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 Job in NASA

After completion of his degree in electrical

engineering, Martyr Chamran had a job offer
from different places, including National
Aeronautics and space Administration (NSSA) in
USA, but he rejected it. His brother Nasrullah
Chamran illustrates the reasons behind rejection
of this offer:
“Some of his friends asked him about the
rejection of job offer from NASA, he replied, ‘I
don’t want that Zionists and other such people
who are busy in hatching plots against Islam and
humanity may get benefited by my expertise.”
He explained and reiterated to his friends
that he doesn’t want that the enemies of Islam
may have any kind of benefit from his
knowledge. The rejection of job opportunity like
NASA, the mention of which is even a matter of
pride for ill conscious people, indicates the fact
that Chamran preferred Islam and Muslims over
his own interests from the primetime of his
youth. The rejection of offer from NASA by
saying that my contribution towards it will
benefit the enemies, reveal the fact that he was
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having a grass root level information and
awareness. This kind of knowledge with a clear
vision has more importance than that of
thousands of prostrations and prayers.
Contrarily, the knowledge that ends in fulfilling
of corporal and material needs only, although
one may undergo the servitude of enemies of
Islam and humanity in its acquiring, not only
contains no weight and value, but according to
Dr. Iqbal it is more dangerous than venom.

‫ ﺯﮨﺮ ﮨﮯ ﺍﺣﺮﺍﺭ ﮐﮯ ﺣﻖ ﻣﻴﮟ‬،‫ﻭﻩ ﻋﻠﻢ ﻧﮩﻴﮟ‬

‫ﺟﺲ ﻋﻠﻢ ﮐﺎ ﺣﺎﺻﻞ ﮨﮯ ﺟﮩﺎں ﻣﻴﮟ ﺩﻭ ﮐﻒ ﺟﻮ‬
‘The knowledge that ends
only in earning food is not knowledge at all
in stead poison in the eyes of freedom lovers.’

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 An Early Riser Mujahid

‘Little of the night was that they used to sleep

and in the (hours) before the dawn
did they prey for forgiveness’. (51:18)

Martyr Chamran was a great lover of dawn

and night prayers. If he happened to be dead
tired or whatever wakeful he must have been
during the night, still he used to rise for
supplications and share the secrets with the
Almighty Allah. One of his students of Jable-
A’amil Institute says about it:
“Whenever I happened to wake up during
the night, I saw Dr. Chamran amongst these
orphans standing up for night prayers. We all get
trembled by his supplications and weeping.”61
His wife Gazeh Chamran states: “Martyr
Chamran used to rub his face against the dust
after completing his prayers and wept bitterly in
prostration. How lengthy these prostrations
were! When Mustafa used to wake up for the

61
Journal Yaran, No. 37, p 47
106
night prayers in the midnight, I could barely
tolerate his exhaustion.” I used to say him:
‘Stop now, Mustafa! Rest a while, you are
tired.’ Mustafa replied, ‘Oh Gazeh! If a
businessman starts consuming his investments,
he will go for bankruptcy. If he has to live, then
he has to strive for profits too. If we may not
offer night prayers we are proceeding towards
bankruptcy.”62 What would be the position of a
man in love and spirituality, who thinks himself
at the verge of bankruptcy if he fails to offer his
night prayers? Oh yes, the bankrupt is not only a
person, whose wealth has got exhausted,
instead one whose heart is devoid of taste and
pleasure of prayers, remembrance of Allah and
sharing of secrets with Almighty during the sheer
darkness of night. The worldly people are
seeking peace in their soft bedding, and splendid
abodes but the persons who in real sense would
be called pious men of Almighty Allah, do
sacrifice their comforts and wake up during the
night for having a peace of mind (by offering
night prayers).

‫ﻧہ ﺩﻧﻴﺎ ﺳﮯ ﻧہ ﺩﻭﻟﺖ ﺳﮯ ﻧہ ﮔﻬﺮ ﺁﺑﺎﺩ ﮐﺮﻧﮯ ﺳﮯ‬

62
Chamran beh riyati hamser, p.46
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 ‫ﺗﺴﻠﯽ ﺩﻝ ﮐﻮ ﺁﺗﯽ ﮨﮯ ﺧﺪﺍ ﮐﻮ ﻳﺎﺩ ﮐﺮﻧﮯ ﺳﮯ‬
It is neither the world,
Nor the wealth or adorned houses
that may provide one a peace of mind;
instead it is by the remembrance of Allah
that one attains satisfaction.
Martyr Mustafa writes in one of his supplications:
“I get too much pleasure while I get up for
supplications and prayers during the sheer
darkness of night between mysterious calm and
cosy atmosphere of earth and sky! I am longing
to share humming with stars, open my heart for
un-revealed secrets of heaven, slowly going
deep into the extreme depth of satellite and get
absorbed in the infinite world; go beyond the
boundaries of existence and get lost into the
vales of annihilation and feel none but Allah.”63
During the sheer darkness of night, when
the people, sky and its stars are in complete
silence, this is the ripe time when the aware
hearted people take an opportunity and try to
open the lighting doors with their wailing and
tears, by the opening of which a man achieves
wisdom, enlightenment, vision, peace of mind
and transparency of one’s spirit. This is the thing
that cannot be bestowed by any scholar,

63
Zamzam-e-Ishq, p.74
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learned, school or university. Those who with
their purified souls, beseech to Allah in this
atmosphere of solitude, the Almighty in turn fill
up their hearts with a kind of wealth that can’t
be seen with the material eyes, instead it is
observed by those who themselves are overfilled
with this kind of wealth. Dr. Iqbal is also of the
opinion that he got everything through night
prayers and supplications to Almighty at the time
of dawn, which he couldn’t get from any other
way.

‫ﻣﻴﮟ ﻧﮯ ﭘﺎﻳﺎ ﮨﮯ ﺍﺳﮯ ﺍﺷﮏ ﺳﺤﺮﮔﺎﮨﯽ ﻣﻴﮟ‬

‫ﺟﺲ ﺩﺭ ﻧﺎﻳﺎﺏ ﺳﮯ ﺧﺎﻟﯽ ﮨﮯ ﺻﺪﻑ ﮐﯽ ﺁﻏﻮﺵ‬
‘I got it in the tears
that burst out from my eyes
during the time of dawn,
it is a pearl that no snail contains.’
Dr Iqbal also prayed for this blessing from
Almighty for the Muslim youth that can be
obtained through midnight prayers and
supplications at the time of dawn.

‫ﭘﻬﺮ ﺍﻥ ﺷﺎﮨﻴﻦ ﺑﭽﻮں ﮐﻮ ﺑﺎﻝ ﻭ ﭘﺮﺩے‬ ‫ﺟﻮﺍﻧﻮں ﮐﻮ ﻣﻴﺮے ﺁﻩ ﺳﺤﺮ ﺩے‬

“Oh Allah! Bless the youth
with graciousness of supplications of dawn
and bestow strength to these kids of falcon
to take a flight"
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 Martyr Chamran also asks the youth to
taste the bliss of prayers: ‘Offer your prayers
with devotion and love, although you are dead
tired and lost your energy. Before offering
prayers think about the logic behind it and
consider whom you are facing. If you do so, then
gradually you will taste the pleasure of the
words, you are uttering throughout your life. The
repetition of none but prayers (Namaz) can
bestow pleasure to a human soul.64

64
Magmua Khatirat, p.16
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 The Faithful Husband

Martyr Chamran’s Lebanese wife, Gazah

Chamran says that on the day Mustafa came to
my parents with a marriage proposal for me. My
mother told him, ‘Do you know with whom you
want to marry? When this girl wakes up early in
the morning, her bedding is to be folded before
she washes up her face. A glass of milk and a
cup of coffee are to be kept ready in her room.
You cannot afford to live with her in such a state
of affairs, neither can you afford for a maid for
her.’ Mustafa Replied in a polite way, “I cannot
afford for a maid for her, but I promise, as long
as I live, I shall fold her bedding after she wakes
up and use to keep the glass of milk and a cup of
coffee too in her room.”
Gazah Ghamran Says, “As long as Mustafa
was alive, he continued to follow this practice,
even when we were away from our home staying
in Ahwaz at warfront, he used to arrange
bedding and serve milk and coffee for me.
Although, he himself was not taking any coffee,
but as he was aware that we Lebanese are
accustomed to take coffee early in the morning,
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so he himself used to prepare it for me. I told
him, Mustafa! Why are you doing so? He replied.
I have to keep my promise that I have made to
your mother, as long as I am alive.”65
Yes, the great men and sagacious people
in real sense do possess the characteristic of
faithfulness. Islam never allows faithlessness.
However, we are accustomed to trample over
our promises just under our feet like waste
papers. Our sixth holy Imam says: “Allah has not
permitted anybody to abandon three things in
any case; firstly doing good to ones parents,
whether they are good or bad, secondly to keep
the promise, irrespective of the fact if the other
party is virtuous or wicked, thirdly returning of a
thing given in trust, whether the owner is a
gentleman or wicked one.66
Sheikh Mustafa Ma’ari, his office secretary
in Lebanon says about the matrimonial
relationship of Mustafa Chamran with Gazeh:
“Gazeh Jabir like all other Lebanese
women was providing her assistance in various
jobs like intelligence nursing of Jable A’amil
Institute. This lady was conversant to Islamic

65
Chamran be reyate hamser, p.29
66
Khasail-Saduq, Vol. 1, p63.
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ideology and was also a writer. One of her works
was “The Role of Women in the Movement of
Imam Hussain (A.S).” Dr Chamran was very
much influenced by this book. But the lady was
not serious about her veiling, so Dr Mustafa
asked me to discuss with her about veiling and
convenes her about Islamic modest dress. I
discussed with her on the subject one day from 8
AM upto the evening and on the next day from
morning till afternoon. At last she was convened
and began to wear modest dress (veil).
Afterwards Dr. Chamran decided to merry her.67
Gazeh Chamran also says about it: After
my engagement with Mustafa, people began to
say, ‘you have become mad! This man is ten
years elder to you and is also an Iranian, who is
always in the condition of war. He is neither
having any house nor possessing any wealth.
Neither he is matching us in colour. He is also
not having any passport.”
But I used to say, “All these characteristics
of Mustafa have fascinated me. He is a devotee
of Ahlulbait and Wilayah (Guardianship of holy
Imams). I always used to write that I am
hearing the voice of Abudhar (one of the

