Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei waahanga - I tipu ake ia ka ako i Samarra, i raro i tana whanaunga Sayyed Agha Ali al-Shirazi (tama a Mirza Shirazi; d. 1936) me te matua keke o tana wahine a Mirza Muhammad-Taqi al-Shirazi. Na ka neke ia ki Najaf i te tau 1908, ki te whakaoti i tana maatauranga whakapono. I ako ia i raro i nga mea nui penei i a Sheikh Fathallah al-Isfahani, Sheikh Muhammad-Kadhim al-Khorasani, Sheikh Muhammad-Hussain al-Naini me Sheikh Dhiya' al-Din al-Iraqi. I hoki ia ki Samarra i te tau 1912, ki te ako ano i raro i tana Agha Ali me Mirza Taqi. Katahi ia ka wehe atu i Samarra ki Karbala me Mirza Taqi, e whakarite ana mo te tutu Iraqi
He aha? I noho ia ki Karbala mo etahi wa, ka hoki mai ki Najaf i te 1918, ka tiimata ano ana akoranga me Sheikh al-Isfahani.