It was for this continuous Islamic jihad that we found the...

It was for this continuous Islamic jihad that we found the different Islamic sects had agreed on loving and appreciating him and on looking at him with admiration and respect. And now his name is gratified by every tongue and his eternal books are in every house and are read by all people, who compete to have them and to present them to anyone looking forward to the high Islamic culture.

Libraries and presses here and there make reading these books easy and offer them to the readers in the best way that fits their [1] Aalim is the singular form of ulama. Aalim is a jurisprudent or a scholar. importance. May Allah make the all succeed in the way of goodness and righteousness.

Here we show in summary the biography of this great man, whose life has been filled with glory, lessons and examples, so that to make this bright page as lessons teaching the umma jihad, unity, sincerity, cordiality and devoutness for the sake of the general Islamic welfare, to which Sayyid Sharafuddeen has devoted his long life. We pray Allah to help us in serving Him and achieving His rights. What we mention here is a drop from an ocean of what we have known about this man.

May Allah benefit His people with this mans knowledge and pen and make the umma walk in his guidance and act according to his sayings, maxims and instructions. His birth and upbringing Sayyid Sharafuddeen was born in Kadhimiyya[1] in 1290 A.H. from Alawite parents.

His father was the great allama Sayyid Yousuf Sharafuddeen and his mother was Az-Zahra the daughter of ayatollah Sayyid Al-Hadi As-Sadr the father of the great religious authority Sayyid al-Hasan as-Sadr (may Allah have mercy upon them all). The lineage of Sayyid Sharafuddeen[2] from his two parents reaches to Imam Musa al-Kadhim[3] (s). Muhammad al-Awwal (the first) is the [1] In Iraq.