Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussain Najafi
| Muhammad Hussain Najafi Dhakku محمد حسین ڈھکو |
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| Religion | Usuli Twelver Shi`a Islam |
| Other names | Urdu/Punjabi: محمد حسین ڈھکو |
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April 10, 1932 Jehanian, Punjab, Pakistan |
| Senior posting | |
| Based in | Sargodha, Pakistan |
| Title | Grand Ayatollah |
| Period in office | 1980–present |
| Religious career | |
| Post | Grand Ayatollah |
| Website | Official Website |
| Muhammad Hussain | |
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| Title | Grand Ayatollah |
| Born | April 10, 1932 |
| Ethnicity | Pakistani Punjabi |
| Era | Modern era |
| Region | Pakistan |
| Religion | Islam |
| Jurisprudence | Ja`fari |
| Main interest(s) | Tafsir, Hadith, Kalam, Fiqh, Islamic philosophy, Islamic ethics |
| Website | Official Website |
Grand Ayatollah Allama Shaikh Muhammad Hussain Najafi Urdu/Punjabi: آية الله العظمی علامہ الشیخ محمد حسین النجفي; born April 10, 1932) is a Twelver Shi'i alim from Pakistan and has been elevated to the status of marjiyyat. At present, there are two maraji of Pakistani descent, the other one Basheer Hussain Najafi. As Basheer Hussain Najafi has chosen to reside in Najaf, Iraq, Muhammad Hussain Najafi is the only marja' on Pakistani soil, running a Hawza in Sargodha.
He has been included in the last 5 editions of "The Muslim 500: The World's Most Influential Muslims" since 2010. He is one of the 9 marja's mentioned in the most recent edition.
Muhammad Hussain was born in small town of Jehania shah in sargodha District of Punjab province of Pakistan on April 1932. He had two paternal uncles, both of whom were Shia ulema: Maulana Imam Bakhsh was a religious teacher in Jahanian Shah, while Maulana Sohrab Ali Khan was a reputed alim of Uch Sharif. His father Rana Tajuddin was not an alim, but he had the wish of making his son a great alim. However, he died in 1944 when Muhammad Hussain was 12 years old, after which the family members persuaded the widow that Muhammad Hussain should look after the family lands, but she kept up the wish of her dead husband.
After secondary school education, he got admission in Madrasah Muhammadia in Jalalpur Nankiana, Sargodha, where one of his prominent teachers was Ayatollah Allama Hussain Bakhsh Jarra. In 1947, he studied the courses of Dars-i-Nizami from Ayatollah Allama Muhammad Baqir Naqvi in Jhang. Allama Baqir Naqvi had migrated from Iraq to spread Shia formal education in Pakistan. Since (the First Biggest prominent Shia scholar in Pakistan Ustad ul ulama) Grand Ayatollah Allama Syed Muhammad Yar Shah Naqvi Najfi, the most prominent disciple of Allama Baqir Naqvi, had moved from his ancestral city Alipur to Jalalpur, Muhammad Hussain moved to Jalalpur to complete Dars-i-Nizami for the next five years. In 1953, he passed the examination of Molvi Fazil from Punjab University, and moved to Najaf in 1954 for higher education.
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