Mufti Faizul Waheed | |
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 Faizul Waheed in 2021 | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 1964 (1964) Dodhasan Bala,Thanamandi,Rajouri, India |
| Died | (aged 56) ASCOMS,Jammu |
| Main interest(s) | Tafsir |
| Notable work(s) | Faiz al-Mannān |
| Alma mater | |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
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.
Faizul Waheed was born in Dodasan Bala,Thanamandi,Rajouri in 1964.[2] He was schooled at the Madrasa Kāshif-ul-Uloom in Thanamandi and the Madrasa Tālim-ul-Qur'ān inMuzaffarnagar.[2] He completed memorizing the Quran and specialising in the "qirat" (Quran recitations) in 1982.[2] He studied two years of thedars-e-nizami in Madrasa Khādim-ul-Islam inHapur and graduated from theDarul Uloom Deoband in 1991.[3] He received anM.A. inUrdu from theDr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University.[3]
In 1992, Faizul Waheed began teaching at the Madrasa Ashraf-ul-Uloom inJammu.[3] 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.[3] 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.[3] He was imprisoned under thePublic Safety Act for eleven months.[3] He continued teaching at the madrasa for next two years and was arrested again in May 1997.[3] He was released in August 2000 and he continued teaching at the Markaz-ul-Ma’arif.[3] He served as the chief-mufti and patron of the Markaz-ul-Ma’arif.[4][5][6]
Faizul Waheed was an authority inIslamic jurisprudence and an exegete of the Quran.[5] He translated theQur'ān intoGojri language and owned the credit of being its first translator in that language.[5] He had penned the translation and the exegesis of theQur'ān during his imprisonment.[3] In November 2018, he said while speaking at a convention inGool, Ramban that "the success of every person is concealed in theQur'ān".[7]
Faizul Waheed was admitted at the Acharaya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences (ASCOMS) inJammu on 23 May 2021 to be treated forCOVID-19;[5][8] he died on 1 June 2021 from post COVID-19 complications.[9][5][10]Altaf Bukhari,Ghulam Ahmad Mir andSyed Basharat Ahmed Bukhari expressed grief over his death.[8][11]Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali expressed that the scholar's death was an irreparable loss.[10]
Faizul Waheed wroteFaiz al-Mannān,[12] the first ever translation and commentary of theQur'ān inGojri language.[13]
His other works include:[14]