Ayatullah Sayyid Husain Burojirdi

Ayatullah Seyyid Husain Burujardi, was

born in Burujard in 1292 AH. He was a

student of masters like Akhund

Khurasani and Aqa Zia Iraqi. FIQH was

his special interest, and in order to

master it fully, he studied FIQH of all

the Islamic schools of thought. While

citing the Traditions of Masoomeen (AS)

to support any of his deductions, Seyyid

Husain Burujardi is known to have

brought so many new aspects to light.

He also had a keen insight in the

science of RIJAL. Shaheed Mutahhari

and Ayatullah Shaikh Husain Muntadhar

are among his numerous worthy

students.

He revived the hawzah of Qum in 1364/1945, after the death in

1935 of its founder, Shaykh Abdul Karim Ha'iri. When Sayyid Abul

Hassan Isfahani died in 1365/1946, majority of Shi'as accepted

Ayatullah Sayyid Husain Burojirdi as Marja'-e-Taqlid.

He was the first Marja' to look beyond Iraq and Iran. He sent Sayyid

Muhaqqiqi to Hamburg, Germany, Aqa-e-Shari'at to Karachi,

Pakistan, Al-Faqihi to Madinah and Sayyid Musa Sadr to Lebenon. A

firm believer in Islamic unity, he established cordial relations with

Shaykh Mahmud Shaltut, the grand Shaykh of Al-Azhar.

Shaykh Mahmud Shaltut and Ayatullah Sayyid Husain Burojirdi

established "The house for bringing Muslim sects nearer" in Cairo.

Shaykh Mahmud Shaltut issued his famous fatwa accepting the

Shi'a faith as one of the recognised sects of Islam; and Ayatullah

Sayyid Husain Burojirdi vehemently opposed those who attacked the

Khulafa' in their speeches and writings.

Ayatullah Sayyid Husain Burojirdi passively opposed the Pahlawi

regime's so called agrarian reforms, which he named agrarian

destruction, which it turned out to be.

He died in Qum on 13th Shawaal 1381 AH. at the ripe age of 90.

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