Ayatollah Gharavi:‎

Ayatollah Hashemi-Shahroudi didn’t hide from accepting responsibility to serve the people

Rasa – A member of the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom said that if Ayatollah ‎Hashemi-Shahroudi felt that he must accept responsibility to serve the people, he would not ‎evade it.‎

News ID: 442639

Date: 26 December 2018 - 01:24

RNA – In an exclusive interview with Rasa News Agency, Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad ‎Gharavi, a member of the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom, offered his condolences on ‎the death of Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi and said, “He was a great jurisprudent ‎among the jurisprudents of the contemporary era who benefited from great teachers such as ‎Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Abolqasem Khoei, Grand Ayatollah Imam Sayyed Ruhollah Khomeyni ‎and Ayatollah Shahid Muhammad-Baqir al-Sadr.”‎

He added that Ayatollah Hashemi-Shahroudi’s scientific level and intellectual abilities were ‎very high and greater than the age of the conventional scholars and elites. He was very ‎intelligent and his and good personality characteristics and disposition were obvious to ‎everyone.‎
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Ayatollah Gharavi emphasized that Ayatollah Hashemi-Shahroudi was a prominent man who ‎had abundant patience and stated, “During the time that he was present in Najaf, he was a ‎supporter and admirer of the Islamic Revolution and when he came to Iran, he was always ‎present on the scene and if he felt that he was supposed to take responsibility, he would ‎not evade it.” ‎

His Eminence said, “Perhaps some of these responsibilities were not consistent with his ‎outward appearance as an academic and seminarian but Ayatollah Hashemi-Shahroudi ‎accepted his responsibility to serve the Islamic system and the people. The specialties that ‎he had learned from Imam Khomeyni, Ayatollah Khoei and Shahid al-Sadr and the good ‎foundations that he had, especially in the context of his economics, could have been ‎effective for the system.”‎

Ayatollah Gharavi emphasized, “During the several decades which he spent in Qom, ‎Ayatollah Hashemi-Shahroudi educated many students. He was truly the hope of the system ‎and the Islamic Seminary. His death is an injury that cannot easily be compensated for and ‎we hope that God will compensate this loss.”‎

Ayatollah Hashemi-Shahroudi, who was born in 1948 in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf, passed ‎away at the age of 70 after months of battling illness on December 24.‎

During his lifetime, Ayatollah Hashemi-Shahroudi served in many crucial positions in the ‎Islamic Republic of Iran, including the chairmanship of the Expediency Discernment Council ‎from August 14, 2017 until his death.

In Iraq, Ayatollah Hashemi-Shahroudi attended classes held by the late founder of the Islamic ‎Republic, Imam Khomeyni. ‎

His Eminence fought against the dictatorial rule of Iraq’s Saddam Husayn and was jailed and ‎tortured by his Ba’thist forces.‎

Ayatollah Hashemi-Shahroudi traveled to Iran in the wake of the Islamic Revolution to serve ‎as an intermediary between Imam Khomeyni and Iraqi scholars and leaders.‎

He published numerous books and articles in various fields, including Islamic jurisprudence ‎and law. As a religious authority and teacher, he was well-known for his precise reasoning ‎and robust approaches.‎

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