Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – May 30, 1987

I studied at home until ten in the morning. We moved to Qom with the guards. chastity too

came with me At noon, we reached Ayatollah Montazeri's house. We were his guests for lunch. It is still badly affected by the discomfort caused by the pressure on the Syed Mahdi [Hashmi] band and especially Syed Hadi. We had a discussion until four o'clock in the afternoon. Most of the words were around this topic. They consider themselves oppressed and are upset with Imam and us personally. We talked a little about the war and other things; That too with my suggestion.

I went to visit the shrine [of Hazrat Fatima Masoumeh (PBUH)]. The shrine was deserted, but the number of people who were there gathered around me and prevented me from visiting. I went to visit Ayatollah [Syed Shahabuddin Marashi] of Najafi. They are not bad. Although they are about eight years older than Imam, they seem healthier than Imam. He wanted us to hand over the insurance building located next to his library to the library and also to leave an endowment for the library so that the library will be managed from its income.

We returned to Mr. Montazeri's house. Parliament representatives had come to meet him. They gathered in Hosseiniyeh. We went to Hosseinieh with him. I spoke briefly and he spoke in detail and gave more advice. We said goodbye at half past six.

I went to visit Ayatollah [Syed Mohammad Reza] Golpayegani. They returned from London yesterday; They had gone for treatment for gallbladder cancer. They have been there for 25 days. They themselves said that the doctors' diagnosis was that it was not cancer. Stones are produced in the [gall] bag. Their age does not allow them to act, and [the stone] cannot be eaten. It may enter the blood. They inevitably take it under control with medicine.

He and those around him happily spoke about his trip to England and the welcome of Muslims there. They believe that the Muslims of the world only want traditional jurisprudence and avoid new ideas, and they took the result of the journey to be more firmly in the same line of thought and recommended us to it; Especially Mr. Safi [Golpayegani]. I did not want to get involved in this discussion.

I returned to Tehran. We arrived home at nine o'clock in the evening. Prayers, dinner, review of reports and then sleep. During [the night], we had thunder and rain.