Sayyid Abu al-Fadl Burqaʻi

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Sayyid Abu al-Fadl Burqa'i
Personal
Born1908
Qom, Iran
Died1993 (died at 85)
Tehran, Iran
ReligionIslam (non-denominational)[1]
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceIndependent
CreedAthari[2]
MovementSalafism[2]
Main interest(s)Qur'an, Hadith, Reformism
Senior posting
Disciple ofAbu l-Hasan al-Isfahani, Abol-Ghasem Kashani, Abdul-Karim Haeri Yazdi
Influenced by
PostAyatollah
Websitehttp://www.borqei.com

Sayyid Abu al-Fadl Burqa'i, known in Persian: سید ابوالفضل ابن الرّضا برقعی, (1908-1993) also known commonly as Ayatollah Borqei or Ibn al-Ridah[3] was an Ayatollah and a former Shi'ite scholar.[4] After that, He was a Sunni and Salafist scholars[2]

Biography[edit]

Ayatollah Borqei was born in 1908, and was the son of a Shi'ite cleric, Sayyid Ahmad. His family was descended from Ali ibn Musa al-Ridha, the eighth Imam of Ahlulbayt.[3] His education started at the age of twelve. At adulthood, he gained scholarly knowledge and was a teacher at one of Qom's seminaries.[3] In his late forties, he left Shi'ism and converted to a non-denominational sect of Islam.[4] In 1944, he issued a Fatwa stating that anyone who attended the funeral of Reza Shah Pahlavi was a heretic disbeliever who contradicted the laws of religion.[3] His opinion caused the government to redirect the funeral to Tehran instead, and the late Shah was buried in Rey.[3]

The students of Ayatollah Borqei included Mehdi Hashemi.[4] Borqei's family later left Shi'ism during his lifetime as well. Borqei died in 1993, and was buried in Tehran.[4] His grave is not known, but it is speculated that he was buried in the Imamzadeh Shu'ayb mausoleum.[4]

Views[edit]

After his alleged reversion to a non-denominational[1] Islam, Borqei held several views contrary to Twelver Shi'ism. He criticized the veneration of Ali ibn Abi Talib[5] and denied the existence of Muhammad al-Mahdi, the son of Hasan al-Askari.[5] Borqei also wrote a Fatwa forbidding Mu'tah or any other form of temporary marriage.[5] Such views were also inspired by Wahhabist doctrines and allegedly influenced his student, Mehdi Hashemi, to conduct an assassination on Ayatollah Shamsabadi, another cleric of high rank.[4] Borqei himself did not see eye-to-eye with fellow Ayatollah, Hossein Borujerdi.

Books[edit]

Borqei wrote several books in his lifetime, and over forty of them are dedicated to defending Sunnism.[1]

Selected bibliography[edit]

  • Aql wa Deen - An explanation of reason and religion.[5]
  • Tabishi az Qur'an - A three-volume tafsir of the Qur'an.
  • Khurafat hawl Ziyarat al-Qubur - A book refuting the religious rituals done by Shi'ites.[1]
  • Al'aemal al-Halal wal-Haram fi Ziyarat qubur al-Nabi - A book explaining the guidelines for pilgrimage to the grave of Muhammad.[1]
  • Kasr al-Sanam - A treatise and refutation of the book "Kitab al-Kafi" by medieval Shi'a scholar Al-Kulayni.[1]

In addition to all of these, Borqei translated Ibn Taymiyyah's Minhaj as-Sunnah into Persian, and was the first one to do so.[1]

See also[edit]

List of ayatollahs

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Hussein, Ebn (2020-08-22). "Interview with the grandson of Ayatollah Borqei". EBNHUSSEIN.COM. Retrieved 2023-12-10. Borqei preferred the title Muslim over any other title.
  2. ^ a b c "ابوالفضل برقعی کیست؟ آیا شیعه بوده و سنی شده است؟ | پرسمان دانشجويي - وهابيت". 2019-05-22. Archived from the original on 2019-05-22. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
  3. ^ a b c d e "BIOGRAPHY OF THE LEARNED ABĪ AL-FADL AL-BARQAĪ´, (MAY ALLAH HAS MERCY ON HIM)". آیت الله العظمی علامه سيد ابو الفضل ابن الرضا برقعى قمی. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "ابوالفضل برقعی کیست؟ آیا شیعه بوده و سنی شده است؟ | پرسمان دانشجويي - وهابيت". 2019-05-22. Archived from the original on 2019-05-22. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
  5. ^ a b c d "السيد أبو الفضل بن الرضا البرقعي". 2018-03-10. Archived from the original on 2018-03-10. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
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