Syed Mohsin Nawab Rizvi


Syed Mohsin Nawab Rizvi popularly known as Mohsin-ul-millat, was an poet, writer, speaker and a Twelver Shia Marja from India. He served as Vice Principal of Sultanul Madaris, Lucknow, and as a Principal of Govt Oriental College Madarsa Alia, Rampur and Madarsa Imaniya Nasiriya, Jaunpur.

Biography

He was born in 1911 at Lucknow. His father Maulana Syed Ahmad Nawab Rizvi was a prominent Shia Scholar and was the editor of the monthly Urdu magazine, Alawarif. After earning his degree of Sadrul Afazil from Madrasa Sulatanul Madaris, he went to Hawza 'Ilmiyya Najaf, Iraq, where he studied Dars al-Kharij with Ayatollah Abu l-Hasan al-Isfahani, Ayatollah Syed Ziauddin Iraqi, Ayatollah Mirza Hussein Naini, Ayatollah Shaikh Abdul Husain Rashti, and Ayatollah Seyed Jawad Tabrezi, He earned the Ijazae ijtihad.
Rizvi understood Urdu, Arabic and Farsi. During his student life in Lucknow he was the editor of an Arabic religious and literary magazine "Al-Adeeb" which was being published under the patronage of Nasirul Millat Syed Nasir Husain. After returning from Iraq he was appointed as a Principal of Jamaey Imaniya Nasirya, Jaunpur. He took charge of managing a middle school, which became a leading degree college in Jaunpur District, known as Raza D.M. Shia Degree College. After Jaunpur, Rizvi was called on by then Nawab of Rampur Raza Ali Khan Bahadur Rampur State India to take the charge of the Madrsa-e-Aliya Rampur as a principal. After remaining few years as the Principal he came back to Lucknow and joined Madrase Sultanul Madaris Lucknow India as Vice Principal, as the Matla-e-Anwar He was chief patron of monthly Urdu magazine "ALILM". He wrote many books some of them has been published and some are under publishing. He was a great Khateeb. He was the General Secretory of "All India Shia Majlise Ulama", among Scholars he was known as"Mohsinullmillat".
He died on 26 August 1969 and is buried in Lucknow.

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