Sayyid Abu al-Fadl Burqaʻi
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Sayyid Abu al-Fadl Burqa'i | |
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Personal | |
Born | 1908 |
Died | 1993 (died at 85) |
Religion | Islam (non-denominational)[1] |
Denomination | Sunni |
Jurisprudence | Independent |
Creed | Athari[2] |
Movement | Salafism[2] |
Main interest(s) | Qur'an, Hadith, Reformism |
Senior posting | |
Disciple of | Abu l-Hasan al-Isfahani, Abol-Ghasem Kashani, Abdul-Karim Haeri Yazdi |
Influenced by | |
Post | Ayatollah |
Website | http://www.borqei.com |
Sayyid Abu al-Fadl Burqa'i, known in Persian: سید ابوالفضل ابن الرّضا برقعی, (1908-1993) also known commonly as Ayatollah Borqei or Ibn al-Ridah[3] was an Ayatollah and a former Shi'ite scholar.[4] After that, he was a Sunni and Salafist scholar[2]
Biography[edit]
Ayatollah Borqei was born in 1908, and was the son of a Shi'ite cleric, Sayyid Ahmad. His family was descended from Ali ibn Musa al-Ridha, the eighth Imam of Ahlulbayt.[3] His education started at the age of twelve. At adulthood, he gained scholarly knowledge and was a teacher at one of Qom's seminaries.[3] In his late forties, he left Shi'ism and converted to a non-denominational sect of Islam.[4] In 1944, he issued a Fatwa stating that anyone who attended the funeral of Reza Shah Pahlavi was a heretic disbeliever who contradicted the laws of religion.[3] His opinion caused the government to redirect the funeral to Tehran instead, and the late Shah was buried in Rey.[3]
The students of Ayatollah Borqei included Mehdi Hashemi.[4] Borqei's family later left Shi'ism during his lifetime as well. Borqei died in 1993, and was buried in Tehran.[4] His grave is not known, but it is speculated that he was buried in the Imamzadeh Shu'ayb mausoleum.[4]
Views[edit]
After his alleged reversion to a non-denominational[1] Islam, Borqei held several views contrary to Twelver Shi'ism. He criticized the veneration of Ali ibn Abi Talib[5] and denied the existence of Muhammad al-Mahdi, the son of Hasan al-Askari.[5] Borqei also wrote a Fatwa forbidding Mu'tah or any other form of temporary marriage.[5] Such views were also inspired by Wahhabist doctrines and allegedly influenced his student, Mehdi Hashemi, to conduct an assassination on Ayatollah Shamsabadi, another cleric of high rank.[4] Borqei himself did not see eye-to-eye with fellow Ayatollah, Hossein Borujerdi.
Books[edit]
Borqei wrote several books in his lifetime, and over forty of them are dedicated to defending Sunnism.[1]
Selected bibliography[edit]
- Aql wa Deen - An explanation of reason and religion.[5]
- Tabishi az Qur'an - A three-volume tafsir of the Qur'an.
- Khurafat hawl Ziyarat al-Qubur - A book refuting the religious rituals done by Shi'ites.[1]
- Al'aemal al-Halal wal-Haram fi Ziyarat qubur al-Nabi - A book explaining the guidelines for pilgrimage to the grave of Muhammad.[1]
- Kasr al-Sanam - A treatise and refutation of the book "Kitab al-Kafi" by medieval Shi'a scholar Al-Kulayni.[1]
In addition to all of these, Borqei translated Ibn Taymiyyah's Minhaj as-Sunnah into Persian, and was the first one to do so.[1]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h Hussein, Ebn (2020-08-22). "Interview with the grandson of Ayatollah Borqei". EBNHUSSEIN.COM. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
Borqei preferred the title Muslim over any other title.
- ^ a b c "ابوالفضل برقعی کیست؟ آیا شیعه بوده و سنی شده است؟ | پرسمان دانشجويي - وهابيت". 2019-05-22. Archived from the original on 2019-05-22. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
- ^ a b c d e "BIOGRAPHY OF THE LEARNED ABĪ AL-FADL AL-BARQAĪ´, (MAY ALLAH HAS MERCY ON HIM)". آیت الله العظمی علامه سيد ابو الفضل ابن الرضا برقعى قمی. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
- ^ a b c d e f "ابوالفضل برقعی کیست؟ آیا شیعه بوده و سنی شده است؟ | پرسمان دانشجويي - وهابيت". 2019-05-22. Archived from the original on 2019-05-22. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
- ^ a b c d "السيد أبو الفضل بن الرضا البرقعي". 2018-03-10. Archived from the original on 2018-03-10. Retrieved 2023-12-10.