Imam used to study for several hours, but took break for prayers

A memoir by Hojjat al-Islam Masoudi Khomeini

Historic letter of Imam was read out to Gorbachev.

Extracted from a series of memoirs about Imam

Imam Khomeini: The path of Islam is to support the deprived; to be more attentive to them.

Sahifeh-ye-Imam. V 13, P 171

We are in search of original Islam

Martyrdom, transfer to a loftier world

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.

The story of delivering Imam Khomeini’s letter to Gorbachev

Imam Khomeini invited Gorbachev to embrace Islam in 1989 letter

Two years before the fall of the Soviet Union, its leader Mikhail Gorbachev would receive a letter from the Imam Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic republic of Iran, inviting him to embrace Islam. In the letter Imam said that your main problem is the prolonged and futile war you have waged against God, the source of existence and creation.