Ayatullah Rokhullah Khomaeni
Imam Khomaeni

At the end of the 70s the world is shaken by a revolution driven by a cleric. Republic of Iran is so strong under the leadership of Shah finally had fallen through the long struggle cleric. The cleric, was none other than Imam Khomeini, a Sufi theologian, Jurist, philosopher and politician. A large private, firm in the establishment and persistence struggle for doing good and avoiding evil without knowing despair.

Ayatollah Khomein Rokhullah Khomaeni born on 24 October 1902. Khomein, is a hamlet located in central Iran. Family Khomaeni is Sayyid Musawi family, descendants of the Prophet through the seventh Shia Imam, Imam Musa al-Kazim. They come from Neysyabur, northeastern Iran. In the early eighteenth century, this family migrated to India, and habitation in a small town near Lucknow Kintur Qudh in the kingdom, whose rulers were followers of Shi'a Twelve Imams. Grandpa Sayed Ruhollah Khomeini called Sayyid Ahmad Musawi Hindi, was born in Kintur. Family grandfather is a prominent religious family, Mir Hussein Hamed Hindi Neysyaburi, whose work, Abaqat Al-Anwar, so pride Shiite India.

Sayyid Ahmad was left India around 1830 to go on pilgrimage to the holy city of Najaf. In Najaf he met a prominent merchant Khomein. Accepting the invitation of the merchant, Sayyid Ahmad went to Khomein to be spiritual counselors village. In Khomein Sayyid Ahmad married with Sakinah, the daughter of his host. The couple had four children, including Sayyid Mustafa, who was born in 1856. Sayyid Mustafa studied at Najaf, under the guidance of Mirza Hasan Shirazi, then in 1894 returned to Khomein. There he became a cleric and blessed with six children. Sayyid Ruhollah is the youngest and the only one whose vocation is Khomaeni.

As a child, Sayyid Khomaeni began studying Arabic, Persian poetry and calligraphy in public schools and in 'maktab'. Before adulthood, Sayyid Ruhollah began to study religion more seriously. When he was fifteen, he began studying Arabic grammar to his brother, Murtaza, who learned Arabic and theology in Isfahan. At the age of seventeen Ruhollah went to Arak, a town near Isfahan to learn from Shaykh 'Abdul Karim Ha'eri Yazdi, a prominent scholar who left Karbala to avoid political upheaval. This attitude then pushed most eminent scholars to declare his opposition to British rule.

After the collapse of the empire 'Utsmaniah, Sheikh Ha'eri unwilling to live in cities that were under the British mandate. He then moved to Qum. Sayyid Ruhollah Khomaeni followed five months later moved to Qum Shaykh Ha'eri. In this new place Sayyid Ruhollah Khomaeni study rhetoric and grammar of poetry teacher named Shaykh Muhammad Reza Masjed Syahi.

While studying in Qum, Sayyid Ruhollah Khomaeni fiqh and usul completed the study with a teacher of Kashan, which eleven years his senior, the Ayatollah 'Alio Yasrebi.

In the early 1930s, he became a mujtahid and received a certificate to convey the tradition of four prominent teachers. The first of the four teachers was Shaykh Muhsin Amin 'Ameli, a prominent cleric from Lebanon, where Imam Musa Sadr later replaced the Lebanese Shiite leader Amin.

The second is Shaykh 'Abbas Qumi, a leading expert and historian Shia hadith. Qumi is a prolific writer whose writings are very popular in modern Iran, especially his book Mafatih Al-Jinan (Keys of Heaven).

Teachers are Abul Qasim three-Isfahani Dehkordi a prominent mullah in Isfahan.

Fourth teacher was Muhammad Reza Masjed Syahi, who came to Qum in 1925 due to protest anti-Islam policy opposes Reza Shah.

At the age of twenty-seven years old, married to Sayyid Ruhollah Syarifah Batul, the daughter of an ayatollah who live in Tehran. They were blessed with five children, two sons and three daughters.

Imam Khomaeni died on June 3, 1989 by giving something to the belief of Muslims around the world that Islam is a doctrine that can lead people to the truth. Indeed, the role and charisma in modern Islam and Iranian history is undeniable. May the hope and aspirations can become a reality in the history of Muslims in the world.