Mosque played an important role in conveying Imam’s message throughout the country. Islamic Revolution emerged victorious in 1979 under wise leadership of Imam Khomeini.
Some of Imam Khomeini’s statements in this regard come as following:
Imam Khomeini: The mosque is the emancipation center. In early Islam, soldiers and armies were dispatched from mosques where political decrees were made.
Sahifeh-ye-Imam, Vol.10, page 33
Keep the mosques and religious assemblies which are Islam’s fortresses against the evils, vibrant and mobilized, and confront these heartless imperialists wrathfully and loathsomely.
Sahifeh-ye-Imam, Vol.2, page 470
If the Sanctuary and the Divine House, the Holy Mosque and the prayer niche are not secure grounds providing safety and support to the defenders of the honor of the House and the prophets of God, where else shall they find safety and security?
Sahifeh-ye-Imam, Vol.20, page 298
Keep the mosques full and inhabited. You, the academic and the religious students, none of you should desert the mosques. Mosques are the fronts. The fronts should be depth occupied.
Sahifeh-ye-Imam, Vol.12, page 337
Mosques are very important centers that people must pay heed to, from where all our affairs must be governed. The mosque was the cause of our nation’s victory.
Sahifeh-ye-Imam, Vol.13, page 13
In Islam and at the advent of Islam, the mosque has always been the center of Islamic movements and uprisings.
Sahifeh-ye-Imam, Vol.7, page 57
Islamic emancipation would begin from the mosque; and the movement of the Islamic forces for the suppression of the infidels and bringing them under the flag of Islam would begin from the mosque.
Sahifeh-ye-Imam, Vol.7, page 57
You, who are from the residents and scholars of the mosque, must follow in the footsteps of the prophet of Islam, and must place the mosque in the service of the propagation of Islam and the Islamic movement, and for the amputation of the hands of the infidels and the polytheists and in favor of the oppressed in relation to the arrogant.
Sahifeh-ye-Imam, Vol.7, page 57
It we realize what advantages these gatherings, about which Islam has instructed us and provided for us, have and what political problems and (other) difficulties they solve, we will not be so listless for our mosques to become the centers for the old men and women.
Sahifeh-ye-Imam, Vol.13, page 277
You preserve your meetings and gatherings. Have a firm hold on the mosques? Association in prayers is better than praying individually. Keep the mosques inhabited.
Sahifeh-ye-Imam, Vol.12, page 338
The mosque is the emancipation center. In early Islam, soldiers and armies were dispatched from mosques where political decrees were made.
The mosque is the political congregational center—the larger and more crowded one is called the Friday prayer.
Sahifeh-ye-Imam, Vol.10, page 33
O you people and intellectuals! Safeguard your mosques. Do not be Westernized, imported intellectuals! O you legal experts! You should go to the mosques; Safeguard these mosques so that the movement attains ultimate success
Sahifeh-ye-Imam, Vol.8, page 53
It is the duty of the distinguished ‘ulamā’ and the preachers to point out in mosques and at religious gatherings, the atrocities of the Israelis.
Sahifeh-ye-Imam, Vol.3, page 6