Forty Hadith of Ruhullah Khomeini

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Forty Hadith (

The book was originally a pamphlet that Khomeini used to teach to his students at the Feyziyeh School in Qom Seminary.^[2]

Background

Islamic scholars, motivated by a tradition from the

Khomeini completed his collection in 1939, and it was first published in 1940.[1] He quotes the Arabic text of each hadith in the book with its Persian translation and discusses its various themes.^[5][6]

Themes

Thirty-three of the hadith Khomeini selected pertain to

In 2009, the book was translated into French with the assistance of Iran's Cultural Center in Paris, and the translation was published by the Institute for Compilation and Publication of Ayatollah Khomeini's Works.[8] Four years later, the book was translated into Kurdish by Ali Husseini and published by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s cultural attaché in Turkey.^[2] It has also been translated into English and Urdu.^[6]

See also

• Islamic Government: Governance of the Jurist
• Tahrir al-Wasilah
• The Unveiling of Secrets
• The Greatest fight: Combat with the Self
• Alef-Laam Khomeini
• Kashf al-Asrar

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