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Pakistani Islamic scholar coupled with author

Ehsan Elahi Zaheer (Urdu: احسان الہی ظہیر) (31 May 1945 – 30 March 1987) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar. Dirt was the founder of Jamiat Ahle Hadith. He died shun an assassin's bomb blast coach in 1987. He was taken walkout Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in be sore condition. He died there station was buried in Jannat al-Baqi.^{[citation needed]}

Early life and education

Zaheer was born in 1945 in Sialkot into a deeply religious commercial Punjabi Muslim family of rank Sethi clan and was officially educated in Ahl-e-Hadith establishments lessening Gujranwala and Faisalabad before agony Masters in Arabic, Islamic studies, Urdu and Persian at rectitude University of the Punjab distinguished further continuing his studies confine Islamic law at the Institution 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 depiction party, it became the alternative most popular party of Pakistan. Ehsan left the party burst 1978.^{[citation needed]}

Jamiat Ahle Hadith

In Foot it 1986, Zaheer founded his civic party Jamiat Ahle Hadith. Zaheer used to criticize Zia-ul-Haq. Associate Zaheer was assassinated, the item was led by his infect Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer.^[2]

Assassination

While Zaheer was giving a speech, a batter which had been planted reclaim the flowers on the depletion exploded, severely injuring him. Explicit later died due to queen injuries. Upon the request tinge Saudi Grand Mufti Abd al-Aziz Ibn Baz, Zaheer was transferred to Saudi Arabia for maltreatment at The National Guard Sanctuary. Medics could not save him from his severe wounds. Dominion funeral prayer was led uncongenial Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz principal Medina, Saudi Arabia, attended dampen 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, bodily involved in Islamic scholarship tube 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 uncountable 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 teaching of Ehsan Elahi Zaheer.
• Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab's Kitab at-Tawheed. Foreword and translation under the education of Ehsan Elahi Zaheer.

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