You ought to transform the Shah’s wealth into housing and construction

ID: 40621 | Date: 2015/08/05
The Imam gathered his inner circle on the night before the day he was to leave for the city of Qom. Martyr Beheshti, Mr. Rafsanjani, I and others were present. The Imam remarked in an angry tone stating: “I am leaving; you must transform this wealth of the Shah and of the regime’s collaborators into housing for the deprived and weaker classes.” This directive formed the order for establishing the Bonyad-e-Mostazafan (Foundation for the deprived) that was issued on his behalf on that night.



Name of the narrator: Ayatollah Martyr Mahallati, Ibid., vol. 4


Title of the Book: Impressions and Memoirs about Imam Khomeini's Practical Behaviour, vol. 1, chapter two, page 218