Letter [to Sayyid Ahmad Khomeini]

In His Most Exalted Name

My dear Ahmad,

I hope you are fine. Your letter to your mother arrived. Again you insist regarding the person in question. «1» What is this insistence for? Do not you know my way of not admitting intercession in cases like this? Such actions are not to my religious and worldly expedience. I have been informed that you go to Tehran every month to collect the stipends of the companions. I was amazed, even did not believe in it. Do not do it yourself. Let someone go and get it for you. It is frivolous to do this every month. Reduce your Tehran trips. Inform Mr. Lavasani «2» that the statement of accounts for the month of Ramadan he has sent has not reached me yet. «3» Inform him further that a reliable traveler is not at hand to send him replies to his letters and send him the receipts. God willing, I will do so as soon as I find someone. Tell him moreover that if something happened to that respectable person, «4» let his respectable son do it. If power of attorney is needed let me know. So, I will send it. May peace be with you. I expect you to pray for me just as I pray for you and your wife.

Your father