Muhammad Taqi Usmani | |
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محمد تقی عثمانی | |
Justice of the Shariat Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan | |
In office 10 July 1982 –May 2002 | |
Appointed by | Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq |
Justice of the Federal Shariat Court | |
In office 6 July 1981 –10 July 1982 | |
Appointed by | Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq |
President of the Wifaq ul Madaris Al-Arabia,Pakistan | |
Assumed office 19 September 2021 | |
Preceded by | Abdur Razzaq Iskander |
President of the Darul Uloom Karachi [1] | |
Assumed office 2022 | |
Preceded by | Muhammad Rafi Usmani |
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Born | Deoband,United Provinces,British India | 3 October 1943
Nationality | Pakistani |
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Religion | Islam |
Children | Imran Ashraf Usmani |
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Denomination | Sunni |
Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
Creed | Maturidi |
Main interest(s) | Fiqh, Tafsir, Hadith, Islamic economics, Islamic Law, Islam and modernity, Political aspects of Islam, Comparative religion |
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Teacher | Shafi Usmani, Muhammad Idris Kandhlawi, Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda, Rashid Ahmed Ludhianvi, Wali Hasan Tonki, Zakariyya Kandhlawi, Saleemullah Khan |
Disciple of | Abdul Hai Arifi, Masihullah Khan |
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Website | muftitaqiusmani |
Muhammad Taqi Usmani [lower-alpha 1] (born 3 October 1943) SI, OI, is a Pakistani Islamic jurist and leading scholar in the fields of Qur'an, Hadith, Islamic law, Islamic economics, and comparative religion. [2] He was a member of the Council of Islamic Ideology from 1977 to 1981, a judge of the Federal Shariat Court from 1981 to 1982, and a judge in the Shariat Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan from 1982 to 2002. In 2020, he was selected as the most influential Muslim personality in the world. [3] He is considered a leading intellectual of the contemporary Deobandi movement, and his opinions and fatwas are widely accepted by Deobandi scholars and institutions worldwide, including the Darul Uloom Deoband in India. [4] Since 2021, he has been serving as the Chairman of Wifaq ul Madaris Al-Arabia. His father, Shafi Usmani, was the Grand Mufti of Darul Uloom Deoband and Taqi Usmani migrated to Pakistan with his family after the partition of India in 1948.
Usmani studied at Darul Uloom Karachi, the University of Karachi, and the University of the Punjab. He began teaching at Darul Uloom Karachi in 1960. Since 1967, he has been the editor of the Urdu magazine Al-Balagh and the English magazine Al-Balagh International since 1976. He is recognized as an authority in the field of Islamic law and its application. [5] He is a permanent member of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy of the OIC and a former deputy chairman. He is also a member of the Muslim World League based in Mecca. At the age of 17, he wrote his first book titled Islam and Birth Control. He is the author of 143 books on various subjects in Arabic, English, and Urdu. He is widely recognized for his contributions to Islamic economics, where he has played a leading role in Islamizing the banking and finance industry in Pakistan and abroad. In 1998, his book on Islamic economics, An Introduction to Islamic Finance , was considered significant. His extensive work in Islamic economics led to his appointment as the Chairman of the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI), a Bahrain-based Islamic Financial Institution of the Islamic Development Bank. In 2014, he was appointed as the Chairman of the Shariah Board of the State Bank of Pakistan. He has also served as the Chairman of the Shariah Board in more than a dozen Islamic banks and financial institutions. In recognition of his contributions to Islamic economics, he received the Islamic Development Bank Prize in 2014. Under his supervision, the English translation of Ma'ariful Qur'an was completed. He has authored translations and explanations of the Quran in both English and Urdu, which were published as The Noble Quran and Tauzeeh Al-Qur'an , respectively. Along with Ulum al-Quran, these works are his major contributions to the study of the Quran. In the field of Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), his notable works include Fatawa-e-Usmani, Fiqh al-Buyu, Fiqhi Maqalat, Islam and Modern Economic Problems, and Buhuth fi Qadhaya Fiqhiyyah Mu`asirah, among others. His comprehensive explanation of Sahih Muslim , titled Takmilah Fath al-Mulhim , spans six volumes and is considered his finest work. The Hadith encyclopedia Al-Mudawwanah al-Jāmiʿah was compiled under his supervision. Among his other works in the field of hadith sciences are Inamul Bari, Darus Tirmizi, and The Authority of Sunnah. In recognition of his services in public welfare, he was honored with Pakistan's civil award, Sitara-i-Imtiaz, in 2019. In 2010, Abdullah II of Jordan bestowed upon him the Order of Independence. In 2022, he received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from an American International Theism University.
