Muhammad Mahdi Shams al-Din: Difference between revisions

Shams al-Din's father, 'Abd al-Karim, was among the scholars of Lebanon who educated and taught in Najaf for years. Muhammad Mahdi lived 33 years of his life in [[Iraq]] when he had cultural, social and political activities before al-Sayyid Muhsin al-Hakim and [[Sayyid Abu l-Qasim al-Khoei]] in addition to learning religious sciences.

In 1395/1975, he accepted the membership in the Supreme Islamic Shi'a Council of Lebanon directed by [[Imam Musa Sadr]] and became his deputy. Since 1398/1978, when Imam Musa Sadr disappeared in his travel to [[Libya]], Shams al-Din became the director of this council in practice. In 1414/1993, 15 years after Imam Musa Sadr disappeared, once again Imam Musa Sadr was elected as the honorary director and Shams al-Din was officially elected as the director of the Supreme Islamic Shi'a Council of Lebanon.

In 1374/1954, Shams al-Din wrote the book ''Nizam al-hukm wa l-idara fi l-Islam'' to answer the secular movement and specifically to the book of 'Abd al-Razzaq (''al-Islam wa usul al-hukm'' ) which was published twenty years before. He has mentioned his goal of writing the book as proving the existence of a model and system of government in Islam and rejection of separation between Islam and state.

He passed away on Shawwal 14, 1421/January 10, 2001 at the age of 67 and was buried in the mosque of Imam al-Sadiq (a) which he himself had established in [[Beirut]]. His grave is at the end of the entrance hall of the mosque.