In this memo, Peter Schütt discusses the characteristics of Imam Khomeini’s love poems and believes that the content of his poems on this subject is of exceptional depth and, in some cases, quite progressive and unconventional. He believes that themes such as the relationship between men and women in the lyric poems are expressions of God’s love for man. According to Peter Schütt, the passion of lovers for one another focuses on connectedness and unity, and that is the moment when they are placed in the arms of God. Peter Schütt cites Imam Khomeini’s poem, “Day of Connection”, as evidence for his statement. Peter Schütt places Imam Khomeini in the tradition of composing love poems that are thousands of years old, which is why a collection of old symbols of Persian poetry is present in his poems: nightingale, peacock, Homa, candle and butterfly. At the end of his memoir, Schütt quotes a poem he composed on February 1st, 1976, when Imam Khomeini returned to Tehran after being in exile in France. The title of this poem was “The New Kind of Revolutionary”, describing Imam Khomeini with unconventional characteristics, i.e., different characteristics of revolutionaries.
