Syed Ali Nasir Saeed

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, known as Roohul Millat and Agha Roohi, is a Shia cleric from Lucknow, India.

Family background

Syed Ali Nasir Saeed

popularly known as Agha Roohi is a Shia scholar from Lucknow, India and comes from the family of

Syed Mir Hamid Hussain Musavi Syed Hamid Hussain Musavi ''Kintoori Lakhnavi Hindi Neshapuri'' (1830 - 1888) (Hindi: आयतुल्लाह सय्यिद मीर हामिद हुसैन मुसवी किन्तूरी लखनवी, Urdu: آيت� ...

whose book ''`Abaqat al'anwar fi imamat al 'A'immat al'athar'' is popular among Twelver Shi'a scholars worldwide, and quoted even today. He belongs to the lineage of Syed Mohammad Quli Khan.Roots of North Indian Shi‘ism in Iran and Iraq Religion and State in Awadh, 1722–1859
''by J. R. I. Cole, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley · Los Angeles · Oxford'' His family is renowned and respected in Lucknow, where his father ''Saeed-ul-Millat '' Syed Mohammad Saeed and grandfather ''Syed Nasir-ul-Millat'' enjoyed much respect in their lifetimes. His ancestral town is Kintoor, Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh and he traces his lineage to Muhammad via Imam Musa al-Kazim, hence the name "Musavi". He is the first cousin of ''khateeb ul imaan, sher e Hindustan marhoom'' Tahir Jarwali. He has two younger brothers Syed Husain Nasir Saeed Abaqati and Syed Sajjad Nasir Saeed Abaqati. He has two sons Syed Abbas Nasir Saeed Abaqati and Syed Murtaza Nasir Saeed Abaqati and currently resides in the famous Nasirya Library in Lucknow. His only Sister is married to famous Urdu Poet Kazim Jarwali.

His majalis (religious lectures)

Agha Roohi recites the ''ashra-e-majalis'' (religious lecture to commemorate the Martyrdom of Imam Hussain, spanning ten days) at Shia PG College (at Victoria Street in Nakhas) in morning and at Afzal Mahal in evening. He is an ''exponent of Tabarra'', openly curse the enemies of Hussainiyat, the killers of Imam Hussain.

Involvement in community matters, demonstrations and rallies

* He has been involved in issue related to Mazar-e-Shahid Salis in Agra. * In 2006 he was removed from the board of

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, Lucknow. * In May 2006 he opposed 'new model nikahnama' for the Shia community issued by All India Shia Personal Law Board, headed by Maulana

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. * He held

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responsible for

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destruction of the

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, Iraq. * In 2009 Law Commission's report on bigamy resulted in opposition from All India Muslim Personal Law Board, Agha Roohi suggested Law Commission to talk to clerics over this issue. * On 14 November 2010 he and fellow cleric

Kalbe Jawad Kalbe Jawad is a Shia Muslim cleric from Lucknow, India. Family background He comes from a family of scholars known as ''"Khandan-e-Ijtehad"'', and traces his lineage from Dildar Ali Naseerabadi (also known as Ghufran Ma'ab), their ancestors c ...

tried to stop the annual meeting of the board of trustees at Shia Post Graduate Degree College because it was being held on a Sunday. The men were taken into preventive custody but were released when violent protests broke out. * In Apr 2017, he issued a statement forbidding cow slaughter.

Syed Abbas Nasir Saeed Abqati

His son Syed Abbas Nasir Saeed Abqati (b. 1986), a PhD student in Shia theology, fought against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS, or IS) while he was studying at Najaf University (''Al-Hawza al-'Ilmiyya fi al-Najaf al-Ashraf'' Islamic seminary) in July 2014 when clashes with the ISIS broke out in Iraq. Apart from other ''majalis'' he now addresses ''majlis'' at Shia College during first 10 days of Muharram.

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