The speaker: Hujjat al-Islam Mustafa Aminikhah
Hujjat al-Islam Mustafa Aminikhah lecturing on Ān sūy-e marg (video from the series, on YouTube, uploaded by the channel Jan-e Kalam). Watch on YouTube.
Mustafa Aminikhah (مصطفی امینیخواه) is a Twelver Shiʿi cleric (Hujjat al-Islam is a mid-ranking clerical title). He was born in 1367 (Solar Hijri, about 1988) and is described as the Leader's representative (namāyandih-yi nahād-i rahbarī) at the Faculty of Engineering of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. The same profiles describe him as a co-founder of a school in Qom (the Elm va Farhang high school), a writer, and a teacher of Qurʾān commentary to the public.
What the lectures show
- He speaks mainly to engineering and science students, in a deliberately informal style with jokes and everyday examples, and says he adopted it to hold the attention of students who would not otherwise listen.
- He studied in the seminaries (Qom and Mashhad are both mentioned) and calls Ayatollah Jawādī Āmulī his teacher; he often cites ʿAllāma Ṭabāṭabāʾī's al-Mīzān, Mullā Ṣadrā's Asfār, and a chain of teachers in the mystical line of Mullā Ḥusayn-Qulī Hamadānī, Qāḍī and Pahlavān Tihrānī.
- He keeps a website, aminikhaah.ir, where the audio of his talks is published; each session page here links to its audio there. The Persian transcripts shown on this site come from there.
- In the question sessions he says that the series grew far beyond the student circle he meant it for, reached Persian speakers around the world and was translated into Arabic.
How he reads the book
The importance of these lectures is that they show how a Ṣadrian, seminary-trained thinker connected to the Leader's office thinks about NDEs; a synthesis is on His reading of NDEs.
He treats the three accounts as testimony whose truth he cannot prove, but whose content matches the Qurʾān and narrations. His main points: that the human being has a "homeland" beyond matter; that deeds take form in the barzakh; that wronging other people (ḥaqq al-nās) is the heaviest burden; that certainty (yaqīn) is what the experiences are for; and that paradise itself is not the goal. The summaries report his claims as his own.
His talks and news are published at aminikhaah.ir.