Imam Khomeini: The essential purpose of revelation is to develop divine knowledge in man.

Desirable contemplation on Divine essence

According to Imam Khomeini, it should be known that what we said about the possibility of contemplation on the Essence, the Names and the Attributes may lead the ignorant to imagine that it is forbidden in accordance with certain riwayat, knowing not that that which is forbidden is to attempt to fathom the quality and depths of the Essence, as is clear from the traditions.’

Man is the child of this physical world, Imam Khomeini explains

Imam Khomeini says man is the child of this physical world, nature being his mother, and he the offspring of water and dust. The love for this world is implanted in his heart since the early time of his development and growth. As he grows this love also increases.

Imam Khomeini's famous work "Forty Hadith" contains treasures of mysticism

The original work in Persian, published under the title “Arba’in, ya chihil hadith” was written by Imam Khomeini about a half century ago. The book contains treasures of mysticism and spirituality.

Imam Khomeini: The entire purposes of the prophets converge on one word and that is: the knowledge ...

Imam Khomeini explained cordial disciplines of prayers, spiritual duties of traveler

Imam Khomeini explained that one of the cordial disciplines of the worships and the spiritual duties of the traveler along the path to the Hereafter is paying attention to the Might of the Lord and to the humility of servitude.

Imam Khomeini's Forty Hadtih, a source of divine knowledge and wisdom

Forty Hadith by Imam Khomeini, the original work in Persian, published several times under the title “Arba’in, ya chihil hadith” was written by Imam al-Khumayni nearly five decades ago and was completed in the month of Muharram 1358 (April-May, 1939).