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Notable, it was not only his students who benefited from his modest and unassuming nature. Such was his affection for his family that he would often rise to his feet when his wife or children entered the room, and when it became necessary to leave the home and buy essential items, the ‘Allamah himself would undertake the task instead of imposing it on his family.

Such was the outward demeanor of one who, in the view of his disciples, had become ‘a mirror for the spirits of the Infallibles’, who had attained a degree of detachment from this world that permitted him to observe directly that which is part of the unseen realm. Some of the works which ‘Allamah Taba’taba’i was blessed to able to write during his short life includes the following works: 1.

Al-Mizan fi Tafsir al-Qur’an Munzal : The ‘Allamha’s most important single work, a monumental commentary upon the Qur’an written in twenty…