67
Journal Yaran, No. 37, p.37.
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companions of Prophet Mohammad (SAW) who
was banished by the Caliph of the time to the
Lebanese city of Jable A’amil) calling me from
the River Sawore and from every nook and
corner of Jable-A’amil. I wanted to have any
access to Abudhar, but there was no one to help
me. This is the job of Mustafa. He came here just
like Salman (other companion of Prophet
Muhammad (SAW).
It was Mustafa who could rescued me from
the darkness. I was never ready to get married
and live like all other multitude of people. I was
in search of Mustafa like man. I was in search of
a great spirit, who would be free from the
shackles of world and worldliness.68
Gazeh Chamran say about her dowry:
“My dowry was Holy Quran and I had a
covenant with the bridegroom that he will guide
me towards the ultimate truth, Ahlulbait and
Islam. It was the first wedding of its kind in the
Lebanese city of Soura, in which no money in the
dowry was involved. It was a surprise for my
family and others.69

68
Chamran be riyate hamser.
69
Ibid, p.25
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 Gazeh! Do you know whom
you have wedded?

Imam Musa Sadar loved Dr. Chamran very

much and Dr. Chamran also followed his
instruction in letter and spirit in the first
instance. Both of them were connected
spiritually, very few people could understand it.
Gazah Chamran says that one day Imam Musa
Sadar told me:
“Do you know what is the status of
Chamran before me? He is closer to me more
than that of a brother. He is my life, rather a
dual existence of myself.”
Some people were trying to find faults in
Chamran due to their prejudice and exhibited
their ill will against him before Imam Musa
Sadar. But Imam Musa Sadder refuted them and
said:
“I never allow anybody for any backbiting
against Chamran.”
Imam Musa Sadar was a revolutionary and
enlightened clergy, who besides achieving his
jurisprudence degree in Islamic centre of

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learning (Howziah), had completed his Master’s
degree in economics too from Tehran University.
Chamran also was having a high profile in
academics. Both of them were having
discussions on different issues and differed in
their opinions too. Despite, all this, there was no
question of disregard between them. Gazah
Chamran says, in the first meeting with Imam
Musa Sadar, after her marriage with Mustafa, he
called me at an isolated place and advised me:
“Gazah! Do you know whom you have
wedded? He is a great man and Allah has graced
you with a precious gift, you must appreciate
and honour it.” I was astonished by the words of
Imam Musa Sadar and told him that I am aware
about his position, Thus I began to talk about
the good qualities and manners of Dr. Chamran
but Imam Musa Sadar interrupted me and said,
“What you are observing about the high qualities
and good behaviour of Dr. Chamran, is just a
slightest reflection of his spiritual aspect of life.
It is an effect of his mystical significance over his
heart. As he is living with us, so he comes down
at our level from his highest spiritual position.
Otherwise it is beyond our capacity to have a
society with him as far as his spiritual status is
concerned.”
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 Imam Musa Sadar was dejected about the
fact that people around Chamran were not
conversant to the realities about him. They
thought his temperament of humility and
submission is due to his poverty, destituteness
and loneliness. Imam Musa Sadar said to me, ‘I
hope you may understand this all.’
It is wonderful that a great religious
authority (like Imam Musa Sadar) is appreciating
the highest spiritual accomplishments of an
intellectual to such an extent. It indicates that
how much exertions he must have undergone to
achieve self-purification and spiritual sanctity
that an effective scholarly personality like Imam
Musa Sadar is envious upon his characteristics.
Chamran was enjoying the beauty of nature,
considering it as a sign of Almighty. Sometimes
he used to be lost while gazing towards a flower,
Gazeh Chamran says:
“Once I found Chamran watching the
sunset scene through the window of the room, I
saw tears continuously gushing down from his
eyes. I told him why tears are flowing from your
eyes.” He replied, “Gazah! See how beautiful is
this universe. This beauty and charm of the
universe is the sign of beauty and magnificence
of Allah.” I couldn’t understand anything and
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said, “Mustafa what kind of beauty and charm
are you observing? People are running away
from their houses due to war. Mustafa where are
you lost? People have get lost their everything.
Everywhere there is bloodshed of the oppressed
and you are saying that how beautiful world is
there.” Mustafa smiled and said, “Gazah! Try to
observe beauty alongside the grandeur. The
people who have martyred or injured or whose
houses got demolished; this all is divine
blessings for those whose hearts are devoted
towards Allah. The hardships and miseries are
bitter but if all these sufferings are for the sake
of Allah, it is but beauty and charm.”70
It is a tragedy for the contemporary man
that he put his all efforts of whatever capabilities
he is possessing for his corporal and material
comforts and forgets about the fact that human
being is a combination of mater and soul. The
human being who exploits the space and the
oceans with the power of science and technology
is totally ignorant about his inner self.

‫ڈﻫﻮﻧﮉﻧﮯ ﻭﺍﻻ ﺳﺘﺎﺭﻭں ﮐﯽ ﮔﺰﺭﮔﺎﮨﻮں ﮐﺎ‬

‫ﺍﭘﻨﮯ ﺍﻓﮑﺎﺭ ﮐﯽ ﺩﻧﻴﺎ ﻣﻴﮟ ﺳﻔﺮ ﮐﺮ ﻧہ ﺳﮑﺎ‬

70
ibid, pp 32-32.
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 ‫ﺍﭘﻨﯽ ﺣﮑﻤﺖ ﮐﮯ ﺧﻢ ﻭ ﭘﻴﭻ ﻣﻴﮟ ﺍﻟﺠﻬﺎ ﺍﻳﺴﺎ‬
‫ﺁﺝ ﺗﮏ ﻓﻴﺼﻠہ ﻧﻔﻊ ﻭ ﺿﺮﺭ ﮐﺮﻧہ ﺳﮑﺎ‬
‫ﺟﺲ ﻧﮯ ﺳﻮﺭﺝ ﮐﯽ ﺷﻌﺎﻋﻮں ﮐﻮ ﮔﺮﻓﺘﺎﺭ ﮐﻴﺎ‬
[‫ﺯﻧﺪﮔﯽ ﮐﯽ ﺷﺐ ﺗﺎﺭﻳﮏ ﺳﺤﺮ ﮐﺮ ﻧہ ﺳﮑﺎ]ﺍﻗﺒﺎﻝ‬
One, who is in search of exploring the stars,
cannot proceed ahead in his ideological world.
He is entangled in his own
complicated problems in such a way that he
cannot decide about profit and loss. One,
who is exploiting the rays of the sun,
is not in a position to see
the dawn of the dark night of his life.”
(Dr Iqbal)

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 May You Grew Old Soon!

In Iran also, Dr. Chamran discharged his

responsibilities by resisting against tremendous
challenges like Lebanon. Soon after revolution,
the separation movement started in Kurdistan
province and when the communist resorted to
riots and mass massacre, Chamran took the
responsibility of defence and encounter against
these communists, Gazeh was very much
concerned about him. She wanted Chamran to
leave Iran on the one pretext or the other. She
said to her husband, Mustafa you belong to me.
Mustafa said, “everything related to love is
beautiful. You see the explicit aspect of the
existence; I belong to Allah and you too also.
Our whole existence belong to Allah”. Gazeh
Chamran says, one day I wrote a letter to Dr.
Chamran:
“I wish, if all of a sudden you may grow
old! I am waiting for your old age so that neither
Clashencoff (gun), nor the war could separate
us.” Chamran replied, “This is meanness and
selfishness, but I like your selfishness. It is
natural, but why don’t you have patience and
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forbearance against the hardships of life. I want
you to be firm like a rock and flowing and
extensive hearted like a river. You are talking
about the world and worldliness. You are above
and higher than that of this explicit world. I
expect you more than that. I see perfection,
grandeur, beauty and excellence in your
existence. You should proceed forward in the
way of Allah. You are a beam of light of Allah
and selfishness is not permissible for you. You
are a spirit and you have to take a flight in the
ascension. I cannot see you imprisoned in the
darkness of night. You are an angel and can
remove any obstacle. You can even take a flight
in the darkness too.”71

71
ibid, p.44.
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 The Assets of a
Defence Minister and
Member of Parliament

Imam Khomenie appointed Dr. Chamran

as Defence Minister of adhoc government.
During this period he made some fundamental
initiatives to eliminate the hypocrites, supporters
of Shah and SAVAK agents from the Army and
chalked out a full-fledged programme of
reformation. He was trying to establish an army
that could ensure the safety and security of the
country, revolution and sovereignty and
simultaneously possessing the capability of
discharging the Islamic responsibilities and
obligations too.
Martyr Chamran was elected as a
parliament member from Tehran during the first
election after Islamic revolution. On his entry in
the parliament house, he thanked Allah in these
words:
“Oh Allah! People have shown too affection
and love to me that I feel ashamed. Oh Allah! I
feel myself too little to thank people for their
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affection they have shown to me. On Allah, only
You can bestow me the power and courage to
discharge my obligations that have been
imposed upon me by the affection of the
people.72
Martyr Chamran held similarly various
political and military positions vis-à-vis Secretary
to Prime Minister, Representative of Imam
Khomenie in the National Safety Council,
Supreme Commander of guerrilla Forces etc. He
worked hard day and night while discharging all
these responsibilities. As per the statement of
Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution, Ayatullah
Khamnie he was going to his home very less.
Normally, he used to be busy with his work upto
late hours. Keeping in view his being away from
his parents for a span of 22 years, he should
have spent more of his time amongst his
parents, brothers and sisters. But this man of
courage gave such an importance towards his
goal and target that he was ready to give any
kind of sacrifice in this way. His brother,
Nasrullah Chamran says, “When Martyr Chamran
was combating Bathist army of Iraq through
guerrilla war, he used to provide reports to

