In His Most Exalted Name
My dear Ahmad,
I have received your letter and am pleased to know of your well-being and that of the others. May you all be healthy and happy, God willing. We are fine here, thanks to God, but there is no sign of happiness. May God set things right.
You had not written to say whether or not any acquaintances among the hujjaj[ pilgrims ]had been hurt in this incident. «1» I heard that Mr. Haj Shaykh Muhammad Husayn Buroujerdi «2» has arrived safe and sound. I have no exact information on Mr. Shaykh `Abdul-`Ali. «3» In any case, write and give me some news from there.
The other matter is that Uncle «4» had written to say:" We have sold a lot; «5» let me have your permission to give in the same manner that I used to give the girls and Ahmad." I replied that he may do so.
As I have heard, it has been two months now that they have not given Faridah «6» what they used to give her.
In case there is no money, or it has been exhausted, you may pay her, without mentioning it to anybody, the sum of two hundred tumans per month. That is, collect from Aqa «7» and give it to her. Apparently, she has expenses to meet and is upset. I have nothing more to add.
Your father
Najaf, Iraq
Family-related
Sayyid Ahmad Khomeini
جلد ۳ صحیفه امام خمینی (ره)، از صفحه ۱۲۶ تا صفحه ۱۲۷
«۱»- about the footnotes to this letter, Mr. Sayyid Ahmad Khomeini has written the following:It refers to the blaze that broke out during the Hajj.
«۲»- al-Islam Mr. Muhammad Husayn Buroujerdi, one of Imam's sincere friends and the father of Dr. Muhammad Buroujerdi, Imam's son-in-law.
«۳»- Shaykh `Abdul-`Ali Qarahi was for a time the head of Imam's office in Najaf and would visit Qum occasionally. Apparently, one in his family had contracted some incurable illness, and upon the Imam's insistence, proceeded to Qum from Najaf.
«۴»- Pasandideh.
«۵»- The Imam had an annual income of approximately four thousand tumans from the sale of wheat grown in his tract of land in Khomein. He would give his children ۱۱۰ or ۱۲۰ tumans monthly from this amount. When the land in Khomein could not yield any more income, the Imam sold a lot so that his children's income wouldn't be cut off. When that money was exhausted, the Imam gave a monthly sum of ۲۰۰ tumans to one of his children who was in financial straits, and would pay into the Treasury from his own money in Najaf.
«۶»- Khanum Faridah Mustafawi, Imam Khomeini's daughter.
«۷»- Pasandideh.
امام خمینی (ره)؛ 13 دی 1354