AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): The secretary general of the Ahl-ul-Bayt (AS) World Forum said a prominent Pakistani Quran translator and interpreter Sheikh Mohsin Ali Najafi, who died last week, was a true Faqih and scholar.
Ayatollah Reza Ramezani made the remark in a memorial service held for the Pakistani scholar at the holy shrine of Hazrat Masoumeh (SA) in Qom on Wednesday night.
He said Ayatollah Mohsin Ali Najafi used his knowledge to show the destination to people.
Another feature of his character was that he was Muhazzib (in a lofty position in terms of good manners, moral edification, good breeding, and courtesy, the cleric noted.
Ayatollah Mohsin Ali Najafi was also very knowledgeable about Quranic verses and Hadiths and wrote a 10-volume Tafsir (interpretation) of the Holy Quran, Ayatollah Ramezani stated.
He also highlighted the Pakistani scholar’s efforts to defend the school of Ahl-ul-Bayt (AS) and promote Islamic unity.
“He would organize sessions for unity every year and gathered religious scholars from different schools of thought together.”
With the strategy of religious rationalism, Ayatollah Mohsin Ali Najafi spread rational religion in which there is spirituality, he went on to say.
The Imam Khomeini (RA) Shabestan (underground space) at the holy shrine of Hazrat Masoumeh (SA) hosted the commemoration ceremony.
It was jointly organized by the office of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei in Qom, Ahl-ul-Bayt (AS) World Assembly, Center for Management of Islamic Seminaries, Al-Mustafa International University, Astan (custodianship) of Hazrat Masoumeh (SA) holy shrine, World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought, Islamic Culture and Relations Organization, and Pakistani scholars and seminary students residing in Qom.
Sheikh Mohsin Ali Najafi died last Tuesday at the age of 84.
He was the founder of Jamia Al-Kawthar Islamic Seminary died in Islamabad.
He was the representative of Ayatollah al-Sistani in Pakistan and also served as the president of the county’s Supreme Council of Ahl-ul-Bayt (AS) Assembly.
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.
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