72
Zindignama Shahid Chamran, p.16.
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Imam Khomenie on the end of every week, but
he visited his parents only once at his home.”73
One may appreciate that despite holding
the highest positions and portfolio vis-à-vis
Principal of Jable A’amil Institute of Lebanon,
Defence Minister and Member Parliament of Iran,
he left not even a penny for himself or for his
family. He was drawing not more than two time
meals for himself and for his wife, despite
holding all these high positions. His wife, Gazeh
Chamran says about this:
“After martyrdom of Mustafa Chamran,
when I vacated the government residential
house, I had nothing more than my wearing
clothes with me. Not even a single penny was
lying with me for any expenditure. Where should
I go? I lived in the father’s house of Mustafa
Chamran for some days. I often visited Beheste-
Zehra (the wide cemetery in Tehran, where
thousand of martyrs of revolution and Iraq-Iran
war are buried), at the grave of martyr
Chamran. Neither, I could return Lebanon
because it was also under war and my parents
also had left for abroad.” At some place she
adds: When we came from Lebanon to Iran,

73
Journal Yaran, p.17
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whatever we had that was spent for meeting the
expenditure of Jable A’amil Institute at Lebanon.
We had nothing with us in Iran. When Mustafa
attained martyrdom, suddenly I was held in what
to do situation! For six months, I was in this
state of disturbance till Imam Khomenie became
aware about my situation. I went to meet him,
he said, “Mustafa was not working on official
level, whatever he was doing, it was on my
directives. Henceforth I shall be your
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guardian.”
A believer always cares about the treasure
of the world hereafter instead of accumulating
wealth for this world. They proceed towards the
frontier of struggle and search, politics and
education, organization and confrontation only
for the cause of achieving the divine target and
object.

‫ﺷﮩﺎﺩﺕ ﮨﮯ ﻣﻄﻠﻮﺏ ﻭ ﻣﻘﺼﻮﺩ ﻣﻮﻣﻦ‬

‫ﻧہ ﻣﺎﻝ ﻏﻨﻴﻤﺖ ﻧہ ﮐﺸﻮﺭ ﮐﺸﺎﺋﯽ‬
“Martyrdom is the objective of a believer,
not the wealth or government.”

74
Chamran by riyat hamser, p.51.
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 On the Footprints of
Imam Ali (A.S)

Martyr Chamran was a true devotee of

Imam Ali (A.S) and tried to actualize and
materialize this affection through his deeds and
actions. In its report, the SAVAK intelligence
agency of Shah in a communiqué from USA to its
headquarters in Iran, there is a mention that Dr.
Chamran is considerably influenced by the life of
Imam Ali (A.S) and he tries to substantiate all
his arguments with the quotations of Imam Ali
(A.S). He also quotes Imam Ali (A.S) in his
lectures abundantly.
The service to the deprived and down
trodden, combating the enemies of Islam,
patronage to orphans, sacrificing everything for
Islam, supplications to Allah during the darkness
of night, wailing during the night prayers at the
time of dawn, living a simple life and avoiding of
pomp and show are the lessons that he learned
from Imam Ali (A.S).
His Lebanese wife, Gazeh says:

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 “He was not Imam Ali (A.S) and nobody
could compete with Imam Ali (A.S), but only I
can say that Imam Ali (A.S) has lived such a
life.” He used to say her, “No, this is not correct!
In this way, you are closing the way of
perfection. The way is open. Our Holy Prophet
(SAW) has said that my ummah should follow
my foot prints, but every individual according to
his capacity.”75
Dr. Chamran always tried to live a simple
life as compared to others. He contended with
ordinary sources of livelihood as compared to his
colleagues, everywhere in Lebanon, Kurdistan,
Ahawaz. His wife says:

In Lebanon, there is no custom of sitting bear

footed on the floors. The people are accustomed
to enter the house wearing their shoes and sit on
sofas. But, Mustafa never arranged sofas and
other furniture in his house. Whenever there was
any guest from abroad or any relative of mine,
he made them to sit on the furnishing of the
floors. I felt ashamed when there was any guest
in our house and ask them to keep their shoves

75
ibid, pp. 52,53
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outside before they enter, as there was no such
a tradition in Lebanon. I said to Mustafa,
“I don’t say that our house should be a formal or
a splendid one, but at least there should be a
sofa set and some chairs and tables, so that the
incoming guests may not develop any
misconception against Islam in their minds. Lest,
any way, the local and foreign guests may feel
that there is nothing within Muslims and they
have no culture and civilization.” But Mustafa
refuted it vehemently:
“Why should we be so bothered about it?
Why should we prove ourselves worthy enough
that others may like us by doing so? We have
our own customs and traditions. See, how this
earth is beautiful and well oriented. In this way
there is less stress upon you, because the
shoves may bring dust inside too.”76
Yes, nowadays, most of the things are
done in imitation and because of pomp and
show. Some unnecessary things are added to the
household just to impress others. Muslims are
almost prone to this evil at organizational,
political and country level everywhere. We are
spending more on formalities and less on

76
ibid, p.35
128
essentialities, because others are fascinated by
formalities and they think high about us and
admire us, if we do so. Nowadays, Muslims even
purchase idols too in disguise of decoration. In
this way, the idols that were dashed to earth by
the blessed hands of Prophet (SAW) and Imam
Ali (A.S), have become a part of decoration in
our houses.
Gazeh Chamran states:
“When my mother saw the simplicity and
ordinary households of our house, she said, “You
have no money, I will get house hold items
purchased for you.” When Mustafa became
aware about this, he was very angry and said, ‘It
is not the question of money. It is the question
of standard of my life. I have maintained a
status, I don’t want to change it’.”77
How easy is to say Ali Ali by one’s tongue,
but how difficult is to follow his way. How easy is
to say and utter about Ali (A.S), but how difficult
is to sacrifice one’s self for Islam and Muslims.
How easy is to elaborate upon the virtues of
Imam Ali (A.S) vis-à-vis his services to common
people, help rendered to destitute and poor, but
how difficult is to fulfil the needs of poor and

77
ibid, p.35
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suffering people. It is difficult but not impossible.
Chamran, while following the footprints of Imam
Ali (A.S) explained to us and to the youth of our
nation that if there is courage, determination
and belief, it is possible to follow the path of this
great and brave personality and help the
deprived and weak people.

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 Training of Individuals

It is of great importance that a kind of

competence, characteristics or a talent is
existing in a person, but tracing out others
talent, providing a favourable environment for its
growth and above all giving it a right direction is
the matter of more importance. Many talented
people of the world are not able to develop even
the talent of a single person, with the result their
initiatives and programmes suffer failure in their
absence. Albeit, Chamran was one of the
distinguished experts, who succeeded in
developing the talent found in other people. He
trained various youths and provided them
guidance to touch the pinnacles of science and
education in USA, Lebanon and Iran.
Simultaneously he prepared them to discharge
their social and national responsibilities too. Dr.
Saeed Sahrabpore was one of the colleagues of
Dr. Chamran in USA. He also completed his Ph.D
programme in technical engineering at Berkeley
University in USA. He is at present engaged in
teaching and other research related works in
different Universities of Iran. Dr. Saeed says
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about training and caderization work of Dr.
Chamran at USA.
“We the students in USA learned a lot from
Martyr Dr. Chamran. He was holding well
organized classes for us to make us acquainted
about Islamic ideology, philosophy of history and
communism. He also worked with us on Islamic
Economy. He was inviting the students and
stressing the need for research on Islamic
government during those days. He himself
delivered three lectures on this subject. He
arranged books on this issue from different
places and distributed them among us for study
and then we were having group discussions on
this topic. We had three sessions of talks on the
topics of Islamic government.”78
Accordingly, Dr. Chamran authored a book
titled ‘Role of Ulama in the 5th June movement’
in USA and dispatches it to Imam Khomenie at
Najaf (Iraq) who was in exile during those days.
He sent it back to USA after making some
corrections and it was published there.”79
His contemporary students influenced by
his ideological zeal, after revolution are serving
revolution and Islamic Government at different
78
Mujla yaran, p.38
79
ibid.
132
ministerial, university and other departmental
levels. He never contended on dry lectures, but
was having close intimacy with the students. Dr.
Saeed Sahrabpore says in this regard:
“He was having special expertise in social
works and attracted all and one to himself.
Martyr Chamran was elderly to us, but if we
happened to go for a picnic, he used to take part
in sports with us like volleyball or even in
80
wrestling.”

80
ibid, p. 39
133
 Peculiarities amongst the
students of Martyr Chamran

One of his students, Dr. Syed Mohammad

Hussain Hashmiy says about his method of
teaching and training:
“Dr. Chamran was himself imparting training to
Iranian, Palestinian and Lebanese people in
Lebanon. The excellence lies in the fact that the
individuals who received armed training from
him, they not only got trained in artillery, but
they became more religious and enlightened.
There are three characteristics found in his
students; endurance, belief and politeness, even
though it was the times when people in Lebanon
were not having a remote idea about these
characteristics.”
“The people who got training through Dr.
Chamran, established the guardian soldiers of
Islamic Revolution (Sipahe Pasdaran-e-Inqilabe
Islami). His students are the main pillars of
resistant forces in Lebanon. Even many youths
of Palestinian organization (Alfateh), have

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received their training through Martyr Mustafa
Chamran.81
In Jable-A’amil Institute of Lebanon, he
used to hold religious, political and ideological
classes once in a week for outsider youths,
besides his own students. Thus he used to train
them well ideologically and Islamically.

