Imam had specific supplications and dhikrs for that time so...

Imam had specific supplications and dhikrs for that time so that he could carry out worship and work even while walking, and when he recited Ziyarat-e-Ashura , he would usually recite the 100 curses and 100 S alaams while walking.[^3] Hujjatul Islam Rasuliye Mahallati Imam’s Mafatih was bound every few months * * Imam was so familiar with (his) Mafatih , that every few months his Mafatih would tear and we had to bind it, or else we were always finding another one for him.[^4] Hajj Ahmad Agha Khomeini (Imam’s son) He requested a Mafatih while in Turkey * * When Imam was exiled from Iran to Turkey, in his first letter that he wrote from Turkey to Iran he requested a Mafatihul Jinan and Saheefe Sajjadiya .

This was an indicator of his superior and worshipping spirit, along side his attention to political and social affairs. Imam distanced himself from all types of narrow thinking (i.e. looking at things from one perspective only).[^5] Hujjatul Islam Sayyid Hamid Ruhani I understood why Imam was upset * * At the end of the Iranian year 1367, one day I entered Imam’s room and I saw that the Imam was very upset. Seeing that he was upset, I sat silent for a while.

Agha said to me: “Give me that Mafatih .” I got up and brought the Mafatih . He had a glove on and turning pages was also hard for him. Because he was upset, he kept turning pages but could not find what he was looking for. There was one hour left till Maghrib ; he said to me: “Until now I thought that today is the last day of Rajab , and until now I have been carrying out the recommended acts and supplications of the last day of Rajab .

Now I have realised that it is the 1st of Sha’ban and I really don’t know what to do. I then understood that his distress was because from morning till now, he had been doing the recommended acts and reciting and supplications of the month of Rajab , and now that newspaper had come, he had realised that it was the 1st of Sha’ban and that Rajab was 29 days and not 30.

Agha kept turning pages until he found (what he was looking for) and said to me: “Read this Munajaat of Sha’baniya [^6], there are many excellent things in it.” And then he got ready to read it.[^7] Hujjatul Islam Masihe Burujurdi Order in ziyarat * * The days when we were in Najaf, we used to set our clocks by Imam’s actions; for example, when he carried out a certain action, we knew what time it was.