Sheikh Muhammad Mahdi Shams al-Din and the issues of renewal and reform

Abstract

After his return to Lebanon in 1969, due to the threats of Al-Ba`th party in an attempt to tighten the grip on the Hawza, he joined the Islamic Supreme She`ai Council in Lebanon in 1975 when he was elected as the vice-chairman when the chairman was Sayid Musa Al-Sader who was lost in 1978 in ambiguous conditions during his visit to the Republic of Libya, so Sheikh ShamsulDean became the chairman of the Supreme Council, as he was the vice-chairman, in the most difficult period that the civil war ploughed with the country (1975-1990), hence  Sheikh ShamsulDean faced the political and social status of Lebanon whose distinguished  feature is (Pluralism), and, as  one of the quelling parties in Lebanon, he had to find more flexible resolutions for the aggravated political problems which the society suffer, in addition to the dialogue among all the national, regional and international  parties save Israel that he considered it as an absolute danger, by that  he became one of the distinguished characters of the She`ai reformation and renewal in the contemporary Lebanon.