Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Asif Mohseni (Persian: آیت‌الله العظمی محمد آصف محسنی; 26 April 1935 – 5 August 2019)[1] was an Afghan Twelver Shi'a Marja', widely considered to have been the most powerful in Afghanistan.

[4] Asif Mohseni a Shi'a Pashtun,[5] was born on 26 April 1935 in the city of Kandahār, Afghanistan[4][6] With strong links to Iran,[7][8][9] he studied in seminars of Najaf under Grand Ayatollah Abul Qasim Khoei, Muhsin al-Hakim and Abdul A'la Sabzwari.

[4][15] In the 1960s Mohseni founded a movement called Subh-i Danish (Dawn of Knowledge), whose political and cultural revival program enjoyed some popularity among the Shi'a youth of Kabul.

[citation needed] Among the anti-communist resistance movements, Harakat espoused a moderate islamist line, which brought it close to the sunni Jamiat Islami faction, that had a similar outlook.

He discusses different issues in reliable hadiths Aqa'id baray-i hami (religious beliefs for everyone) Taqrib-i madhahib, az nazar ta 'amal (proximity among denominations, from theory to practice) Zan dar shari'at-i islami (woman in the Islamic sharia) Tawdih al-masa'il-i siyasi (essay of political fatwas) Khasa'is khatam al-nabiyyin (characteristics of the last prophet).