Sayed Mohammad Mahdi Al-Husseini Almodarresi was born in Kuwait in 1977. He comes from a scholarly family which includes supreme religious jurists (Marja'a) such as Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Taqi Almodarresi. His father is Ayatollah Sayyed Hadi Almodarresi, a prominent scholar, speaker, author, and ideologist in the Islamic world who has written over 200 books. His is a well known family that dominated the Hawza (Islamic seminaries) of Karbala, Iraq – his native city - for many years. Sayed Mahdi Almodarresi's lineage goes back to the Prophet of Islam, Mohammad through his grandson Imam Al Hussain (A.S).

Almodarresi has traveled to over 30 countries all over the world preaching the word of Allah and introducing thousands to the light of ahl-ul-bayt (PBUT). He has lectured across the globe from Detroit to Washington DC, New York, London, Damascus, Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne, Karbala, Baghdad, and many other cities in an effort to introduce the masses to the guidance of the Final Revelation.