He was renowned for his philosophical and mystical Friday prayer sermons which were always attended by thousands of people from the length and breadth of Kargil.

He became the Imam e Jumu'ah of Jamia Masjid Kargil after the death of the immensely popular Shia mystic and scholar, Hujjat ul Islam wal Muslimeen Aqa Sheikh Khanteypa.

He gained immense popularity for his usage of the local dialect for delivering his Friday sermons.

He was one of the last members of a group of religious scholars from Kargil who attained higher Islamic Studies in the Hawza 'Ilmiyya Najaf, before the rule of Ba'ath Party in Iraq.

Sheikh Muhammad Mussa Shariefi was born in 1942 in the village Akchamal, near Kargil in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, India.