Ruhollah Khomeini
Ruhollah Khomeini
Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhollah Mūsavi Khomeini, 24 September 1902 – 3 June 1989), known in the Western world as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian Shia Muslim religious leader, revolutionary, politician, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which saw the overthrow of the Pahlavi monarchy and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. Following the revolution, Khomeini became the country's Supreme Leader, a position created in the constitution of the Islamic Republic...
NationalityIranian
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth17 May 1900
Islamic state means a state based on justice and democracy and structured upon Islamic rules and laws.
Those who say that we want nationality, they are standing against Islam....We have no use for the nationalists. Moslems are useful for us. Islam is against nationality....
It is better for a girl to marry in such a time when she would begin menstruation at her husband's house rather than her father's home. Any father marrying his daughter so young will have a permanent place in heaven.
If a fly gets into the throat of one who is fasting, it is not necessary to pull it out.
The Imam throughout his life called America 'the Great Satan'. He believed that all the Muslims' problems were caused by America.
Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.
The freedom-lovers of the world mourn the sad demise of Imam Khomeini.
After the Shah's departure from Iran, I will not become a president nor accept any other leadership role. Just like before, I limit my activities only to guiding and directing the people.
If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in Shiraz.
The fundamental difference between Islamic government, on the one hand, and constitutional monarchy and republics, on the other, is this: whereas the representatives of the people or the monarch in such regimes engage in legislation, in Islam the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty.
In Iran's future Islamic system everyone can express their opinion, and the Islamic government will respond to logic with logic.
Women are free in the Islamic Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing.
Since Khomeini's death, the popular appeal of an Islamic state - and of fundamentalism - has surely dimmed. Thinkers still debate and warriors kill, but no country seems prepared to emulate Iran. Perhaps revolutions happen only under majestic leaders, and no one like Khomeini has since appeared.
In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion.