Imam Khomeini unique leader of century

Imam Khomeini unique leader of century

Sayyid Ruhollah Khomeini:
Was born in 1902 in Khomeini. His father murdered in 1903. He began studying the Quran &Persian language from young age & was assisted in his religious studies by his relatives.

At the age of six he began to study the Quran .He received his early education at home & at the local school under supervision of mulla abdul gassem & ayatollah pasandideh &very scient masters until he was 18 years old then he went to Arak . • Although during this scholarly phase of his life imam khomeini was not politically active the nature of his studies, teaching & writing revealed that he firmly believed from the beginning in political activits by clerics .He was the first Iranian cleric try to refute the outspoken advocacy of secularism in the 1940.
• He was author of more than 40 books but he is known for his political activities. His well-known book, kashf-e Asrar (discover of secret) was point by point reftation of Asrar-e Hezar Saleh (Secret of thousand years),a tract written by a disciple of Iran’s leading anti –clerical historian ,Ahmad Kasravi.Imam Khomeini become a Marja taqlid in 1963 , following the death of Grand Ayatollah seyyed Hossein Borujerdi .
• He was Time magazine s Man of year in 1979 for his international influence & Khomeini has been describe as the virtual face of shia Islamic in western popular culture .
• If we search very exact at Imam khomeini s life he was effective person on their world & people which attempt for reach to real Islamic government know him as a man who change a big and powerful regime.
• Becacase of political activities ge spent more than 15 years in exile; On 4 November 1964 Khomeini was secretly taken to Ankara & then to Bursa Turkey .On 5 Septeber1965, he moved to Najaf , Iraq& stayed there until Saddam Hussein deport him. Finally, he was exiled by pressure of Mohammmad reza Pahlavi to Neaophle-chateau Paris on 6 October 1978.

• He was not allowed to return to Iran during shah regim .Finally on 16 January 1979 the shah left the country for medical treatment but fortunately never return.

• Two weeks later 1 February 1979he return to Iran for ever a leading Islamic revolution in Iran. Although revolution were in change & Khomeini was their leader some opposition groups claim that secular & religious groups were unaware of Khomeini s plan for Islamic government by wilayat fagih which involved rule by a marj islamic cleric.he founding ideology of Islamic republic of iran . Impact of the religious & political ideas of the leader of the 1979 iranian Revelution Grand Ayatollah Khomeini replacing Iran s millennia-old monarchy with theocracy.Khomeini declared Islamic jurists the true holders of not only religious authority m who must be obeyed as an expression of obedience to god,&whose rule has precedence over all secondary ordinances such as prayer, fasting, & pilgrimage.
• According Vali Nasr, outside of Iran, Khomeini influence has been felt among the large shia population of Iraq & Lebanon .In the non-Muslim world, he had a great impact on the west & even Western popular culture where it is said: he became the virtual face of Muslim who inculcate fear &distrust towards Islam.

• Imam Khomeini health declined several years before his death ,after spent eleven days in hospital He died on 3 June 1989 after suffering heart attack at the age of 86 just before mid-night.

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