Ruhollah Khomeini Quotes
1902–1989 Iran
- Iran
- Philosophers
- Poets
- Shia imams
Also known as: Ayatollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Imam Khomeini, Khomeini, Khomeini, Ruhollah
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In Iran's future Islamic system everyone can express their opinion, and the Islamic government will respond to logic with logic.
Islamic state means a state based on justice and democracy and structured upon Islamic rules and laws.
With people's revolutionary rage, the king will be ousted and a democratic state, Islamic Republic, will be established.
Most of the wailings of the awliya [pious believers] is caused by the pain of separation and detachment from the Beloved and His Generosity.
Personal desire, age, and my health do not allow me to personally have a role in running the country after the fall of the current system.
Women are free in the Islamic Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing.
That which eases calamities is the fact that all are departing mortals. All of us will pass away; so, it is better to be sacrificed in His path.
At the start of their mission, the prophets first confronted the upper class; Hadrat Moses, confronted the Pharaoh. The upper class enjoys the priority of being confronted and guided first.
Only one party—and that is party of Allah[Hezbollah], party of the underprivileged.
If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in Shiraz.
Islamic democracy will be more perfect than Western democracy.
In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion.
The essential purpose of revelation is to develop divine knowledge in man.
That which admits man to God's Threshold is his separation from all that is not of God—a thing which is not attainable by all.
You were invigorated by mindfulness of God, migration from oneself to God—which is the greatest migration—migration from ego to the truth, and from this world to the unseen world.
The essence of praise accrues to none but God; your praise of a rose or an apple is [in essence] praise of God.
In the Islamic Republic the rights of the religious minorities are respectfully regarded.
This regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.
In Islam, democracy is included and people are free in Islam, both in expressing their opinions and their actions, until there is no conspiracy and they don't bring up ideas which would deviate Iranian generation.
There are hundreds of other [Koranic] psalms and hadiths urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all that mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.