Ceremony Planned in Qom to Commemorate Senior Cleric Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi
The holy shrine of Hazrat Masoumeh (SA) will host the ceremony after Maghrib and Isha prayers on Tuesday.
Seminary scholar Ayatollah Hosseini Bushehri will deliver a speech at the event.
Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi died in January 2021 at the age of 86 due to gastrointestinal disease.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei described his demise as a grave loss for Islamic seminaries.
“He was an outstanding thinker and a competent manager who had an eloquent tongue in telling the truth and who stood firm on the straight path. His services in producing religious thoughts, in writing instructive books, in training brilliant and influential pupils and in showing his presence in all the arenas where his presence was necessary are really and truly unique,” the Leader said in a message.
Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi played a major part in the uprising — led by late founder of the Islamic Republic Imam Khomeini — that overthrew the US-backed Pahlavi regime in 1979.
Following the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi first founded Baqir-ul-Uloom Institute and then Imam Khomeini Education and Research Institute in the city of Qom, which he headed for the rest of his life.
The cleric, a philosopher and political theorist, was a member of the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom.
He also served as a member of the Assembly of Experts — the body responsible for electing and monitoring the performance of the Leader — and the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution.
