We wanted to leave Iraq for Kuwait. At the border, the Kuwaitis would not let us enter. At that time Imam was 80 years old. We had left Najaf at 5 am in the morning.
When the Kuwaitis would not let us enter, we had no choice but to return to the Iraqi border.
There they treated Imam very badly. They didn't even give him a room in which he could rest. In the end, Imam laid out his cloak on the floor and lay down.
After an hour, orders came from Baghdad that we had to go to Basra.
We arrived in Basra at one o'clock after midnight and Imam slept at two o'clock.
It was not long before an alarm clock rang. It was four o'clock in the morning.
I saw that Imam was getting up for Namaz-e-shab.
Truly how wonderful it was. A man 80 years of age who from 5 the previous morning till 2 at night had not slept remembered to set his alarm before going to sleep so that he could get up for Namaz-e-shab.
(A memoir by Hujjatal Islam Haj Ahmed Agha Khomeini – Imam's son)