At five years of age his mother...

At five years of age his mother, and at nine his father both passed away, and the dust of grief of being an orphan settled deep into his spirit and soul … [not to mention] the difficulties he faced in Najaf and in Tabriz… Yet when a path is chosen and perseverance is there to help, a man’s weighty duties become easy and simple. ‘Allāmah narrates: When I was in Najaf I found a math teacher who was only free to teach at 1 in the afternoon.

I would walk from one side of the city to the other side in the exhausting afternoons of Najaf. When I arrived at his location my clothes would be so drenched in sweat that I would enter the fountain [to shower], and after some time I would go near the teacher and study math. Truly heat and cold, fatigue and distress had no meaning for him. This is because he took his work very seriously and had strong determination. ‘Allāmah’s daughter Spiritual Disclosures (Mukāshafāt) Story n.

1 ‘Allāmah Tabātabā’ī said to me one day “Āghā every day that my attentive regard (murāqabah) is stronger, my ability to receive direct…