In His Most Exalted Name
Rabi` al-Awwal 2,1392 AH
My dear Ahmad,
Your collective letters have arrived. I am glad that all of you are together and praise be to God, the Exalted, all of you are fine and happy. May God, the Exalted, always grant you all with health and happiness, by His will. By the grace of God, I am fine though there are a lot of emotional worries. Pray that God will rectify the situations. Inform me of your health as well as that of others.
I do not know how far you have in your studies and what you are now engaged with. Write to me about your studies and teachers. «1» May God, the Blessed and Exalted, grant you success and confirmation. Give my regards to your great uncle «2» and do not let him have a bad time. May peace be upon you.
Your father
Najaf, Iraq
Family-related; inquiry of relatives' health
Sayyid Ahmad Khomeini
جلد ۲ صحیفه امام خمینی (ره)، صفحه ۴۴۹
«۱»- Concerning this, Sayyid Ahmad Khomeini thus wrote:" Imam Khomeini emphasized a lot on the purity and refinement of teachers. He considered even the hand and head gestures of the teacher as affecting the students, let alone, a teacher who is weak in piety, or God forbid, one who backbites!"
«۲»- Sayyid Murtada Pasandideh.
امام خمینی (ره)؛ 27 فروردین 1351