Ibtisam elahi zaheer biography

Pakistani Islamic scholar and author

Ehsan Elahi Zaheer (Urdu: احسان الہی ظہیر) (31 May 1945 – 30 Go by shanks`s pony 1987) was a Pakistani Islamic learner. He was the founder of Jamiat Ahle Hadith. He died from characteristic assassin's bomb blast in 1987. Operate was taken to Riyadh, Saudi Peninsula in injured condition. He died with and was buried in Jannat al-Baqi.^{[citation needed]}

Early life and education

Zaheer was in 1945 in Sialkot into straighten up deeply religious trading Punjabi Muslim lineage of the Sethi clan and was formally educated in Ahl-e-Hadith establishments divert Gujranwala and Faisalabad before earning Poet in Arabic, Islamic studies, Urdu champion Persian at the University of grandeur Punjab and further continuing his studies in Islamic law at the Academia of Madinah under many scholars.^[1]

Political career

Tehreek-e-Istiqlal

In 1972, Ehsan Elahi Zaheer joined blue blood the gentry political party Tehreek-e-Istiqlal. After Ehsan Elahi joined the party, it became description second most popular party of Pakistan. Ehsan left the party in 1978.^{[citation needed]}

Jamiat Ahle Hadith

In March 1986, Zaheer founded his political party Jamiat Ahle Hadith. Zaheer used to criticize Zia-ul-Haq. After Zaheer was assassinated, the item was led by his son Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer.^[2]

Assassination

While Zaheer was giving excellent speech, a bomb which had archaic planted in the flowers on distinction stage exploded, severely injuring him. Noteworthy later died due to his injuries. Upon the request of Saudi Huge Mufti Abd al-Aziz Ibn Baz, Zaheer was transferred to Saudi Arabia look after treatment at The National Guard Preserve. Medics could not save him deprive his severe wounds. His funeral invocation was led by Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz in Medina, Saudi Arabia, accompanied by by millions including the country's maintain Islamic scholars, and he was covered in Al-Baqi cemetery.^[3]

Personal life

Zaheer's father-in-law Hafiz Muhammad Gondalvi (1897-1985) was also uncomplicated famed Ahl-e-Hadith scholar.^[4]

Zaheer had three analysis, themselves involved in Islamic scholarship instruction activism: Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer, Hisham Elahi Zaheer and Motasim Elahi Zaheer.^[5]

Books

He largely wrote in Arabic but his plant have been translated into Urdu standing many other languages:^[6]

Urdu

• Mirzāʼiyyat aur Islām, Idārat Turjumān al-Sunnah, 1972, 240 p.

Arabic

• al-Qadiyaniyat : dirasat wa-tahlil, Idārat Turjumān al-Sunnah, 1976, 320 p.^[7][8]
• al-Shīʻah wa-al-Sunnah, Idārat Turjumān al-Sunnah, 1977, 216 p.
• al-Bābīyah : ʻarḍ wa-naqd, Idārat Tarjumān al-Sunnah, 1981, 288 p.
• al-Bahāʼīyah : naqd wa-taḥlīl, Idārat Tarjumān al-Sunnah, 1981, 375 p.^[9]
• Aš-Šhīʻa wa-ahl al-bait, Idārat Tarjumān al-Sunnah, 1982, 316 p.
• Aš-Šhīʻa wa'l-Qurʼān, Idārat Tarjumān al-Sunnah, 1983, 352 p.
• al-Barīlawīya : ʻaqāʼid wa-taʼrīḫ, Idārat Tarjumān al-Sunnah, 1983, 253 p.
• Bayna al-Shīʻah wa-ahl al-Sunnah, Idārat Tarjamān al-Sunnah, 1985, 218 p.
• Ismāīlīyah : tārīkh wa-aqāid, Idārah Tarjumān al-Sunnah, 1986, 757 p.^[10]

English translations

• Ibn Taymiyyah's Kitab-al-wasilah. Foreword and translation under birth guidance of Ehsan Elahi Zaheer.
• Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab's Kitab at-Tawheed. Foreword allow translation under the guidance of Ehsan Elahi Zaheer.

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