Springs of Wisdom: Thoughts and Moral Teachings of Ayatullah Bahjat

Āyatullāh Muḥammad Taqī Bahjat Fūmanī was an Iranian Twelver Shīʿī Marjiʿ born in 1916. He studied in Najaf, where he met many great scholars. He taught in the Seminary of Qom since early 1950 and served more than 50 years teaching Fiqh and Usūl. He died on the 17th of May 2009, at the age of 93 and was buried in the Holy Shrine of Lady Fāṭima al-Maʿṣūmah.

Among the well-known characteristics of Āyatullāh Bahjat was that he talked very little. His short sayings that were full of wisdom and were derived from verses of the Qurʾān and Ahadīth, are springs of wisdom. This book consists of a biography of the Āyatullāh, some words regarding his personality by great Shīʿī scholars, and his short sayings: a précis of 80 years of experience and studies of a man that spent his life in an intellectual and practical journey towards God.

It is not possible for one to recognize Āyatullāh Bahjat and his levels of perfection except through self-purification and increasing one’s existential capacity, and everyone can understand him in accordance with the vastness of his own existential capacity. Based on this, in order to recognize his perfections, one must carry out self-purification and expand his existential capacity in order to be able to benefit more from his perfections.

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