Faizul Waheed (also known asFaizul Waheed Qāsmī;[1] 1964 – 1 June 2021) was an Indian Islamic scholar, jurist and anexegete of theQuran fromJammu and Kashmir, who served as the chief-mufti of Markaz-ul-Ma'arif, an Islamic seminary in Bathindi,Jammu. He wroteFaiz al-Mannān, the first ever translation and commentary of the Quran inGojri language.
In 1992, Faizul Waheed began teaching at the Madrasa Ashraf-ul-Uloom inJammu.[5] He alongside Jamāluddīn and Nazīr Aḥmad started Jamia Markaz-ul-Ma'arif, an Islamic seminary in Bathindi,Jammu and moved there on 5 October 1995.[5] As the new institution started, he was subject to someDeobandi–Barelvi conflicts triggered by local followers of the Barelvi movement, which led to his arrest in August 1995.[5] He was imprisoned under thePublic Safety Act for eleven months.[5] He continued teaching at the madrasa for next two years and was arrested again in May 1997.[5] He was released in August 2000 and he continued teaching at the Markaz-ul-Ma’arif.[5] He served as the chief-mufti and patron of the Markaz-ul-Ma’arif.[6][7][8]
Faizul Waheed was an authority inIslamic jurisprudence and an exegete of the Quran.[7] He translated theQur'ān intoGojri language and owned the credit of being its first translator in that language.[7] He had penned the translation and the exegesis of theQur'ān during his imprisonment.[5] In November 2018, he said while speaking at a convention inGool, Ramban that "the success of every person is concealed in theQur'ān".[9]
^Abdur Rahman, Muhammad (2019).تفسیر فیض المنان میں مفتی فیض الوحید کے منہج و اسلوب کا تحقیقی مطالعہ [A study of Mufti Faizul Waheed's adopted methodology and style in the Tafseer Faiz al-Mannan] (Thesis) (in Urdu).Islamabad:Allama Iqbal Open University.
