What is "ayatollahs"

Usage examples of "ayatollahs".

Did the ayatollahs represent simply an extreme of a general human trait in the way that Danchekker main­tained, or were they a case of something completely different?

A general trait of the ayatollahs was supposed to be their confusion and insecurity.

The ayatollahs try to describe what they’ve seen, but they don’t have the words, or the help of scientists and screens like this.

Apparently others who had gone ahead sometimes returned as spirits that spoke in the minds of seers through the mysterious “currents” which Nixie al­luded to repeatedly—a result, presumably, of “awakened” ayatollahs somehow applying their extraordinary affinity and reconnecting via couplers to wherever they came from.

That would also go a long way toward explain­ing the ayatollahs’ unshakable faith in the validity of magic.

Green crescents were everywhere, and the ayatollahs were out in force delivering perorations to excited crowds.

Looking at the ayatollahs wasn’t the way to tell, for the ones they would encour­age to emerge into the Exoverse would be selected to reflect the same qualities as themselves.

The other Grand Ayatollahs sat facing him, and behind them were the many other Mujtahids and senior Mullahs and clerics of the Shia Muslim faith.

His acceptance of, and strict, pious adherence to, the pillars of the Shia faith at such an early age had been a marvel to the older clerics and Ayatollahs who had spent decades obtaining the same levels of single-mindedness and dedication.

More and more of the clerics and Ayatollahs were speaking of it in those terms as Hasan completed his second year of study in 1979.

Today, with his great act of martyrdom, I believe that the faithful servant Sahid Ibrahim did more for the cause of Islam and its unification, than all of the combined acts of the great Ayatollahs of the past hundred years.

Within the Shia faith, our Mullahs, senior clerics and Ayatollahs have had access to these writings for many centuries, and have used them as reference material to the Holy Koran.

I will issue a Fatwah to that effect this evening after prayers, and the word will go out to the faithful Ayatollahs, Mullahs and clerics.

He had no idea that the leading Ayatollahs and mullahs in Iran had issued fatwahs to that very effect, to find and befriend American soldiers whenever and wherever possible.

He had come to believe that those Ayatollahs and Mullahs, in curtailing freedom of choice and in punishing severely the slightest variance from what they proclaimed as God's plan, were in fact acting for God.