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HIZBULLAH'S 1992 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS PROGRAM (MY TRANSLATION)
In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
“Those who, if we establish them firmly in the land, will perform the prayer, give the alms, command the good and prohibit evil. To Allah belongs the outcome of all affairs” (22:41).
From the stance of our legal (shar‘i) responsibility towards our oppressed people in Lebanon, that gives due concern to the populace's grand destining causes and its neglected daily demands; in light of a deep-conscientious reading to the nature of the degrading situation in Lebanon, and the changes in the international arena and their domestic impact, and the need to stand up against conspiracies that are being contrived against the land, rights, and dignities of our populace; based on a realistic diagnosis of the clear and possible dangers as well as the opportunities available to the Islamists in order to take a leading role, while avoiding slippery slopes, in the path to fortify the Islamic project, and consolidate its steps and fruits; in harmony with the jurisprudential (fiqhi) stipulations that, for us, act as a guide and an authority of emulation (marja’)…
In conveying our gratitude to the righteous expression of our populace's aspirations, pains and hopes; from the stance of the people's trust in Hizbullah's integrity and its great sacrifices, and its vigilance for public interest, and its principled stance.
We [Hizbullah] made up our mind, relying on God, and decided to participate in electoral politics on the basis of a comprehensive political program, in which our candidates are obliged to do their utmost best to put it [political pro-gram] into operation, asking our populace to support it and follow up on it.
The dignified Lebanese,
The loyal oppressed,
In this sensitive and grave period of the history of our wounded country; in the midst of grand international changes that ravaged our existence and led to the collapse of regimes and changed the features of policies and alliances; at the time when the Zionist enemy [Israel] is still occupying a beloved section of our country, the South and the Biqa‘, portraying the ugliest pictures of conquest and extortion, while the project of the oppressors, spearheaded by the US,
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- Hizbullah's DocumentsFrom the 1985 Open Letter to the 2009 Manifesto, pp. 63 - 104Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2011