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Okarvi
Okarvi is an Urdu surname signifying association with the city of Okara, Pakistan. Notable people with this surname include: * Ghulam Ali Okarvi, Pakistani religious scholar * Kaukab Noorani Okarvi (born 1957), Pakistani religious scholar * Muhammad Shafee Okarvi Muhammad Shafee Okarvi ( ur, اردو نام: محمد شفیع اوکاڑوی; 2 February 1930 – 24 April 1984), also known by his honorific as Maulana Muhammad Shafee Okarvi, was a Pakistani religious scholar and orator. He was one of ... (1930–1984), Pakistani religious scholar See also * Okara (other){{surname Urdu-language surnames Toponymic surnames People from Okara, Pakistan Nisbas Surnames of Pakistani origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhammad Shafee Okarvi
Muhammad Shafee Okarvi ( ur, اردو نام: محمد شفیع اوکاڑوی; 2 February 1930 – 24 April 1984), also known by his honorific as Maulana Muhammad Shafee Okarvi, was a Pakistani religious scholar and orator. He was one of the founders of the Jamaa'at-e-Ahle-Sunnat Pakistan and the Gulzaar-e-Habeeb Trust. He has received various honors from the Pakistani government and private institutes including the ''Sitara-e-Imtiaz''. Over a span of thirty-eight years, Okarvi delivered over 18,000 speeches on many religious topics. Early life and education Okarvi was born in Khem Karan, East Punjab, India, to Haaji Shaiekh Karam Ilaahi, a local businessman. He was the eldest son of seven siblings. He began his education by learning to read and memorize the Quran and he completed middle school. Personal life Okarvi married at a young age and fathered eleven children, these being five sons and six daughters. In 1952, however, his two eldest sons, three-year-old Muneer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaukab Noorani Okarvi
Kaukab Noorani Okarvi ( ur, کوکب نورانی اوکاڑوی born 17 August 1957) is a Pakistani religious scholar and writer of Ahle-Sunnat Wa Jamaa’at Sunni. He is the son of Muhammad Shafee Okarvi, who was founder of the Jamaat Ahle Sunnat, the main Barelvi organisation of Pakistan. Early life and education Okarvi was born in Karachi, Pakistan. Before his birth in a family of eleven brothers and sisters, His two eldest brothers had died. He is from a business family of Yeman who accepted Islam through Abu Bakr. The members of his family came to India for business and settled there hundreds of years ago. His elders were mostly businessmen by profession but personally they had spiritual temperament in nature. In his book, ''Deoband to Bareilly'' he writes, "To tell you the truth, I am a mere seeker of knowledge in the fields of religion, spirituality, and scholastic matters. This little bit recognition of letters and words and the skills of experimenting with them that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghulam Ali Okarvi
Ghulam Ali Okarvi ( Punjabi, ur, ; 11 June 1919 CE or 20 Ramadan 1337 AH – 16 May 2000 CE or 11 Safar 1421 AH) was an Islamic scholar, orator, jurist, muhadis, mufasir, and linguist from Pakistan. He taught the Quran and Hadith for more than 50 years. Biography Ghulam Ali was born in the small village of Babanian near Lalamusa, Gujrat in British India. His ancestors were founders of the village. Around five to six generations before his birth, they arrived from Srinagar and named the village Babanian. Okarvi's primary education was at Govt. Model Primary School in the neighbouring village Umar Chak and middle-level education at Middle School Jora Karnana in the neighbouring village Jora Karnana. He started his early Persian language education at Umer Chak. For higher education, he formally studied in Jamia Arabia Karimia Hanfia (branch of Anjuman Hizbul Ahnaf, Lahore) in Jalandhar, India and Hizb ul Ahnaf, Lahore. Furthermore, he was greatly influenced by differe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okara, Pakistan
Okara ( Punjabi, ur, ), is the capital city of Okara District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The name Okara is derived from ''Okaan'', which is the name of a type of tree. It is the 23rd largest city of Pakistan by population. The city is located southwest of the city of Lahore and Faisalabad is 100 km bypassing away Ravi River. It is known for its agriculture-based economy and cotton mills. The nearest major city to Okara is Sahiwal, which was formerly known as Montgomery. Kasur is also located in the east of the city. Pakistan military dairy farms, known for their cheese, are situated in Okara. Pul Dhool near Abdulla Sugar Mill is a town in the Okara district. Pul Dhool is on Hujra Chunian road. From Hujra Shah Muqeem 9KM and from Chunian 17KM.These farms were established before the creation of Pakistan in 1947. Climate The climate of Okara is usually warm and dry. The coldest months are December to February, when temperatures may drop to , with moderate rainfall. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okara (other)
Okara may refer to: * Okara (food), soy pulp in East Asian cuisines * Okara, Pakistan, a city in Pakistan ** Okara District, the highest-level administrative division with the name ** Okara Tehsil, a lower-level administrative division ** Okara railway station ** Okara Cantonment, adjacent to Okara city * Okara Park, a sports stadium in New Zealand * Gabriel Okara (1921–2019), Nigerian writer See also * Okarvi Okarvi is an Urdu surname signifying association with the city of Okara, Pakistan. Notable people with this surname include: * Ghulam Ali Okarvi, Pakistani religious scholar * Kaukab Noorani Okarvi (born 1957), Pakistani religious scholar * Muhamma ... * Ocara, a municipality in Brazil {{Disambiguation, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toponymic Surnames
A toponymic surname or topographic surname is a surname derived from a place name."Toponymic Surnames as Evidence of the Origin: Some Medieval Views" , by Benjamin Z. Kedar. This can include specific locations, such as the individual's place of origin, residence, or of lands that they held, or can be more generic, derived from topographic features.Iris Shagir, "The Medieval Evolution of By-naming: Notions from the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem", ''In Laudem Hierosolymitani'' (Shagir, Ellenblum & Riley-Smith, eds.), Ashgate Publishing, 2007, pp. 49-59. Toponymic surnames originated as non-hereditary personal s, and only subsequently came to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Okara, Pakistan
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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