In addition to announcements, communiqués and speeches, the Imam would also write a large number of letters to all and every one. I won’t forget that in the year 1962 in the provincial and religious councils incident, the late Haj Aqa Mustafa had said that the Imam would not sleep for more than two or three hours every night while the rest of the night he would be busy writing letters to the religious scholars of the territory. The Imam wrote hundreds of letters to the religious councils in which he would enlighten the theologians of the provincial towns.
Towns and cities of the dangers that had begun to threaten the world of Islam and the role played by Israel and America and that their objective was the elimination of Islam and such issues.
Some of the letters that the Imam wrote to the theologians would be printed and circulated and would be very effective and would cause an uproar. One of these letters concerning the incident of provincial and religious councils which I recall, was the letter that the Imam wrote to Mr. Falsafi. Mr. Falsafi read out that letter from the pulpit of the Ark Mosque in Tehran and I was present at that gathering when he said that, “But with regard to the letter of Ayatullah Khomeini…” the people listened intently and were aroused. The Imam’s letter was such that it would agitate the people. At the end of the letter, the Imam wrote the Qur’anic Surah “al-Fil” comprehensively. When Mr. Falsafi recited this Surah, the people were aroused to such an extent that they recited the last verse of the Surah in a chorus.
For instance when Mr. Falsafi recited the word “Be ashab al-fil”, “fi tanzil”, the crowd would repeat the words in a chorus. This letter of the Imam took the form of a public song and created a huge storm.[1]
[1]He would not sleep for more than two or three hours every night: Ayatullah Khamene’i