Ayatollah Haj Muhammmad-Hassan Jazayeri

Ayatollah Seyyed Haj Muhammad-Hassan Jazayeri was from khuzestan and he was a direct descendant of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad and was a descendant of Seyyed Nama'tolla Jazayeri who started the name Jazayeri 1640 (D.1700). Ayatollah Seyyed Haj Muhammad-Hassan Jazayeri was born in 1270 (1892) in the city of Qom, Iran. He started reading and studying the Quran at the age 5 as his father was a Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Mehdi. He learned different languages next as Arabic and English by the age of 21. He was a teacher at a religious school called elmia in Qom. He was a class mate of Ayatollah khomanini when at school of quran. At the age of 40, he was invited to Khuzestan (Ahwaz) to be the Supreme Religious leader of all the Umams of Khuzestan. He set the times of prayers (Aathaan) for khuzestan. He had 5 children, 2 boys and 3 girls. He was very respected by the shah of Iran Muhammmad Reza Pahlavi and his wife Farah Pahlavi he led a very spiritual life and he was a very big Ayatollah in his time he died 1343(1965) at the age 73 he was buried in a tomb in Ahwaz (Khuzestan) and lots of mosques where named after him in Ahwaz and Shustar (Khuzestan)and his ancestors there is a newly built bridge named after him in shustar called the bridge of Ayatollah Jazayeri.