Hajjatul Islam Muhammad Taqi Falsafi, the famous preacher was born 1286 S.H. in Tehran city. He went to Tofigh school when he was 6 and learned syntax and the rudiments of religious sciences. He turned to pulpit insisted by his mother.[1]
He says in this regard: “Because my mother was fond of Aba Abdullah Al-Hussein (P.H.), her prayer has been answered and put me in the course of sermon and pulpit.[2] Supervised by his father, he educated and went to pulpit twice a week. He started his first pulpit in philosophers mosque to describe Imam Ali (P.H.).[3]
His father, Ayatollah Hajj Shaikh Muhammad Reza Tonekaboni who was born in Ramsar cilty was in touch with late Seyyed Hassan Modarres and late Ayatollah Kashani. He entered into campaign against the government during Ayalati and Velayati associations riot and his mother, Touba Khanom, the daughter of late Abul Hassan Tajer Isfahani resided in Tehran[4]. Hajjatul Islam Falsafi got married with his paternal uncle’s daughter I when he was 23 or 24.[5]
Falsafi reviewed his first political experience in the path of the forged slogan of republicanism shouted by Reza Khan and participated in Baharestan square headed by Ayatollah Modarres along with his father and paternal uncle. In spite of the pressures by Reza Khan’s agents, he confronted Reza Khan’s system of government politically and prevented cutting and tearing cloak.[6]
One night in 1316 S.H., he pointed out Gohar Shad event, so he was forbidden to make a speech on pulpit and became deprived of wearing clergyman cloth. However, after 3 years when World War II started and Reza Khan removed from office, he got out of the ban.[7]
Forming Toudeh party in Iran and figuring out campaigning against this deviation, Falsafi campaigned against this group. So, the members of Toudeh party hated him. So, he was targeted several times.[8]
Ordered by Ayatollah Kashani, he called people to oppose against Israel 13 days after the establishment of the usurp Israel government.” [9]
His most important campaigns during 1320s and 1330s S.H. are as follows:
۱) Preventing the destruction of Shah’s mother’s mosque and constructing Ark mosque.
۲) Making the lessons of religious teachings compulsory
۳) Campaigning against Bahaism
“In a- speech on Ramadan 1332 S.H…. I made a speech about Bahaism and their position in Iran. The next day, Alam who was the minister of state warned me on telephone not to speak so about the Baha’is because it would cause bloodshed. I said to him to speak politely otherwise I will interrupt. He changed his tone, too. I said I am going to make Muslim to be aware of the Babe’s astray.”[۱۰]
Making a speech against the Baha’is in Shah mosque and casting it from radio created a strange wave in the country and people became excited against the tyranny of the deviant cult of Bahaism.
Mr. Falsafi says: “Thay narrated for me that those days Hussein Ala, the new prime minister had gone to Europe to be treated. He sent a telegraph to the shah and had said the reaction of campaigning against the Baha’is is not good in Europe because the westerners are opposing and saying: There is not freedom in Iran.
Mr. Falsafi Continues: One day in 15th of the lunar month of Ramadan, Brigadier general Teymour Bakhtiyar and Major general Alavi Moqaddam warned me that His Highness ordered to be notify you to quit making speech against Bahaism… .“
Nevertheless, Mr. Falsafi didn’t pay attention to cautions and said: “In brief, we continued our oppositions against Baha’is. Also, some representative of the parliament prepared a plan which caused this cult to be announced illegal and its members and followers to be dismissed out of offices.”[۱۱]
The activities of the Baha’i cult was pursued by the third office of SAVAK. However, the Baha’is felt dangerous after Hajatul Islam Falsafil’s attacks and Shah’s order concerning destruction of the center of Baha’is in Iran called Haziratul Qods. After that, Ayadi, the special physician of Shah left Iran for a while. The universal Bahaism imagined Iran is the promised land of them.[12]
Eventually, Ayatollah Falsafi says: “The consequence of my resistance to the end of Ramadan 1334 S.H. concerning the Baha’is was that the Shah became furious with me. Not only my visit with the Shah was cut to announce Ayatollah Broujerdi’s messages, but also I wasn’t invited by Tehran’s leader of Friday prayer to make a speech and my speech forbidden to be casted from radio.”
It can be said that although Baha ism had been inflicted blows during those years, but the Islamic Revolution led by Imam Khomeini (P.H.) caused it to be destroyed.”[13]
According to Imam’s viewpoint, the Baha’i cult wasn’t a religious tendency, but it was a political party which has been the laborer of England in the past.[14]
During his campaigns, Ayatollah Falsafi made people familiar with confessing regime’s face and was considered as the companions of Imam (P.H.). After the victory of Islamic Revolution, he was proselytizing although the he was really old. He died in 1377 S.H. due illness when he was 93.[15] He was buried really in the holy shrine of the Excellency Abdul Azim Hassani in Rey city.
[۱] the center for studying the historical documents of Intelligent service ministry, the illustrative speech of Islam, vol.9, 1378 S.H., p.11.
[۲] Ibid, p.13.
[۳]Ibid, p.11.
[۴] Ibid, p.11.
[۵] Ibid, P.13.
[۶]Ibid, p.14.
[۷] bid, p.15.
[۸] Ibid, p. 15.
[۹] The center for the Islamic history documents, the memoirs and campaigns of Hujjatul Islam Falsafi, 1371 S.H., p.190.
[۱۰] Ibid, p. 15.
[۱۱] Ibid, p. 197.
[۱۲] The emergence and fall of Pahlavi Kingdom, vol.1, 1370 S.H. p. 1374.
[۱۳] The memoirs and campaigns by Hujjatul Islam Falsafi, pp. 195-199.
[۱۴] The Islamic Republic newspaper, 1384 S.H., No.7457, p.12 .
[۱۵] Hussein Khademi, the Companions of Imam narrated by the master, the center for Islamic Revolution documents, vol. 19. p.185.
