Maulana Noor Muhammad (1936 – 23 August 2010) ( Urdu: ) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar, writer and politician, who served as a member of the 11th

National Assembly of Pakistan The National Assembly ( ur, , translit=Aiwān-e-Zairīñ, , or ur, قومی اسمبلی, Romanization, romanized: ''Qaumi Assembly'') is the lower house, lower legislative house of the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Pakistan, which al ...

from 1997 to 1999.

Early life and education

Noor Muhammad was born in 1936 in Bizenkhel,

Bannu District Bannu District ( ps, بنو ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district in Bannu Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It was recorded as a district in 1861 during the British Raj. It is one of 26 districts that make up the Khyber Pakh ...

, to Maulvi Nazar Muhammad Ibn Maulvi Ahmad Noor in a well-known intellectual and spiritual family. He belongs to the

Ahmadzai tribe Aḥmadzai ( ps, احمدزی, "descendants of Aḥmad"; also spelled Ahmedzai) is a Sunni Muslim Pashtun tribe found in South Waziristan and Bannu District in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. They are a clan of the larger W ...

of Wazir. He received his early education from his late father at home and in 1951 he entered Jamia Qasim Ul Uloom, Multan. In the same year, Mufti Mahmood joined Jamia Qasim Ul Uloom as its president. He studied there for five years under the supervision of Mufti Mahmood.

Career

In 1956, he assumed teaching and oratory duties in Wana, Waziristan, in support of his late father. In 1961, he started the construction of the Jama Masjid Wana, South Waziristan. The construction of the mosque was completed in ten years and at the same time, he laid the foundation of Jamia Darul Uloom Waziristan. Besides studying in Jamia Qasim Ul Uloom, he ran a two-month continuous political campaign for Mufti Mahmood in Dera Ismail Khan. In 1997 he was elected to the

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as an independent and later joined the

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(JUI-F).

Death

On 23 August 2010, Maulana Noor Mohammad was martyred in Jamia Masjid Wana, Waziristan afternoon prayers in the blessed month of Ramadan by a teenage suicide bomber along with more than thirty companions. He was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard in Wana and more than 10,000 people attended his funeral prayers. Then

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and other national leaders strongly condemned the attack and expressed deep shock and grief over the tragic incident.

Literary works

* ''Uloom ul Anbiya aor Taskheer e Kainat'' (علوم الانیباء اور تسخیر کائنات) * ''Edah ulmaqal fi Ruet-e-Hilal'' (ایضاح المقال فی رو یت الھلال) * ''Jihad-e-Afghanistan'' (جہاد افغانستان) * ''Paish amdah nai masail ki Fiqhi tehqeeq'' (پیش آمدہ نئے مسائل کی فقہی تحقیق) * ''Islami inqilab aor Jihad-e-Islam'' (اسلامی انقلاب اور جہاد اسلام)

References

{{reflist 1936 births 2010 deaths Pakistani Islamic religious leaders Pakistani religious writers Pakistani religious leaders Pakistani MNAs 1997–1999 People from Bannu District People from South Waziristan Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) politicians Deobandis Pakistani Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam Pakistani Sunni Muslims Muslim missionaries Assassinated religious leaders Assassinated Pakistani Islamic scholars Deaths by suicide bomber Terrorism deaths in Pakistan Jamia Qasim Ul Uloom alumni