Shahid Aviny’s biography

April 8, 1993 (Farvardin 20, 1372) is the day of Haj Sayyed Morteza Aviny’s martyrdom. He was a skillful author, the narrator of Ravayat-e Fath (a TV program), the chief editor of Sura Magazine (an artistic and literary magazine) and the head of TV department of the artistic center. Having traveled to one of the war zones of Iran for making a new series of Ravayat-e Fath, with a group of cameramen, he became martyr due to the mines, existed in the region. He was not alone, his colleague “Mohammed Sa’eed Yazdanparast” was another martyr.

Two days before leaving for the area of Fakkeh, as an answer to the question: “Where are you leaving for?” in this way:

“You may not know where I am going, I am leaving for Fakkeh, where our combatants witnessed how the angels were delivering the martyrs’ souls.”

After his martyrdom, our Supreme leader, “Hazrat-e Ayatollah Khamenei” commemorated his memory as “the lord of martyr authors”.

The martyrdom anniversary of an Islamic revolution’s artist who spent his life in the battlefields and who was the narrator of the Islamic combatants’ efforts, was called ” the day of the Islamic revolution’s Art”. This was following the Supreme leader’s decree and was suggested by the poets and poetesses, authors and the artists of the Artistic Center of the Organization of the Islamic Propagation.

    The honorable martyr (Sayyed Morteza Aviny) was born in 1947 (1326) in Shahr-e Ray. Having behind the primary education and getting his diploma, was graduated from the College of Fine Arts, Tehran university and got his M.A of architecture. He had done some studies about the literature before the Revolution.
After the Revolution triumph and the foundation of Construction Jihad commanded by Late Imam Khomeini, (in 1979) he started working in the mentioned organization. While doing so, he left for the villages, so that he could solve the villagers’ problems. Having witnessed the cruelties and injustice of the previous regime left behind for these groups of people, he aimed at making films for the Construction Jihad. His first work was a TV series called “Khan Gazideh-ha”. It was about the uproar caused by Khosrow Qasqaee. In the following year, he joined the television team of Construction Jihad, as one of the representatives of this organization. He  left us with “Ravayat- Fath” which was an ever lasting art taken from the Islamic combatants’ bravery.

He was a director and producer of hundreds of documentary films, namely as ” Khozestan’s flood, the wedge of Martyrdom Jihad, Far away from the beloved, the Forgotten land of Beshagerd and Ravayat-e Fath (with 70 episodes).

Shahid Aviny worked for the Artistic center since 1988 (1367) till the end of war. Moreover; along with being the head of the television section, he was the chief editor of the Sura Magazine and the affiliated press as well.

His book called ” The Magic Mirror” proved that he has some things to say in the field of cinema and also his points of view were the valuable ones in the related situation. Therefore, his opponents turned out to be wrong.

In 1992 (1371), following the Supreme leader’s decree, he began to produce the new series of Ravayat-e Fath. While doing so, along with the search parties whose job was to identify the martyrs’ bodies (remained there from the eight-year war), made the new series of Ravayat-e Fath and finally on April 8, 1993 (Farvardin 20, 1372) he became martyr and his endless journey began near the martyrs for whose sorrows he sang lamentations and he was waiting for a day on which he could join them.

 Shahid Aviny joined his Lord Imam Hussein (Pbuh) and his leader Imam Khomeini so that no one could think of the neglecting the customs and traditions of martyrdom.

On Farvardin 22, of the same year, his honorable body was escorted by the Supreme Leader and a group of the artists. He was buried in Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery