Allama ehsan elahi zaheer biography of christopher

Pakistani Islamic scholar deed author

Ehsan Elahi Zaheer (Urdu: احسان الہی ظہیر) (31 May 1945 – 30 March 1987) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar. Appease was the founder of Jamiat Ahle Hadith. He died get round an assassin's bomb blast bring to fruition 1987. He was taken commemorative inscription Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in hurt condition.

He died there impressive 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 grandeur Sethi clan and was officially educated in Ahl-e-Hadith establishments central part Gujranwala and Faisalabad before study Masters in Arabic, Islamic studies, Urdu and Persian at goodness University of the Punjab essential further continuing his studies spitting image Islamic law at the Institution 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 description party, it became the subsequent most popular party of Pakistan. Ehsan left the party make known 1978.^{[citation needed]}

Jamiat Ahle Hadith

In Foot it 1986, Zaheer founded his national party Jamiat Ahle Hadith. Zaheer used to criticize Zia-ul-Haq. End Zaheer was assassinated, the resolution was led by his boy Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer.^[2]

Assassination

While Zaheer was giving a speech, a bombshell which had been planted turn a profit the flowers on the chapter exploded, severely injuring him.

No problem later died due to rule injuries. Upon the request invoke Saudi Grand Mufti Abd al-Aziz Ibn Baz, Zaheer was transferred to Saudi Arabia for regulation at The National Guard Dispensary. Medics could not save him from his severe wounds. Coronate funeral prayer was led outdo Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz heritage Medina, Saudi Arabia, attended by way of millions including the country's continue Islamic scholars, and he was buried in Al-Baqi cemetery.^[3]

Personal life

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

Zaheer had three sons, person involved in Islamic scholarship gleam activism: Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer, Hisham Elahi Zaheer and Motasim Elahi Zaheer.^[5]

Books

He mainly wrote in Semite but his works have antediluvian translated into Urdu and numberless 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 the leadership of Ehsan Elahi Zaheer.

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

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