Hazrat Ayatullah Hajj
Sayyid Ali Husayni Khamene'i
The SageLeader of the Islamic Revolution
The sage leader is an eminent faqih and erudite in biography and criticism oftraditionists, history and literary. And in addition to his profound job, he teaches the highstage in Fiqh and had many remarkabl]e compilations in various subjects too.
Ayatullah Kahmene'i was born in 1929 for a religious family in the holy city of Mashhad.His father Ayatullah Agha Sayyid Jawad was an eminent mujtahid and a well-knownclergy in Mashhad , and his grandfather Ayatullah Sayyid Husayn Khamene'i was afamous clergy from Azerbaijan who dwelt in Najaf Ashraf .
The sage leader left behind a laborious childhood . He entered an old-fashioned primaryschool when he was only five along with his elder brother Sayyid Muhammad, then hewent to an Islamic primary school called (Darut Ta`leem Diyanati). When he graduatedfrom this school he entered the intermediate school and within two years he graduatedfrom it having the diploma. Ayatullah Khamene'i studied the basic lessons of theseminary up to three-quarters of the well-known book called ( lum`ah ) with his esteemed father and the rest with Agha Mirza Ahmad Mudarris Tabreezi , and studied the ( resa'il ) and ( Makaasib ) with Haj Shaykh Hashim Qazweeni. He was able to finish the wholestage of Sotooh within five years and six months. Then he began to attend the Kharijlectures of Ayatullah Uzma Milaani. In 1957 Ayatullah Khamene'i emigrated to NajafAshraf and during his short stay there he attended the lectures of Ayatulla UzmaHakeem, Kho'e and Shahroodi. After that he returned to Iran and began to benefit fromthe lessons of Ayatullah Boroujerdi and Haj Agha Murtaza Ha'iri , and in Fiqh and Usoolhe attended the lectures of Hazrat Imam Khomeyni .
After the year 1955 , Ayatullah Khamene'i began his revolutionary struggle against the Pahlawi regime and continued that until the victory of the Islamic revolutionary of Iran . Ayatullah Khamene'i has been exiled and imprisoned for many accusations .
After theIslamic revolution, the beloved leader occupied many positions, some of which are themember of the revolutionary assembly , the representative of the revolutionary assemblyin the ministry of defence and acted minister of the same ministry , the Imam Jum`ah of Tehran , the representative of Tehran , and a president for two sessions. After the demiseof the great leader Imam Khomeyni, he was elected the country's leader by the sageand wise decision of the assembly of experts.