Zafeeruddin Miftahi

Zafeeruddin Miftāhi (7 March 1926 – 31 March 2011) was an Indian Muslim scholar and jurist who served as the thirteenth Grand Mufti of Darul Uloom Deoband and the second president of Islamic Fiqh Academy. He compiled the religious verdicts of Azizur Rahman Usmani, called the Fatāwa Darul Uloom Deoband in twelve volumes and wrote books including Islām Ka Nizām-e-Masājid, Islām Ka Nizām Iffat-o-Asmat and Tārīkh-e-Masājid. He was also a member of Board of Studies at the Sunni Theology department of Aligarh Muslim University.

Mawlāna, Mufti

Zafeeruddin Miftāhi
13th Grand Mufti of Darul Uloom Deoband
In office
1993  21 August 2008
Preceded byNizamuddin Azmi
Succeeded byHabibur Rahman
2nd President of Islamic Fiqh Academy
In office
2002  31 March 2011
Preceded byMujahidul Islam Qasmi
Succeeded byNematullah Azmi[1]
Personal details
Born7 March 1926
Darbhanga, British India
(present day Bihar, India)
Died31 March 2011(2011-03-31) (aged 85)
Alma materJamia Miftahul Uloom
Personal
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni Hanafi
MovementDeobandi
Notable work(s)Compilation of the Fatāwa Darul Uloom Deoband of Azizur Rahman Usmani, Islām Ka Nizām-e-Masājid

Born in Darbhanga in 1926, Miftāhi was an alumnus of Jamia Miftahul Uloom and served the Deoband seminary for about fifty years. He issued one lakh religious verdicts. He died on 31 March 2011.

Biography

Zafeeruddin Miftāhi was born on 7 March 1926 (22 Sha'ban 1344 AH) in Darbhanga.[2] He received his primary education at home and was schooled at Madrasa Mahmudiya, in Terai, Nepal. He studied intermediate classes of Arabic and Persian at Madrasa Wāris al-Ulūm in Chhapra from 1933 to 1940. He graduated from the Jamia Miftahul Uloom where he studied from 1940 to 1944 with Habib al-Rahman al-'Azmi and Abdul Lateef Nomani.[3] His other teachers include Hussain Ahmad Madani, Sulaiman Nadwi, Minatullah Rahmani, Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi and Muhammad Tayyib Qasmi.[4]

After his graduation in 1944, Miftāhi taught at the Jamia Miftahul Uloom for one year and then moved to Ma'dan al-Ulūm in Lucknow where he taught for three years between September 1945 and January 1948.[3] From January 1948 to 1956, he taught at Darul Uloom Muīnia in Begusarai, with a gap of one year in between; during which he taught at Jamia Islamia Talimuddin.[3] In Shawwal 1364 AH, Miftāhi went to study at the Nadwatul Ulama in Lucknow at Sulaiman Nadwi's suggestion and studied there for few months.[3]

Miftāhi was first appointed in the Darul Uloom Deoband to compile fatawa.[5]Between 1962 and 1972, he compiled the fatawa of Azizur Rahman Usmani in twelve volumes.[3] In Safar 1385 AH, the executive council of Deoband seminary appointed him to write the editorial for Monthly Darul Uloom, which he continuously wrote for seventeen years.[6][7] In 1993, he was appointed as the Grand Mufti in the Darul Ifta of Darul Uloom Deoband; a post he served till 21 August 2008.[6]He served in the Deoband seminary for fifty years and wrote one lakh fatawa.[8] He retired from Deoband on 22 August 2008 at a monthly pension of 2000 INR which he received throughout his life.[6]

Miftāhi was a founding figure of the Islamic Fiqh Academy and became its president after Mujahidul Islam Qasmi.[9]He was a member of Board of Studies at the Sunni Theology department of Aligarh Muslim University.[10]

Miftāhi died on 31 March 2011. His funeral prayer was led by Saud Alam Qasmi, the former dean of the Faculty of Theology at Aligarh Muslim University on 1 April 2011.[11]

Literary works

Miftāhi compiled the religious verdicts of Azizur Rahman Usmani, commonly known as Fatāwa Darul Uloom Deoband in twelve volumes between 1962 and 1972.[3][12] His books include:[7]

