Mirza Jawad Agha Maleki Tabrizi or Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi (1857

Tabriz Tabriz ( fa, تبریز ; ) is a city in northwestern Iran, serving as the capital of East Azerbaijan Province. It is the List of largest cities of Iran, sixth-most-populous city in Iran. In the Quri Chay, Quru River valley in Iran's historic Aze ...

– July 3, 1925

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) was a scholar of

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and

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Birth and lineage

''Mirza Jawad Agha Maleki Tabrizi'' was born in 1857 (1274 AH) in

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, although the exact date of his birth is unknown. He was from a family of nobles and aristocrats, and his father was from the family of "Malek ol-Tojjar" and was a wealthy merchant. The reason for naming him "Maleki" is the family relationship with the "Malek ol-Tojjar" family of the

merchants.

Education and career

''Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi'' learned the sciences of

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rhetoric Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate parti ...

and expression, and the basic level of the Islamic seminary courses in

. Then he went to

Najaf Najaf ( ar, ٱلنَّجَف) or An-Najaf al-Ashraf ( ar, ٱلنَّجَف ٱلْأَشْرَف), also known as Baniqia ( ar, بَانِيقِيَا), is a city in central Iraq about 160 km (100 mi) south of Baghdad. Its estimated popula ...

and studied there under the great scholars and masters of that time such as: *

Mirza Husain Noori Tabarsi Mirza Husain Noori Tabarsi ( fa, میرزا حسین نوری طبرسی, ar, الميرزا حسين النوري الطبرسي) (1838 - 1902) popularly known as Muhaddis Noori / Al-Mohaddith Al-Noori, was a Shi'a Islamic Scholar and Shi'a Renai ...

* Reza Hamadani Najafi *

Muhammad Kadhim Khorasani Marja', Ayatullah Sheikh Muhammad Kazim Khurasani ( fa, ; 1839 – 12 December 1911), commonly known as Akhund Khurasani ( fa, ) was a Shia Islam, Shia jurist and political activist. He is known for using his position as a Marja', Marja as le ...

* Husayn Quli Hamadani: ''Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi'' had a special devotion to him and was his companion for 14 years. ''Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi'' spent the spiritual perfection and higher stages of the worlds of the soul under him and had received permission from him to narrate and transfer

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s (a kind of permission in Islamic seminary levels that is a sign of trust). In the field of

and

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, ''Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi'' was one of the best students of ''Husayn Quli Hamadani'' 's school. * Seyyed Morteza Keshmiri Some have said that ''Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi'' also had permission to narrate and transfer

s from

Murtadha al-Ansari Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Murtadha al-Ansari al-Tostari (1781–1864), ( ar, مرتضی الأنصاري التستري; fa, مرتضی انصاری شوشتری ), also transliterated as Mortaza Ansari Shushtari, was a Shia jurist who "was genera ...

. ''Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi'' came to Iran around 1903 (1321 AH) and promoted religious sciences in his hometown

. In 1911 (1329 AH), due to the

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and unfavorable situation in Tabriz, he went to

. He stayed in Qom until the end of his life and was engaged in training clerics there. When

Abdul-Karim Haeri Yazdi Grand Ayatollah Hajj Sheikh Abdolkarim Haeri Yazdi ( fa, عبدالکریم حائری یزدی; ar, عبد الكريم الحائري اليزدي ; 1859 – 30 January 1937) was a Twelver Shia Muslim scholar and marja. He was the founder of a ...

came to Qom and established the seminary in Qom, ''Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi'' formed the class of ethics and self-purification, under which many students were trained. His ethics lesson was of two kinds: a lesson that was done at his home and was specific to a number of his special students; And a lesson he taught to the public at the

Feyziyeh School Feyziyya School ( fa, مدرسه فیضیه) is an old school in Iran that was founded in the Safavid era. The school has been listed as one of Iran's national monuments as of January 29, 2008. The school served as a focal point for clerical oppos ...

in Qom.

His disciples

* ''Sheikh Ismaeel ibn Hossein Ta'eb'' * ''Seyyed Mahmoud Modarresi'': He was a teacher of mysticism and ethics and was also active in the field of propagating Islam. He died on September 21, 1958 ( Rabiʽ al-Awwal 1378 AH). * ''Seyyed Hossein Fatemi Razavi Qomi'': He was from

and taught ethics, propagating Islam and training students. He studied

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under ''Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi''. He died on January 6, 1970 (27

Shawwal Shawwal ( ar, شَوَّال, ') is the tenth month of the lunar based Islamic calendar. ''Shawwāl'' stems from the verb ''shāla'' () which means to 'lift or carry', generally to take or move things from one place to another, Fasting during S ...

1389 AH) and was buried in

Sheikhan cemetery Sheikhan cemetery (means scholars cemetery) is the second historical cemetery in the Islamic world and one of the oldest cemeteries in Qom, Qom Province, Iran which is located near the Fatima Masumeh Shrine. The cemetery dates back ...