81
ibid
135
 Syed Hassan Nasrullah
A student of Martyr Chamran

The Chief of Hizbullah, Hassan Nasrullah

believes that the resistance movement in

Lebanon has come into existence by the hands

of Imam Musa Sadar and Martyr Chamran. In his

interviews on Martyr Chamran, Nasrullah openly

declared himself as a student of Martyr Chamran

and feel honoured for it.82

82
ibid, p.47
136
 Below the Poverty line
Standard of Life

Dr. Mustafa Chamran took the advantage

of the official and public exchequer less than that
of his needs. He always tried to live a life of a
common category of people or below than that.
According to his wife when Dr. Chamran
returned from Lebanon to Iran, he used to sleep
in the Prime Minister’s office, where he worked
and did not occupy any separate official
residence. She says, ‘when I come from Lebanon
to Iran, he occupied one underground room
adjacent to servant and chowkidar rooms. We
had nothing like that what is needed by a couple
in general. Gazeh States:
“I told Mustafa, you are always talking
about common people, but common people do
have their day to day necessary utensils and
crockery items in their homes, when we don’t
posses even that too. If any day we are being
asked to vacate this room, what will be in our
hands?”

137
 Dr. Chamran was Secretary to the Prime
Minister and then he was holding the portfolio of
Defence Minister too. The salary whatever he
got, used to distribute that amongst the
destitute. He said:
“I want to depart from this world in a
condition that nothing more than a few meters of
grave should be in my possession and if this
piece of land too wouldn’t there, that is fine.”83

‫ﻳہ ﺷﮩﺎﺩﺕ ﮔہ ﺍﻟﻔﺖ ﻣﻴﮟ ﻗﺪﻡ ﺭﮐﻬﻨﺎ ﮨﮯ‬

‫ﻟﻮگ ﺁﺳﺎﻥ ﺳﻤﺠﻬﺘﮯ ﮨﻴﮟ ﻣﺴﻠﻤﺎں ﮨﻮﻧﺎ‬
It is to step at the altar of martyrdom to become a
Muslim, but people do take it easy.

83
Chamran be riyate hamser, p,54.
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 Lest Boys May get
Discouraged

Gazeh Chamran says: “Once he was

seriously injured in Ahwaz and one of his
students came to me and said: Dr. Chamran has
received serious injuries. I immediately rushed
to hospital and saw Ayatullah Khamnie present
there. When Dr. Chamran was brought out from
the theatre, I saw him smiling. I was happy. I
was preparing to leave for Tehran as Dr.
Chamran needed to take a rest.” During night I
told Dr. Chamran. Now you need rest, so we
must leave for Tehran. He just smiled and said,
“I shall not proceed to Tehran, because if I do
so, the combatants shall be discouraged. If I
can’t combat at the warfront, but at least I can
share the sufferings of the combatants by
staying here.” I got very furious and said to him,
“Whosoever is injured here, he returns home so
that he is well cared. If you want to live only a
common man’s life then at least you should
follow others is this matter. But Mustafa never
agreed and said: “Still I can perform well. I can’t

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leave these youngsters alone here. I have no
business in Tehran.”84 Chamran was injured and
had undergone surgery too and his legs were
plastered also. Due to severe hot temperature in
Ahwaz the injuries over his legs were bleeding
too, despite all this he didn’t used cooler and
said, “How can I enjoy comforts, when the
youths are combating the enemy in the
scorching heat”.
Dr. Chamran was very weak due to injuries
and surgery, still he shared common meals
provided to other combatants. His wife, Gazeh
Chamran insisted upon preparation of separate
nutritious food for him, but this true follower of
Imam Ali (A.S) never agreed.

84
ibid, p.24.
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 Training of 400 Orphans

How many highly qualified people have you

ever seen who imparted training to deprived,
destitute and orphans and opted to live amongst
them, irrespective of their status? A person like
Chamran who qualified his Ph.D degree in
Plasma Physics from an American University
lived in this way in the orphanage at Lebanon.
Gazeh Chamran Says, After my marriage with
Mustafa, he liked to put up in two rooms of this
orphanage. There were four hundred students in
this orphanage and as a routine matter, Mustafa
took care of these children, and used to pay
frequent visits in all the four floors of their
hostel. After returning to his room, he used to
weep and said, “The children remain isolated and
deprived of the love and affection of their
mothers in orphanage. It is a kind of prison for
these orphans and I hardly bare this situation.”
During the day of Eid festival some
children used to return to their home, but
Mustafa remained in the Institute. I told him, it
was Eid today, why didn’t you accompany me to
my parents? Mustafa replied, “It is Eid today,
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some children went to their homes, and those
who have none have remained in the Institute.
The children, who have gone to their homes,
shall reveal their Eid celebration memories to the
retained ones on their return. I stayed here to
share playing, entertainment and refreshment
with them, thus they may get a chance to tell
something to their friends.” Gazeh Chamran
says, “Ok, but why didn’t you took the meals
that my mother had sent for you, instead you
have preferred the usual meals of the school?
Mustafa replied, since the food for the school
children was also ordinary, so I got the same.” I
told him, “you could have taken the meals sent
by my mother even in your room, where the
children couldn’t see you, thus couldn’t notice
what you have taken.” Gazeh says, after hearing
this, he burst into tears and said, “but Allah was
seeing this all.”85
Chamran loved these boys to the extent
that they rode over his head and have a fun.
Mustafa Chamran was their father, friend,
teacher and a playmate. His happiness lies in
their happiness and his sorrow in their sorrow.

85
ibid, p.42
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 When his American raced wife due to
facing hardships in Lebanon returned back to
America along with his children, she called him
on phone to come back to America. Chamran
said, “Why should I return America and pay a
goodbye to Lebanon, when I have 4000 children
here. I can’t leave them alone.”86
One may appreciate that how the followers
of Imam Ali (A.S) in Lebanon are today having
an exalted position. Who are the persons that
are torch bearers of this light? In reply it could
be said that it is outcome of the sacrifices that
Imam Musa Sadar and Dr. Mustafa Chamran
made forty years ago who trained the youth with
their full sincerity and faithfulness. It is not by
virtue of lengthy lectures but due to their actions
and sincere deeds. Let us once again see the
words he uttered, “I stayed here in the institute
so that the children may share playing,
entertainment and refreshment with me …. Thus
they may get a chance to tell something to their
friends”… “but Allah was seeing this all”!
Not to talk of colleges and universities, in the
religious institutions as well presently there is
glaring discrimination between the teachers and

86
Three narrations from Chamran p.25
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students in their meals. The students take
ordinary meals, while the teachers wearing
sagacious and religious robes enjoy variety of
delicious food and fill their bellies with fried
chickens and mutton chubs in presence of
students. This is the reason that our religious
institutions do produce the orators but not the
effective Ulama, they produce the custodians but
not the endeavourers. It nourishes sycophants
but not the men of freewill, the witchcrafts but
not those who may confront superstitions.

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 A Responsible Teacher

“He was a pious combatant and a responsible

teacher. Our Islamic Country needs the persons
like him.”

These are the words of Imam Khomenie

abut Martyr Chamran. Verily, he was a
responsible teacher. He firmly believed in
teaching and training. His goal at every level was
to guide the people towards right direction and
utilize their talents for the benefit and
benevolence of Islam and Muslims. He used to
attract people towards himself with his conduct,
open mindedness, positive thinking and best
administrative capabilities. He get the people
converted, what we may call, from material
existence to heavenly existence. Once a person
met him, couldn’t possibly depart from him.
Notwithstanding the fact, when he left for
Lebanon from USA, most of his friends
accompanied him leaving their studies
incomplete. Similarly when he left for Iran from
Lebanon, most of his Lebanese friends
accompanied him and fought against the
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enemies of revolution along with him in Guerrilla
war.
Dr. Amar Ilahi is one of the eminent
Physicists. He has done his Ph.D in Plasma
Physics and at present he translating the thesis
of Dr. Chamran into Persian. He has spent
sufficient time with Dr. Chamran after revolution
during Iraq-Iran war. He states about the
magnetic personality of Dr. Chamran and about
his guidance to the people towards right
direction:
“Chamran was expert in utilizing the
services of different talented people. I
remember, at the beginning of Iraq-Iran war the
Guerrilla forces started working under his
command, I used to stay in Tehran as well as at
Ahwaz war front for some days in a week. One
day a group of motorcyclists approached our
office at Tehran and expressed their willingness
to confront Iraqis at the warfronts. Their
business at that time was to supply films for
cinemas in Tehran. Their stylish long hairs and
thick moustaches apparently was not any way
conducive to that of war frontiers. So we were
reluctant to register them. These people loaded
their motor bikes on a vehicle, left for Ahwaz and
camped before the office of Guerrilla forces and
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slept there for the night. Early in the morning Dr.
Chamran came to know that I have refused their
registration at Tehran. When I met him, he
didn’t say anything to me, but he registered
them all in the Guerrilla army. God knows the
best, these young men to whom I was reluctant
to get them registered, proved worthy enough to
be virtuous by the conduct and training of Dr.
Chamran. These people helped the combatants
in their movement with the help of their
motorcycles through complicated ways. With the
result they could attack the enemy easily. Some
of these young men attained martyrdom too and
some are alive yet. It was by virtue of the
teaching and training of Dr. Chamran that these
people turned to be an embodiment of purity,
valour and self-sacrifice. I was observing only
one phase of the episode due to my short
sightedness. But the open hearted and positive
minded man like Chamran was overseeing the
other phase of the episode too. He could bring
the fundamental change in the individuals and
could develop their talent.87
Dr. Amar Ilahi at any other place comments:

87
Mujla yaran, No. 37, p. 35.
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 “Mohsinullah Qadh, a student of
mathematics in America was one of my friends.
He also became the commander of Charman’s
Guerrilla Army and was martyred in Khozistan. I
don’t know how he was attracted by the
magnetic force of Chamran that he left his
studies incomplete and joined Chamran at
Lebanon and actively participated with him in the
educational and defensive frontiers.88
Chamran never considered himself over
and above than others. He used take his meals
with the camp chowkidar of Guerrilla forces.
Every individual of this army was like Chamran.
They acted and thought like him and this all was
due to his training and behavior.89