  • Islām Ka Nizām-e-Masājid (Its English translation Mosque in Islam by Zaheerun Nabi was published in 1996 by Institute of Objective Studies, New Delhi).
  • Islām Ka Nizām Iffat-o-Asmat (Its English translation Modesty and chastity in Islam was first published in Kuwait and second time by Qazi Publishers during 1993 in New Delhi. Persian translation was published as Hijāb-o-Iffat az Dīdgah-e-Islām in Tehran).
  • Tārīkh-e-Masājid
  • Uswa-e-Hasanah
  • Ta'āruf Makhtūtāt
  • Jamāt-e-Islāmi ke Dīni Rujhānāt
  • Mashāhīr Ulama-e-Deoband
  • Darul Uloom: Qayām awr Iska Pas-e-Manzar
  • Darul Uloom: Ek Azeem Maktab Fikr
  • Nizām-e-Tarbiyyat (Darul Uloom Deoband has published its Arabic translation Ināyat al-Islām bi al-Tarbiyyat al-Atfāl).
  • Nizām Tāmīr-e-Seerat
  • Masāil-e-Hajj-o-Umrah
  • Islām Ka Nizām-e-Hayāt
  • Dars-e-Qur'ān (Ten volumes)
  • Hakīm-ul-Islām awr Unki Majālis [lower-alpha 1].
  • Jurm-o-Saza Kitāb-o-Sunnat Ki Roshni Mai
  • Islāmi Hukūmat ke Naqsh-o-Nigār
  • Islām ka Nizām-e-Amn
  • Hayāt-e-Gilāni (transl.The life of Gilāni).
  • Hadhrat Nanautawi Ek Misāli Shakhsiyat
  • Tārīkhi Haqā'iq
  • Islāmi Zindagi Ke Āsār-o-Nuqūsh
  • Islām Ka Nizām-e-Ma'īshat

Bibliography

  • Nayab Hasan Qasmi. "Mufti Zafeeruddin Miftāhi". Darul Uloom Deoband ka Sahāfati Manzarnāma (in Urdu) (2013 ed.). Deoband: Idara Tahqeeq-e-Islami. pp. 214–216.
  • Qāsmi, Muhammad Saud Alam (ed.). Hayāt-e-Zafeer [The Life of Zafeer] (in Urdu) (September 2011 ed.). Islamic Fiqh Academy, India: IFA Publications.
  • Amīni, Nūr Alam Khalīl. "Hadhrat Mawlāna Mufti Muḥammad Zafeeruddin Miftāhi Sāheb". Pas-e-Marg-e-Zindah (in Urdu). Deoband: Idāra Ilm-o-Adab. pp. 913–932.

Notes

  1. Hakīm-ul-Islām is a honarary title used by Deobandis for Muhammad Tayyib Qasmi

References

  1. "Maulana Nematullah Azmi elected as president of Islamic Fiqh Academy". Two Circles. 31 May 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
  2. Amīni, Nūr Alam Khalīl, Pas-e-Marg-e-Zindah, p. 929
  3. Amīni, Nūr Alam Khalīl, Pas-e-Marg-e-Zindah, p. 930
  4. Amīni, Nūr Alam Khalīl, Pas-e-Marg-e-Zindah, p. 922
  5. Abul Kalam Qāsmi, "Mawlāna Mufti Zafeeruddin Miftāhi ka Ilmi Imtiyāz (Educational excellence of Mawlāna Mufti Zafeeruddin Miftāhi)", in Qāsmi, Muhammad Saud Alam (ed.), Hayāt-e-Zafeer [The Life of Zafeer], p. 132
  6. Amīni, Nūr Alam Khalīl, Pas-e-Marg-e-Zindah, p. 931
  7. Ahmad Sajjad Qāsmi, "Mawlāna Mufti Zafeeruddin ki Tasānif ek Nazar Mai (A Look at Mufti Zafeeruddin's books)", in Qāsmi, Muhammad Saud Alam (ed.), Hayāt-e-Zafeer [The Life of Zafeer], pp. 219–223
  8. Saeed Ahmad Palanpuri, "Mawlāna Mufti Zafeeruddin Miftāhi ne Ek Lakh Fatawa Tehreer Farmaye (Mawlāna Mufti Zafeeruddin Miftāhi wrote one lakh fatwas.)", in Qāsmi, Muhammad Saud Alam (ed.), Hayāt-e-Zafeer [The Life of Zafeer], p. 31-32
  9. Ateeq Ahmad Bastawi, "Mawlāna Mufti Zafeeruddin ki Ilmi wa Dīni Khidmāt (Educational and Religious Services of Mawlāna Mufti Zafeeruddin)", in Qāsmi, Muhammad Saud Alam (ed.), Hayāt-e-Zafeer [The Life of Zafeer], p. 153-154
  10. Muḥammad Shamīm Akhtar Qāsmi, "Mawlāna Mufti Zafeeruddin Saheb awr Aligarh Muslim University (Mufti Zafeeruddin and the Aligarh Muslim University)", in Qāsmi, Muhammad Saud Alam (ed.), Hayāt-e-Zafeer [The Life of Zafeer], p. 363
  11. Ahmad Sajjad Qāsmi, "Abba Jān - Darul Uloom Deoband se Khuda Ke Huzūr Tak (Father - From Darul Uloom Deoband to Meeting with God)", in Qāsmi, Muhammad Saud Alam (ed.), Hayāt-e-Zafeer [The Life of Zafeer], p. 130
  12. Julia Stephens (21 June 2018). Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in Modern South Asia. Cambridge University Press. p. 77. ISBN 9781107173910. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
Religious titles
Preceded by
Nizamuddin Azmi
13th Grand Mufti of Darul Uloom Deoband
1993 -21 August 2008
Succeeded by
Habibur Rahman
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