HYDERABAD, India - AhlulBayt News Agency - Noted Indian religious scholar belonging to Shia School of Thought, Hazrat Maulana Aqaa-e-Syed Ghulam Husain Raza Agha Baqari, General Secretary All India Shia Muslim Personal Law Board passed away at the age of 80 years in Hyderabad.
He was ill for quite some time. He breathed his last at KIMS hospital on Friday.
Maulana Syed Raza Agha was counted among a few top Zakireen (religious reciter) who played key role in maintaining integrity.
Syed Raza Aaqa had been the classmate of religious leader of Islamic Republic of Iran, Syed Ayatollah Khamenei.
Maulana Syed Raza Agha was well versed in Urdu, Persian and Arabic. He was the founder president of Majlis Ulama-e-Zakireen in Hyderabad.
He founded a religious Madrasa with the name Madrasa-e-Murtuza. He is survived by a son and a daughter.
According to sources Syed Raza Aaqa’s funeral prayer was offered on Saturday, at Alawa Sartauq and his burial took place at Daera Meer Momin Sultan Shahi.
Mir Mohammed Momin (R), the Architect of Hyderabad, with Charminar as its center has given some of the finest architecture to the country. He was a Prime Minister of Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah the king of Golconda and supervised the construction of Hyderabad, modelling it into a paradise on earth. Daira (a burial ground) was purchased by him and converted into a sanctified graveyard, by mixing in it the soil from the battlefield of Karbala, the site of the martyrdom of Imam Husain (AS), the grandson of Prophet Muhammad (SAWS). Daira is a place of peace and contemplation where a profusion of trees, graves, memorials and sanctity flourish.
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Noted Indian religious scholar belonging to Shia School of Thought, Hazrat Maulana Aqaa-e-Syed Ghulam Husain Raza Agha Baqari, General Secretary All India Shia Muslim Personal Law Board passed away at the age of 80 years in Hyderabad.