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| Martyr Ayatollah Motahari: A versatile Islamic scholar and prolific writer |
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Born in 1920, he received his elementary education in theology from his father, Sheikh Mohammad Hossein in his home town, Fariman in Razavi Khorasan Province.
At the age of twelve he joined the Islamic Educational
Center at Mashhad and pursued his studies there for five years. Then he proceeded to Qom, the great center of Islamic education.
He stayed there for fifteen years and completed his education in Islamic Beliefs and Jurisprudence under the supervision of the renowned philosopher Allameh Mohammad Hossein Tabatabai, Ayatollah
Khomeini (RA) and many other distinguished scholars. Then he migrated to Tehran. During the period of his education Motahari felt that the communists wanted to change the sacred religion of Islam and destroy its spirit by mixing their atheistic views with the Islamic philosophy and interpreting the verses of the Qur’an in a materialistic manner.
Communism was not the only thing which received his attention. He also wrote on exegesis of the Qur’an, philosophy, ethics, sociology, history and many other subjects.
His emphasis was on teaching rather than writing. However, after his death, some of his students worked on writing these lectures and manage them in order to publish them as books.
Most of his works has been published in and outside Iran.
In all his writings the real object he had in view was to give replies to the objections raised by others against Islam, to prove the shortcomings of other schools of thought and to manifest the greatness of Islam.
He believed that in order to prove the falsity of Marxism and other ideologies like it, it was necessary not only to comment on them in a scholarly manner but also to present the real image of Islam.
He was a popular figure in the religious circles of Iran. He served in Tehran University as the Head of the Department of Theology and Islamic Learning.
Ayatollah Motahari wrote assiduously and continuously from his student days right up to 1979, the year of his assassination when he was the president of the Constitutional Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran and a member of the Revolutionary Council.
When the sad news was conveyed to Ayatollah Khomeini (RA), he in his condolence message, said: “I have been deprived of a dear son of mine. I am lamenting upon the death of one who was the fruit of my life.”
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