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

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. He started his primary education from Fouman. At the age 14, he went to

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and Najaf, Iraq for continuing his education in advance level. After returning to Iran on 1945, he resided in

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and at the Qom Seminary, Mohammad-Taqi taught jurisprudence and theology.

Teachers

While he lived in Najaf, he was a student of

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, Shaikh Muhammad Kadhim Shirazi,

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, Agha Zia Addin Araghi, and Shaikh Muhammad Hussain al-Gharawi. Also, Ali Tabatabaei (known as Ayatollah Qadhi) was his teacher in

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and gnosticism. In Qom, he attended the class of Ayatollah Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi.

Students

He had many students including: Morteza Motahhari, Abdollah Javadi-Amoli,

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, Mohammad Yazdii, Ahmad Azari Qomi, Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi,

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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

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, 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, Zakhirah al-Ebaad Leyawm al-Maa`d, Tuzih al-Masaa'il, and Manaasek-e Hajj.

Most famous mystical advice he kept repeating

' ccording to the Quranif we act according to what we are sure about and be cautious about what we don't know, God reveals the path'

Death

On 17 May 2009, Bahjat died in

at the age of 92 . He was buried in the Fatima Masumeh Shrine.

References

External links

Pictures of Ayatollah Bahjat

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