Editing Ruhollah Khomeini (section)

=== Political aspects ===
His seminary teaching often focused on the importance of religion to practical social and political issues of the day, and he worked against secularism in the 1940s. His first political book ''Kashf al-Asrar'' (''Uncovering of Secrets''),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gemsofislamism.tripod.com/khomeini_works.html#answer_kashf_al-asrar |title=Kashf al-Asrar |website=gemsofislamism.tripod.com |access-date=19 March 2010}}</ref><ref>Moin, Baqer, ''Khomeini: Life of the Ayatollah'' (2001), p.{{nbsp}}60)</ref> published in 1942, was a point-by-point refutation of ''Asrar-e Hezar Sale'' (''Secrets of a Thousand Years''), a tract written by a disciple of Iran's leading [[anti-clerical]] historian [[Ahmad Kasravi]],<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.bookrags.com/biography/ruhollah-musavi-khomeini-ayatollah/ |title=Encyclopedia of World Biography on Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, Ayatullah |publisher=[[Ambassadors Group|BookRags]] |access-date=19 March 2010}}</ref> as well as a condemnation of innovations such as international time zones,{{efn|In "A Warning to the Nation" published in 1941, Khomeini wrote, "We have nothing to say to those ... [who] have forfeited them faculties so completely to the foreigners that they even imitate them in matters of time; what is left for us to say to them? As you all know, noon is now officially reckoned in Tehran twenty minutes before the sun has reached the meridian, in imitation of Europe. So far no one has stood up to ask, "what nightmare is this into which we are being plunged?"

Prior to the International [[Time Zone]] system, every locality had its own time with 12 noon set to match the moment in that city when the sun was at its highest point in the sky. This was natural for an era when travel was relatively slow and infrequent but would have played havoc with railway timetables and general modern long-distance communications. In the decades after 1880 governments around the world replaced local time with 24 international time zones, each covering 15 degrees of the earth's longitude (with some exceptions for political boundaries).{{cite book |last=Khomeini |first=Ruhollah |title=Islam and Revolution: Writing and Declarations of Imam Khomeini |url=https://archive.org/details/islamrevolutionw00khom |url-access=registration |others=Translated and Annotated by Hamid Algar |publisher=Mizan Press |date=1981 |page=172}}{{Primary source inline|date=June 2021}}}} 
and the [[Kashf-e hijab|banning of hijab]] by [[Reza Shah]], whom he always blamed for his father's murder. In addition, he went from Qom to Tehran to listen to Ayatullah Hasan Mudarris, the leader of the opposition majority in [[Iran's parliament]] during the 1920s. Khomeini became a ''marja{{'}}'' in 1963, following the death of Grand Ayatollah [[Seyyed Husayn Borujerdi]]. Khomeini also valued the ideals of Islamists such as [[Sheikh Fazlollah Noori]] and [[Abol-Ghasem Kashani]]. Khomeini saw Fazlollah Nuri as a "heroic figure", and his own objections to constitutionalism and a secular government derived from Nuri's objections to the 1907 constitution.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AJ6i2-s7hoQC&q=khomeini+pepsi+roast+in+the+fires+of+hell&pg=PT107 |title=Khomeini's Ghost: Iran since 1979|author=Con Coughlin |date=2009 |publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Pan MacMillan]] |isbn=978-0-230-74310-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TteJzQyDS5kC&q=khomeini+Shaikh+Fazlollah&pg=PA45 |title=Globalisation, Religion & Development |date=2011 |publisher=International Journal of Politics & Economics |page=45 |isbn=978-0-9568256-0-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OeqHjo6JkUsC&q=khomeini+Shaikh+Fazlollah&pg=PA159 |title=A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 3: The Islamicate Period, 1978–1984 |author=Hamid Naficy |date=2011 |publisher=[[Duke University Press]] |page=159 |isbn=978-0-8223-4877-1}}</ref>