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

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and

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for more than 50 years.

Biography

Ghulam Ali was born in the small village of Babanian near

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, 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 different scholars of his era, including Naeem ud Deen Muradabadi, Ahmad Yaar Khan Naeemi, Abul Hasanat Qadri, Syed Muhammad Ashrafi, etc. He studied in Lahore with Abul Barakat Syed Ahmad Qadri from Hizb ul Ahnaf who gave him the title "Shaikh ul-Quran", later adopted by others. Okarvi died on Tuesday 11 June 2000 CE (11 Safar 1421h) at the age of 80 in

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. He was buried on land he owned in Ashraf ul Madaris,

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, Okara.

Activities

He took part in the

Pakistan Movement The Pakistan Movement ( ur, , translit=Teḥrīk-e-Pākistān) was a political movement in the first half of the 20th century that aimed for the creation of Pakistan from the Muslim-majority areas of British India. It was connected to the per ...

on the platform of

All India Sunni Conference All India Sunni Conference (Hindi, आल इन्डिया सुन्नी कांफ्रेंस Urdu, آل انڈیا سنی کانفرنس ) was an organisation of Indian Sunni Muslims associated with Sufism and this Conference b ...

. In 1948, he was one of the founding members of

Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP) ( ur, ) is a Islamist political party in Pakistan. It was founded in 1948 by leaders of All India Sunni Conference. JUP exercised considerable political influence in Pakistani politics during 1970s to 2003. Its stude ...

. Later on, he continued his struggle for the implementation of Islamic Constitution in the country. After on he actively participated in the Movements of Khatme Nabuwat and Nizam e Mustafa in the Country. In 1964, he, along with other scholars, declared that to assign the office of the Head of the State to a female is "un-Islamic and Haram," and "destructive" for the country and the nation. In 1969, after the Ayub Khan era, he gathered JUP splits in Lahore and united them to take part in the election. His party was the third largest party in West Pakistan during the 1970 election. He remained its Punjab Chapter's President in 1970s. In 1977, he was also the Punjab President of

Pakistan National Alliance The Pakistan National Alliance (Urdu: پاکستان قومی اتحاد, Acronym: PNA), was a populist and consolidated right-wing political alliance, consisting of nine political parties of the country. Formed in 1977, the country's leading ...

Disciples

* Muhammad Shafee Okarvi. * Pir Muhammad Inayat Ahmad Naqshbndi (Hazoor Ganj e Inayat Sarkar) * Pir Sabir Shah, Former Chief Minister of KPK. * Kaukab Noorani Okarvi

References

6. ganjeinayatsarkar.org Website {{DEFAULTSORT:Okarvi, Ghulam Ali 1919 births 2000 deaths Barelvis Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan politicians Punjabi people Pakistani people of Kashmiri descent People from Okara, Pakistan