Mufti Muhammad Shafi
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Maulana Mufti Muhammad Shafi‘ (1896–1976) was a Hanafi
Islamic scholar from India. During his life he served as the grand Mufti
of India
and later Pakistan
as well.
Islamic university at the age of 22. He became a Mufti
that same year. In 1943, he left Darul Uloom Deoband to participate in the Pakistan Movement
and emigrated to the newly created state upon partition. He is the founder of Darul Uloom Karachi, an institute of Islamic Sciences in Pakistan.
and interpreting Islamic law
. His best-known and most widely translated work is the Ma'ariful Qur'an ("The Wisdom of the Qur'an"), which he finished (in Urdu) four years before his death. This work, a commentary on the entire Qur'an, began life as a series of weekly lectures on Radio Pakistan than ran for ten years.
Hanafi
The Hanafi school is one of the four Madhhab in jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. The Hanafi madhhab is named after the Persian scholar Abu Hanifa an-Nu‘man ibn Thābit , a Tabi‘i whose legal views were preserved primarily by his two most important disciples, Abu Yusuf and Muhammad al-Shaybani...
Islamic scholar from India. During his life he served as the grand Mufti
Mufti
A mufti is a Sunni Islamic scholar who is an interpreter or expounder of Islamic law . In religious administrative terms, a mufti is roughly equivalent to a deacon to a Sunni population...
of India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
and later Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
as well.
Biography
He was born in 1896 and graduated from Darul Uloom DeobandDarul Uloom Deoband
The Darul Uloom Deoband is an Islamic school in India where the Deobandi Islamic movement was started. It is located at Deoband, a town in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It was founded in 1866 by several prominent Islamic scholars , headed by Maulana Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi...
Islamic university at the age of 22. He became a Mufti
Mufti
A mufti is a Sunni Islamic scholar who is an interpreter or expounder of Islamic law . In religious administrative terms, a mufti is roughly equivalent to a deacon to a Sunni population...
that same year. In 1943, he left Darul Uloom Deoband to participate in the Pakistan Movement
Pakistan Movement
The Pakistan Movement or Tehrik-e-Pakistan refers to the historical movement to have an independent Muslim state named Pakistan created from the separation of the north-western region of the Indian subcontinent, partitioned within or outside the British Indian Empire. It had its origins in the...
and emigrated to the newly created state upon partition. He is the founder of Darul Uloom Karachi, an institute of Islamic Sciences in Pakistan.
Works
He wrote around one hundred books explaining the Qur'anQur'an
The Quran , also transliterated Qur'an, Koran, Alcoran, Qur’ān, Coran, Kuran, and al-Qur’ān, is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God . It is regarded widely as the finest piece of literature in the Arabic language...
and interpreting Islamic law
Sharia
Sharia law, is the moral code and religious law of Islam. Sharia is derived from two primary sources of Islamic law: the precepts set forth in the Quran, and the example set by the Islamic prophet Muhammad in the Sunnah. Fiqh jurisprudence interprets and extends the application of sharia to...
. His best-known and most widely translated work is the Ma'ariful Qur'an ("The Wisdom of the Qur'an"), which he finished (in Urdu) four years before his death. This work, a commentary on the entire Qur'an, began life as a series of weekly lectures on Radio Pakistan than ran for ten years.
See also
- Muhammad Qasim NanotviMuhammad Qasim NanotviMuhammad Qasim Nanotvi was a world famous Islamic Scholar and one of the main people responsible for establishing the Deobandi movement. Nanotvi was born in 1833 in Nanota, a village near Saharanpur, India. He completed his primary education in his hometown and then he was sent to Deoband, where he...
- Rashid Ahmad Gangohi
- Husain Ahmad Madani
- Maulana Mehmud HasanMaulana Mehmud HasanShaykh-ul-Hind Maulana Mehmud Al-Hasan was an eminent Islamic Scholar who made tireless efforts in the freedom struggle during the British Rule in India. He was conferred upon by the title 'Shaykh-ul-Hind' which means the leading scholar of India. -Early life:Mehmud Hasan was born in the town of...
- Shabbir Ahmad UsmaniShabbir Ahmad UsmaniShabbir Ahmad Usmani was an Islamic scholar who supported the creation of an Islamic system of governance in Pakistan after its creation in 1947. He was a theologian, writer, orator, politician, and expert in tafsir and hadith...
- Ashraf Ali Thanwi
- Anwar Shah KashmiriAnwar Shah KashmiriMaulana Anwar Shah Al Lolabi Kashmiri was an Indian scholar of Islam. During his career, he taught at a number of prominent institutions, including the Darul Uloom Deoband which contains a gate named at his honor...
- Muhammad Ilyas al-Kandhlawi
- Ubaidullah SindhiUbaidullah SindhiMaulana Ubaidullah Sindhi was a noted pan-Islamic leader a political activist of the Indian independence movement...
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