Muhammad Taqi Usmani was born on 5 Shawwal 1362 AH (5 October 1943) in the city of Deoband in Saharanpur district, United Provinces, British India. [6] He was the fifth and youngest son of Mufti Muhammad Shafi (1897–1976). With his full nasab (patronymic), he is Muhammad Taqi ibn Muhammad Shafi ibn Muhammad Yasin ibn Khalifah Tahsin Ali ibn Imam Ali ibn Karim Allah ibn Khair Allah ibn Shukr Allah. The forefathers of Miyanji Shukr Allah are unknown, but the family claims descent from Uthman, the third caliph and a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, hence the nisbat "Usmani". [7] [8]
Usmani was born to several generations of educators. The title "Miyanji" applied to several of his ancestors indicates that they were teachers. His grandfather Muhammad Yasin (1865/66 –1936) taught Persian at Darul Uloom Deoband. Born the year before the madrasah's founding, he had been one of its first students and studied with some of its early teachers including Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi, Sayyid Ahmad Dihlawi, Mulla Mahmud Deobandi, and Mahmud al-Hasan Deobandi. Usmani's father Muhammad Shafi was also a product of the Deoband seminary. He taught there for several decades and held the post of chief mufti. [7]
In 1948, when Usmani was four years old, his father immigrated the family from Deoband to Karachi, Pakistan. Since there was not a madrasah nearby, Usmani's primary education began at home under his parents. He was later enrolled in Darul Uloom Karachi after Mufti Shafi founded the school in 1950. After completing his primary education, he began his formal religious training in the Dars-i Nizami curriculum in 1953. He passed the Fazil-i Arabi (Punjab Board) with distinction in 1958, and received his Alimiyyah degree with distinction from Darul Uloom Karachi in 1959. He then obtained his Takhassus (specialization) degree in fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) and ifta (fatwa issuance) from Darul Uloom Karachi in 1961, earning the title of "Mufti". Usmani continued his education at the University of Karachi, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in economics and politics in 1964, then a Bachelor of Laws with second-class honours in 1967. In 1970 he obtained a Master of Arts with first-class honours in Arabic language and literature from the University of Punjab. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
Usmani received teaching licenses to teach hadith from Islamic scholars including Muhammad Shafi, Muhammad Idris Kandhlawi, Qari Muhammad Tayyib, Saleemullah Khan, Rashid Ahmed Ludhianvi, Sahban Mahmud, Zafar Ahmad Usmani, Muhammad Zakariya Kandhalvi, Hasan al-Mahshat Al-Makki Al-Maliki, 'Abdu-l-'Azeez Ibn Baz Al-Maliki, Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghuddah, Abi Al-Faid Muhammad Yasin Al-Fadani Ash-Shafi'i, and others. [11]
Usmani pioneered the concept of Islamic banking in Pakistan when he established the Meezan Bank.[ citation needed ] Usmani has authored books in Arabic, Urdu, and English on Islamic topics in addition to articles on Islamic banking and finance published in journals and magazines.[ citation needed ]
According to The Muslim 500: "Usmani's chief influence comes from his position as a global authority on the issue of Islamic finance." [12]
He currently teaches Sahih al-Bukhari, fiqh, and Islamic economics at Darul Uloom Karachi and is known for his Islahi Khutbat. He was a key member of a team of scholars which helped declare Ahmadis non-Muslims by Pakistan's National Assembly during the era of former Pakistani president, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, in the 1970s. During the presidency of General Zia ul Haq, he was instrumental in drafting laws pertaining to Hudood , Qisas meaning retaliation in kind or an eye for an eye and Diyya (blood money). [12]
Usmani strongly opposes elements of explicit modernity, which he describes as engulfing
"the whole world in the tornado of nudity and obscenity, and has provided an excuse for fornication, and more so it has led under thunder claps to the passage of a bill in the British House of Commons to legalize homosexuality. It is in the shadow of the same modernity that Western women are openly displaying banners on the streets demanding legalization of abortion" [21]
At a religious conference in 1984, he urged a more "dynamic attitude" towards the practice of ijtihad , arguing there is no shortage of fine minds capable of interpreting the sharia, but warning against the contamination of sharia by Western ideas such as the elimination of hudud penalties such as amputation and stoning. [22] [23]
Position | Organisation | Location | From |
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President | Wifaq ul Madaris | Multan | 2021 |
President | Ittehad-e-Tanzeemat-Madaris Pakistan | 2021 | |
Vice President and Shaykh al-Hadith | Jamia Darul Uloom Karachi | Karachi | |
Chairman | Centre for Islamic Economics, Pakistan [24] | Pakistan | 1991 |
Chairman | International Shariah Standard Council, Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions [25] | ||
