Now the plot is to separate you from one another. They who felt that their defeat was because of the unity among the people, realized that this unity of expression that had emerged in Iran, and perhaps, brought about by these two groups—the clergy and its preachers, prayer leaders, orators, speakers and such people and you with your lectures and your efforts bringing the people together—resulted in this victory. At one time they may think that “if the people gather together, we will be defeated,” though this defeat has not been experienced by them. At another time, your victory and their defeat is actually experienced and (physically) felt. They saw that this defeat and that victory were because of your unity. A plot is now afoot to separate you from one another; to set two brotherly groups against one another and to drive the two groups of thinkers apart. If you do fall apart, neither will the clergy be able to do anything, nor you. You think that the university will be able to succeed without (the help of) of this group; no, it cannot. And they think that they are everything and the university, nothing. Not at all; it is erroneous to think so. Unity must be forged between these two strata to confront their malicious propaganda of many years by which they intended to drive you apart from one another, to line you up on one side so that you be their (clergy’s) enemy, and to line them up on the other side with them being your enemies as well, and for them to come amidst you and benefit by the situation without anybody being around to question why. Now, they have come to realize that when such a power arises and such unity is formed, it results in their defeat; and they were defeated by such unity and power. The conspiracies nowadays are more and, perhaps, more precisely planned; the plot now is to separate this group from that. Plots are being implemented in Mashhad. Conspiracies have been carried out in Isfahān, and in Tehran also; they may engulf other strata as well.
Sahifeh-ye-Imam, V 8, P 403