Jihad al-Akbar is the lectures of Imam Khomeini in Najaf, which was published in 1991 by the institute for compilation and publication of Imam Khomeini's works.^[1]

Jihad in Islam means striving way of God.(al-jihad fi sabil Allah)^[2]

In the Islamic view, jihad is two types:^[3]

1. External jihad ( physical jihad):

• Jihad (the help of God's religion) is with pen or tongue or sword.^[3]

1. Inner jihad ( spiritual or jihad al-nafs ):

• Jihad al-nafs is against all evil, anger, lust, insatiable imagination and any other bad morality in humans.^[4]

Ja'far al-Sadiq, the sixth Imam of Shiites, said: “The Muhammad dispatched a military unit to the battlefront for defense. Upon their (successful) return, he said to them "Blessed are the people who did the jihad al-Asghar" but yet jihad al-Akbar has remained.^[5] Practices of the Religion^[6] jihad al-nafs was called jihad al-Akbar and physical jihad was called jihad al-Asghar.^[7][8]

In this book, Imam Khomeini Orders to Persons and students and clerics who do Jihad al-nafs. "It is necessary that you purify yourself so that when you become a head of an institution or a community you purify them and in this way take a step to rectify and build a society".^[9][10] Find a good teacher and participate in ethics classes."The possibility of evil propagation and unclean hands intervening and portraying the phenomenon of having an ethical programme of rectifying one-self as unimportant eventually corrupts the hawza".^[10] In the thought of Imam Khomeini, human learns to Loss of worldly likings and self-giving to God. Imam says: People should not be proud of reaching a high position (scientific, material, political, etc).^[8]

• Islamic Government: Governance of the Jurist
• Tahrir al-Wasilah
• The Unveiling of Secrets
• Forty Hadith of Ruhullah Khomeini
• Kashf al-Asrar