88
ibid
89
ibid, p 23
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 A Symbol of Unity

Martyr Chamran was very much conscious

about unity among Muslims. Although, he and the
‘Organization of Movement of Deprived’ (Harkatul
Mahroomin) suffered a lot by the hands of various
Palestinian groups, he never seized his support
for the Palestinian combatants. He always tried to
fulfil the needs of Palestinian refugees in
Lebanon. He resolved the issue of water supply to
the Palestinian refugee camps and this move was
highly appreciated by the Refugees Department
of United Nations Organization (UNO). He had
good relations with Yasir Arfat and used to
consult him in various issues.
When Martyr Chamran was facing
communist groups in Kurdistan, some foreign
elements tried to colour it as a Suni-Shia conflict
and Dr. Chamran maintained the harmony and
unity between the Shia and Suni groups. One of
his students, who was confronting communists in
Kurdistan says about it:
“Once I entered the camp during the war in
Kurdistan, I didn’t find Martyr Chamran there. I
fared that communists may not have attacked
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him. I immediately rushed in search of Dr.
Chamran in a vehicle with a hand grenade. I
made a hunt to locate him out in the city. For one
and a half hour I couldn’t get the whereabouts of
Dr. Chamran. In the afternoon I entered a Masjid
of Ahlul-Sunh brethren, I saw Dr. Chamran
offering his prayers in the congregational prayers
of Ahlul Sunah.90
This is a live example of Islamic
brotherhood, a lesson having more importance
for the clergy (Ulama) than common people. It is
easy to talk high about unity, but difficult to get
it materialized. It is the job of such persons who
think over and above Shia Sunni sectarian levels
and are concerned about the dignity and honour
of Muslims. The Muslim Umah is under siege all
sides by the enemy, and a slightest negligence
may provide a chance to our old enemy to turn
us into pieces.

‫ﮨﻮﺱ ﻧﮯ ﮐﺮﺩﻳﺎﮨﮯ ﭨﮑﮍے ﭨﮑﮍے ﻧﻮﻉ ﺍﻧﺴﺎں ﮐﻮ‬

‫ﺍﺧﻮﺕ ﮐﺎ ﺑﻴﺎں ﮨﻮ ﺟﺎ ﻣﺤﺒﺖ ﮐﯽ ﺯﺑﺎں ﮨﻮﺟﺎ‬
"The lust has turned the human race into
pieces, so one should promulgate brotherhood and
adopt the sweet language of love."

90
ibid, p.21

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 Man of Courage and Valour

Martyr Chamran was a courageous man.

He was desirous to see himself and other
Muslims free from the bondages of Imperialist
powers. He wanted to take a lead in the fields of
science and technology not to leave any room for
the enemy to say that Muslims don’t possess any
kind of talent and capacity and can’t do
anything. He was ready to face any challenge to
achieve this goal. In one of his supplications, he
expresses his inner wishes:
“It is my complete responsibility to
withstand against the troubles and hardships and
bear with the distresses and pains, burn like a
candle and enlighten the ways for others, infuse
spirit in dead people and quench the thirst of
those, who are in search of truth. Oh my Lord! I
have owned to shoulder historical responsibility
over my shoulders and only You are the observer
of my deeds and I also seek refuge unto You
only and expect support from You. Oh my Lord!
Make me to touch the pinnacles of
enlightenment, so that enemy may not stain me
for my little knowledge. Oh Lord! Empower me
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upon those who show vanity and haughtiness
upon others, in disguise of science and
technology, to an extent that they may not even
compete the dust of my feet. I have to force all
the arrogant, haughty and ignorant men of the
world to accept their defeat and then I have to
become most humble person of the world.
Oh! My great Lord! Whatever I seek from
You, I want to utilize it all in Your cause and You
know the better that I am capable of that. I
beseech for Your divine guidance, so that my
deeds may prove fruitful and useful and may not
cut a sorry figure before the naughty persons. I
must wok hard more and keep away from
caprices and focus on my capabilities.
And Oh my Master! I seek more help from
You! Oh my Lord! You know I don’t want
anything except Your Exaltation and Your
beauty. I want only those things that You have
ordered for and you know that honour and
disgrace lies in Your hands and I know I have no
position without You. I beseech with humbleness
and sincerity Your help and support.”91
Martyr Chamran played vital and
exemplary role by virtue of his own ventures,

91
Khuda boodh deger haich ne boodh, pp 28, 29
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courage, enlightenment, sincerity and incessant
efforts, facing toils and hardships, also utilizing
the talents of his colleagues, friends and
students in building the splendid and graceful
nation of Lebanon. He build a nation known
today as, ‘Hizbullah’ throughout the world, and
shining like bright day providing heat and motion
in vanes and nerves of dead nations like the sun
and has become sore in the eyes of opponent
forces and hypocrites.
If this type of aspiration confidence,
ambition, faith and spirit is prevalent in the
hearts of monotheists, young students,
intellectuals, Ulamas, lastly in every segment of
society, the emancipation of Muslims from the
shackles of turbulence is certain. If everybody
would show excellence in his own profession,
subject and discipline, the clouds of
backwardness shall be wiped away and the sun
of prosperity, freedom and grandeur will arise.
The verse goes on:

‫ﺍﻓﺮﺍﺩ ﮐﮯ ﮨﺎﺗﻬﻮں ﻣﻴﮟ ﮨﮯ ﺍﻗﻮﺍﻡ ﮐﯽ ﺗﻘﺪﻳﺮ‬

‫ﮨﺮ ﻓﺮﺩ ﮨﮯ ﻣﻠﺖ ﮐﮯ ﻣﻘﺪﺭ ﮐﺎ ﺳﺘﺎﺭﺍ‬
"The lot of a nation lies in the hands of
individuals and every member of a society is
possessing the position of lucky star."

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 Salutation for the
Sacrifices and Sympathy

Martyr Mutahhari has rightly said about the

pains and tragedies, “Happiness lies hidden in
the heart of hardships and tragedies. The man
should endeavour hardships so that he can find
himself. The troubles and hardships are just like
wipes, the living beings cover the distance of
excellence and progress with these wipes.”92

‫ﻭﺍﻟﻨﺎﺭ ﻓﯽ ﺍﺣﺠﺎﺭ ﻫﺎﻣﺨﺒﻮء ﺓ‬

‫ﻻ ﺗﺼﻄﻠﯽ ﻣﺎﻟﻢ ﺗﺜﺮﻫﺎ ﺍﻻﺯﻧﺪ‬
“The fire is hidden in the heart
of a stone, it doesn’t come out
until it collides with the iron.”

Dr.Chamran conceived the troubles and

hardships from this very point of view, so he
thanked Allah on every step for bestowing him
this kind of steadfastness and forbearance to
face the hardships. He says: “Oh Allah! I thank
you for creating toil and hardships, in the fire of

92
Adle-illahi, p. 152
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which, your creatures get melted and moulded.
You have bestowed to me this kind of bless. Oh
Allah! I thank you for giving me the
understanding for all this pain. Oh Allah! I thank
You for burning my self in the fire of worry and
pained my painful heart.”93
At some other place he says: “the
gratitude of the tongue is remembrance of Allah.
The gratitude of the heart is love of Allah. The
gratitude of wealth is to spend it in the way of
Allah. The gratitude of knowledge is to teach
others. Everything has its own way of
thankfulness. If a wealthy person says La illah ile
Allah (there is no god except Allah), it is not the
gratitude of his wealth, its gratitude lies in its
utilization in the way of Allah.” After this he says,
“the gratitude of sympathy and feeling of pain is
self sacrifice in the way of Allah. Oh Allah! In the
gratitude of this sympathy and feelings, I am
making sacrifices and I shall not take any rest
even for a moment.”94
The pains and worries, toils and hardships
are the instruments of awareness for the
negligent hearts and refreshment for the fable
spirit. Martyr Chamran says, “The pain and
93
Mujala Yaran, No. 37, p.53
94
ibid
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sorrow awakens a man, keeps the spirits high,
vanishes the vanity and haughtiness, annihilates
the proud and negligence, makes one attentive
towards his existence. Man sometimes forgets
that he possesses a body and how weak he is;
forgets that he is a traveller towards Almighty
and forgets about his destiny.”95

‫ﭼﻼ ﺟﺎﺗﺎ ﮨﻮں ﮨﻨﺴﺘﺎ ﮐﻬﻴﻠﺘﺎ ﻣﻮﺝ ﺣﻮﺍﺩﺙ ﺳﮯ‬

‫ﺍﮔﺮ ﺁﺳﺎﻧﻴﺎں ﮨﻮں ﺯﻧﮕﯽ ﮐﯽ ﺩﺷﻮﺍﺭ ﮨﻮﺟﺎﺋﮯ‬
"I am going on enjoying the vicissitudes of life.
If there is an easy life, I am longing for a life full of
toils and hardships."
A man sometimes thinks himself
independent of God and fell a prey of proud.
There is a mention in the Quran at various places
that affluent men neglect Allah, but when they
get involved in trouble, they remember Allah. So
the pain and troubles awakens a man.

‫ﻟﻴﺬﻳﻘﻬﻢ ﺑﻌﺾ ﺍﻟﺬی ﻋﻤﻠﻮ ﺍﻟﻌﻠﻬﻢ ﻳﺮﺟﻌﻮﻥ‬

“He may make them taste a part
of what they have done,
so that they may return (to Him). (3:45)
The true obedient of Allah do welcome
whatever pain and trouble, toil and hardship

95
Zamzam-e-Ishq, pp. 17,18
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they face in the way of Allah, in achieving their
goal. They develop such a kind of intimacy with
the troubles and pains that they don’t feel any
kind of enjoyment and comfort in any activity
without it.

