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He followed the nethod of this scholar in the arrangement of his own famous work on Ialmic jurisprudence,' Usul al-Fiqh. His keen interest in his studies was noted by all his teachers, and by the authorities of the religious academies of Najaf, so he was fiven the gighest degree of ijtihad. It will be remembered that all throughout his studies, ash-Shaykh al-Muzaffar remained an active teacher of law, jurisprudence and philosophy.

However, his chief occupation was the establishment of' Muntada in-Nashr', an institute for the publication of books on modern lines, with the purpose of renovating the sullabus of the madrassahs. He devoted his life to the growth and development of this institute, the need for whixh hw qas most aware of because he had undertaken rto acuaint himself with modern ways of thiking and intellectual trends right from the very begining.

He made it the main purpose of his life to bring about a rebirth of Islamic learning, and to achievce this hes was extremely successful. He conbined beauty of expression with exactitude of meaning, and he had such a command over words he nither sacrificed his simple style to the exigencies of the subject matter, nor a correct exposition of his themes to the demands of style. He wrote with a fluency and conviction that carries the reader along with him wherever he wants to take him.

He is at the height of his powers in his book 'Ahlam al-Yaqzah' (The Waking Dream) where he enters into a kind of communion with his spiritual teacher Mulla Sadra (ash-Shirazi). This book places him securel among the masters of metaphysics, for in it he puts, questions before his mentor and then supplies answers on his bahalf, clarifying the deepest metaphysical problems by means of the most beautiful anecdotes. He manages to preserve this same superb style in his book on logic 'al-Mantiq'.

No less remarkable is his ability as a story-teller when he relates the eventful meeting as the Saqifah of the Banu Sa'idah after the death of the Holy Prophet, which has proved to be the cause of all the dufferences and divergences among Muslims. Eventually, as-Shaykh al- Muzaffar, because of his zeal to improve the educational and academic status of the traditional Islamic teachers and speakers, became a most active member of all organisations formed for this purpose.

Because of his sincere efforts, he succeeded in descovering the cause of the prevailing mental lethargy, and took positive steps to eliminate it.