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Tahir-ul-Qadri

Era	Modern era
Region	Islamic Scholar
Color	#00CC66
Image name	Dsc08066-official-photo.jpg
Name	Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
Birth date	February 19, 1951
School tradition	Barelvi
Main interests	Islamic Philosophy, Hadith, Tafsir, Seerah, Tasawwuf, Politics
Notable ideas	Fatwa on Terrorism, Concept of Jihad, interfaith dialogue
Influences	Tahir Allauddin, Allama Iqbal, Shaykh ibn al-`Arabi, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, Abdul-Qadir Gilani
Influenced	Shaykh As’ad Muhammad Saeed as-Sagharji, Shaykh Babikir Ahmed Babikir, Shaykh Abdul Hakim Murad
Website	www.tahir-ul-qadri.com

Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri (Urdu: محمد طاہر القادری) (born February 19, 1951, Jhang, Pakistan) is a Canada-based Pakistani Islamic Scholar and former professor of international constitutional law at University of the Punjab.

Qadri is the founder of Minhaj-ul-Quran International, a worldwide broad-based organization. According to them, their objective is the promotion of a moderate vision of Islam, the establishment of unity and understanding between communities and religions, and educating youth in classic Islam. He also founded The Minhaj University of which he is the head of the Board of Governors. He also founded an international relief charity, Minhaj Welfare Foundation. Qadri is also the founding chairman of the political party Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT). However, he is no longer involved in politics.

Biography

in the UK]] Qadri is the son of Farid-ud-Din Qadri. His ancestors belong to the Sial family of Jhang. Qadri started his education from the Sacred Heart School in Jhang, a Catholic mission school, where Qadri learned English and was exposed to Christianity at an early age. He started his religious education at the age of 12 in Madinah, Saudi Arabia at the Madrasa al-‘Ulūm ash-Shar‘iyya, which was situated in the house of Sayyiduna Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, the first residence of Prophet Muhammad after his migration to Madinah. He learned under Hazrat Maulana Zia-ud-Din Madani and studied Hadith from al-Sayyid Alawi al-Malik. He then received Ijaza. He continued his religious education from his father and other scholars, and completed Dars-e-Nizami and Dars-e-Hadith.

He eventually went to study law at the University of the Punjab, Lahore where he graduated with an LLB in 1974, gaining a Gold Medal for his academic performances. Following a period of legal practice as an advocate, he taught law at the University of the Punjab from 1978 to 1983 and then gained his PhD in Law from the same university in 1986. He was appointed as a professor of Law at the University of Punjab, where he taught British, US and Islamic constitutional law.

He was appointed as a jurist consultant (legal adviser) on Islamic law for the Supreme Court and the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan and also worked as a specialist adviser on Islamic curricula for the Federal Ministry of Education (Pakistan). At various times between 1983–1987, he was offered various high level posts, which he refused and continued to expand his organisation.

He has delivered more than 6,000 lectures on economy and political studies, religious philosophy, law, spirituality Sufism, medical sciences, material sciences and astronomy. Numerous lectures are available in Urdu, English and Arabic at different Islamic Shops around the world.

Qadri has himself given ijazah to a number of leading Muslim scholars, making them his students, linking them through himself back to the prophet Muhammad.

In 2006, Qadri was a keynote speaker at the Muslims of Europe Conference in Istanbul, Turkey to discuss Identity, Citizenship, and Challenges and Opportunities for European Muslims.

In March 2010 he was at the centre of media attention for the launch of his unconditional Fatwa on Terrorism and appeared on various international media outlets including Sky News, BBC News, ITV, EuroNews, Al-Jazeera, CNN and CNN's Amanpour, CBC News, Russia Today, Al Arabiya and various other outlets. He appread on Frost Over The World in which he was interviewed by Sir David Frost and Qadri said 'purpose of his life is to bring peace and harmony in the world.' The US State Department declared the Fatwa to be significant which takes back Islam from terrorists.

