Sunday, April 4, 2010

Maulana Syed Kalbe Abid Naqvi (Nasirabadi)

Maulana Syed Kalbe Abid Naqvi (Nasirabadi) (مولانا سيد كلب عابد نقوى) was a mujtahid from Qasba Nasirabad later migrated to Lucknow, India who preached Shia Islam and came from a family of scholars known as "Khandaan-e-Ijtehad", notably Syed Dildar Ali Nasirabadi, also known as Ghufran Ma'ab. His father was Syed Kalbe Hussain and grandfather Syed Aqa Hasan. His son, Syed Kalbe Jawad is also a scholar and the chief of the Shia population in Lucknow, India. He died in 1986 after being involved in a car crash while going to Allahbad from Nasirabad on his way to read a majlis. His final 10 set of majlises which he read in Imambara Ghufran Ma'ab in 1986 has been entitled "Majlis-e-Azeem".[1]

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