On some days in the midst of lectures, Imam Khomeini would be informed that for instance so and so theologian had died in Tehran. In respect, he would call off the class and state: “It is against sacred traditions if the class is not called off.”
Narrated by: : Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi
Taken from: Impressions from Imam Khomeini’s Memoirs, vol. 5, chapter 7, p. 52