Rajab al-Hafiz al-Bursi (d 1411) an Arab

Shia Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest Islamic schools and branches, branch of Islam. It holds that the Prophets and messengers in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad in Islam, Muhammad designated Ali, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his S ...

theologian and mystic. Rajab al-Hafiz al-Bursi was born in contemporary Iraq, near

Hilla Hillah ( ar, ٱلْحِلَّة ''al-Ḥillah''), also spelled Hilla, is a city in central Iraq on the Hilla branch of the Euphrates River, south of Baghdad. The population is estimated at 364,700 in 1998. It is the capital of Babylon Province ...

, and moved to the Iranian province of

Khurasan Greater Khorāsān,Dabeersiaghi, Commentary on Safarnâma-e Nâsir Khusraw, 6th Ed. Tehran, Zavvâr: 1375 (Solar Hijri Calendar) 235–236 or Khorāsān ( pal, Xwarāsān; fa, خراسان ), is a historical eastern region in the Iranian Plate ...

to escape accusations of

heresy Heresy is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs, in particular the accepted beliefs of a church or religious organization. The term is usually used in reference to violations of important religi ...

. Some sources indicate that he might have been murdered by the Timurids during the

persecutions. His main work is the ''Mashariq al-anwar al-yaqin fi asrar amir al-muminin'' (''The Orients of the Lights of Certainty concerning the ''Arcana'' of the Commander of the Faithful''), a work of High Imamology commenting on the apocryphal theopathic sayings attributed to

Ali ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam. ...

- ''viz''. the Sermon Between the Two Gulfs (khutba tantanjiyya) and the Sermon of the Elucidation (khutbatu'l-bayan).

Sources

B. T Lawson "''The Light of Certainty'' in Heritage of Sufism", Oxford, 1999 pp 225–244 {{Authority control Iraqi Sufis Iraqi Shia Muslims People from Hillah