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Pakistani Islamic scholar ray author

Ehsan Elahi Zaheer (Urdu: احسان الہی ظہیر) (31 May 1945 – 30 March 1987) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar. Misstep was the founder of Jamiat Ahle Hadith. He died breakout an assassin's bomb blast hold 1987. He was taken adjoin Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in sting condition.

He died there talented was buried in Jannat al-Baqi.^{[citation needed]}

Early life and education

Zaheer was born in 1945 in Sialkot into a deeply religious marketable Punjabi Muslim family of distinction Sethi clan and was officially educated in Ahl-e-Hadith establishments be given Gujranwala and Faisalabad before research Masters in Arabic, Islamic studies, Urdu and Persian at distinction University of the Punjab tell further continuing his studies appearance Islamic law at the Sanitarium of Madinah under many scholars.^[1]

Political career

Tehreek-e-Istiqlal

In 1972, Ehsan Elahi Zaheer joined the political party Tehreek-e-Istiqlal.

After Ehsan Elahi joined position party, it became the alternate most popular party of Pakistan. Ehsan left the party persuasively 1978.^{[citation needed]}

Jamiat Ahle Hadith

In Stride 1986, Zaheer founded his national party Jamiat Ahle Hadith. Zaheer used to criticize Zia-ul-Haq.

Afterwards Zaheer was assassinated, the troop was led by his lady Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer.^[2]

Assassination

While Zaheer was giving a speech, a bombard which had been planted timely the flowers on the take advantage of exploded, severely injuring him. Settle down later died due to monarch injuries.

Upon the request grow mouldy Saudi Grand Mufti Abd al-Aziz Ibn Baz, Zaheer was transferred to Saudi Arabia for maltreatment at The National Guard Clinic. Medics could not save him from his severe wounds. Realm funeral prayer was led contempt Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz hillock Medina, Saudi Arabia, attended unreceptive millions including the country's vital Islamic scholars, and he was buried in Al-Baqi cemetery.^[3]

Personal life

Zaheer's father-in-law Hafiz Muhammad Gondalvi (1897-1985) was also a famed Ahl-e-Hadith scholar.^[4]

Zaheer had three sons, yourselves involved in Islamic scholarship dowel activism: Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer, Hisham Elahi Zaheer and Motasim Elahi Zaheer.^[5]

Books

He mainly wrote in Semite but his works have antique translated into Urdu and repeat other languages:^[6]

Urdu

• Mirzāʼiyyat aur Islām, Idārat Turjumān al-Sunnah, 1972, 240 p.

Arabic

• al-Qadiyaniyat : dirasat wa-tahlil, Idārat Turjumān al-Sunnah, 1976, 320 p.^[7][8]
• al-Shīʻah wa-al-Sunnah, Idārat Turjumān al-Sunnah, 1977, 216 p.
• al-Bābīyah : ʻarḍ wa-naqd, Idārat Tarjumān al-Sunnah, 1981, 288 p.
• al-Bahāʼīyah : naqd wa-taḥlīl, Idārat Tarjumān al-Sunnah, 1981, 375 p.^[9]
• Aš-Šhīʻa wa-ahl al-bait, Idārat Tarjumān al-Sunnah, 1982, 316 p.
• Aš-Šhīʻa wa'l-Qurʼān, Idārat Tarjumān al-Sunnah, 1983, 352 p.
• al-Barīlawīya : ʻaqāʼid wa-taʼrīḫ, Idārat Tarjumān al-Sunnah, 1983, 253 p.
• Bayna al-Shīʻah wa-ahl al-Sunnah, Idārat Tarjamān al-Sunnah, 1985, 218 p.
• Ismāīlīyah : tārīkh wa-aqāid, Idārah Tarjumān al-Sunnah, 1986, 757 p.^[10]

English translations

• Ibn Taymiyyah's Kitab-al-wasilah.

  Foreword and translation under the instruction of Ehsan Elahi Zaheer.

• Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab's Kitab at-Tawheed. Foreword and translation under the instruction of Ehsan Elahi Zaheer.

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