During the year 1802\1215, Russian troops, following thier unsuccesful
attempts to conquer caucasus erea, begun their attack to the erea. whoevers
their invasions were started since peter the Great regin.
After massacer of Ganje, Russians continued their advance to the south,
meanwhille the local notables were divided into two groups according their
attitued to the Russians. Some of them decided to resiste against them and
the others liked to accompany with the russians.
The Qajar ruler, Fath Ali Shah, by the reciving the news of the Russian
invasion, send the forces to the Azarbayjan to defate them. The commander
of chief of the expeditionaryforces was Abbas Mirza (Nayeb al -Saltane)
and his minster was Mirza Buzurg of Farahan. The war between two sides
took some years but the Russians could not acces to their aims. At the same
time the Qajar ruler signed an agreement with the France, known as
finkenstein agreement, decided to use the Franch military officers and their
experiences against the Russians, At the head of this French officers was a
Genral namely general gardan. But soon after the Finkenstein agreement,
Russia and France had signed a secret agreemont. The Qajar court had
some difficulties in the battlefiled erea especially amongst the local
noteables.
Therefore by the attempts of the MirzaBuzurg (Qaem Magame Awwal)
they decided to resolve the crisis of the legetimacy and to draw the support
of the Muslim people through the declaration of the war as a holy war.
Therefore,Mulla muchammad Bagir kalbasi who was an eminent religious
leader, went to Atabat (shiit holy shrine in modem Iraq) and the major
cities in Iran and requested the great mujtaheds to issue their fatwa for
lehad or holy war.
Regarding the importance of the defate of the Russian enemy and to
prevent their patronageon the Muslim lands,the ulama helpedthe Qajar
court throughthe issuingthefatwa for lehad, and askedthe Muslim people
to loine the Qajar army.for them, Thewar war not .onlywar between two
court,but also was the war between the Islam and kufr (Blasphemy).
After the returenof the late kalbasi,Mina Buzurgcollectedthefatwas
and thereforefor thefirst time in ~hemodernhistoryof Iran, hepublished
the.detailedworkof lehad literature.The title of this work was Ahkam al -
lehadva Asbab al - reshad or lehadiyeye kabir". These fatwas issued by
the great ulama who were the famous religious leaders during their life, the
name of these ulama are as follow:
1- Shaykh Mohammad Hassanof Najaf, knownsaskashefal - qeta
(shaykhal - Mujtadeddin)
2- Mina Abulqasem of QumknownasMuhaqqiqof Qum. (Allamat
al -Ulama)
3- Aqa Sayyed Ali Tabatabaii.known as SahebeReyaz(Sayyedal -
Mushaheddin)
4- Sayyed Mhannad ibn SayyedAli Tab(ltabaii.known as Mujahed
(Aqa SayyedMohammad)
5- Shaykh Mohammad Hassan(Qazvini)
6- Hajj Mina Mohammad Hussain Isfahani (Sultan al -
Mujtahaddin)
7-MullaAli Akbar Isfahani
8-Aqa Shaykh Hasheme kabi.
9-Mulla Muhammad Reza Hamedani.
10-Akhund Mulla Ahmade Naraqi.