Sayyid Abu al-Fadl Burqaʻi

Allama Sayyid Abu al-fadl Burqa'i was an Iranian clerk and religious scholar. He was born at Qom on 19 June 1908. His father name was Sayyid Hassan who was the son of a religious scholar Sayyid Ahmed. His mother Skeena Sultan was the daughter of a well-known cleric.

When he was ten or twelve years old, he got admission into Madrassah Radvi and continued his religious studies there. He authored a number of books, among these books 35 are in defense of Shiah and later, he wrote 40 books in which he criticized shiahs rituals and dogmas. He was a teacher or professor at the Qom Howzah Elmieh Qom, where he taught Rasael, makaseb[1] and fiqh for more than 20 years. Due to his reformist views he was soundly beaten there in Qom Howzah by seminarians and was fired from the Howzah by Ayatollah Borojredi. He became prayer leader of Masjid Wazeer guzar Daftar in Tehran, where he continued his work as a leader of Jummah prayer and congregational prayers for 27 years.

Borqei wrote against the erroneous beliefs and aberrations in religious practices among his Shia countryman. He was considered the most learned mujtahid by many Iranians. He was against ghuluww and tafweez. He was against seeking the help of imams in prayers.

Tabishi az Qur'an is the commentary of Quran with simple Persian translation by Sayyid Abu al-Fadl Burqa’i. The book was written in 1386/1966, several editions have appeared under a penname.[2] Unlike most of the commentators Burqa'i has tried to find the real meaning and interpretation of Quran using Quranic verses. This tafseer is 2200 pages long.