. * ''Seyyed Mahmoud Yazdi'': Companion and friend of ''Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi''. * ''Mullah Ali Masoumi Hamadani'': He was born in 1895 (1313 AH) in Qorveh-e Darjazin of Hamadan Province. He spent his early education in

Hamadan Hamadan () or Hamedan ( fa, همدان, ''Hamedān'') ( Old Persian: Haŋgmetana, Ecbatana) is the capital city of Hamadan Province of Iran. At the 2019 census, its population was 783,300 in 230,775 families. The majority of people living in Ha ...

under ''Sheikh Ali Gonbadi'' and some of other masters. Then he traveled to

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and benefited from the lessons of Islamic thinkers such as ''Mullah Mohammad Zanjani Hidaji''. He emigrated to

in 1922 (1340 AH) for more educations. And attended the lesson of ''Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi'' there. ''Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi'' 's lessons had a profound effect on him. The effect that always accompanied him. In addition to sweet and passionate poems with the pseudonym "

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", twelve volumes of books are remembered from him. He passed away on July 23, 1978 (17th of

Sha'ban Shaʽban ( ar, شَعْبَان, ') is the eighth month of the Islamic calendar. It is called as the month of "separation", as the word means "to disperse" or "to separate" because the pagan Arabs used to disperse in search of water. The fiftee ...

in 1398 AH). * ''Mahmoud Mojtahedi'': He has been a student of ''Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi'' for a long time. * ''Sheikh Abbas Tehrani'': He worked hard in path of perfection and achieved spiritual degrees and conquests. The believers benefited a lot from his ethics lesson, which he taught at the ''Hujjatiyya Seminary'' in

. He writes beautiful poems and a collection of poems has been left by him. * ''Mirza Abdullah Shaalchi'': He studied under ''Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi'' for many years and achieved a remarkable enlightenment of spirituality. He received private spiritual instructions from ''Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi''. He died at the age of one hundred and three on January 18, 1985 (28

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1363 SH). * ''Sheikh Hassan Lankarani'': Author of the book "Al-Molhemaat al-Qaravieh fi Ahkaam al-Hajj" ( ar, الملهمات الغروية فی أحكام الحج). * ''Mirza Jawad Soltan ol-Qorayi Tabrizi'': He was born in 1901 (1319 AH) in

. He studied under ''Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi'' in

. He was a master of the art of calligraphy. He has authored valuable books in theology, philosophy and Islamic sciences. In addition to full knowledge of the sciences of

and

, Persian and Arabic literature,

hadith Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approval ...

and

rijal Biographical evaluation ( ar, عِلْمُ الرِّجال, ʿilm al-rijāl; literally meaning'' 'Knowledge of Men' , ''but more commonly understood as the ''Science of Narrators)'' refers to a discipline of Islam, Islamic religious studies wi ...

, he was also proficient in history, geography, astronomy and mathematics. He died on December 1, 1997 (10

Azar Azar ( fa, آذر, ) is the ninth month of the Solar Hijri calendar, the official calendar of Iran and Afghanistan. Azar has thirty days. It begins in November and ends in December by the Gregorian calendar. Azar corresponds to the Tropical Astro ...

1376 SH) at the age of 96. * ''

Shahab ud-Din Mar'ashi Najafi Shahab ad-Din Muhammad Hussain Mar'ashi Najafi (July 21, 1897 – August 29, 1990) ( ar, اية الله العظمى السيد شهابالدين الحسينى المرعشى نجفى) was an Iraqi Shia ''Grand Ayatollah'' and Marja'. Educat ...

'': ''Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi'' gave him the permission of narrate and transfer of

s. * ''Seyyed Mohammad Sadegh Lawaasaani'': He studied two years of ethics lessons under ''Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi''. * ''Ahmad Moshref Hosseini'': He was born in

. He has been propagating the Islamic rules and publishing Islamic teachings in

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. * ''

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'' * ''Seyyed Jafar Hosseini Shahrudi'': He was born in 1915 (1294 SH). He went to

Mashhad Mashhad ( fa, مشهد, Mašhad ), also spelled Mashad, is the List of Iranian cities by population, second-most-populous city in Iran, located in the relatively remote north-east of the country about from Tehran. It serves as the capital of R ...

and

to study Islamic sciences. He studied under ''Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi'' and then went to

for more educations. Finally he reached the

Ijtihad ''Ijtihad'' ( ; ar, اجتهاد ', ; lit. physical or mental ''effort'') is an Islamic legal term referring to independent reasoning by an expert in Islamic law, or the thorough exertion of a jurist's mental faculty in finding a solution to a le ...

faculty. In 1945 (1324 SH), he returned to

and engaged in religious services and the dissemination of Islamic knowledge. He died on June 4, 1973 (14

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1352 SH) and was buried in

. * ''Seyyed Mahdi Kashfi Borujerdi'' * ''

Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari Sayyid Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari ( fa, محمد کاظم شریعتمداری), also spelled Shariat-Madari (5 January 1906 – 3 April 1986), was an Iranian Grand Ayatollah. He favoured the traditional Shiite practice of keeping clerics away ...

