Grand Ayatollah Hajj Sheikh Abdolkarim Haeri Yazdi[1] (Persian: عبدالکریم حائری یزدی; Arabic: عبد الكريم الحائري اليزدي ALA-LC: ʻAbd al-Karīm al-Ḥāʼirī al-Yazdī; 1859 – 30 January 1937) was an Iranian Twelver Shia Muslim scholar and marja.

[2] He studied at Yazd, then at Samarra under Grand Ayatollah Mirza Hassan Shirazi, and completed his training at Najaf with Mohammad-Kazem Khorasani and Muhammad Kazim Yazdi.

However, due to the persistent encouragement of learned scholars, he accepted the responsibility on one condition: he will perform an Istikhara to determine whether it is feasible for me to remain in Qom and invite the students and teachers who are awaiting my return.

Early the next morning, before leading the Salat al-Fajr, Ayatullah Haeri reached for a Qur'an and stood in the Fatima Masumeh Shrine, engaging in dua before performing the Istikhara.

The verse that was revealed to him was: "this shirt of mine and cast it upon my father's face; he will regain his sight, and bring me all your folks left him with no doubt about his future direction."