Sayyed Nasrallah’s Message during Joint Platform Involving the Region’s Resistance Leaders Marking Int’l Quds Day

Translated by Staff

Message from Hezbollah Secretary General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah to the nation and the enemy. It was delivered during a joint platform involving leaders of the region’s resistance factions.

I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Satan. In the name of Allah the Most Gracious the Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds, and prayers and peace be upon our Master and Prophet, the Seal of Prophets, Abi al-Qassem Muhammad Bin Abdullah and his good and pure household and his good and chosen companions and all the prophets and messengers.

Peace and Allah's mercy and blessings be upon you all.

The International Quds Day is one of the blessed legacies of His Eminence Imam Khomeini. The Imam revived the hopes of the oppressed and the vulnerable in the world with his great Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979. He declared it on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan. He expressed the firm and final commitment of the Islamic Republic and all the honorable Mujahideen and resistance fighters to the Palestinian cause and Al-Quds. He regarded this cause as well as the jihad towards it as one of the duties that cannot be abandoned, regardless of the pressures and challenges and no matter the price and sacrifices.

Today, in 2020 and despite all international and regional transformations as well as the storms, earthquakes, and sedition that struck our region, we find ourselves closer to Al-Quds and its liberation, God willing. This is because of faith, steadfastness, patience, honesty, sincerity, and communication between the countries and forces of the axis of resistance in our Arab and Islamic world.

The scene of people normalizing [ties with “Israel”] and surrendering is not the true image of our nation. Rather, it is the true image of those who are concealing their position. Today, they have demonstrated this position, revealed their true identity, and dropped their masks. Those who are {Had they gone forth with you, they would not have increased you except in confusion.}

The real scene that any reading, aspiration, or evaluation of the future must be based on is the scene of steadfastness, resilience, and development of the resistance forces as well as governments, countries, factions, movements, people, and elites in the Arab and Islamic world – in Palestine, in Iran, in Iraq, in Syria, in Yemen, and in Lebanon – where there are supporters, believers, and people who are committed.

In these countries, we are talking about real, effective, capable, and strengthening forces. The real scene is expressed by the statements and positions of the Zionist officials, who are terrified of the victories of the axis of resistance as well as shocked and disappointed at the defeat of their allies and America's allies along numerous fronts and in numerous wars and confrontations.

Zionist officials express their strong fear of the growing capabilities of the resistance – in quantity, manpower, armament, artistically, and morally – at all levels and in every respect.

During today’s gathering, speeches are delivered by the brothers whom we love, respect, and bet on.

Today’s gathering represents a unified platform for Al-Quds Day. It comes under one slogan which is the slogan of Al-Quds and the path of the martyrs. This gathering confirms our agreement that all conspiracies and sedition to divide on the basis of sectarianism, ethnicity, partisanship, or politics have failed.

Our gathering today confirms that attempts to isolate Palestine, the Palestinian people, and the Palestinian cause have failed and will continue to fail. It confirms that this sacred cause was and will remain the cause of the nation and its loyal forces ready to make more sacrifices.

Al-Quds Day comes due to the blessing of Allah’s holy month of Ramadan. This year it falls in the month of May coinciding with Lebanon’s Liberation and Resistance Day - the 20th anniversary of the historic victory of the resistance in Lebanon over the Zionists, their occupation, their ambitions, and their projects.

We in Hezbollah and in the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon stress our firm and resolute commitment to this cause. We confirm our pledge to remain on this path alongside the patient, oppressed, and besieged Palestinian people, the blessed Palestinian resistance factions, and all the living and faithful forces of the nation.

We are all confident that victory will come soon, God willing, and that the sacrifices and patience of the Mujahideen, the resistance, our people, our men and women as well as our young and old will change all the equations.

During this year’s Al-Quds Day, we are missing a great leader who walked on the road of Al-Quds and fought on the Al-Quds front. He was righteously given the name of the martyr of Al-Quds. A beloved and dear brother as well as a great Mujahid and commander, Hajj Qassem Soleimani was one of the great pillars of the resistance, its battles, and its victories. He was a great pillar of the resistance that is paving the way for its greatest victory yet – the liberation of Al-Quds – God willing.

He worked day and night throughout his honorable and blessed life so that the resistance in all regional countries remains alive, capable, ready, strong, and empowered for the day that we all look forward to.

To his pure spirit, we pledge that we will all remain on his path and fulfill his dreams and utmost aspirations. We will not despair, tire, or get bored despite the pressures, the psychological warfare, the sanctions, and all sieges, threats, and dangers.

We will remain on this path filled with faith, hope, and certainty. We will carry our blood in our hands and head to the frontlines. We will not hesitate to face all the challenges in the way that he taught us in his school and his path which he embodied in thought, culture, behavior, and action.

God willing, this year we pledge to the great martyr of Al-Quds Hajj Qassem Soleimani, to all the martyrs who followed the path of Al-Quds, to all the minds and hearts carrying these hopes, to all the Mujahideen awaiting the day when this dream comes true to remain on this path, to make every effort to eliminate all obstacles, to stand together and unite, and to create all the conditions and prepare the groundwork for the day that will inevitably come. That day when we will all pray in Al-Quds, God willing, in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in Bayt Al-Maqdis. It will be liberated by the blood and the hands of the loyal and virtuous people of our nation.

Today in this brief and short address, I appeal to all the people of our nation and to the Arab and Islamic peoples to mark this day in appropriate ways – through the media, culturally, politically, socially and artistically.

I call on them to take advantage of all the activities that have been announced, taking into account the new conditions that the coronavirus pandemic imposed on the world and the peoples of the world.

Taking into account all required preventive measures, Al-Quds Day this year should be the same as every year. It should be strongly present in our conscience, minds, hearts, emotions, will, culture, activities, and actions because Al-Quds is the goal that all eyes, minds, and hearts should be directed at. God willing, we will get there.

Peace and Allah's mercy and blessings be upon you all.