Sayyid
''Sayyid'' (, ; ar, سيد ; ; meaning 'sir', 'Lord', 'Master'; Arabic plural: ; feminine: ; ) is a surname of people descending from the Prophets in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad through his grandsons, Hasan ibn Ali and Husayn ibn Ali ...
Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani ( fa, سید هاشم بطحایی گلپایگانی; 1941 – 16 March 2020) was an Iranian
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 ...
Ayatollah
Ayatollah ( ; fa, آیتالله, āyatollāh) is an Title of honor, honorific title for high-ranking Twelver Shia clergy in Iran and Iraq that came into widespread usage in the 20th century.
Etymology
The title is originally derived from ...
and representative of the
Tehran Province in
Iran's Assembly of Experts. He studied at the
Qom Seminary
The Qom Seminary () is the largest Islamic seminary (''hawza'') in Iran, established in 1922 by Grand Ayatollah Abdul-Karim Haeri Yazdi in Qom. It trains Usuli scholars.
History
Although big Shi'a academies existed in Qom dating back as early ...
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Bathaie ran under the
People's Experts and the
Friends of Moderation electoral list in the
2016 Iranian Assembly of Experts election
The fifth Iranian Assembly of Experts election were held in Iran on 26 February 2016 to elect the members of the Assembly of Experts. All 88 members of the Assembly of Experts, who are known as mujtahids, are directly elected. The elections had b ...
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Golpayegani claimed that "America is the source of coronavirus, because America went head to head with China and realised it cannot keep up with it economically or militarily."
On 22 February, Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani announced at a ceremony that he had been infected with COVID-19, but had healed himself using an "Islamic remedy".
[ Three weeks later, on 14 March, he was hospitalized.]Al Arabiya English
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Foundation and early days
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reported that he had been infected with coronavirus. On 16 March, Golpayegani died from the virus.[
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Members of the Assembly of Experts
Iranian grand ayatollahs
1941 births
2020 deaths
People from Golpayegan
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran
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