Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani
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February 20, 1919 Golpaygan , Iran |
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Grand Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani (born February 20, 1919) is an Iranian Twelver Shia Marja. He was born in Golpaygan, Iran. He has studied in seminaries of Najaf, Iraq under Grand Ayatollah Borujerdi. He currently resides and teaches in the Seminary of Qom, Iran. He is a supporter of the Islamic revolution in Iran and is known for his fatwa calling for the death of rapper Shahin Najafi for apostasy.
His father, the late Ayatullah Mulla Muhammad al-Jawad as-Safi was a well known "Alim" and an "Arif". He, along with being a specialist in Islamic studies, was also a researcher, writer and a teacher in various fields of Islamic sciences such as: Fiqh, ¬sul, Kalam, Akhlaq, Hadith, and other areas. He was also well versed in poetry, and calligraphy. His Taqwa, love for the Wilayat (of the Ahlul Bayt), and his firm position of upholding the concept of "Amr bil Ma'ruf wa Nahi anil Munkar" (Enjoining the Good and Forbidding the Evil), and taking a distinct stance against non-religious people had a tremendous effect on his son. His father died on the 25th of Rajab, in the year 1958, which corresponded to the night of the Shahadat of the 7th Imam, Musa al-Kazim.
His mother was Fatima, a noble woman, poet, and a lover of the Ahlul-Bayt and the daughter of Ayatullah Akhund Mullah Muhammad 'Ali - the roommate and study partner of the late Ayatullah al-Uzma Mirza Shirazi.
Ayatullah al-'Uzma as-Safi started his primary Arabic studies in the city of Gulpaygan (Iran) under the tutelage of Marhum Akhund Mullah Abul Qasim, better known as "Qutb". He continued his studies in the fields of Arabic, Kalam, Tafsir of the Quran, Hadith, Fiqh, and Usul until the end of Suth (the second major level of Islamic studies) in this city. During this period, he was also being taught by his father, Ayatullah Akhund Mullah Muhammad al-Jawad as-Safi in the above-mentioned sciences of Islam.
In 1940, Ayatullah as-Safi left the city of Gulpaygan, and moved to the city of Qum. It was here in Qum that he would take part in the classes being offered by the greatest scholars of the Hauza Ilmiyyah of Qum, and the place where he would be able to continue on the road of completing his studies and research in Islam.
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