Zar Wali Khan

Shaikh-Ul-Hadith Mufti Zar Wali Khan

Full name	Shaikh-Ul-Hadith Mufti Zar Wali Khan
Era	Modern era
Region	Islamic scholar
School	Sunni Hanafi
Main interests	Shari'a, Hadith, Tafsir, Tasawwuf

Shaikh-Ul-Hadith-Wa-Tafseer Moulana Mufti Zar Wali Khan is a Hanafi Islamic scholar from Pakistan^[1]. He is the founder of the Jamia Arabia Ahsan-ul-Uloom seminary located in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi, Pakistan. He is an expert in the fields of Islamic Jurisprudence (fiqh), hadith, tafsir^[2] and tasawwuf. His seminary is notable for being one of the first Deobandi institutions to offer the takhassus (PhD equivalent degree leading to mufti status) degree program to women.

Deobandi movement

Key figures

Qasim Nanotvi · Rashid Gangohi Husain Madani · Mehmud Hasan Shabbir Usmani · Ashraf Ali Thanwi Anwar Kashmiri · Ilyas Kandhlawi Ubaidullah Sindhi · Taqi Usmani

Notable Institutions

Darul Uloom Deoband, India Mazahirul Uloom Saharanpur, India Hathazari Madrassah, Bangladesh Darul-uloom Nadwatul Ulama, India Darul Uloom Karachi, Pakistan Jamia Uloom ul Islamia, Pakistan Jamiah Darul Uloom Zahedan, Iran Darul Uloom London, England Darul Uloom New York, United States Darul Uloom Canada Madrasah In'aamiyyah, South Africa

Movements

Tablighi Jamaat Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Tehreek-e-Khatme Nabuwwat Sipah-e-Sahaba Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Taliban

Work

Shaikh-Ul-Hadith-Wa-Tafseer Moulana Mufti Zar Wali Khan laid the foundation of a jamiah in 1398 Hijra (jamiah arabia Ahsan-Ul-Uloom). The objectives and goals of that jamiah is to formulate intellectual and endowed scholars who can guide the Muslim Ummah on the precise pathway.

Jamiah Arabia Ahsan-Ul-Uloom provides complete Islamic Education that includes Tafseer-Ul-Quran, Hadith Shareef, Fiqqah, Islamic rulebooks, Arabic literature and more free of expenditure. Other than Knowledge of Islam, Hifz and Nazrah Quran, Darjah-e-A'adadiyah i.e. (equivalent to eighth grade books including books with beginners Arabic, Persian and other Islamic books) are also taught.

In his jamiah there is an exceptional layout of Darjaat-at-Takhasusat, i.e. (Ph.D. Jamiah Arabia Ahsan-Ul-Uloom also has a Dar-Ul-Iftah in which queries related to day-to-day problems are resolved in the illumination of Islam with broad research and investigation under the management of Shaikh-Ul-Hadith-Wa-Tafseer Moulana Mufti Zar Wali Khan sahib. During usual vacations, outstanding planning for Daura-e-Tafseer-Ul-Quran is organized in which men and women (with pardah) from all line of work attend regularly.^[3]

Personal life

Born in 1955, Mufti Zar Wali Khan completed his islamic education from Jamia Uloom ul Islamia,Banori Town, Karachi before establishing the jamiah arabia Ahsan-Ul-Uloom.

Inspiration from Anwar Shah Kashmiri

Mufti Zar Wali Khan is in the students' tree of Maulana Anwar Shah Kashmiri, as he is student of Maulana Hanan who is also in the students' tree of Maulana Anwar Shah Kashmiri. He is so much inspired by Anwar Shah Kashmiri that he named his own son after him.^[4]

References

1. ^ http://www.sunniforum.com/forum/showthread.php?44701-Mufti-Zarwali-Khan-on-the-importance-of-Logic
2. ^ 'Tafseer of Al-Quran by Mufti Zarwali Khan hosted on Tauheed-Sunnat.com'
3. ^ 'Dora-e-Tafseer dars on Ahsan-ul-uloom official website'
4. ^ 'Qirat of Al-Quran by Anwar Shah (Son of Mufti Zar Wali Khan)'

External links

• Jamia Arabia Ahsan-ul-Uloom

See Also

• Ebrahim Desai
• Muhammad Taqi Usmani
• Allama Nurul Islam Olipuri
• Sheikhul Hadith Allama Azizul Hoque
• Faqihul Millat Mufti Abdur Rahman

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