The Imam was Perfectly Normal

In the aircraft that carried the Imam from Paris to Iran, I was seated beside him. When the aircraft approached Tehran a journalist came and asked the Imam about his feelings at that instant to which he replied: "None at all." The journalist was under the impression that at that moment the Imam like other individuals who were very excited and shed tears of joy while some others were overcome with fear and were in doubt whether the aircraft would be attacked or it would land safely; or whether all of them would be arrested etc…? In contrast with these thoughts, the Imam was perfectly normal because he had prepared himself in advance for any kind of event including martyrdom.¹

1-The Imam was perfectly normal: Ayatullah Musawi Khoeyniha