Ayatollah Sayyid Hadi al-Husayni al-Modarresi
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Ayatollah Sayyid Hadi al-Husayni al-Modarresi (born 1947) is a Shia cleric, scholar, and speaker.
Biography
Ayatollah Sayyid Hadi al-Husayni al-Modarresi was born in Karbala in the year 1947 CE/1376 AH. Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Golpayegani aka Jorfadiqani was his great-grandfather. His father is also a cleric and an Ayatollah, married to the daughter of Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Mahdi al-Shirazi, who is thus his maternal grandfather. He joined the religious seminary in Karbala when he was only 13 and studied under various teachers including Sayyid Sadiq Shirazi, Sayyid Muhammad Shirazi, Sayyid Muhammad Taqi Mudarresi, Shaykh Hasan Alami, Shaykh Jafar Rushti, Shaykh Muhammad Kalbasi, and others and by the time he was 25, he had attained the advanced level of religious studies. Ayatollah Hadi al-Modarresi is married to the daughter of Hashim Qazvini, a famous Shia scholar and the brother of Murtaza Qazvini. The duo has five sons, all of whom are clerics as well.
Academic Activities
- Head of League of Religious Scholars, Iraq
- Taught various courses in the seminaries from around the age of 20
- Established many schools in Iraq
Books
- Heated Debate on Atheism, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017
- How to Beat Failure, Advise on Success and Time Management, 2002
- Art of Succes, 2002
The Epic Saga of Imam Husayn
Ayatollah Sayyid Hadi al-Modarresi, in his book, God's Sacrifice: The Epic Saga of Hussein and His Legendary Martyrdom, presents the sacrifice of Imam Husayn as a story where two friends are chatting about the condition of the government at the time of Caliphate of Imam Ali. The presents the sacrifice of Imam Husayn as an epic where he is depicted as the legendary martyr who gave his life for reforming the political and religious system of his time that had been corrupted. Ayatollah Modarresi in the book mentions that although Yazid gained a short-term victory over Imam Husayn, the long-term victory without any doubt belonged to the Imam himself.