Why the founder of the Islamic Revolution was honored to be a follower of Imam Sadiq (PBUH)?

Internal struggle is of great significance for all great mystics

Imam Khomeini explains the jihad al-nafs or the internal struggle is of great significance for all great religious thinkers, mystics, and moralists.

Imam Khomeini used to shed tears for sufferings of prophet’s Household.

A memoir by Hojjat al-Islam Kawthari

What was Imam Khomeini’s schedule during holy month of Ramadan?

Spiritual construction has priority over all others, Imam Khomeini explained

Imam Khomeini stressed that the country and the nation are in need of construction, and spiritual construction has priority over all others. The spiritual and physical struggle for the cause of God should begin from the ‘self’; to fight against the internal Satan. This jihad will be the basis of other jihads and struggles.

Imam used to perform pilgrimage of holy shrine in Qom every day.

A memoir by Ayatollah Imami Kashani

Ramadan is the month of revelation.

The Idea of Ommah in Imam Khomeini's Political Thoughts

By studying the terminology used by Imam Khomeini, it is concluded that the concept of "nation" is a marginal one, in relation with the concept of "Ommah" In fact, Imam Khomeini has not negated nationalism with the meaning of national authority in his comments, but he has negated ethnicity and clanship and their undesirable impact as the factors of separation among Islamic Ommah.