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Throughout his elementary school years he could not
see the blackboard clearly, and the teacher did not know why.

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After inquiry it became known he had weak eyesight; he had to buy glasses, but between Sayyid Ali

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and the glasses stood sixteen tomans, which were not
within his family's means, so Imam Khomeini

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had to remain a full year without glasses. Finally I hinted to my mother; my mother gathered money and

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the lenses cost sixteen tomans according to the eye doctor's diagnosis of 0.75 diopters, but that diagnosis was already

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a year old, so

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when he put on the glasses he could not see well. He visited another doctor
and it turned out his weakness had become 2.75 diopters,

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and there was no money left to buy new glasses,
so he kept using those glasses until one day

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he was walking on the road to Jowharshad Mosque and stopped
before a shop looking at its contents. Until then I had never gone into the world for anything—

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in the shop—I don't remember—I saw he sold glasses.
I said: Do you have glasses that suit me? He said: These are available.

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Sayyid Ali took one of these glasses and put them on his eyes.

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He saw that everything that had been blurred and whose colors were mixed became clear and distinct.

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Until then I had never seen the world this clearly. I saw: yes, this side of the street
where I was standing—I could see people on the other side walking.

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Such a thing had never happened to me.
I went to the holy shrine and with those glasses I saw the shrine's ceiling—

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new things I had never seen
in the shrine, because my eyes had always been weak.

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I said: yes, I went back and said: yes, these glasses are good for me.
Later Sayyid Ali learned the lens prescription of

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those glasses was three and a half diopters. The new glasses
remained loose on his face for six years, but their lens type was not

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suited for reading, so his eyesight worsened, and when
he could sit in the eye doctor's chair for the third time,

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it turned out his weakness had reached four diopters, but that diagnosis
did not last long; when he was imprisoned during the revolution years they took

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his glasses and his weakness increased another degree to become
five diopters, and the glasses did not sit properly on his eyes

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until the revolution triumphed.