AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Sheikh Mohsin Ali Najafi, a prominent Pakistani Quran translator and interpreter, died at the age of 84.
According to Pakistani media, Sheikh Najafi, the founder of Jamia Al-Kawthar Islamic Seminary, died in Islamabad on Tuesday.
He was the representative of Shia source of emulation Grand Ayatollah Seyed Ali al-Sistani in Pakistan.
He also served as the president of the county’s Supreme Council of Ahl-ul-Bayt (AS) Assembly.
He was born in 1940 in a village in Kharmang, located in Gilgit–Baltistan region. His father was among the region’s scholars.
He studied with his father and after his death, went to one of the scholars of the village to continue his education.
He then went to a seminary school in the region to learn Islamic sciences as well as Urdu.
In 1966, he went to the holy city of Najaf, Iraq, to study religious sciences under senior scholars like Ayatollahs Khoei and Baqir al-Sadr.
He returned to Pakistan in 1974 and started teaching Fiqh, Usul, Quran interpretation, Islamic philosophy, theology and ethics.
Najafi wrote a number of books in Arabic and Urdu, including Al Kauthar fi Tafsir Al Quran, which is an Urdu exegesis of the Holy Quran written in an easy to understand language.
Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, the speaker of Pakistan’s National Assembly, in a statement expressed condolences over the death of the senior scholar, saying Pakistan and the Muslim Ummah will not forget his efforts for promoting Islamic unity and spreading religious values.
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