• IMAM KHOMEINI, FROM BIRTH TO MIGRATION TO QUM:
Under these circumstances on Jamadi Al-thani 20th, 1320 a.h.l. (=30th Shahrivar 1281, ah.sh. =24th September 1902) a child was born in Khomein, a town in the central province of Iran, to a devout family educated in theology and devoted to migration and jihad (crusade) and the progeny of Her Holiness Fatima Al-Zahra (a.s). The child was named Ruhollah Al-Musawi Al-Khomeini.
He was heir to a heritage of sound ancestral characteristics that included guidance of the people and acquisition of divine knowledge. The noble father of Imam Khomeini was the late Ayatullah Seyyed MuStafa Musawi, a contemporary of the late grand Ayatullah Mirza Shirazi (s). After acquiring considerable islamic knowledge during several years of stay in Najaf, and obtaining the license to practice religions "Fiqh" or jurisprudence, he (Imam Khomeini's father) returned to Iran and become a religions guide and support for the people of Khomein. When Ruhulul was barely five months old his father who had risen against the tyranny of the government agents, in response to his call to search for truth, was martyred while commuting from Khomein to Arak. His people moved to Tehran demanding the implementation of the divine edict of retaliation in kind and persisted until the murderer was executed and justice done.
Thus from his early childhood, Imam Khomeini (s) had become familiar with the meaning and the pain of orphanage and the concept of martyrdom. His childhood and youthful years were spent under the supervision of his devout mother (Banu Hajar) herself coming from a family of knowledge and chastity, a grand-daughter of Ayatullah Khonsari (author of Zubdatul-Tasanif), also with his noble aunt (Sahiba Khanum), a brave, truth-seeking lady.

By the age of 15, the young Khomeini was deprived of the supervision of these two cherished personalities.
From his childhood and early in his youth, Imam Khomeini (s) learned, by the grace of his superlative intelligance, a great deal of the conventional sciences and acquired a considerable amount of preliminary knowledge on the level of the theologie Assemblies. These included Arabic literature, logic, Fiqh and principles. For learning these he had instructors such as Agha Mirza Mahmud Eftekharul-Ulema, Mirza Reza Najafi Khomeini, Agha Sheikh Ali-Muhammad Borujerdi, Sheikh Muhammad Gulpayegani, Agha Abbas Araki, but mostly, his own elder brother Ayatullah Seyyed Murtiza Passandideh. In a.h.sh. 1298 he set off for the theologic Assembly of Arak.