Pupils and seminary students had recalled that Imam Khomeini emphasized that spiritual purification should begin in youth, warning that worldly pleasures and physical strength are temporary.
Imam used to advice that aging, illness and death eventually diminishes the body’s abilities, leaving a person to confront the consequences of their deeds.
He emphasized that believers and faithful people to prepare for the afterlife by cultivating the soul and avoiding sinful attachments, stressing that the realities of the hereafter cannot be fully understood through worldly experiences.
Extracted from a collection of memoirs about Imam