Ayatollah Khatami:‎

Ayatollah Momen ‎remained with the Supreme Leader until the end of his revolutionary life

Rasa – Referring to the scholarly and revolutionary services of Ayatollah Momen, Ayatollah ‎Khatami told Rasa News Agency, “Ayatollah Momen remained a revolutionary until the end of ‎life and stood ‎along Ayatollah Khamenei and was a strong supporter of Wilayat al-Faqih.”‎

News ID: 443614

Date: 24 February 2019 - 08:31

RNA – In an exclusive interview with Rasa News Agency, Ayatollah Sayyed Ahmad Khatami, a ‎member of the Board of Directors of the Assembly of Experts, commemorated the death of ‎Ayatollah Mohammad Momen, saying, “Ayatollah Momen was a prominent, precise and truly ‎absolute mujtahid.”‎
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The member of the Board of Directors ‎of the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom added ‎that one of the arenas in which absolute ijtihad can be recognized is in the arena of the ‎deduction of new and innovative issues in regard to which Ayatollah Momen compiled books. ‎His book ‘Kalimat Sadidah fi Masa’il Jadidah’ [Upright Words in New Matters] was a plan of ‎some of the new issues in jurisprudence.”‎

Referring to the works and services of the late Ayatollah Momen, he said, “He wrote a two-‎volume book called ‘Tasdid al-Usul’ [Strengthening the Principles of Jurisprudence] which ‎wisely discusses a course of principles.”‎
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Ayatollah Khatami‎ further added, “His commentary of the of the punishments and decrees of ‎‎[Imam Khomeyni’s] ‘Tahrir al-Wasilah’ [Exegesis of the Means of Salvation] is among the ‎other of the works of Ayatollah Momen‎ and along with Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi-Amoli, he ‎wrote an explanation of ‘Salah’ [Prayer] by the late Ayatollah Mohammad Mohaghegh-‎Damad. The most authoritative book of Ayatollah Momen‎ was written on Wilayat al-Faqih ‎‎[Guardianship of the Jurisprudent], which was published in three volumes. In Lebanon, it’s ‎used by Hezbollah as a textbook. Therefore, Ayatollah Momen was academically valuable ‎personality.”‎

He expressed that the revolutionary actions and efforts of Ayatollah Momen befits him with ‎the title of a striving jurisprudent and said, “Before the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Momen ‎‎stood alongside Imam Khomeyni in the divine struggles and by exiling him to the town of ‎Shahdad, Kerman province because of his actions, the tyrant [Mohammad-Reza Pahlavi] ‎demonstrated his spite toward this noble jurisprudent.”‎
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Ayatollah Khatami said, “The most important feature is that Ayatollah Momen ‎remained ‎revolutionary until the end of his life and accompanied the Supreme Leader and was a strong ‎supporter of the Wilayat al-Faqih. May the salutations of God be upon him who led a happy ‎life and went on the ‘straight path’ to meet God Almighty.”‎

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