Qadri was quoted in the American Foreign Policy magazine as "I am trying to bring [the terrorists] back towards humanism. This is a jihad against brutality, to bring them back towards normality. This is an intellectual jihad."

In August 2010 Qadri held the first anti-terror camp for Muslim youth at the University of Warwick with the aim to tackle extremism in the UK. The camp was organised by his organisation Minhaj-ul-Quran UK.

He is referred to as Shaykh-ul-Islam by scholars for being an authority on Islam.

Foundation of Minhaj-ul-Quran

Qadri founded an organisation Minhaj-ul-Quran International in October 1981 and spent the next decade to expand it nationally and internationally.

Views

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He argues that terrorists have left the true, classical teachings of Islam and that their rebellious spirit of violence and religious extremism ia a continuity of the Khawarij. Qadri was one of the religious leaders in Pakistan to condemn the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. He has denounced and severely condemned Osama bin Ladin.

Qadri refutes the division of the world into two categories Dar al-Islam (the abode of Islam) and Dar al-harb (the abode of war) and that the west being the latter, which has been taught by various scholars including Ibn Taymiyah which is one of the reasons why radicals misuse this concept. Qadri has briefly explained this concept in his Fatwa on Terrorism news conference and it will be published in his forthcoming 600-page Fatwa on Terrorism book. He divides the world into 5 categories and believes the west is similar to Dar al-Islam due to the freedom of religions and based on the international law. Qadri said "All these Western countries - Britain, Europe, North America, wherever you are living - since you are enjoying all rights, all freedoms according to the constitution as other non-Muslim communities are enjoying, there is no difference. And I would have no hesitation in saying you are enjoying the rights and freedoms much better than in many other Muslim and Arab countries."

Qadri describes terrorism as an "ideological infection". He claims through his anti-terrorism summer camps "... we are fighting on the ideological, philosophical, theological and academic fronts. We are trying to educate young people."

He showed great concern when cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad were published in newspapers around Europe. He sent out a memorandum called 'A call to prevent a clash of civilizations'.

Qadri was featured by Reuters in August 2009 as a leading Sufi scholar, who is working to bring the western youth away from extremism towards moderate Islam and to combat extreme tendencies.

After the December 2009 Rawalpindi attack he was quoted as saying "Suicide attacks are not allowed in Islam, these actions are un-Islamic. The slaughter of human beings in any religion or country, and terrorism in all its manifestations, are totally in contradiction with the teachings of Islam."

On 2 March 2010, Qadri issued a 600-page fatwa, which was an "absolute" condemnation of terrorism without "any excuses or pretexts." He said that "Terrorism is terrorism, violence is violence and it has no place in Islamic teaching and no justification can be provided for it, or any kind of excuses or ifs or buts." Qadri said his fatwa, which declares terrorists and suicide bombers to be unbelievers, goes further than any previous denunciation.

On 9 September 2010, Qadri wrote a letter to the U.S. President Barack Obama in a response to the controversial 'Burn Quran Day' urging him to stop this incident from happening. Qadri wrote in an article published on CNN website that "If this event had gone ahead it would not be less than 9/11 in the sense of far-reaching consequences and after-effects." and "A handful of individuals, it does not matter whether they are related to mosque or church, cannot be given the right to flippantly play about with peaceful co-existence, and their so-called sentiments cannot be preferred over global peace."

The US Congress funded think-tank United States Institute of Peace hosted Qadri in November 2010, to speak about his struggle against radicalism in Islam in light of his Fatwa on Terrorism

Views on an Islamic State

In “Islam – the State Religion” – found online on ul-Qadri's website he has said the following: ''“there is a fundamental contrast between an Islamic state and a secular state. The authority of a secular state derives from the people themselves. Religion plays no obligatory role in its functioning. But the authority of an Islamic state derives from the Almighty Allah”.... “Islam is the basis of polity in an Islamic state”.

