The Greatest Jihad: Combat with the Self
Imam Khomeini (ra)
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Legenhausen and Azim Sarvdalir
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Foreword
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Human being is the most wonderful and complex creation of God, a creature who, aside from natural and animal instincts and physical reactions, has spiritual disposition and personality, which has made him excel over other living creatures; a being who thinks, chooses, and through rational planning and physical endeavor, he tries to remove the obstacles along the pursuit for a better living. Along with this venture, he makes his life’s history and increases the learning which he has inherited from his predecessors and he paves the way for the future generation to have a more rapid development, more extended dominance over the nature, and further ingenuity in unraveling the unknown and mysteries of creation.