Internal struggle is of great significance for all great mystics

Imam Khomeini explains the jihad al-nafs or the internal struggle is of great significance for all great religious thinkers, mystics, and moralists.

Imam Khomeini’s Approach to Political Struggle

The focus of this paper is analysis of methods used by Imam Khomeini in his struggles until the victory of the Islamic Revolution. The main question of this paper is: What was Imam Khomeini’s approach to violence and nonviolence in his political struggles against the Shah’s regime?

An examination of the relationship between tradition and modernization in the thought and practice ...

Imam Khomeini highlights importance of knowledge, awareness to actualize justice

According to Imam Khomeini, everything begins with knowledge and awareness and to gain knowledge, one should primarily forgo denial.

A Mystic Politician

Ayatollah Khomeini was a Shiite Muslim cleric and marja, the political leader of 1979 Islamic revolution of Iran until his death. He was also a highly-influential and innovative Islamic political theorist, most noted for the development of the theory of Vilayat-e-Faghih, the "Guardianship of jurisconsult".

Imam Khomeini's cultural week and its main objectives

The main objective of the cultural week had been to introduce and promote Imam Khomeini's ideals for people from all walks of life and especially making the youth and young generation with the history of Islamic Revolution.

Cultural Reflection on the Islamic Revolution of Iran and Imam Khomeini s Teaching on Islamic ...

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.