Towards the end of his life, in a statement written in Azar 1367 - namely, around ten years after he ordered the establishment of Basij - Imam Khomeini (r.a.) demanded that students and seminarians should establish Basij for students of universities and Islamic seminaries.
A cikin wancan abin da Imam ya rubuta a watan Azar na shekarar 1367 (1988) - wato a karshen rayuwarsa, kimanin shekaru goma bayan wancan umurni na farkon da ya yi - ya bukaci daliban jami'a da na makarantun addini da su kafa dakarun Basij; wato Basijin daliban jami'a da kuma Basijin daliban addini.