Full text of leaked letter from President Mohamed Morsi

O steadfast and revolutionary people of Egypt,

God has willed that our blessed revolution, the 25 January Revolution, will face difficulties all the way to the end. Yet, God has chosen true revolutionaries for this revolution, men and women, who are the pride of Egypt and the rest of the world.

O free revolutionaries,

Continue along the path of your pure and peaceful revolution with the steadfastness of mountains and the will power of thunder.

Your revolution will triumph very soon. This is my absolute conviction in God. You are backed by the overwhelming majority of the people, who expect you to set the revolutionary stage for them so that you may soon hear their thunderous roar after the world heard their deafening silence during the farcical swearing in of the coup-leader. For such a farce, the coup regime needed an absent-minded people but they dealt them a blow with their vigilance and humiliated them.

So, come together and do not disunite lest you fail and lose your vigour.

God bears witness that I have spared no effort in resisting corruption and crime, at times through the law and at others through revolutionary means. I was right at times and wrong at others; but I have never betrayed your trust and I shall never do so. I have spent the years of my life confronting their crimes and I shall continue to do so for the rest of my life.

O revolutionary youth of Egypt! You have astonished the world with your revolution. You are the ‘today’ and the ‘tomorrow’, the present and the future. Indeed, you are the homeland. The revolution depends on you and I trust that you will raise its banner and deliver it to its glory.

Defend the revolution and be patient, O heroes. By God, I am envisioning you as the forthcoming generation of fathers telling your children how patient you had been and how much you endured in order for your revolution to succeed.

The free peoples of the world have not recognised this criminal coup regime because the Egyptians have continued their revolution while adhering to its innovative peacefulness. Not a single free person in the entire world will recognise the falsehoods that emanate from this coup’s falsehood.

Last but not least, I would like to say to my great people: keep your eyes on your revolution and its highest goals. Neither the blood of the martyrs; nor the cries of the wounded; nor the sacrifices of the detainees; will ever be in vain so long as this revolution is looked after by men who care for it, raise its flag, believe in its principles and rally around it until it accomplishes all its objectives.

I know that the path is tough. Yet, I truly believe in the goodness of your souls and the justness of your cause. I am also fully confident that the Almighty God will grant you victory.

May God protect you for your homeland and your nation, and may you always be revolutionaries.

Dr Mohamed Morsi
President, Arab Republic of Egypt