Maulana Abdul Majeed Ludhianvi (born; 5 June 1934 – 1 February 2015) ( Urdu: مولانا عبدالمجید لدھیانوی) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar and writer who served as 7th Emir of

Aalmi Majlis Tahaffuz Khatm-e-Nubuwwat Aalmi Majlis Tahaffuz Khatm-e-Nubuwwat ( ur, عالمی مجلس تحفظ ختمِ نبوت) is an international Islamic organization. Founded by Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari in 1954 in Multan when Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam was banned due to Khat ...

and a senior member of the executive committee of

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Early life and education

Ludhianvi was born to Hafiz Muhammad Yusuf in 1934 in an Aryan family in Salempur Jagraon Tehsil, Ludhiana district. His father was a pious man and a middle-class landowner and farmer. He got his early education from Government High School at Salempur. During the eighth grade, it was decided the partition of India. He moved to Pakistan with his parents and settled in

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and passed the middle school examination here. After that in 1949 he entered Jamia Darul Uloom Rabbania in

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, to get religious education. After two years, he enrolled in Madrasa Ashraf Al-Rasheed in Faisalabad. Meanwhile, he married into a family living in

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. Then he entered Jamia Qasim-ul-Uloom Multan and graduated from

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in 1956. He studied

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and

Tirmidhi Abū ʿĪsā Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā as-Sulamī aḍ-Ḍarīr al-Būghī at-Tirmidhī ( ar, أبو عيسى محمد بن عيسى السلمي الضرير البوغي الترمذي; fa, , ''Termezī''; 824 – 9 October 892 CE / 209 - 2 ...

from Maulana Abdul Khaliq, a student of

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, and

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from Mufti Mahmood. He also had the permission of Hadith from

Muhammad Zakariyya al-Kandhlawi Muḥammad Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad Yaḥyá Ṣiddīqī Kāndhlawī Sahāranpūrī Muhājir Madanī (''Muḥammad Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad Yaḥyá aṣ-Ṣiddīqī al-Kāndahlawī as-Sahāranfūrī al-Madanī''; 2 February 189824 May 1982) ...

Muhammad Idris Kandhlawi Muḥammad Idrīs ibn Muḥammad Ismā‘īl Ṣiddīqī Kāndhlawī ( ur, ‎; 20 August 189928 July 1974) was a Deobandi Islamic scholar particularly known as a scholar of hadith and tafsir (exegesis of the Qur'an). He held the post of Sh ...

and

Muhammad Yousuf Banuri Muhammad Yousuf Banuri (7 May 1908 – 17 October 1977) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar, founder of Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia and former President and Vice President of Wifaq ul Madaris Al-Arabia, Pakistan from 30 May 1973 to 17 October 1977. Ed ...

Career

After the demise of Khawaja Khan Muhammad in 2010, he was elected Amir of the

. He also served as 4th president of Iqra Rozatul Atfal Trust.

Literary works

* Tibyan ul Furqan (6. Vol) * Khutbaat e Hakeem ul Asar (12. Vol)

Death

He died on 1 February 2015 of a heart attack at a seminar of the Wifaq ul Madaris Al-Arabia at Multan. His funeral prayer was led by

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(then Prime Minister),

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(then Chief Minister) and Maulana Fazlur Rehman have offered condolences on his death.

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References

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