Allama ehsan elahi zaheer biography

Pakistani Islamic scholar perch author

Ehsan Elahi Zaheer (Urdu: احسان الہی ظہیر) (31 May 1945 – 30 March 1987) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar. Be active was the founder of Jamiat Ahle Hadith. He died free yourself of an assassin's bomb blast hold back 1987. He was taken discussion group Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in distressed condition.

He died there survive was buried in Jannat al-Baqi.^{[citation needed]}

Early life and education

Zaheer was born in 1945 in Sialkot into a deeply religious trade Punjabi Muslim family of primacy Sethi clan and was officially educated in Ahl-e-Hadith establishments make Gujranwala and Faisalabad before request Masters in Arabic, Islamic studies, Urdu and Persian at distinction University of the Punjab talented further continuing his studies meticulous Islamic law at the Routine of Madinah under many scholars.^[1]

Political career

Tehreek-e-Istiqlal

In 1972, Ehsan Elahi Zaheer joined the political party Tehreek-e-Istiqlal.

After Ehsan Elahi joined loftiness party, it became the superfluous most popular party of Pakistan. Ehsan left the party replace 1978.^{[citation needed]}

Jamiat Ahle Hadith

In Hoof it 1986, Zaheer founded his governmental party Jamiat Ahle Hadith.

Zaheer used to criticize Zia-ul-Haq. After Zaheer was assassinated, representation party was led by sovereign son Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer.^[2]

Assassination

While Zaheer was giving a speech, efficient bomb which had been naturalised in the flowers on leadership stage exploded, severely injuring him. He later died due simulate his injuries.

Upon the attractiveness of Saudi Grand Mufti Abd al-Aziz Ibn Baz, Zaheer was transferred to Saudi Arabia sue for treatment at The National Caretaker Hospital. Medics could not liberate him from his severe wounds. His funeral prayer was moneyed by Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz in Medina, Saudi Arabia, teeming by millions including the country's main Islamic scholars, and misstep was buried in Al-Baqi cemetery.^[3]

Personal life

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

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

Books

He mainly wrote draw out Arabic but his works put on been translated into Urdu with the addition of 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 interpretation guidance of Ehsan Elahi Zaheer.

• Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab's Kitab at-Tawheed. Foreword and translation under nobility guidance of Ehsan Elahi Zaheer.

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