Muhammad Yar Shah Naqvi Najafi (1913 in Alipur, Punjab – 1990 in Lahore) was a Pakistani

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mujtahid and scholar.

Life

He completed his secondary education in 1932. After completing his secondary education, he decided to study religion. For religious studies, Najafi went to

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to study from Allamah Syed Muhammad Baqir Hindi. Later, he traveled to

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for higher religious education. After completing his education and receiving

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e Ijtihad from many of his teachers, he came back to

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. He lived in Jalalpur and then came back to his city Alipur and started a madarasa (a place for religious studies) that was known as Jamia Ilmiya Dar-ul-Huda Muhammadia. Najafi died on 20 December 1990 in Lahore, but was buried in Alipur.

Students

His students include:Kitab Ilmi Inqlab ke Bani * Syed Muhammad Safder(Chakwal) * Hussain Bakhsh Jarra *

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(Sargodha) *

Syed Safdar Hussain Najafi Syed Safdar Hussain Najafi (مولانا سید صفدر حسین نجفی) was a scholar and religious leader. Social background Family and childhood Syed Safdar Hussain Najafi was born in 1932 at Alipur, a tehsil of Muzaffargarh District ...

(Lahore) *

Hafiz Riaz Hussain Najafi Hafiz Syed Riaz Hussain Najafi is a Shia scholar from Pakistan. He is the principal of Jamia-tul-Muntazar Lahore, the largest Shia madrassah Madrasa (, also , ; Arabic: مدرسة , pl. , ) is the Arabic word for any type of educational ...

(Lahore) (son-in-law, disciple) *

Syed Sajid Ali Naqvi Syed Sajid Ali Naqvi ( ur, ) is a Pakistani Shia Islamic scholar from Rawalpindi, Pakistan. He is the founder & leader of Islami Tehreek Pakistan also Patron-in-Chief of Shia Ulema Council. His main objective is to create an Islamic rule in the P ...

Hassan Raza Ghadeeri Ayatollah Hassan Raza Ghadeeri (born 1952) is a Shia scholar and Ayatollah (mujtahid) of Pakistan. His father, Mufti Muzammil Hussain Meesmi, was the first Mufti of Punjab. Biography Grand Ayatollah Hassan Raza Ghadeeri was born in Pakistan ...

(London)

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Life

Students

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