‫ﺟﻔﺎ ﺟﻮ ﻋﺸﻖ ﻣﻴﮟ ﮨﻮﺗﯽ ﮨﮯ ﻭﻩ ﺟﻔﺎ ﮨﯽ ﻧﮩﻴﮟ‬

[‫ﺳﺘﻢ ﻧہ ﮨﻮ ﺗﻮ ﻣﺤﺒﺖ ﻣﻴﮟ ﮐﭽﻬ ﻣﺰﻩ ﮨﯽ ﻧﮩﻴﮟ]ﺍﻗﺒﺎﻝ‬
“The trouble in the way of love
is not trouble at all,
if there is no pain
then there is no joy in the love.”
(Dr. Iqbal)

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Everything on the Stake for
the Sake of Divine Mission

The obstacles in the way of divine mission

are luxurious life, material gains and the love for
one’s family. Some times a man follows the right
path, but if the above things are on the stake, it
puts one on trial. Chamran also had to face this
type of critical situation in Lebanon. When he
initiated the basic social development
programme for the deprived and destitute
amongst the followers of Imam Ali (A.S) in
Lebanon, his wife said to him: I am fed up with
the war-hit, poor and troublesome atmosphere
of Lebanon and can’t stay here anymore, so she
suggested him to go back to America. The
persistence on the part of his wife and children
continued to increase day by day, but Chamran
was not ready to depart from the poor people of
Lebanon. His wife was an American lady and he
had persuaded her to come to Lebanon. There
was a great difference between the two
settlements of America and Lebanon. Life in
America was full of comforts, while in Lebanon

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he devoted his full existence for the deprived
and Jable-e-Aamil Technical Institute. At last his
wife along with his children left for America, but
he himself resorted to live in Lebanon amongst
the orphans and destitute, shouldering their
responsibility of education and nourishment.
Imam Musa Sadr’s Sister, Rahaba Sadar
says: “The day, Dr. Chamran went to see off his
wife and children at the Beirut Airport, I
accompanied him. Chamran was weeping all
along the way. He was a loving father and loving
husband more than others, but Jihad and the
goal was a matter of more importance for him to
such an extent that he preferred departing from
is family. His wife tried to persuade him so many
times after she reached America to come there
for some time but he never agreed. Martyr
Charmran had actually divorced the world a
three times. He said to his wife: “If you want to
live with me, then you have to bear with me the
difficulties in Lebanon, otherwise you are free to
96
return back.” After some time his son lost his
life in America by drowning into a river, still he
preferred to live in Lebanon.

96
www.chamran.ir.
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 Oh yes! The goal and the divine mission is
too important to some people that they are
ready to pay any cost for it. Contrarily, the
luxurious life and the material gains are too
important for some people that they prefer to
put human values and divine mission on the
stake for the same. Iqbal has rightly said:

‫ﭘﺮﻭﺍﺯ ﮨﮯ ﺩﻭﻧﻮں ﮐﯽ ﺍﺳﯽ ﺍﻳﮏ ﻓﻀﺎ ﻣﻴﮟ‬

‫ﮐﺮﮔﺲ ﮐﺎ ﺟﮩﺎں ﺍﻭﺭ ﮨﮯ ﺷﺎﮨﻴﮟ ﮐﺎ ﺟﮩﺎں ﺍﻭﺭ‬
“Notwithstanding the fact,
both (the creatures) take flight in the high,
but the vulture has its own world
and the royal white falcon has its own
world.”

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 Simple Food

Soon after the triumph of Islamic

Revolution, the communist-influenced people
and other rebellious elements on the behest of
foreign powers launched an armed struggle
movement in a bid to separate Kurdistan from
Iran. The turmoil got erupted when the
revolutionary government was yet in its bud. Dr.
Chamran was the Champion, who with the help
of valiant believers and revolutionary guards
trampled down the Bablion, enabling Iran to
regain control over Kurdistan once again. In
what circumstances Dr. Chamran and his
colleagues showed their stand and resistance is
to be appreciated by the following episode:
One of his colleagues, Engineer Hussan Arabi
says:
“In the turbulent area of Kurdistan, which
was a war zone, Dr. Chamran was accompanied
by his wife too. Once he went to the army camp
at Maribone, (one of the cities of Kurdistan) and
returned after three days. I saw that his face has
turned totally black, as his body was shivering in
fever. I asked him about his health and reasons
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for his trembling. He humbled down his head in
shyness and said: ‘No dear, I am very hungry. I
told him for how many days are you starving? He
replied, from the date I departed from you. For
three days I searched out the whole camp, but
found nothing to eat.’ We had also nothing to
eat. Regretfully, I took out some putrid pieces of
bread from a sack and offered it to him. He ate
these putrid and musty pieces of bread.97
His other colleague states: One day I was
searching for Dr. Mustafa Chamran. I saw him
sitting amongst the combatants and breaking the
dry bread over his knees and eating the same.98
Only those people can resist in ventures
and turbulent times with stability, steadfastness
and patience, who have passed through tough
and hard training. But the person, who may have
lived a luxurious and hy-fy standard of life
cannot resists against the hard days and
surrender before the enemy within no time and
live an easy life at the cost of his nation. Imam
Ali (A.S) differentiates between demerits of easy
life and the merits of hard life in the following
manner:

97
Martyr Chamran, Ahmad Deihkan, pp. 58, 59
98
ibid
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 ،‫ ﻭﺍﻟﺮﻭﺍﺗﻊ ﺍﻟﺨﻀﺮﺓ ﺍﺭﻕ ﺟﻠﻮﺩﺍ‬،‫ﺍﻻﻭﺍﻥ ﺍﻟﺸﺠﺮﺓ ﺍﻟﺒﺮﻳﺘہ ﺍﺻﻠﺐ ﻋﻮﺩﺍ‬
‫ ﻭ ﺍﺑﻄﺎﺧﻤﻮﺩﺍ‬،‫ﻭ ﺍﻟﻨﺎﺑﺘﺎﺕ ﺍﻟﻌﺬﺑۃ ﺍﻗﻮی ﻭ ﻗﻮﺩﺍ‬
“The forest wood contains more strength and
the bark of just and lush green tree is too weak. The
desert firewood is highly inflammable and its flames
get extinguished very late.”99

‫ﮐﺎﻧﭩﻮں ﻣﻴﮟ ﺟﻮ ﮐﻬﻠﺘﺎ ﮨﮯ ﺷﻌﻠﻮں ﻣﻴﮟ ﭘﻠﺘﺎ ﮨﮯ‬

‫ﻭﻩ ﭘﻬﻮﻝ ﮨﯽ ﮔﻠﺸﻦ ﮐﯽ ﺗﻘﺪﻳﺮ ﺑﺪﻟﺘﺎ ﮨﮯ‬
‘A flower that blossoms amongst thorns
and survives in the fire,
determines the fate of the garden’.

99
Nahjulblagah, document 45
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 Imam Khomenie
sends for Chamran

During the exile of Imam Khomenie in

Najaf (Iraq), Dr. Chamran at Lebanon was in
touch with him. He used to visit Najaf during
those days. Imam Khomenie was fully aware
about his sincerity, Jihad and sympathy for the
Islam and Muslims. During the imposed war of
Iraq on Iran, Dr. Chamran determined not to
return Tehran as long as there is presence of the
enemy on the Iranian soil. Even he did not
attend the Parliamentary and Supreme Defensive
Council meetings too. Instead he spend his
whole time at the war front. His brother,
Engineer Mehdi says about it:
One day Ahmed Khomenie, son of Imam
Khomenie made a phone call to the office of
Guerrilla forces at frontier area of Ahwaz, asking
Mustafa to come to Tehran. I told him that
Mustafa has made up his mind not to return to
Tehran as long as enemy is in our territory.
Ahmad Khomenie said: “Please convey him to
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he is missing him badly.” When I conveyed the
message to Dr. Chamran, he said that he would
leave for Tehran tomorrow. When we called on
Imam Khomenie, Dr.Chamran like others sat
Knee-wards. His feet were injured, but he
avoided stretching his feet as a mark of respect.
Imam could understand his critical and painful
situation by the depression of his face, so he
ordered him to stretch out his feet. Dr. Chamran
refused, but Imam stressed at third time. “I say
to sit comfortably with stretched feet.” On the
orders of Imam Khomenie he stretched his feet
but in the heart of hearts he felt ashamed. He
had brought with him the war map too and made
its presentation before him.100
Perhaps it is easy to get admiration and
appreciation or receive degree certificates and
honorariums like common people, but to please
Imam of the time or his deputy by one’s deeds is
the adventure and perfection in real sense. The
Holy Prophet (SAW) on observing the
performance of one of his companions, Owais
Qarni said, “Oh Owis Qarni, I would like to meet
you.” Here we see the idol-breaker like
Khomenie, plainly and spontaneously, on seeing

100
Martyr Chamran, Ahmad Dehkani, pp. 73,74
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the sacrifices, dauntlessness of Chamran says, “I
am badly missing Chamran.” May it so happen!
the youths of the Ummah may please the Imam,
who is in occultation (May Allah hasten his
appearance), with their performance. The way is
open and the field of action is available, the
things that are needed are courage, high
heartedness and full determination. Here we
may go a step forward, he will be ten steps
nearer.

‫ﺟﺮﺃﺕ ﮨﻮ ﻧﻤﻮ ﮐﯽ ﺗﻮ ﻓﻀﺎ ﺗﻨﮓ ﻧﮩﻴﮟ ﮨﮯ‬

‫ﺍے ﻣﺮﺩ ﺧﺪﺍ ﻣﻠﮏ ﺧﺪﺍ ﺗﻨﮓ ﻧﮩﻴﮟ ﮨﮯ‬
If there is courage in a man to go ahead
than space is not narrow for him.
Oh man of God the universe
of God has no limits.