Permanent Member | International Islamic Fiqh Academy, Jeddah, organ of the Organisation of Islamic Conference [26] [12] | Jeddah | |
Member | Islamic Fiqh Academy of Rabita-al-'Alam-e-Islami | Makkah | |
Chairman Shariah Board | Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank | UAE | |
Chairman Shariah Board | Meezan Bank Limited | Karachi | |
Chairman Shariah Board | International Islamic Rating Agency | Bahrain | |
Chairman Shariah Board | Pak-Kuwait Takaful | Karachi | |
Chairman Shariah Board | Arif Habib Investments – Pakistan International Islamic Fund | Karachi | |
Chairman Board | American International Theism University [27] | USA | |
Member Shariah Board | Arcapita Investment Fund | Bahrain | |
Member Unified Shariah Board | Islamic Development Bank | Jeddah | |
Member Shariah Board | Shariah Board Guidance Financial Group [28] | USA |
This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources .(April 2020) |
Position | Organisation | From | to |
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Member | Council of Islamic Ideology | 1977 | 1981 |
Judge | Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan [29] | 1980 | 1982 |
Judge | Shariat Appellate Bench, Supreme Court of Pakistan [12] [30] | 1982 | 2002 |
Member | Syndicate University of Karachi | 1985 | 1988 |
Member | Board of Governors, International Islamic University Islamabad | 1985 | 1989 |
Member | International Institute of Islamic Economics | 1985 | 1988 |
Member | Board of Trustees International Islamic University, Islamabad | 2004 | 2007 |
Member | Commission for Islamisation of Economy of Pakistan | ||
Member Shariah Board | Bank of Khyber, Pehawar | ||
Member Shariah Board | Dow Jones Index, New York | ||
Member Shariah Board | HSBC Amanah Finance Dubai | ||
Member Shariah Board | Swiss Re Takaful, Switzerland | ||
Member Shariah Board | Bank Islami | ||
Member Shariah Board | Dubai Bank | ||
Member Shariah Board | Robert Fleming Oasis Fund, Luxemburg | ||
Member Shariah Board | AL Bakarah Group Jeddah | ||
Member Shariah Board | ABC Investment Bank |
Usmani has authored 143 books including Tauzeeh Al-Qur'an , An Introduction to Islamic Finance , Contemporary Fataawa, The Authority of Sunnah, Uloomu-l-Qur'an. He has also written a supplement to Shabbir Ahmad Usmani's Fath al-Mulhim, entitled Takmila Fath al-Mulhim . [30] [31]
The Darul Uloom Deoband is an Islamic seminary in India at which the Sunni Deobandi Islamic movement began. Uttar Pradesh-based Darul Uloom is one of the most important Islamic seminaries in India and the largest in the world. It is located in Deoband, a town in Saharanpur district, Uttar Pradesh. The seminary was established by Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi, Fazlur Rahman Usmani, Sayyid Muhammad Abid and others in 1866. Mahmud Deobandi was the first teacher and Mahmud Hasan Deobandi was the first student.
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The Noble Quran: Meaning With Explanatory Notes (2007) is a two-volume translation of the Quran, authored by Pakistani Islamic scholar Taqi Usmani. Usmani served as judge of the Sharia Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. In addition to the original Arabic text, the translation includes brief English explanatory notes. It is the first English translation of the Quran authored by a traditionalist Deobandi scholar.
Takmilah Fath al-Mulhim bi-Sharh Sahih al-Imam Muslim is a six-volume Arabic commentary on Sahih Muslim, authored by Taqi Usmani. It serves as a supplement to Fath al-Mulhim bi-Sharh Sahih al-Imam Muslim, a work initially written by Shabbir Ahmad Usmani, who completed three volumes before his demise. Taqi Usmani commenced writing this scholarly work in 1976, inspired by his father, Shafi Usmani, to carry on and complete the unfinished endeavor. After an 18-year journey, he finalized the book in 1994, earning widespread recognition for its quality. The commentary covers essential topics, including fiqh, justice, politics, economics, social policy, morality, virtues, and other aspects of Islamic teachings. Taqi Usmani's work is particularly known for its analysis, incorporation of diverse languages, inclusion of biographies, fiqh methodologies, and relevant fiqh rulings, making it a reference for both students and scholars alike.
Seerat Khatam al-Anbiya is a prophetic biography authored by Shafi Usmani in Urdu, initially published in 1925. Originally titled Awjaz al-Sir Khair al-Bashar, denoting a concise biography due to its thematic focus, the name failed to engage a broad audience. Consequently, in its second edition, the current title was replaced. The book is concise yet comprehensive, drawing from authentic narrations. It has been included in the curriculum of numerous religious institutions in Pakistan and India, including Darul Uloom Deoband, Mazahir Uloom, and Madrasa Shahi. The foreword of the book is written by Asghar Hussain Deobandi.
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