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3 October 2020

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Top religious figures from Iran, India held live webinar on late Ayatollah Taskhiri

Top religious figures from Iran and India lauded the late advisor of Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Taskhiri for proximity endeavors in a webinar held on Wednesday.

AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Senior political officials, religious figures and Shia and Sunni scholars attended in an international webinar organized by Welayat Foundation in collaboration with the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought.
 
Sheikh Hamid Shahriari, secretary general of World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought in this webinar related on the moral characteristics and efforts of the late scholar, Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Taskhiri.
 
He referred to the senior scholars who had taught Ayatollah Taskhiri, his support for the Islamic Revolution in Iran and the issue of Palestine.
 
The senior cleric also lauded the advisor of Supreme Leader as an icon of resolution and assiduous scholar who spent his entire life to promote Islamic teachings as well as the writings he left on fiq'h and Islamic unity translated to several languages.
 
Sheikh Shahriari referred to the seminaries and universities which have made use of guidelines by Ayatollah Taskhiri.
 
He hailed the former secretary general of World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought as a committed advisor for the Supreme Leader and a role model for jihad (struggle for the Almighty God).
Maulavi Is'haq Madani, advisor of Iran's president in Sunni affairs, Maulana Seyed Shamim-ul-Hasan from Banaras, Ali Chegini, Iran's ambassador to New Delhi, Sheikh Mahdi Mahdavipour, representative of the Supreme Leader in India, professor Akhtarul Wasey, vice chancellor of Maulana Azad University in Jadhpur, Mehdi Alizadeh Moosavi, university professor, professor Ghulam Yahya Anjum from the faculty of Islamic studies from Hamdadr University in New Delhi were among the participants to the webinar broadcasted live on Welayat TV on September 30, 40th day after demise of Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Taskhiri.
 
Iranian prominent Islamic unity figure, Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Taskhiri (1944-2020) spent over five decades of his life for promoting Islamic teachings and unity among Muslims. Top cleric passed away due to heart disease on August 18 and his body was laid to rest in the holy shrine of Lady Masoumeh (AS) in Qom.



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