An interesting account of women’s desire to meet the Imam / Imam said women; The king was expelled

Life group: With the arrival of Imam Khomeini in the country on February 3, 1979, people went to Alavi school to meet Imam with great enthusiasm. Meanwhile, women in groups of several thousand people rushed to visit the Imam.

Hojjatoleslam Nategh Nouri narrates the meeting of women with Imam Khomeini (may God have mercy on him) as follows: Interestingly, the women lined up at 11 a.m. in front of the Alavi School and Iran Street to meet the Imam. The streets of Iran were full of women, veils and black tents.

Some of the women came together as families, and in order not to lose each other, they tied their tents to all of them, and due to the pressure of the crowd, the tents got stuck in their legs and fell to the ground, killing perhaps a few hundred women a day. Therefore, we had to turn the parking lot, Alavi school, and the surrounding houses into clinics, and provide all the relief supplies. As soon as someone fainted, they were taken by stretcher to the clinic. In the winter, water hoses were worn by women.

In the meantime, we thought that it was possible for someone to hide a grenade under his tent and throw it at the Imam during the meeting, because the situation was out of control; Therefore, one day during his service, I went and saw that if I said that in terms of security, meeting women is dangerous and women do not come to visit, the Imam does not listen, so I told the Imam: Their heads and necks are found and they are unveiled, and secondly, men have to take them and take them, because we women do not have helpers; Therefore, it is difficult to add these. If you allow us, we will close the ladies’ meeting.

The Imam, who was very alert, understood what I wanted to say; So with a very serious look, he said an interesting sentence to me: “Do you think that my proclamation and you have expelled the king?” “They ousted the king.” They repeated this sentence twice. He did not summarize our plan, and the Imam’s opinion was that women should not be allowed to visit.

Sometimes when the meeting was over, the imams would go to the second floor to rest. The women gathered again and chanted, “We are waiting for Khomeini.” Until the Imam heard the sound of these, he would get up and come down. Once I saw that he was really tired and I said, “Sir, you get very tired and you keep going up and down.” “When they came, they should be respected,” he said. They would come and shake hands, and as a result, the women would become very emotional, screaming and shouting, and in this way a strange excitement would arise. There is a picture of the Imam sitting, his abaya lying on his shoulder and his hand on his knee. “This is a photo of all these regular meetings and their tiredness.”

Source: Memoirs of Hojjatoleslam and Muslims Ali Akbar Nategh Nouri, Volume 1, Tehran: Islamic Revolution Documentation Center.

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