Tusi se faʻaauau mo lenei palakalafa - Na ola aʻe ma aʻoaʻoina i Samarra, i lalo o lona tausoga Sayyed Agha Ali al-Shirazi (atalii o Mirza Shirazi; d. 1936) ma le tuagane o lona toalua o Mirza Muhammad-Taqi al-Shirazi. Na siitia atu loa o ia i Najaf i le 1908, e faamaea ai ana aʻoaʻoga faalelotu. Na ia aʻoaʻoina i lalo o tagata sili e pei o Sheikh Fathallah al-Isfahani, Sheikh Muhammad-Kadhim al-Khorasani, Sheikh Muhammad-Hussain al-Naini ma Sheikh Dhiya' al-Din al-Iraqi. Ona toe foʻi lea o ia i Samarra i le 1912, e toe aʻoaʻo ai i lalo o lana Agha Ali ma Mirza Taqi. Ona tuua lea e ia o Samarra mo Karbala ma Mirza Taqi, o le sa sauniuni mo le fouvalega Iraqi
. Na nofo o ia i Karbala mo sina taimi, ona toe foʻi lea i Najaf i le 1918, ma toe amata ana vasega ma Sheikh al-Isfahani.