Ayatollah Amini has passed away

Ayatollah Ebrahim Amini passed away on the evening of Friday, April 26, 2020, the first night ‎of the holy month of Ramadan, at Shahid Beheshti Hospital in Qom.‎

News ID: 450029

Date: 25 April 2020 - 02:37

RNA – Ayatollah Ebrahim Amini passed away on the evening of Friday, April 26, 2020, the ‎first night of the holy month of Ramadan, at Shahid Beheshti Hospital in Qom. ‎

Due to suffering from a long illness, he had been in and out of the hospital several times ‎over the past month and re-entered the hospital a few days ago.‎

His Eminence was born on June 30th, 1925 in Najafabad, Esfahan province. ‎

After finished his primary studies in Najafabad, he joined the Islamic Seminary of Esfahan in ‎‎1942. After completing his curriculum of religious studies in Esfahan, he joined the Islamic ‎Seminary of Qom in 1947, where he studied dars al-kharij, jurisprudence and principles, ‎under the tutorship of most eminent religious scholars of that period. ‎

While pursuing his religious studies at Esfahan and Qom he also taught Arabic literature, ‎jurisprudence and philosophy. Because of his special attitude and inclination towards the ‎sciences of psychology, child psychology, education and training, family-rights, family-ethics ‎and the narrations of Prophet Muhammad and the Infallible Imams, he pursued advanced ‎studies and research in these areas.‎

From the very beginning, he was interested in writing and academic research and therefore, ‎since 1945 he had been engaged intensively in writing and research.‎

He also wrote many miscellaneous articles written on various issues, including ideological, ‎political, social, ethical and educational topics for presentation at national and international ‎seminars and conferences. ‎

Ayatollah Amini was involved in teaching, writing and research activities and after the victory ‎of the Islamic Revolution, he took part in various political activities and was always a ‎defender of the Islamic Revolution. He also frequently represented the Islamic Republic of ‎Iran at various international conferences. ‎

In addition to his teaching responsibilities he also held many important national positions as ‎follows:‎

A member and vice-president of Assembly of Experts (Majles-e Khobregan), the secretary-‎general of the office of the Educational Research Centre of the Assembly of Experts, a ‎member of the Academic Council of the Islamic Seminary of Qom and the chief of Cultural ‎Affairs, a member of the board of trustees of the World Centre for Islamic Sciences, a ‎member of the board of trustees Imam al-Sadiq University in Tehran and a member of the ‎Supreme Council of the Ahl al-Bayt World Assembly.‎

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