Ayatullah AL-Uzma Wahid Khurasani

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Ayatullah Shaykl Husain Wahid Khurasani was born in 1921 in the holy city of

Mashhad. Having finished the literature lessons, he learned the Sotouh stage from

the late Ayatullah Haj Shaykh Muhammad Nahawandi, then he attended the

lectures of the Kharij stage of the late Ayatullah Mirza Mehdi Isfahani and

Ayatullah Ashtiyani. He also learned rational sciences, philosophy, and theology

from the late Mirza Abul Qasim Ilahi and Agha Mirza Mehdi Ashtiyani. Then he

migrated to Najaf Ashraf to complete his studies; that took place when he was 27

years old. There he attended the lectures of the late Ayatullah Uzma Agha Mirza

Abdul Hadi Shirazi, and Ayatullah Uzma Hakim, but the main of his knowledge he

has took from Ayatullah Uzma Haj Sayyid Abul Qasim Khou'i, and he later became

one of his prominent students. In 1378 A.H. (1958 A.D.), and after teaching the

Sotouh stage for many years, Ayatullah Wahid Khurasani began teaching Fiqh and

Usoul of the Kharij stage in Najaf which lasted for about twelve years. When he

returned to Iran, in 1936, he took up residence in Mashhad and worked in

teaching. After a year from that he migrated to the holy city of Qom. He is now

teaching Fiqh and Usoul of the Kharij stage in the Hawzah. He is one of the Grand

Marja of the Shi'ites in the world.