Nargis was from a pious family and the daughter of Shaykh Muhammad Salih Ibn Shaykh Muhammad Mala'ika Ibn... Shaykh Mulla Muhammad Kazim Baraghani Qazwini. She was born approximately in the year 1240 A.H. When she reached the age of maturity she married her paternal cousin, Shaykh Ja'far, the son of Shahid Thalith (the third martyr) who was one of the greatest people of his time.

Together they had Khadijah and Sakinah, both of whom were of the learned, scholarly women of their time. Nargis migrated to Karbala' with her husband, and became one of the top teachers in exhortation, guidance, and spiritual instruction. She developed a liking for the Shaykhiyyah1 group, but put this aside toward the end of her life.

She is the sister of Khadijah Baraghani and Rubabah Baraghani Qazwini. Nargis passed away in the year 1322 A.H. in Karbala'. She was buried in the eastern portico near the grave of Sayyid Kazim Rashti.2 & 3

Her Merits

Nargis was an intelligent, pious, wise, scholarly woman, a transmitter of traditions, a master of eloquence, a jurisprudent, an ascetic, and had memorized the Holy Qur'an. She learned logic, Arabic grammar and syntax, the other sciences of the Arabic language, and literature from her sister who was known as Qurrat al-'Ayn.

Then, she learned jurisprudence, religious principles, and Qur'anic commentary from her father, Shaykh Muhammad Salih Baraghani, and her uncle, Shahid Thalith. She learned Gnosticism and the rest of the sciences from another uncle, Shaykh Mulla 'Ali Baraghani.4 Meanwhile, philosophy she learned from Adkhund Shaykh Mulla Agha Hakami Qazwini and her brother Shaykh Mirza 'Abd al-Wahhab Baraghani.5

• 1. This is the name of a group from the Shadhiliyyah sect the founder of which was 'Abd al-Qadir Muhammad (951 – 1023). The center of this sect was the southern Morocco. (Lughat Nama Dihkhoda)
• 2. Sayyid Kazim Ibn Qasim Husayni Gilani Rashti Ha'iri (deceased, 1295) was one of the religious authorities of the mid-thirteenth century A.H. He was one of the top students of Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa'i, and was his successor in matters of religion, questions, and leadership. He was the author of over 150 books and treatises including, lthbat Wujud al-Jinn, Asrar al-Hajj, Asrar al-Shahadah, and others. [Lughat Nama Dihkhuda].
• 3. Mustadrak A'yan al-Shi'ah, vol. 4, p. 212.
• 4. For more information about these people please refer to Rubabah Baraghani.
• 5. Mustadrak A'yan al-Shi'ah, vol. 4, p. 212.