His family was descended from Ali ibn Musa al-Ridha, the eighth Imam of Ahlulbayt.
[3] In 1944, he issued a Fatwa stating that anyone who attended the funeral of Reza Shah Pahlavi was a heretic disbeliever who contradicted the laws of religion.
[2] His opinion caused the government to redirect the funeral to Tehran instead, and the late Shah was buried in Rey.
[3] After his alleged reversion to a non-denominational[1] Islam, Borqei held several views contrary to Twelver Shi'ism.
He criticized the veneration of Ali ibn Abi Talib[4] and denied the existence of Muhammad al-Mahdi, the son of Hasan al-Askari.