Mirza Mohammed Athar

Maulana Mirza Mohammad Athar

Maulana Mirza Mohammad Athar (مولانا محمد مرزااطهر) is a zakir-e-ahl-e-bayt from Lucknow, India. He is the son of a very learned and popular speaker, the late Mulla Mirza Mohammad Tahir. Mirza Athar was educated at Sultan-ul-Madaris where he graduated with "Sadr-ul-Afazil" and Lucknow University where he obtained a masters in Persian Literature. In 2008, he completed fifty years of continuous Muharram recitation in Mumbai. In addition to his native Lucknow, he is popular all over India as well as in Pakistan, the Middle East, UK, US and Australia. On January 23, 2005, he was elected first president of All India Shia Personal Law Board (AISPLB).^[1]

He is an eloquent speaker, a wise conversationalist and a lover of Ahle Bayt. A modern Maulana who speaks for the Shia youth and their progress. His brilliance is his simplicity; how he manages to break down difficult concepts and explain them with ease.^{[citation needed]} He speaks on Muslims women's' rights and is dead against the disease called ignorance or Jahallat.

External links

• [1] Website dedicated for Maulana Mirza Mohammad Athar: http://www.mirzaathar.com

References

1. ^ http://www.milligazette.com/Archives/2005/16-28feb05-Print-Edition/162802200514.htm Personal law boards galore by P.M. Damodaran on The Milli Gazette Online