Imam Khomeini week kicks off with various cultural programs

The senior officials from the institute for compilation and publications of Imam Khomeini's works has held a ceremony to mark the beginning of the cultural week which coincides with birth anniversary of the late founder of the Islamic Republic.

Imam called on Gorbachev to study Islam earnestly

After mentioning these problems and preliminary points, let me call on you to study Islam earnestly, not because Islam and the Muslims may need you but because Islam has exalted universal values which can bring comfort and salvation to all nations and remove the basic problems of mankind, Imam Khomeini wrote in a historic letter to former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

The years of spiritual and Intellectual Formation of Imam

Imam Khomeini wrote Kashf-ul-Israr in young age, defended Islamic and Shia beliefs

The teacher who had the most profound influence on Imam Khomeini

The teacher who had the most profound influence on Imam Khomeini’s spiritual development was, however, Mirza Muhammad ‘Ali Shahabadi (d. 1328 Sh. /1950); to him the Imam refers in a number of his works as shaykhuna and ‘arif-I kamil, and his relationship with him was that of a murid with his murshid.

Imam Khomeini's decades long struggle and exile for Islamic Revolution

Imam did not like to use pulpit out of respect for great scholars.

Narrated by: Sayed Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Islamic Republic--Taken from: Shahed Journal, no. 195

The Necessity of Islamic Government in Modern Day from Imam Khomeini’s perspective Kobra Lashkari.

In Imam Khomeini’s opinion, if a person is the most knowledgeable in Religion Science, but fails to recognize the expedient of society or generally lacks in insight the social and political context and in decision making power, this person is not Mujtahid in social and governance issues and cannot take the reigns of the community.