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 Half an Hour Enough

Only those nations are free, exalted,

developed and steadfast, whose responsible,
foresighted leadership have done their utmost
for the betterment and benevolence of their
nation and who have worked incessantly day and
night. A man from Islamic Ummah, who
completed his Ph.D in Plasma Physics, works
hard day and night, while establishing Guerrilla
regiment for the defence of revolution and
Islamic government. He never sleeps during the
night, instead lays an ambush along with
guerrilla forces and design plans and prepares
strategies during the day and this was a routine
matter for Chairman. Martyr Chamran’s brother,
Engineer Mehdi says:
“Once I contacted the headquarters of
guerrilla forces at Ahwaz from Tehran on phone.
The phone call was received there by Hazrat
Ayatullah Khamnie. He was a representative of
Imam Khomenie at the warfront. I told him that
I have to talk with Dr. Chamran. He replied, “He
was at warfront during the night and busy in
designing strategies and planes. Let him rest
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awhile.” I told him that 15 minutes or half an
hour rest is sufficient for him. He said: ‘So,
please let him sleep for half an hour. I shall
waken him later on.”
A man or a nation desirous to achieve the
goal of exaltation, has no business with soft
beds, royal palaces and splendid banquets to
waste their life. The nations, who are ambitious
to achieve excellence and exaltation, keep their
libraries, laboratories, schools, colleges and
other educational centers flourishing with their
zeal and zest. Those who are desirous to achieve
excellence, keep themselves awaken during the
night. Haven’t our youth ever heard this Arabic
Phrase?

"‫"ﻣﻦ ﻁﻠﺐ ﺍﻟﻌﻠﯽ ﺳﺤﺮ ﺍﻟﻠﻴﺎﻟﯽ‬

“People who are desirous to achieve excellence,
shall keep awaking during the night.”

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 Chamran- A Champion of
Deeds not of Words

Dr. Chamran turned the Jable-a’amil

Institute into a centre of training, character
building and humanization in real sense. He
influenced the faculty, staff and students of the
Institute by his character to such an extent that
they also like him readily offered themselves for
every service of the nation. At the time of need,
the staff and faculty of the Institute rushed to
confront Israel during the night. On seeing their
teachers ready to safeguard the boarders of
honour and dignity, the students also, without
waiting for any order, voluntarily rushed to
frontiers alongside their teachers. Martyr
Chamran, in this context narrates the episode of
one of his students in these words:
“One of our best students, whose subject was
mechanics, instead of going to his home on the
eve of Ied holidays, directly rushed towards war
front in order to defend his territory and honour
against Israel. His family was worried about his
whereabouts. One day they came to the institute

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to enquire about his whereabouts. When they
came to know that he has gone to the warfront,
they got furious and even abused the
management of the Institute. The father of the
student said that I have admitted my ward in the
Institute for the educational purpose only and
not to let him participate in the war. He packed
all the bag and baggage of the child and said, I
shall not let my ward to continue here any more
and I also issued him the discharge certificate.
After two weeks, the father of this student along
with some other person approached us and said.
My son has again left for warfront. I request you
to admonish him to return back at his home. It
was difficult for me to tolerate that a coward and
selfish father is reproaching and rebuking his
brave and responsible son and insulting the
Institute that trains such efficient students. I
criticized the father of the student and others
accompanying him and said, I was expecting
that the feeling of responsibility, spirit of
sacrifice and faith of these students would
influence you, so that you too would learn a
lesson of self sacrifice. Strange! Your children
are voluntarily ready for any kind of sacrifice to
safeguard their territory, dignity and honour
courageously, but it is you, who instead of being
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thankful, are rebuking the truth and
truthfulness.
We never depute anybody to go for war on
the front. Nor we forcibly send anybody to
warfront. But the students here see with their
eyes that their Principal himself goes to
participate (Dr. Chamran) in the war and offer
his sacrifices. The best teachers of the school
proceed to boarders equipped with weapons. The
students are a witness about various sacrifices
on behalf of the Institute, they are a witness
about the martyrdom of the best teachers and
students and many among them got injured at
the warfronts. The students here see with their
open eyes that their country and territory is
being violated and some people are cooperating
with the enemy for their vested interested. When
the students over here visualize and conceive
these ground realities, they feel a sense of
responsibility and they do participate in the war
as an obligation on their part in order to
discharge their social, historical and human
obligation. These people voluntarily and with
their own determination opt to participate in the
war and willingly welcome the martyrdom in
order to guide others. They make others to have
a sense of responsibility and awaken the
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appeasing type of ill conscious people with their
sacrifices.
These young men are the worthy, sincere
and pious personalities of tragic history of Shias.
They figure amongst the true followers of
Hussain(A.S) and Ali(A.S). They are the standard
bearers of Martyrdom of Imam Hussain (A.S).
They manifest before us our responsibilities. It is
a tragedy that fathers like you rebuke their
worthy and devoted ones! How unjust is it! Allah
will never forgive us. History will never forgive
us. Imam Ali (A.S) will never forgive us. Hussain
(A.S) will never pardon you. Those who have
martyred after being oppressed in our history
will never forgive us.
It would have been appreciating, If you
could learn a lesson of humanity, nobility, dignity
and honour from your pious, brave and devoted
sons; and you should have been proud of the
children like these. This way, you would have got
yourself emancipated for ever from shackles of
loneliness, servitude and humiliation! Thus you
would have never been facing any disgrace and
disdain before the eyes of your enemy. You
please go from this place and leave me alone. I
am ashamed of your behaviour. I don’t want to
see unjust and ignorant people like you. These
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people left the Institute campus in a state of
shame and agony.”101
This episode illustrates the method of
teaching and training of Martyr Chamran. He
invited people towards the truth by virtue of his
actions rather than his utterances. When a
Principal leaves during the night to confront the
enemy with the weapons, then there is no need
to instigate the students forcibly or through
lengthy lectures, because the deeds have more
influence than that of words. This is the lacuna
and vacuum in the present religious world and
the main reason that various attempts of
promulgation and propagation are proving
ineffective. Chamran learned this lesson also
from Imam Ali (A.S), (in Nahjulblagh) that
invites scholars, students, teachers and
responsible personalities of the Ummah to
ponder over:

،‫"ﺍﻳﻬﺎﺍﻟﻨﺎﺱ ﺍﻧﯽ ﻭﷲ ﻣﺎﺍﺣﺜﮑﻢ ﻋﻠﯽ ﻁﺎﻋۃ ﺍﻻﻭﺍﺳﺒﻘﮑﻢ ﺍﻟﻴﻬﺎ‬

ٰ
"‫ﺍﻻﻭﺍﻧﺘﺎﻫﯽ ﻗﺒﻠﮑﻢ ﻋﻨﻬﺎ‬ ‫ﻭﺍﻻﻧﻬﺎﮐﻢ ﻋﻦ ﻣﻌﺼﻴۃ‬
“Oh people! By Allah I never command you to
obey anything, unless I myself obey it before you

101
Khuda bodh digger haich na bodh, pp. 138-139
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and never restrain you to forbid anything unless I
forbid it before you.”102

102
Nahjulblagh, Sermon 175
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 Dr Chamran in the Hit-list

Imam Musa Sadar and Martyr Chamran

tried hard to unite the oppressed and deprived
followers of Imam Ali (A.S) and get their rights
restored in Lebanon. These oppressed people
took out protest rallies and cause the
government to accept their rights. After these
successful attempts, Imam Musa Sadar and Dr.
Chamran were hit listed by different opponent
groups. Dr Chamran received information by
every now and then that enemy has laid an
ambush on different places. During the internal
disturbances, there were more than seventy five
militant organizations existing in Lebanon. There
was every apprehension of any life attempt on
Mustafa Chamran anywhere at any time. Hussain
A’arabi, one of the students of Dr. Chamran says
about this terrifying situation:
“Once a commander of an organization
conveyed to his militants that he would like to
have the head of Dr. Chamran. The clouds of
dangers were moving over his head. During this
turmoil once he was found missing. Despite a
thorough search, he couldn’t to be traces out.
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We all got worried and restless throughout the
night. Early in the morning, Chamran arrived at
the Institute and we came to know that Chamran
had gone to the house of that commander, who
had imposed the security threat to him. The
commander asked him, “Who are you.” He
replied, I am the most wanted person.”
Commander never expected this. He had never
seen him closely, and not to talk of any meeting
or a dialogue. He talked with him throughout the
night. He got impressed by his thoughts to the
extent that he sought an apology from him.103
What an aptly approach to resolve the
differences is adopted. If forbearance and open-
mindedness is adopted in resolving the various
issues of differences and if one steps forward in
anticipation to meet the person, who differs in
the opinion, it will shun away the resentments. If
one gets aware about any threatening from
somebody, instead of being furious or taking any
tension, if one could overpower his emotions and
makes an approach to the person who has given
the threatening and shall say to him that the
person is before you, whose head you want to
have, be sure the threatening giver himself may

103
Martyr Chamra, Ahmad Dehran, pp. 42,43
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get ashamed and their remains no alternative for
him except to seek an apology. But be curse to
Satan, who imposes temptation upon us lest we
may be called cowards. With the result, the
resentments and small misunderstandings, that
could have been avoided and averted, just with a
positive approach, ends even in fighting and
bloodshed. Anger against anger, threatening
against threatening, to intensify the existing
differences is a common feature for everyone,
that needs no expertise and efficiency too. But
the wise and enlightened is the person, who with
his right strategy and well planning, put the
persons, who are angry, giving threatening and
who have lost their way, on the right track as it
is said:

‫ﻧﺸہ ﭘﻼﮐﮯ ﮔﺮﺍﻧﺎ ﺗﻮ ﺳﺐ ﮐﻮ ﺁﺗﺎ ﮨﮯ‬

‫ﻣﺰﺍ ﺗﻮ ﺟﺐ ﮨﮯ ﮐہ ﮔﺮﺗﻮں ﮐﻮ ﺗﻬﺎﻡ ﻟﮯ ﺳﺎﻗﯽ‬
"It is easy for everybody to kick somebody to the
ground after he is toxicated.
But the pleasure lies in the fact when somebody is
provided with a helping hand who has fallen."

