Noted Lebanese shia cleric al-Amin passes away

Ali Rajab

Shia cleric Mohamed Hassan al-Amin died from Covid-19 on April 10.

The Supreme Islamic Shia Council in Lebanon mourned al-Amin.

Al-Amin was 75. The council said he spent most of his life serving the message of the Islamic religion and serving society.

He spent his life explaining religious rules and backing the cause of poor peoples around the world, the council said.

It added that al-Amin helped boost understanding and openness among intellectual and cultural currents.

Al-Amin had a long record of study in Islamic issues and dialogue among the different schools of thought in Islam. He contracted Covid-19 two weeks ago. This disease then defeated him.

Al-Amin was born in 1946. He attended primary school in Bint Jbeil District of the Nabatiyeh Governorate where he was born.

His father taught him the Arabic language and Arabic grammar. He then travelled to the central Iraqi city of Najaf where he joined the College of Islamic Jurisprudence. He graduated from the same college in 1967.

He pursued higher studies until 1972 before he returned to his home town in Nabatiyeh. In 1975, al-Amin worked in Islamic courts in the Lebanese city of Tyre. He then moved to the city of Sidon where he headed its Islamic court until 1977 when he was appointed as an advisor of the Higher Court.

Over all these years, al-Amin defended the rights of the Lebanese, the Palestinians and all poor peoples around the world.

He left a great record behind as a moderate cleric who devoted his struggle to serve Arab and Islamic causes.