The Greatest Struggle: Combat with the Self

In this book, Sayyid Khomeini orders to persons, students, and clerics who do Jihād al-Nafs: “It is necessary that you purify yourself so that when you become a head of an institution or a community you purify them and in this way take a step to rectify and build a society”.

Find a good teacher and participate in ethics classes. “The possibility of evil propagation and unclean hands intervening and portraying the phenomenon of having an ethical programme of rectifying one-self as unimportant eventually corrupts the hawza”.

In the thought of Sayyid Khomeini, humans learn to lose worldly likings and self-giving to God. Sayyid Khomeini says: “people should not be proud of reaching a high position (scientific, material, political, etc).”