He received primary instructions from his father and before...

He received primary instructions from his father and before attaining majority he joined Hoza-i-Ilmiya-i-Mashhad, which was at that lime richly staffed with teachers of renown. After some time he joined Hoza-i-Ilmya-i-Qum. for studying literature, logic at medium and higher level and jurisprudence and fundamentals, thereafter he started basic and research studies from 1322. 1323. Mutahhari grasped the lessons of his teachers like Ay-Haj Mirza AH Aqa-i-Sheerazi Asfahani.

Ay-Syed Muhammad Taqi Khawn Sari, Ay-Syed Ahmad Khawnsari, Ay-Syed Muhammad Hojjat Koh Kamri,' Ay-Syed Muhammad Damad Ay-Syed Muhammad Raza Gul-pai-Gani and Ay-Haj Syed Sadr-ud-Din Sadr. He has very often and respectfully remembered his. great teachers like Ay-Haairi, Ayat Ulalh Uzma Broojardi Ay-Haaj Syed Muhammad Hussain Taba-Tabaai Tabraizi and Ayat Ullah Uzma Imam Khomeini. It is his peculiar charm that he always mentioned the names of his teachers with respect and gratitude.

( 8 ) After the completion of his research and education he left for Tehran to join the University as a Lecturer. There he developed contacts with Islamic organisations of enlightened combatants. He through lectures and debates with the staff and the students of the University and through literature and platform started political and social activities.

His political struggle, shoulder to shoulder with his like-minded clerics, formally started after Imam Khomeinf's revolt and the historic tragedy of 15 Khordad 1342 H.S. and after the materialisation of the revolution in the year 1357 he joined the Revolutionary Council as its permanent member. He was martyred on 24 Jamadi-us-Sani 1399 H.Q equal to 11-Ardi-Bahisht 1358 in a terrorist attack.

All the world over the Revolutionary and the Liberation organisations and personalities and his own people were deeply afflicted by his martyrdom. Ustad Mutahhari has left many published and unpublished and even some unedited works. His unedited diary dates back to when he was 14 years old. It starts with his notes recording the preliminaries of Jurisprudence Arabic etc. and ends in his mature and sagacious notes pertaining to the last few years of his graceful life.

In short they cover numerous subjects in various social, cultural and political fields covering history, languages, nationalities, philosophy. Jurisprudence, Mysticism, morals etc.