Ruhollah Khomeini Quotes about Islam

We are not afraid of economic sanctions or military intervention. What we are afraid of is Western universities.

We are not afraid of economic sanctions or military intervention. What we are afraid of is Western universities.

Military, Economic Sanctions, Islam

Islam is politics or it is nothing.

Islam

"Islamic Revolution" by Bernard Lewis, www.nybooks.com. January 21, 1988.

If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned.

Ruhollah Khomeini

Animal, Islam, Camels

There is no room for play in Islam... It is deadly serious about everything.

Ruhollah Khomeini

Play, Islam, Rooms

"Man Of The Year: Portrait of an Ascetic Despot", content.time.com. January 7, 1980.

Those who say that we want nationality, they are standing against Islam....We have no use for the nationalists. Moslems are useful for us. Islam is against nationality.

Ruhollah Khomeini

Islam, Use, Want

Mehregan Magazine, Volume 12, Numbers 1 & 2 (p. 16), 2003.

In Islam, the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty.

Ruhollah Khomeini

Law, Islam, Almighty

In Islam, democracy is included and people are free in Islam, both in expressing their opinions and their actions, until there is no conspiracy and they don't bring up ideas which would deviate Iranian generation.

Ruhollah Khomeini

Ideas, People, Islam

"Imam's Sahife", Volume 5 (p. 468), January 15, 1979.

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.

Ruhollah Khomeini

Jobs, Islam, Saws

"Imam's Sahife", Volume 18 (p. 241), December 11, 1983.