Jamia Babul Ilem Budgam Kashmir

However, Aga sahab went beyond the conventional duty of his family viz-a-viz spreading the message of Islam, he brought a revolution in the field of education and a social renaissance for the community. He established an educational institution for Islamic learning, namely 'Jamia Babul Ilem' in Budgam. The doors of the institute were thrown open for all those who wanted to acquire knowledge irrespective of the school of thought they belonged to. Aga sahab, however, was well aware that it won't be convenient enough for the people living in far flung areas of Kashmir to come to Budgam therefore he started a number of branches of Babul Ilm in the remotest of villages in Kashmir and Ladakh. Jamia Babul Ilem is the alma-mater of many big names who dominate the literary field of Kashmir today.


Some of the students of the first batch of Jamia Babul Ilem were:


- Hujjatul Islam Al-haj Aga Syed Muhammad Baqir Al-mosavi


- Aga Syed Mohammad Mehvari


- Aga Syed Ibrahim Mehvari


- Molvi Abdul Subhan


- Aga Abdulah Zampuri


- Aga Mohammad Husain Tibbati.


- Zakir Syed Abbas (Chandipora), et al.

The life of Ayatollah Aga Syed Yousuf al Moosvi al Safvi al Najfi (R.A)

Hazaroon saal nargis apni benuri pe roti he;Badhi mushkil se hota he chaman me deedavar paida

The life of Ayatollah Aga Syed Yousuf al Moosvi al Safvi al Najfi (R.A) Kashmiri perfectly attested the truth in Allama Iqbal's one of the most inspirational Urdu couplets. Aga sahab, as he was popularly known, was a charismatic leader, a social reformer, revolutionist, a visionary, an eminent educationist, a great scholar - all the great qualities unified in one person. Ayatollah Aga Syed Yousuf al Moosvi al Safvi al Najfi (R.A) was ranked one of the greatest scholars of Shia community after the Late Ayatollah Aga Syed Mehdi.

Ayatollah Aga Syed Yousuf al Moosvi al Safvi al Najfi (R.A) was born in Budgam in 1322 hijri and completed his education in jurisprudence and Islamic law from Hauza Ilmia, Iraq, and after the death of his elder brother, Aga Syed Ahmed Al-mosavi, shouldered the responsibility of taking .