Grand Ayatollah Borujerdi belongs to a respectable family known for its knowledge and piety. He is of the descendants of the Infallible Imams, peace be upon them. His family traced its lineage 30 generations to Hassan ibn Ali, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him and his progeny. ...

Ayatollah Misbah Yazdi says: "The moral and spiritual attractiveness of Ayatollah Bahjat was the main reason which attracted me to his class at the beginning. But I realized, as time went by, that he was distinguished by a prominent scholarly and juristic status; therefore, I tried to attend one of ...

"Muhammad Taqi Bahjat attracted the attention of Grand Ayatollah Borujerdi through his precise comments and important queries, so much so that I remember the class went out of its normalcy once and this continued for several days. Ayatollah Bahjat did not continue to ask more questions fleeing away...

The Ayatollah was a scholar who acted upon his knowledge, a perfect jurist, a virtuous traditionist, a skilled wise man, a precise man of Usul, a verifier of narrators of hadith, a man who acquired knowledge of what is rational and what is transmitted. He was born in March 1893, coinciding with the ...