Ruhollah Khomeini
Ruhollah Mostafavi Musavi Khomeini was an Iranian political revolutionary and Shia cleric who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the main leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and transformed Iran into an Islamic republic.
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Trending topics shown first"In the Islamic Republic the rights of the religious minorities are respectfully regarded."
"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."
"Islam proclaims monarchy and hereditary succession wrong and invalid. When Islam first appeared in Iran, the Byzantine Empire, Egypt, and the Yemen, the entire institution of monarchy was abolished. I…"
"Before the revolution I thought there are appropriate individuals who would do the job according to Islam, therefore I repeatedly said that clerics would go after their own job. Then I saw that most o…"
"O nation, wake up! O government, wake up! Everybody wake up! You are all in the Presence of God. Tomorrow , you will be called to account. Do not ignore the blood of our martyrs, and do not quarrel ov…"
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1902
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Birth1989
Died
Death
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