During his lifetime Shirazi...

During his lifetime Shirazi, both orally and in writing, had urged the believers to have recourse to Sayyid Sadiq and to profit from his knowledge in all aspects of jurisprudence but the latter had declined to publish his risala out of deference to his elder brother. However, now after the demise of Sayyid Muhammad it has surprised no one that Sayyid Sadiq should be recognised as a marja‘, bearing in mind that his late brother had made it clear that he was eminently qualified for this great task.

Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Sadiq al-Shirazi was born in Karbala’ in January 1942 and among his teachers were the Grand Ayatollahs, his own father Mirza Mahdi, his brother Sayyid…