Syed Ali Nasir Saeed

Abaqati The Abaqati family (or ''Khandān-e-Abaqāat'') is a sub-branch of the Jarwal-Kintoor'' branch of ''Nishapuri Kazmi- Musavi Sayeds who trace their lineage to the Islamic prophet Muhammad through eldest son of great-grandson of Musa al-Kadhim, he ...

Musavi, known as Roohul Millat and Agha Roohi, is a

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 ...

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from

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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 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

, 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 Kintoor or Kintur is a village in Barabanki district famous for battle of Kintoor of 1858 during the Indian Mutiny. Battle of Kintoor The Battle of Kintoor was a conflict between rebel sepoys and troops East India Company and Kapurthala Sta ...

Barabanki Barabanki is a city and a municipal board in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is administrative headquarters of Barabanki district. The city is about 30 km east of Lucknow, the state capital. It has a population of 146,831 with a dens ...

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and he traces his lineage to Muhammad via Imam

Musa al-Kazim Musa ibn Ja'far al-Kazim ( ar, مُوسَىٰ ٱبْن جَعْفَر ٱلْكَاظِم, Mūsā ibn Jaʿfar al-Kāẓim), also known as Abū al-Ḥasan, Abū ʿAbd Allāh or Abū Ibrāhīm, was the seventh Imam in Twelver Shia Islam, after ...

, 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

. 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 Tabarri ( ar, تبري) is a doctrine that refers to the obligation of disassociation with those who oppose God and those who caused harm to and were the enemies of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. As Shi'as believe, they believe that the imamate ...

'', 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 Agra (, ) is a city on the banks of the Yamuna river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, about south-east of the national capital New Delhi and 330 km west of the state capital Lucknow. With a population of roughly 1.6 million, Agra is ...

. * In 2006 he was removed from the board of Shia college, Lucknow. * In May 2006 he opposed 'new model nikahnama' for the Shia community issued by

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, headed by Maulana Mirza Mohammed Athar. * He held

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responsible for

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– 2007 destruction of the Al-Askari Mosque in

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. * In 2009 Law Commission's report on bigamy resulted in opposition from

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, 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

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(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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