Draft:Tahir ul-Qadri

Tahir ul-Qadri
Name	Tahir ul-Qadri
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Personal Details
Birth Place	Pakistan
Brith Date	1951 (CE)
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Religion	Islam

Tahir ul-Qadri or Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri is a thinker, interpreter, teacher, and social reformer from among the Muslim scholars of Pakistan and a resident of Canada.

Birth

He was born in 1951 in the city of Jhang, Pakistan.

Education

He obtained a Master's degree in Law from the University of the Punjab and subsequently earned a PhD in 1986 with a thesis titled Punishments in Islam, Their Classification and Philosophy.

Teachers

Among his teachers, the following individuals can be named:

• His father, Dr. Fariduddin Qadri;
• Mawlana Ziauddin Madani;
• Mawlana Ahmad Saeed Kazmi;
• Dr. Burhanuddin Ahmad Farooqi;
• Imam Muhammad ibn Alawi al-Maliki.

Academic Activity

He is a professor at the Law Faculty of the University of the Punjab. To date, he has delivered thousands of lectures on various subjects including religious, spiritual, historical, ethical, legal, jurisprudential, political, social, economic, cultural, scientific, and comparative studies. In addition to universities in Pakistan, he has also lectured at universities in other countries on various scientific and intellectual topics. His lectures have been broadcast on some television networks in Arab countries and the Western world.

Works

His primary language is Urdu, but he has authored over three hundred books in Urdu, English, and Arabic, many of which have been translated into other languages.

Founding of Minhaj-ul-Quran

"Tehrik-e-Minhaj-ul-Quran" is a Quranic organization that he established in Pakistan. In addition to extensive activity within Pakistan, it operates in more than eighty countries worldwide, and its main mission is the revival of the Muslim nation and Unity of the Islamic World. He has established a non-governmental organization for the promotion of literacy that is active among Urdu speakers throughout the world.

Founding of Pakistan Awami Tehreek

The establishment of the political party "Pakistan Awami Tehreek" is another of his activities, which is active not only within Pakistan but also among Pakistanis residing in other countries. This party formed a united front with other religious parties called the "Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal", which achieved significant victories in the last two election periods in Pakistan, especially in the provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.

International Status

• He is an internationally recognized figure. For example, some of his distinctions are mentioned:
• His name has been registered as a prominent figure in the Biographical Institute of America;
• His name has been registered as a prominent figure in the Biographical Dictionary;
• He has been introduced as a prominent scholar and thinker of the second millennium;
• He is considered one of the five hundred selected researchers and writers who have strived to improve the human condition;
• Due to educational and social services, the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge introduced him as the Personality of the Year 1998–1999.

Fatwa on Terrorism

He is one of the most explicit Muslim scholars, and in a 600-page fatwa regarding terrorism, he described those who carry out suicide bombings as "non-Muslims" and "infidels".

In a press conference held on 2 March 2009 in London, he described suicide bombers as follows: "They cannot claim that their suicide is martyrdom and that they are heroes of the Muslim nation; rather, they will be heroes of fire in Hell." He added: "Islam considers them infidels." He continued by describing Al-Qaeda as "an old evil with a new name".

References

Al-Qadri, Dr. Muhammad Tahir, (2011), Belief in Intercession, Sayed Abdulhussain Rais al-Sadat, Tehran: World Assembly for Approximation of Islamic Schools of Thought - Cultural Deputy, First Edition.

External links

Tahir ul-Qadri on Munzinger IBA website