Why do people love Imam Khomeini?

The founder of the Islamic Republic is loved by millions around the world due to his divine characteristics and his devotion for oppressed nations.

ID: 39495 | Date: 2015/04/29

He is loved by people of all age groups, school children, university students, academic and all walks of society.


Imam Khomeini has had very unique characteristic and qualities which have been very rare seen among the leaders of the contemporary history.


He was blessed with divine characteristics and had great devotion for the mass public, oppressed people and paid no attention to luxurious life style.


Imam Khomeini fought against illiteracy, poverty and ignorance at all levels following the victory of the Islamic Revolution.


The great leader of the Muslim world was against piling up wealth or adopting a luxury life. He distributed all his personal and ancestral properties and lands among farmers and needy people.


The Islamic Revolution under the wise leadership of Imam Khomeini has had sought to spread message of peace and spirituality across the globe. It is well known fact and reality that the message by the founder of the Islamic Republic has been of universal nature and he wanted to convey it to the entire world.


The great leader also opted to live at the edge of the holy city of Qom among deprived classes of people while he was teaching at the Islamic seminaries.


After Imam’s exile to Turkey and holy city of Najaf in Iraq, Imam’s residences were almost devoted to for the seminary students and they used to consult these sites to resolve their educational and financial problems.


Before and after the victory of the Islamic Revolution, Imam was granted with hectors of lands and precious gifts by believers and faithful. However, the great Imam distributed all these properties among the needy farmers and workers.


He used to receive letters even from school children, students, people from all walks of society and regularly answered their and solved their problems.


The various facets of this amazing Islamic leadership of great Imam may be characterized as an exceptional personal integrity, unselfish lifestyle, iron- will, incredible courage and steadfastness.


The world religious and spiritual leader had the capacity for stoic endurance, and empathy with the suffering and oppressed people.


It is also noteworthy Imam was also blessed with extraordinary communication and oratorical skills.


Pundits and analysts maintain that Imam Khomeini had managed to attract a large number of followers because he characterized and decorated himself by leading a modest and simple life. 


The great leader led the masses by describing himself a servant of the nation. 


After decades of struggle, the Islamic revolution under the wise leadership of Imam Khomeini gained the victory. The Islamic-democratic system establish by the great Imam brought great status and confidence to the Iranian nation and rest of the Islamic world.


The great intellectual of the Muslim world had followed the footsteps of the holy prophet of Islam and his infallible successors in leading a simple lifestyle and helping deprived stratum. 


Imam Khomeini  led very simple life before and after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979 and spared no efforts in rendering help to the most poor and needy classes of the society.