Zar Wali Khan
Shaikh al-Hadith wa al-Tafseer Mufti Muhammad Zar Wali Khan | |
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Era | www.ahsanululoom.com |
Region | Pakistan |
School | Hanafi |
Main interests | Shari'a, fiqh, Hadith, Tafsir, Tasawwuf |
Notable ideas | A strict adherence to all the big and small masail of shariah |
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Muhammad Zar Wali Khan is a Deobandi 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.
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Shaikh al-Hadith wa al-Tafseer Mawlana Shaykh Mufti Zar Wali Khan laid the foundation of an Islamic institution in 1398 Hijra (Jamiah Arabia Ahsan-Ul-Uloom). The objectives and aims of that Jamiah is to formulate intellectual and endowed scholars who can guide the Muslim Ummah on the Deobandi pathway.
Jamiah Arabia Ahsan-Ul-Uloom provides complete Islamic education that includes tafsir, hadith, fiqh, mantiq, Arabic literature and more free of expenditure. Other than Knowledge of Islam, Hifz and Nazrah Quran, Darjah-e-I'dadiyah 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]
Inspiration from Anwar Shah al-Kashmiri
Mufti Zar Wali Khan is in the students' tree of Imam al-Asr Allamah Anwar Shah Kashmiri and highly inspired by his expertise in Islamic education. He is so much inspired by him that he named his own son after him.[4]
References
https://www.facebook.com/jamia.ahsan
- ↑ http://www.sunniforum.com/forum/showthread.php?44701-Mufti-Zarwali-Khan-on-the-importance-of-Logic
- ↑ 'Tafseer of Al-Quran by Mufti Zarwali Khan hosted on Tauheed-Sunnat.com'
- ↑ 'Dora-e-Tafseer dars on Ahsan-ul-uloom official website'www.facebook.com/jamia.ahsan
- ↑ 'Qirat of Al-Quran by Anwar Shah (Son of Mufti Zar Wali Khan)'