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50: 446:, detailed advice on religious observances and study, good relations with close relatives, mercy to the poor and needy, and not wasting his time. He gave instructions regarding his own burial and grave, and enjoined his son if possible to use some of his wealth as Radd al-Madhaalim (money given to the poor as payment of possible unknown debts) on his father's behalf, in case he had any dues outstanding. 491:
See Mirjam Künkler and Roja Fazaeli, ‘The Life of Two Mujtahidas: Female Religious Authority in 20th Century Iran’, in Women, Leadership and Mosques: Changes in Contemporary Islamic Authority, ed. Masooda Bano and Hilary Kalmbach (Brill Publishers, 2012),
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texts. He took it upon himself to purchase as many rare books and manuscripts that he could on his modest clerical stipend in order to preserve them. When his stipend was exhausted, he took a job at a rice cleaning factory in
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issued a decree ordering that the library be built an extension of 16,000 square feet (1,500 m). At present both the old and the new buildings of the grand library occupies a total area of 21,000 sq. meters.
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The large number of visitors to this library soon required that it be expanded. For this purpose, 1,000 square feet (93 m) of adjoining land was purchased in order to expand the existing library in 1970.
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which had been taught to him by his father, as well as Mirza Aboll Hassan Meshkini, Mohammad Hossein Shirazi, Hab Al-Din Shahrestani and Ibrahim Shafei Rafaei Baghdadi. Najafi was formally educated in the
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manuscripts were added to this collection, which was followed by a further 500 manuscripts that were donated to the library's treasury.
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prayers and fasts on behalf of others, and ate only one meal a day in order to raise enough money to purchase these books.
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College of Theology and Divinity. He would continue to donate many of these books to libraries across Iran.
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Najafi continued to collect these rare Shia manuscripts once he migrated to
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for over half a century. Among those that visited Najafi during his life in
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In 1974, the reference section of this library was inaugurated. 1,600 rare
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A Glance at the great library of Ayatollah al-ozma Imam Marashi najafi
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knowledge that was being lost in the displacement and destruction of
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Syed Muhammad Hussain Mar'ashi Najafi in his office at Najaf, 1960's
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Najafi laid the first stone of the foundation of the new library.
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Shahab al-Din Mar'ashi Najafi
Grand Ayatollah
Sayyid

Najaf
Iraq
Qom
Iran
In his Library in Qom ,Iran
Islam
Shi'a
Ja'fari
Usuli
Twelver
Hadith
Fiqh
Najaf, Iraq
Arabic
Shia
Ayatollah
Marja'
tajweed
tafsir
hawza
Najaf
Samarra
Kadhimiya
Shia
fiqh
`ilm al-rijal

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