'' * ''

Khalil Kamarah'i Ayatollah Haj Mirza Khalil Kamarah'i ( fa-at, خلیل کمره‌ای, Khalīl Kamarah’ī; 1898, in Ferneq – 1984, in Tehran, Iran) He was an author, researcher and philosopher of contemporary theology that sought to unite the Muslim sects sup ...

'': He studied in

under ''Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi''. It is known that

Ruhollah Khomeini Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Khomeini, Imam Khomeini ( , ; ; 17 May 1900 – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian political and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of ...

(the founder of the

Islamic Republic of Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

) was also a student of ''Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi'', but

Ali Khamenei Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei ( fa, سید علی حسینی خامنه‌ای, ; born 19 April 1939) is a Twelver Shia ''marja and the second and current Supreme Leader of Iran, in office since 1989. He was previously the third president o ...

(the second and current

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) quotes ''Ruhollah Khomeini'' as saying that he attended only two sessions of ''Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi'' 's course and regretted that he could not attend his course any more.

Bibliography

''Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi'' 's books are in Arabic and

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

(the founder of the

) has recommended reading his books. * Asrar al-Salat ( ar, اسرار الصلاة): Contains a thousand tips from the secrets of

Salah (, plural , romanized: or Old Arabic ͡sˤaˈloːh, ( or Old Arabic ͡sˤaˈloːtʰin construct state) ), also known as ( fa, نماز) and also spelled , are prayers performed by Muslims. Facing the , the direction of the Kaaba wit ...

(prayers performed by

Muslim Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...

s). * Al-Moraqibat (Amaal al-Sennah) ( ar, المراقبات (اعمال السنه)): Contains the acts of worship of different Islamic months and their spiritual effects and blessings. * Resaleh Leqa Allah ( ar, رساله لقاءالله): Discusses the meaning of "meeting God" and related

Quran The Quran (, ; Standard Arabic: , Classical Arabic, Quranic Arabic: , , 'the recitation'), also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation in Islam, revelation from God in Islam, ...

verses, divine names and the greatest name of Him, as well as a guide to the spiritual path. * Ketabi dar Fiqh ( fa, کتابی در فقه): This book has not been published yet. It has been about the issues of

in the chapter of Marriage. * Resaleh ee Darbareh Hajj ( ar, رساله‏‌ای درباره حج): About

Hajj The Hajj (; ar, حَجّ '; sometimes also spelled Hadj, Hadji or Haj in English) is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims. Hajj is a mandatory religious duty for Muslims that must be carried ...

pilgrimage. * Hashieh Farsi bar Qayat al-Qaswa ( fa, حاشیه فارسی بر غایة‌القصوی): Description of the

book "Qayat al-Qaswa" by

Abbas Qomi Abbas Qomi ( fa, عباس قمی) also known as ''Mohaddith Qomi'' ( fa, محدث قمی) was a Shia scholar, historian, and hadith narrator. He wrote books, including Mafatih al-Janan. Biography Abbas Qomi was born in 1877 (1294 AH) in Qom, ...

which is a

translation of the book

Al-Urwah al-Wuthqa ''Al-Urwah al-Wuthqa'' (, ) was an Islamic revolutionary journal founded by Muhammad Abduh and Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī. Despite only running from 13 March 1884 to October 1884, it was one of the first and most important publications of the ...

Mohammed Kazem Yazdi Mohammed Kazem Tabataba'i Yazdi (; 1831–1919) was a Twelver Shia Marja' based in Najaf, most famous for compiling a collection of religious rulings, al-Urwa al-wuthqa. Constitutional Revolution He was apolitical, and therefore during the Irani ...

. * Resaleh ee dar Usul ( fa, رساله‌ای در اصول): A treatise in

Principles of Islamic jurisprudence Principles of Islamic jurisprudence, also known as ''uṣūl al-fiqh'' ( ar, أصول الفقه, lit. roots of fiqh), are traditional methodological principles used in Islamic jurisprudence (''fiqh'') for deriving the rulings of Islamic law ('' ...

. * Resaleh ee dar Seir o Soluk ( fa, رساله‌اى در سير و سلوك): A treatise in describe of spiritual path.

Death

''Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi'' died on July 3, 1925 (11

Dhu al-Hijjah Dhu al-Hijja ( ar, ذُو ٱلْحِجَّة, translit=Ḏū al-Ḥijja, ), also spelled Zu al-Hijja, is the twelfth and final month in the Islamic calendar. It is a very sacred month in the Islamic calendar, one in which the ''Hajj, Ḥajj'' (P ...

1343 AH). His tomb is located in

, Iran.

References

External links

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Shawwal 28th, death anniversary of Ayatollah Mirza Jawad Maliki Tabrizi

Biography of Late Hajj Mirza Javad Agha Malaki Tabrizi (R.A.) Spiritual Journey of the Mystics (Suluk al-Arifan)

Mirza Jawad Maliki Tabrizi – Al-Islam.org

A lesson from the exemplary life of Ayatollah Tabrizi

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