Ruhollah Khomeini
Ruhollah Khomeini
Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhollah Mūsavi Khomeini, 24 September 1902 – 3 June 1989), known in the Western world as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian Shia Muslim religious leader, revolutionary, politician, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which saw the overthrow of the Pahlavi monarchy and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. Following the revolution, Khomeini became the country's Supreme Leader, a position created in the constitution of the Islamic Republic...
NationalityIranian
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth17 May 1900
What country is stabler than Iran? Where else in the world would an assassinated prime minister be so quickly replaced?
In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion.
In Iran's future Islamic system everyone can express their opinion, and the Islamic government will respond to logic with logic.
The fundamental difference between Islamic government, on the one hand, and constitutional monarchy and republics, on the other, is this: whereas the representatives of the people or the monarch in such regimes engage in legislation, in Islam the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty.
When anyone studies a little or pays a little attention to the rules of Islamic government, Islamic politics, Islamic society and Islamic economy he will realize that Islam is a very political religion. Anyone who will say that religion is separate from politics is a fool; he does not know Islam or politics.
A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate; sodomising the child is OK. If the man penetrates and damages the child then he should be responsible for her subsistence all her life. This girl, however, does not count as one of his four permanent wives. The man will not be eligible to marry the girl's sister.
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 of them were inappropriate individuals and I found out that what I said was not true, so I came and clearly announced that I was wrong.
Personal desire, age, and my health do not allow me to personally have a role in running the country [i.e. Iran] after the fall of the current system [of the Shah].
One should express his viewpoint regarding what he performed in his country and in a vast part of the world with great respect and deep thought.
Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.
With people's revolutionary rage, the king will be ousted and a democratic state, Islamic Republic, will be established.
The Islamic Revolution of Iran is honourable for it is the cry which has its origin in Ayatollah Khomeini's conscience.
In the world there is no democracy better than our democracy. Such a thing has never before been seen.
There is no room for play in Islam ... It is deadly serious about everything.