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 Tomorrow
I shall be martyred

Dr. Chamran’s wife says that one night

Mustafa told me: “Tomorrow, I shall get
martyred.” I thought he is saying this just in
humour. I told him, Is martyrdom in your hands
that you are certain about it? He said, ‘No, but I
have wished it from God and I know He will
grant my prayer, but I seek your consent too. I
shall leave this place tomorrow and wish to have
your full consent with me.” He willy-nilly made
me to agree, but I myself don’t know how I gave
him my consent. In the morning, when Mustafa
started to move towards the warfront, as usual I
arranged his uniform and weapons and drinking
water also for his use in the way. Soon after his
departure from his house, on my return I wanted
to switch on the light. No sooner, I touched the
button, there was a circuit shot. Just then I
began to think, shall Mustafa achieve martyrdom
today? Shall not this bulb lit up now? Will there
be no more light in it? Now I became attentive
towards what Mustafa was persistently saying

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that he will be martyred today in the afternoon.
He was not joking. I was certain if Mustafa today
will go on the warfront, he will never return
back. I immediately rushed with my revolver
with this idea that I may open fire targeting
Mustafa’s feet so that he may not be in a
position to proceed towards warfront. But he had
already left and I was held under dilemma what
to do.104
Dr. Chamran was proceeding towards his
last wish. While sitting in the vehicle, on the
way, he goes on writing:
“Oh Allah! You have made me to acquaint with
troubles and pains of the oppressed and
deprived of the history. Oh Allah! You have
bestowed to me everything and I thank you for
all this. You have bestowed to me the healthy,
sound and handsome physique and have given
me hard and fast feet, powerful arms and tactful
grips. You have also bestowed to me deep
reasoning power and positioned me on the
highest degrees of knowledge. Oh Allah! I thank
you that you have made me needless
(independent), so that I may not put my
expectations on anyone or anything. Oh my life I

104
Shaheed Chamran in the eyes of his wife (Urdu). P.47
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pay a goodbye to you. Oh my feet, I know you
are quick and ready to be sacrificed, I wish that
during the last moments of my life, you will
safeguard my dignity and honour. Oh my feet,
be firm and energetic, oh my hands, be strong
and tough. Oh my eyes! be sharp to see and
aware; oh my heart! Be patient to these last
moments; I promise to all of you, only after a
few moments, all of you would be in rest and
peace for ever. Now I may not make you tired
anymore and may not awaken you throughout
night and you may not cry out of tiredness.105
His wife says:
Accurately at the noon, the phone bell
phone rang up and I received a message that Dr.
Chamran got injured. His companions came and
took me to the hospital, when I entered in the
compound of the hospital. I sprightly walked
towards the cool room, because I knew that Dr.
Chamran was not injured but martyred. When I
caught the sight of Mustafa’s body, all of sudden,
I recited:

‫ﺍﻟﻠﻬﻢ ﺗﻘﺒﻞ ﻣﻨﺎ ﻫﺬﺍﻻﻗﺮﺑﺎﻥ‬

“Oh Allah! Accept our this sacrifice.”

105
Martyr Chamran Ahmad Dehuan, pp. 76, 77
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 After this all of my worries got vanished.
When I saw the body of Mustafa in the cool-
room, I felt that this is the end of his miseries
and troubles and he is now in peace, as there
was no rest in his worldly life.

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An Alert Committed Crusader
& Glorious Commander of Islam

The Message of Imam Khomenie on the

occasion of the martyrdom of Dr. Chamran
indicates his high calibre, characteristics,
sincerity and commitment. Imam’s message is
as under:
‫ﺑﺴﻢ ﷲ ﺍﻟﺮﺣﻤٰ ﻦ ﺍﻟﺮﺣﻴﻢ‬
‫ ﻭﺍﻧﺎ ﺍﻟﻴہ ﺭﺍﺟﻌﻮﻥ‬y‫ﺍﻧﺎ‬
“I offer my condolences and my
congratulations to Imam of the time (may our
souls be a ransom for him) on the martyrdom of
Dr. Mustafa Chamran, a glorious Commander of
Islam, an alert committed crusader on the
straight path of Allah. Condolences: because
our martyr loving nation has lost a solider who
caused revolution in confrontation of truth
against falsehood in Lebanon and Iran. His
objective and goal was ‘dear Islam’ and victory
of truth over falsehood.
He was pious crusader and a committed
teacher. Our Islamic country needed him and
he–like people very much. Congratulations:
because Islam has even offered such children to
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the nations and downtrodden masses and has
brought forth commanders like him. Isn’t life in
other words a belief and struggle in the way of
Islam?
Dear Chamran struggled in the way of
Allah with his pure and pious belief from the
beginning of his life, beyond any group or party
politics involvement, simply having his faith in
the divine cause and ended his life too on this
very cause. He started his life with
enlightenment and seeking nearness to Allah and
sacrificed his life in this way. He attained
martyrdom with dignity and achieved the
perfection. The excellence lies in the fact that
one may struggle in the way of Allah without any
political uproar or satanic ostentation and
sacrifice himself for the divine cause and not in
the way of one’s desires! This is the excellence
of men of God! He went with pride into presence
of the Almighty. May his soul rest in peace and
may his memory be alive. But can we achieve
also such excellence. May Allah provide us a help
and save us from ignorance and the sheer
darkness of sensuality.
I offer my condolences for this heavy loss
to the honourable nations of Iran, Lebanon,
rather to the Islamic nations and the Armed
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Forces and warriors in the way of truth and to
the family and honourable brother of this dear
crusader. I beseech to the Supreme Lord to
bestow His mercy upon him and grant patience
to his survivors.”

Ruhullah al-Musavi al-Khomeini

June 21, 1981

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Sources
1. Nahjulblagh, Maxim-125
2. Holy Quran 33:72
3. i “We ordained the moon to pass through
certain phases until it seems eventually to
be like a bent twig, how the sun is not
supposed to catch up with the moon, nor
is the night to precede the day, all of them
are to float in a certain orbit. (36:39-40).
3-ii, 4 “..by the soul and that (power) which
designed it and inspired it with knowledge
of evil and piety, those who purify their
souls will certainly have everlasting
happiness and those who corrupt their
souls will certainly be deprived (of
happiness). (91:2)
3-iii, 5 “There was certainly a time when there
was no mention of man. We created man
from the union of sperm and egg to test
him. We gave him hearing and vision. We
showed him the right path whether he
would be grateful or ungrateful (76:2)
6. Nahjulblagh, Maxim-147
7, 8, 18, The Daily Jamoher-i-Islami, No. 7224,
28. p.15, Jamade-Awal 1425.
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asnad-e-savak, No.11
12,13. ayete muyahidan, p.5
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Shahid Chamran
15, 24. Majmu-e-khatirat, p.10
16. ibid pp.4,5
17. Mafateh-al-Jinan, supplication of Arfat
19. Mizan-ul-Hikmah
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21. ibid, p.165
22, 29. Yaran-e-Imam be rivayete isnade
SAVAK, p.6
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25. The Journal, Shahid-e-Yaran, No. 37,
p.12
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asnad ki roshni main, with Extraction, p.135
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pp 9,10
33. Lebanon, pp.63, 65
34. ibid. p.68
35. ibid. pp. 30,31
36. Martyr Chamran, Benish va Niyaish, p.50
37, 38. Payam-e-Inqlab, No, 261, p.7
39, 40. Journal Shahid Yaran, p.12, Interview
with Nasrullah Chamran
41. ibid, p.44
42, 43. Imam Khonmenic Key doost SAVAK kay
record ke roshini main, p.125
44 – 47. Journal Shahid Yaran, No.37, p. 19, An
interview with one of his students.
48. An Interview with Sheikh Mustafa
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 Mo’amri Journal Yaran, p.36
49. ibid, p.55
50. Majmua Khatirat, Chamran, p.18
51, 52. Imam Khomenie Key Doost SAVAK Key
roshni main, p.137
53. Journals Yaran …, No. 37, p.55.
54, 55, 57. A’adil Awan, A high official of Harkat
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56. Ayat Mujahidan, pp 51,54
57. A’adil Awan, A high official of Amal
Movement, Yaran, No. 37, p.41
58. Khuda boad wa digerey nabood, pp 155,
156
59, 60. Majmua Khatirat, p.28.
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62. Chamran beh riyati hamser, p.46
63. Zamzam-e-Ishq, p.74
64. Magmua Khatirat, p.16
65. Chamran be reyate hamser, p.29
66. Khasail-Saduq, Vol. 1, p63.
67. Journal Yaran, No. 37, p.37.
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69. Ibid, p.25
70. ibid, pp 32-32.
71. ibid, p.44.
72. Zindignama Shahid Chamran, p.16.
73. Journal Yaran, p.17
74. Chamran by riyat hamser, p.51.
75. ibid, pp. 52,53
76, 77. ibid, p.35
78, 79. Mujla yaran, p.38
79. ibid.
80, 81. ibid, p. 39
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82. ibid, p.47
83. Chamran be riyate hamser, p,54.
84. ibid, p.24.
85. ibid, p.42
86. Three narrations from Chamran p.25
87, 88. Mujla yaran, No. 37, p. 35.
89. ibid, p 23
90. ibid, p.21
91. Khuda boodh deger haich ne boodh, pp
28, 29
92. Adle-illahi, p. 152
93, 94. Mujala Yaran, No. 37, p.53
95. Zamzam-e-Ishq, pp. 17,18
96. www.chamran.ir.
97,98. Martyr Chamran, Ahmad Deihkan, pp. 58,
59
99. Nahjulblagah, document 45
100. Martyr Chamran, Ahmad Dehkani, pp.
73,74
101. Khuda bodh digger haich na bodh, pp.
138-139
102. Nahjulblagh, Sermon 175
103. Martyr Chamra, Ahmad Dehran, pp. 42,43
104. Shaheed Chamran in the eyes of his wife
(Urdu). P.47
105. Martyr Chamran Ahmad Dehuan, pp. 76,
77

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