- Maulana Ibne Hasan Nonaharvi
Maulana Ibne Hasan Naunaharvi (مولانا سيد ابن حسن نونحروى) was born in
Naunahra ,Ghazipur inUttar Pradesh ,India in1899 .He went to
Islamic school in Naunahra and then moved toLucknow for higherShia religious education. He graduated fromSultanul Madaris and became a teacher, later principal ofMadrasatul Waizeen .Maulana Ibne Hasan is renowned for his oratory and
Urdu language speeches. He was a pious and sincere scholar with tremendous control over religious matters and recitingmajalises . He read majalises atHusainia Irshadia, Rudauli by invitation of Syed Irshad Husain Zaidi for 58 years and also read at Hyderabad, Rampur,Jalali , Lucknow and many other places.Maulana Naunaharvi learned the art of oratory from his teacher Allama
Sibte Hasan who was the pioneer of the format of majalises which are recited to the present day. Before his time, majalises in Lucknow and other places containedmarsiya , recited by great poets like Meer Babbar Ali Anees and Dabeer. The new format has Khutba in Arabic, sometafseer ,Fazail ofAhlul Bayt then Masaeb of Karbala.Maulana Naunaharvi is known for his beautiful language and delivery of difficult
tafseer and Islamic philosophy. He is also considered the best orator of the topic ofMeraj and the battles of Islam. His picturisation of the battle field andmeraj had such an effect on people that the description was said to take the imagination of the listener into the event itself. He travelled a lot and was able to recite a single majalis for 4 hours, not repeating the same topic twice. His choice of words, extempore flow of Persian,Urdu , andArabic , control over his audience and making topics interesting made him extremely popular. He was also know as an orator who used to ask his audience to recite salawat more than 100 times in a single majlis. He continued his teaching work atSultanul Madaris and then became Principal ofMadrasatul Waizeen . During last few years of his life he became ill and cut down on travelling.He died at the age of 81 years onMarch 25 , 1980 in Lucknow and was buried inImambara Ghufran Ma'ab .
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