Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani

Grand Ayatollah Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani (Persian: محمدتقی بهجت فومنی‎) (24 August 1916 – 17 May 2009) was an Iranian Twelver Shia Marja'.

Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani
Grand Ayatollah Bahjat Foumani
Other namesAyatollah Bahjat
Personal
Born24 August 1916
Fouman, Iran
Died17 May 2009(2009-05-17) (aged 92)
Qom, Iran
ReligionIslam, Shia Twelver
Other namesAyatollah Bahjat
Senior posting
Based inQom
Period in office1916–2009
PostMarja'
WebsiteThe Center for Compilation and Publication of the Works of Grand Ayatollah Bahjat

Biography

Mohammad-Taqi was born on 24 August 1916 in the Fouman, Gilan province in the north of Iran. Mohammad's mother died when he was at an early age and he lived with father. Bahjat's father sold cookies to gain as income.[1] He started his primary education from Fouman. At the age 14, he went to Karbala and Najaf, Iraq for continuing his education in advance level. After returning to Iran on 1945, he resided in Qom and at the Qom Seminary, Mohammad-Taqi taught jurisprudence and theology.[2][3]

Teachers

While he lived in Najaf, he was a student of Abu l-Hasan al-Isfahani, Shaikh Muhammad Kadhim Shirazi, Mirza Hussein Naini, Agha Zia Addin Araghi, and Shaikh Muhammad Hussain al-Gharawi. Also, Ali Tabatabaei (known as Ayatollah Qazi) was his teacher in spirituality and gnosticism. In Qom, he attended the class of Ayatollah Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi.[3][1]

Students

He had many students including: Morteza Motahhari, Abdollah Javadi-Amoli, Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani, Mohammad Yazdii, Ahmad Azari Qomi, Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, Abbas Mahfuzi, Mahdi Rouhani, Syed shaji muqtar Hyderabadi , Azizollah Khosvaght, Mohammad Ali Aminian, Sadeq Ehsan-Bakhsh, Mohammad Iamn Lahiji, Mohammad Ali Faize Gilani, Zainolabedin Ghorbani, Mohammad Vasef Gilani, AliAkbar Masodi Khomeini, Mohammad Hossein Ahmadi Yazdi, Mohammad Hasan Ahmadi Yazdi, Reza Khosroshahi, Mahmud Amjad Kermanshahi, Abdolmajid Rashidpor, Mohammad Hadi Feqgi, Mahdi Hadavi, Sheykh Aziz Aliyari Ardebili, Abdollah Khaefi Gilani, Mojtaba Rodbari, and Ja'far Shojuni.[1]

Legacy

He started teaching Kharij al-Fiqh and the Usool since early 1960 and served approximately 50 years in teaching theological subjects at his house. He composed poems of praise and eulogy for the Ahl al-Bayt, especially Imam Al-Husayn, which he had originally written in Persian. He left behind a large number of compilations, including: Kitab-e Salaat, Jama'e al-Masa’el,[2] Zakhirah al-Ebaad Leyawm al-Maa`d, Tuzih al-Masaa'il, and Manaasek-e Hajj.[4][5][1]

Most famous mystical advice he kept repeating

'[according to the Quran] if we act according to what we are sure about and be cautious about what we don't know, God reveals the path'[6]

Death

On 17 May 2009, Bahjat died in Qom at the age of 92 . He was buried in the Fatima Masumeh Shrine.[2][7]

See also

References
  1. Adham Nejad, Mohammad Taqi. "Mohammad Taqi Bahjat (Ayatollah Bahjat), mystic". Bagher al-Olum Institute. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  2. Shahbaz, Ali. "Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Taqi Bahjat Foumani". Imam Reza Network. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  3. Asma, Zainab (20 November 2013). "Biography of Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Bahjat". Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  4. "Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Taqi Bahjat Foumani". Compiled by: Syed Ali Shahbaz. Missing or empty |url= (help)
  5. "Glimpses of the Life of Grand Ayatullah Bahjat". tebyan.net. 18 May 2015.
  6. Science and practice; knowing, are the introduction of the performance hawzah.net
  7. "Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Behjat". Asma Zainab. 2013-11-20. Retrieved 2014-10-01.
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