Career
Ayatollah Arbab is among three Ayatollahs who never wore the traditional turban. He believed that the turban is for prophets and that he did not possess the scholarly permission to wear a turban. All of his 50 students ranked as Ayatollah after graduation.
Among them, Allameh Jalal Homaei, Reza Alishah Tabandeh and Ayatollah Mirdamadi are well known.
Ayatollah Arbab grew up in Chermaheen, and nature and simple living had a very deep effect on the development of his philosophy and theology. He learned to read and write at the age of four and started reading Persian literature at that age.
As is tradition, he started with learning Gulistan and Bostan, the two books of the great Persian poet Sadi, along with Qur"anic studies. They requested that he be sent to hawzeh (a high level school also known as Madrassa).
He graduated to the rank of Ayatollah when he was only fourteen.