Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussain Najafi

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Grand Ayatollah Shaikh Muhammad Hussain Najafi
Religion Twelver Shi`a Islam
Other Names: Arabic/Persian/Urdu: محمد حسین نجفی ڈھکو
Senior posting
Based in Flag of Pakistan - Sargodha, Pakistan
Title Grand Ayatollah
Period in office 1980 - Present
Religious career
Post Grand Ayatollah
Website Official Website
Personal
Date of birth April 10, 1932 (1932-04-10) (age 76)
Place of birth Flag of India - Sargodha, British India


Grand Ayatollah Shaikh Muhammad Hussain Najafi (Arabic/Persian/Urdu: آية الله العظمی الشیخ محمد حسین النجفي) (born April 1932) was the first Twelver Shi'a alim from Pakistan to be elevated to the status of marjiyyat, and the next in the line of Marjas of Indo-Pak Subcontinent after Seyyed Ali Naqi Naqvi of Lucknow, India. At present, there are two Marjas of Pakistani descent, the other one Grand Ayatollah Bashir Najafi. As Bashir Najafi has chosen to reside in Najaf, Iraq, Muhammad Hussain Najafi is the only Marja on Pakistani soil running his Hawza in Sargodha.

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[edit] Childhood & Education

Muhammad Hussain was born in Jahanian Shah in district Sargodha, a city in Pakistan, in April 1932. After secondary education, he got admission in Madrasah Muhammadia in Jalalpur Nankiana, Sargodha, where one of his prominent teachers was Maulana Hussain Bakhsh Jarra. In 1947, he studied the courses of Dars-i-Nizami from Allama Muhammad Baqir Naqvi in Jhang. Allama Baqir had migrated from Iraq to spread Shia formal education in Pakistan. Since Allama Yar Shah, the most prominent disciple of Allama Muhammad Baqir, had moved from his ancestral city Alipur to Jalalpur, Muhammad Hussain moved to Jalalpur to complete Dars-i-Nizami for the next five years. In 1953, he passed the examination of Molvi Fazil from Punjab University. [1]

[edit] Education at Hawza Elmiye Najaf

In 1954, he moved to Najaf, Iraq to finalize his religious education at Hawza Elmiye Najaf. He attended lectures of Syed Abul Qasim Beheshti, Aqae Fazil, Syed Mara'shi, and Mulla Sadra for Satheeyat. For Dars-e-Kharij, he attended lectures of Mirza Javad Tabrizi, Mirza Muhammad Baqir Zanjani, Mahmood Shahrodi, and Mohsin Al-Hakim. [2]

[edit] Ijtihad & Marjiyyat

He received ijazah's of ijtihad from following marjas of Hawza Elmiye Najaf, in 1960 AD (1379 AH):

  1. Mohsin Al-Hakim
  2. Mirza Javad Tabrizi
  3. Syed Mara'shi
  4. Syed Abul Qasim al-Hussain Rashti
  5. Mirza Abdul Karim Zanjani
  6. Najam ud-Din ash-Sharif as-Samarrai
  7. Syed Muhammad Raza al-Musavi
  8. Syed Muhammad Mahdi al-Kazmaini
  9. Syed Ahmed al-Mustanbit[3]

He published his resalah "Qawaneen ush-Sharia fi Fiqh-e-Jafariya" in 1980 AD (1400 AH). He is being followed by a number of Shia Muslims in matters of fiqh from Pakistan and abroad.

[edit] Clerical Activities in Pakistan

After returning to Pakistan, he was appointed the principal of Madrasah-dar-ul-Muhammadia, Sargodha in 1960, where he continued for the next 12 years. He founded Madrasah Jamia tus-Sibtain in Sargodha, a hawza elmiye for the Pakistani students to get Shia religious education. In 2004, he founded a madrasah for the religious education of women viz. Jamia Aqeela bani Hashim.[4]

[edit] Majalis

For past thirty years, he has been addressing majalis in almost all parts of Punjab, Pakistan. For the last five years he has been addressing majalis in Imambargah Shah Gardez, Multan where all the major Shia ulema address majalis before him, including Allama Akhter abbas, Principal of Madrasah Jamia tus-Saqlain, Multan. Last year the famous Ayatollah Syed Aqeel-ul-Gharavi also addressed majalis at the same place. He has also been addressing majalis in London and Islamabad for many years.

