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Ayatollah Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, expressed his condolences to the scholars and the Islamic seminaries in Pakistan on the demise of the honorable scholar Hujjat al-Islam wal-Muslimeen Haj Sheikh Mohsen Ali Najafi.
The text of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution’s message follows:
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
“Indeed we belong to Allah and to Him do we indeed return.”
News of the passing of the honorable scholar who served the people, the late Hujjat al-Islam wal-Muslimeen Haj Sheikh Mohsin Ali Najafi (may God bless him), has brought sorrow and grief.
I send my condolences to the scholars and the Islamic seminaries in Pakistan, to his family and friends, and especially to the honorable Shia population in Baltistan. I ask the Grateful God for abundant forgiveness and an exalted degree for this virtuous scholar. And I ask for patience and reward for his honorable family that he has left behind.
May God’s greetings, mercy, and blessings be upon you.
Sayyid Ali Khamenei
Jan. 10, 2024
Hujjat al-Islam wal-Muslimeen Mohsin Ali Najafi was one of the eminent Shia scholars and interpreters of the Holy Quran in Pakistan. He had studied in Najaf under teachers such as the late Ayatollah Khoei and Marty Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir Sadr. He was the founder of the Jamia Ahl-Bayt Islamic Seminary and the Jamia Al-Kawthar Islamic Seminary, the president of the Supreme Council of the Ahl Al-Bayt (as) Assembly in Pakistan, and the founder of the Osveh educational system and several private colleges in Pakistan.
He was the representative of Grand Ayatollah Sayid Ali Sistani in Pakistan.
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.
