Ceremony in Qom to Commemorate Pakistani Scholar
The event is slated for Wednesday, January 17, after the Maghri and Isha prayers.
The Imam Khomeini (RA) Shabestan (underground space) at the holy shrine of Hazrat Masoumeh (SA) will host the ceremony.
It will be 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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