Congratulations on the Birthday of Imam al-Hadi, peace be upon him. At a time when the people of Samira were afflicted with Cholera, Ayatollah Sayyid Mohammad Fesharaki instructed the Shias to fast for three days and recite Ziarah Ashura. Sunnis were dying in throngs and no Shia would die; therfore ...

At a meeting with masters, scholars and intellectuals of Qom's seminary the Leader of the Revolution, while interpreting a statement, referred the audience to advice by the late Ayatollah Bahjat. Ayatollah Khamenei recommended the following supplication, “O’ God, O’ the Beneficent, O’ the Merciful, ...

Thank God it is quite obvious and clear that the opponents of Ahl al-Bayt, are opponents of knowledge and intellect! Wherever in the world, if there were a person who would answer a thousand questions in one session as Imam Jawad, peace be upon him, would do, they would give him a gift, not that the...

In the Name of Allah, the All-beneficent, the All-Merciful All praises belong to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds, and blessings be on the leader of the Messengers and Prophets and on his progeny, the leaders of the pure successors, and on all the infallibles, and continuous curses be on all their ...

Every summer he came to Mashhad, and I accompanied him in Imam Reza’s Holy Shrine. He used to recite Ziarah of Imam Reza standing. But after a while I got tired. After getting extremely tired, I sat down. Again I got tired of sitting, so I stood up. But Ayatollah Bahjat, albeit old, recited Ziarah a...

One of the students of Ayatollah Bhajat said: I've intended to go to Mashhad in the month of Ramadan. Ayatollah Bahjat, may God bless his soul said: "You’re going to the best place. Try to take benefit from the source of light and extract light from it." ...

Ayatollah Bahjat said: One of the virtues of Shia is the graves of the Imamzadahs (the descendants of the Imams); therefore, we must not be heedless of them and end up intentionally depriving ourselves. ...

     Sheikh Mortaza Taleqani was born in 1858 in the city of Taleqan. He learned Qur'an and Persian literature in the katateeb of the city then migrated to Tehran and from there to Isfahan so he could attend classes by its great scholars such as Ayatollah Abul Ma'ali Karbalai, Hakeem Qashqayi Akhund...

   The father of Ayatollah Bahjat passed away while his son was about 16 –17 of age after falling sick to an epidemic. He became bed-ridden, and his condition of his health deteriorated to the extent that his family lost hope for his recovery from the disease. The father of the Ayatollah narrates th...

Ayatollah Bahjat said: "Imam Ridha and Lady Ma'suma are strongly united and connected to each other. Rather, they are all one [divine] light. Thus, whichever one of them man does tawassul to, he receives from the other. Of course, there is a correcting element at work, in the same manner that people...