He also claims that the first constitution of Madinah “declared the state of Madinah as a political unit”. He also mentions that the constitution declared the “indivisible composition of the Muslim nation (Ummah) and "its total and unquestioning submission to the will of God”''

He mentions that “In the Holy Quran God Himself has categorically expressed the concept of two-nation theory. There are those people who belong to the (Muslim) Ummah and there are those who are outside it” Amongst his most notable and recent works are:

“Dala’il al-Barakat” (10,000 Durood and Salawaat in praise of Muhammad, written in the style of the well-read Dala’il al-Khayrat of Imam Jazuli, which was written nearly 1,000 years ago),

“Minhaj us Sawi’” (A Hadith compendium in 2 volumes compiled in the pattern and style of Imam Nawawi’s “Riyad us-Salihin رياض الصالحين” and Khatib Tabrizi’s “Mishkat al-Masabih” Consisting of approximately 1,000 pages)

“Mawlid an-Nabi”, the largest ever written work on the subject of Mawlid consisting of approximately a 1,000 pages.

The entire income of Qadri’s published books, DVDs/CDs of his lectures is dedicated forever on his behalf to his organisation Minhaj-ul-Quran International which is usually published inside his books.

His main English works include: Fatwa on Terrorism Comprehensive Fatwa against terrorism Irfan ul Quran (Modern and Scientific English translation of the Quran) Introduction to the Fatwa on Terrorism Beseeching for Help Creation of Man Pearls of Remembrance Islam on Prevention of Heart Diseases Islamic Concept of Intermediation The Constitution of Madina (First ever written constitution) Islamic Concept of Knowledge (Al Ilm) Greetings and Salutations on the Prophet (صلى الله عليه و آله وسلم)

Islam and Politics

The Islamic State The Ghadir Declaration Virtues of Sayyedah Fatimah

Political career

On May 25, 1989, Qadri founded a political party Pakistan Awami Tehreek or PAT. The main aims of this political party were to introduce the culture of true democracy, economic stability, improve the state of human rights, justice and the women's role in Pakistan. Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) other aim was to remove corruption from Pakistani politics.

In 1990, Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) participated in the national elections just one year after it was founded. In 1991, PAT and TNFJ (Tehreek-e-Nifas-e-Fiqh-e-Jafria A shia political group) now known as Tehreek-e-Jafria signed a 'Communique of Unity' in order to promotes social and religious harmony. In another creative move, PAT for the first time in the political history of Pakistan, introduced an idea of "working relationship" between the three national political forces, PAT, TNFJ and Tehreek-e-Istaqlal.

From 1989 to 1993, Qadri continuously worked as an opposition leader tying to indicate the government's mistakes and to suggest ways for improving the situation in the political, educational, and economical fields. In 1992 he presented a complete working plan for interest-free banking in Pakistan covering all kinds of national and international transaction which was recognized and appreciated by all sections of the society including industrial and banking professionals. PAT offices were also opened in major foreign countries.

Qadri continued his research alongside his political career and, in 1996 he presented a thesis on the utilization of an observatory for moon sighting based on the more recent scientific findings.

He was elected as an MNA (Member of the National Assembly) of his Lahore constituent on the Pakistani National Parliament.

References

External links

About Dr Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri and Minhaj-ul Quran (United Kingdom)

Official Website of Dr. Muhammed Tahir ul Qadri

Minhaj-ul-Quran Research Institute

Translation of the Holy Quran in English & Urdu

Online Quran Project includes the English and Urdu Qur'an translation by Tahir al-Qadri.

Books by Tahir ul Qadri to Read Online

Speeches by Tahir ul Qadri to Play & Download

The Official Website of Minhaj-ul-Quran

Minhaj Encyclopedia (Urdu)

Tahir ul-Qadri's Legal Opinion against Terror: Fatwa Falls on Deaf Ears

Correct Islamic Faith International Association (CIFIA)

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