Women's Day
(Wise Sayings of Imam Khomeini)
o If there is to be a "Women's Day," is there more apt, meritorious, auspicious and honorable day than the auspicious birthday of Hadrat Fatimah az-Zahra (a.s)
o May Women's Day bring blessings to the great Iranian nation especially the women, the honorable day of a radiant element who is the underlying foundation of all human excellences and the exalted values of the "vicegerent of Allah" on earth.
The Station of the Mother
o No occupation is more honorable than motherhood.
o The mother's service to the community is greater than that of the teacher;
it is greater than all other services.
o The child's first school is the mother's lap.
o The children receive better training in their mothers' laps than with the professors.
o The mother's lap is the greatest school in which a child is educated. o Good mothers train good children.
o Tf the mothers are chaste, they will deliver chaste children.
o If, God forbid, a mother is pervert, the child that will come out from her lap will also be pervert. For a discussion on the hijab. see Murtada MutahharT. The Islamic Modest Dress.
o You, ladies, enjoy the honor of motherhood and you exceed men in such honor.
o The soundness of countries is due to you, you mothers. Prosperity and
destruction of the countries, too. is due to you.
o May the mercy of God be upon the mothers who send their brave youth to
defend the truth and take pride in their martyrdom!
o That nation, whose brave sisters and mothers take pride in the death of
their young ones, who rank with the martyrs, is victorious.
o The brave mothers of the children of Islam have revived the memory of
the bravery and self-sacrifices of the heroines throughout history.
o Education originally begins in the mother's pure lap and at the side of the
father and by their proper Islamic upbringing and education independence,
freedom, and dedication to the country's expediencies are insured.
Source: 'Wise Sayings of Imam Khomeini" book
Other Links:
The Supreme Leaders View of the Majlis
Imam Khomeini (r.a) and the Majlis
