Time and again the Imam would say to me:
“as regards the saying that ‘paradise lies under the feet of mothers’ implies that one must go to extreme displays of humility in front of one’s mother so that God rewards you with paradise.”
Name of the narrator: Zahra Mostafawi (the Imam’s daughter)—speech in Martyr Chamran University, Ahwaz
Title of the Book: Impressions and Memoirs about Imam Khomeini's Practical Behaviour, vol. 1, chapter one, page 33