[edit] Q&A Session After Majalis

After his majalis, questions pertaining to fiqh, aqaid and tafsir are put before him from the gathering. He gives answers to these questions with references from Quran and Hadith of Infallibles. At certain occasions, these Q&A sessions have spanned hours.

[edit] Books

[edit] Faizan ur-Rahman fi Tafsir ul-Quran

It is a 10-volume comprehensive Tafsir of Quran.

[edit] Masail ush-Sharia (Translation of Wasael ush-Shia)

It is the Urdu translation of the great Shia book of Hadith Wasael ush-Shia by Shaikh al-Hur al-Aamili. 10 volumes out of 20 have been published.

[edit] Qawaneen ush-Sharia fi Fiqh-e-Jafariya (Tawzih ul-Masail)

It is a 2-volume fiqhi book, covering all the aspects of human life according to Jafari Jurisprudence, including the modern human issues. The superiority of Jafari Jurisprudence over other Islamic Schools of Jurisprudence has been proved in the light of Quran and Hadith. (Read online in Urdu)

[edit] Ahsan ul-Fawaid fi Sharh al-Aqaid

It is a 2-volume Urdu translation & explanation of Sheikh Saduq's famous Risala "Al-Aqaid". It contains all the Shia beliefs, and their truthfulness in the light of Quran and Hadith.(Read online in Urdu)

[edit] Usool ush-Sharia fi Aqaid ush-Shia

This book discusses the beliefs of Ghali's, Tafwizi's and Shaykhi's (which they have spread in the name of Shia Islam), and negates them in the light of Quran and Hadith.

[edit] Aitaqadat-e-Imamia

It is the Urdu translation & explanation of Allama Majlisi's "Risala tul-Lailia". (Read online in Arabic/Urdu)

[edit] Kawakib-e-Muzayya dar Ahadees-e-Qudsia

It is the Urdu translation & explanation of Shaikh al-Hur al-Aamili's book on Hadith Qudsi.

[edit] Tajalliat-e-Sadaqat fi Jawab Aftab-e-Hidayat

It is a 2-volume book in response to the anti-Shia book "Aftab-e-Hidayat" by Maulvi Karam Deen.

[edit] Tanzeeh ul-Imamia amma fi Risala Mazhab ush-Shia

It is the book in response to the anti-Shia risala "Mazhab ush-Shia" by Pir Siyyalvi.

[edit] Tahqeeqat ul-Fariqain fi Hadis as-Saqlain

It is a book presenting extensive research from both the Shia & Sunni books of Hadith, as regards the truthfulness of Hadith of the two weighty things (Hadis as-Saqlain).

[edit] Isbat ul-Imamat

It is a book on the issue of Khilafat & Imamat, and establishes that Imam Ali was the true successor to the Prophet.

[edit] Saadat ud-Darain fi Maqtal al-Hussain

It is a comprehensive account of the Battle of Karbala in 61 AH and the tragic martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali, all narrated from reliable sources only.

[edit] Islah ur-Rusoom az-Zahira ba Kalam al-Itrat at-Tahira

It is a comprehensive book discussing all the bid‘ah's and false conventions in Islamic society, and how to correct them.

[edit] Zaad-ul-Ibad li-youmil-Ma'ad

It is a collection of supplications from reliable Shia books.[5]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Childhood & Education
  2. ^ Education at Hawza Elmiye Najaf
  3. ^ Ijtihad & Marjiyyat
  4. ^ Clerical Activities in Pakistan
  5. ^ List of Books

[edit] External links

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