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His seminal teaching often focused on the importance of religion to practical social and political issues of the day, and he worked against secularism in the 1940s.

His first book, Kashf al-Asrar ( Uncovering of Secrets ) published in 1942, was a point-by-point refutation of Asrar-e hazar salih ( Secrets of a Thousand Years ), a tract written by a disciple of Iran's leading anti-clerical historian, Ahmad Kasravi.

In addition, he went from Qom to Tehran to listen to Ayatullah Hasan Mudarris, the leader of the opposition majority in Iran's parliament during the 1920s.

Khomeini became a marja in 1963, following the death of Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Husayn Borujerdi.