Muhammad Yousuf Ludhianvi (1932–2000) was a Pakistani Sunni

Muslim scholar In Islam, the ''ulama'' (; ar, علماء ', singular ', "scholar", literally "the learned ones", also spelled ''ulema''; feminine: ''alimah'' ingularand ''aalimath'' lural are the guardians, transmitters, and interpreters of religious ...

, author, '' muhaddith'', Ahrari leader, and Vice President 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 Kha ...

. He was born in Esapur, Ludhiana, Eastern Punjab, India. He was assassinated on 18 May 2000 in Karachi, Pakistan, at Naseerabad market while going to his office at Numaish Chowrangi before at 9 AM while buying fruits.

Biography

Yusuf Ludhianvi was born in Isapur Village,

Ludhiana District Ludhiana district is one of the 23 districts in the Indian state of Punjab, India, Punjab. It is Punjab's largest district by both area and population. Ludhiana, the largest city in Punjab, is the district headquarters. The main industries are ...

, Punjab, India in 1932. His father, Allah Baksh, a practicing Muslim and follower of religious leader

Abdul Qadir Raipuri Shah Abdul Qadir Raipuri شاہ عبد القادر رائے پوری (born 1878 / 1295AH) was a spiritual reformer and well known guide of Islam. Life His father Hafiz Ahmed was born in Toha Moharram Khan of Photohar of Chakwa District in Indi ...

, was the chief (''number dar'') of his village. He migrated to Pakistan after partition, and settled in a village 335WB which is situated near district Vahari. Yusuf Ludhianvi received his primary Islamic education in Ludhiana, British India. He finished it in Multan, Pakistan under the guidance of Khair Muhammad Jalandhari before becoming a distinguished teacher of Hadith, teaching first in Faisalabad and Sahiwal, Punjab, Pakistan and then at Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia in Karachi, Pakistan. Yusuf Ludhianvi wrote over 100 books that have been translated into a number of languages. ''Aap Kay Masail Aur Unka Hul'' (regarded as an authority on Hanafi Fiqh) and ''Ikhtilaf-e- Ummat and Sirat-e-Mustaqeem'' (''Factions in the Ummah and the Straight Path'') are among his most famous works. Besides being the editor of ''Al-Bayyinat'', he was the vice-president of

(the International Committee for the Protection of the Finality of Prophethood) and one of the founding fathers of the Iqra school. He taught hadith at Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia in Karachi, one of the largest seminaries in Pakistan. Due to his religious knowledge and ability, Muhammad Yousuf Banuri, Emir of Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia, appointed him to edit the ''Khatm-e-Nubuwwat'' (a weekly newspaper) and the ''Al-Bayyinat'' (a monthly magazine). Before being murdered, Yusuf Ludhianvi led efforts to end the ongoing violence between Sunni and Shia Muslims. He was a well-known scholar of the Sunni sect of Islam and had thousands of followers all over Pakistan. Hundreds of his supporters came out into the streets of Karachi to protest his murder. The news of his murder even caused a decline in the

Pakistan Stock Exchange The Pakistan Stock Exchange ( ur, , abbreviated as PSX) is a stock exchange in Pakistan with trading floors in Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore. PSX was classified by MSCI as a frontier market on 8 September 2021. The PSX was established on 11 ...

index at the end of the day.

References

Bibliography

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Hussain, Imran

External links

Ahrar: a chapter in Indian Muslim history on The Milli Gazette (newspaper)

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ludhianvi, Yusuf 1932 births 2000 deaths Pakistani Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam Punjabi people People from Ludhiana Pakistani educators Hanafi fiqh scholars Deobandis Deputy Emirs of Aalmi Majlis Tahaffuz Khatm-e-Nubuwwat Academic staff of Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia Assassinated Pakistani Islamic scholars