Maulana Khawaja Khan Muhammad (( ur, ) born; 1916 - 5 May 2010) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar and Ameer of the

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Early life and education

Khawaja Khan Muhammad was born in 1920 in

Mianwali District The Mianwali District ( ur, ), is a district located in Sargodha Division of Punjab province, Pakistan. It was separated from NWFP in 1901, and has a border with the Chakwal, Attock,Kohat, Karak, Lakki Marwat, Dera Ismail Khan, Bhakkar, a ...

to Khawaja Umar Sahib. He attended school to the sixth grade, then he studied Quran and early religious books at Khanqah Sirajia Kundian. He went to Jamiah Islamiah Talimuddin Dabhel for further education. Then he went to Darul Uloom Deoband to complete his studies. Apart from

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and other eminent teachers, he also got the honor of being a special student of Shaykh-ul-Islam Hazrat Maulana Syed Husain Ahmed Madani.

Career

After graduating from Darul Uloom Deoband in 1941, he returned to the Khanqah Sirajia Kundian and began teaching there. He served Khanqah Sirajia as principal for about sixty years till his death. He also served as Emir of the

after the death of

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in 1977. He used to perform Hajj almost every year, so far he has performed about 65 Hajj.

Death and legacy

Khawaja Khan Muhammad was more than 90 years old and apparently had no disease except old age and weakness but in the last few days he was undergoing treatment in Multan due to severe Jaundice and died on Wednesday 5 May 2010 after Maghrib prayers. His funeral prayers were offered by his son and successor Hazret Khawja Abu Saad Khalil Ahmed, which was attended by millions of people from across the country, and was buried next to his mentor Hazret Maulana Abdullah Ludhianvi r.a in the Khanqah Sarajia cemetery. The funeral was attended by many scholars like Maulana Fazlur Rehman, then Federal Minister Atta-ur-Rehman, Ubaidur Rahman Zia,

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and

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, Syed Muhammad Kafeel Bukhari, Maulana Amjad Khan, Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, Abdul Latif Khalid Cheema,

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, Gul Naseeb Khan and Qari Fayyaz-ur-Rehman Alvi. Punjab Assembly member Ali Haider Noor Khan Niazi representing then Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif attended the funeral prayer and also laid a wreath on the grave.

References

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