Sheikh Jafar Shooshtari:- Sheikh Jafar ibn Hussein ibn Ali Shooshtari (Birth: 1230 A.H.) was a prominent Shia scholar from the city of Shooshtar. He was born in the year 1230 A.H. in Shooshtar. He moved to Kadhimiya in early childhood with his father. He was taught by Sheikh Mohammad Al-e-Yasin, Sheikh AbdulNabi Kazemi and Sheikh Ismail ibn Asadollah Kazemi. He then returned to Shooshtar and then went to Karbala to study under Sheikh Mohammad Hossein Esfahani and Sharif ol Olama. Then he moved to Najaf to study under Sheikh Ansari. He returned to Shooshtar in 1255 A.H. and wrote Menhaj ol Ershad and built a Husseinya. Then he returned to Karbala. He then made a trip to Iran to visit the tomb of Ali Al-Ridha. On the way, he stopped at Ray, where many scholars and clerics on the order of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar visited him and asked him to stay in Tehran. He accepted and moved to Tehran and held the prayers in Marvi Mosque. Sheikh Jafar was such a gifted speaker that his sermons attracted thousands, so that Marvi Mosque could not fit the people. With the suggestion of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, he moved to Sepahsalar Mosque, and according to one of his students, 40,000 people attended his sermons. His sermons were so emotional, that often even clerics in the audience started weeping. After spending some time in Tehran, he made a trip to Mashhad and then returned to Tehran again. Shah suggested that he should stay in Tehran, but he said that he wants to be buried next to his master Ali Ibn Abi Talib in Najaf.
Posted on: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 10:25:17 +0000
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