Shias commemorate 66th demise anniversary of Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mahdi al-Husseini al-Shirazi
Shia Muslims in worldwide commemorate today, Thursday, the sixty-sixth anniversary of the passing of Imam Mirza Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Mahdi al-Husseini al-Shirazi, the father of the Supreme Religious Authority, His Eminence Grand Ayatollah al-Udhma Sayyid Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi.
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Shia followers of Ahlulbayt, peace be upon them, across the world have expressed their great sorrow to the honorable Shirazi family, on the anniversary of the passing of Imam Mirza Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Mahdi al-Hussaini al-Shirazi, and the father of the Supreme Religious Authority, His Eminence Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi, which is commemorated on the 28th of Sha’ban.
On this sorrowful anniversary, the mourners recalled the efforts of the late Imam Mirza Shirazi, and the sacrifices he made in order to serve science, defend the free Shia, and revive the Holy Husseini rituals.
Imam Mirza Sayyid Mahdi al-Husayni al-Shirazi was born in the holy city of Karbala, in mid-Sha’ban in the year (1304 AH), and he received his religious lessons there from a group of scholars until the death of his father, Ayatollah Sayyid Mirza Habibullah Shirazi.
Then, His Eminence moved to Samarra, where he studied at scientific seminary founded by the First Imam al-Shirazi, and was managed by Imam Sheikh Mohammad Taqi al-shirazi. Imam Mirza al-Shirazi moved to Najaf to continue his scientific studies and attended the lessons of the great jurists of the time, such as Muhaqqiq al-Na’ini and Muhaqqiq al-Iraqi.
In 1366 AH, he returned to the holy city of Karbala to revive its religious seminary, assuming the position of the honorable Shia Authority after the passing of Imam Sayyid Abu al-Hasan al-Isfahani and Imam Sayyid Hassan al-Qummi.
Imam Mirza Sayyid Mahdi al-Shirazi is the father of each of the late Religious Authority, Imam Sayyid Muhammad al-Husseini al-Shirazi, the martyr thinker Sayyid Hasan al-Shirazi, the Supreme Religious Authority, Grand Sayyid Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi, and the jurist Ayatollah Sayyid Mujtaba al-Shirazi.
His Eminence died in 1380 AH, just as he was preparing for Maghrib prayer. During the washing of his body on the following day, there was a partial solar eclipse that took place, with 67% obscurity that darkened the city of Holy Karbala for just under an hour, as witnessed by the people of the city, who rushed to pray the Ayat prayer, before resuming with the funeral. He was buried in the south eastern side of the Imam Hussein Holy Shrine.
