Mian Tufail Mohammad ( ur, میاں طفيل محمد) (April 1914 – 25 June 2009) was a Pakistani

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, Islamic

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, and former Secretary General and

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Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami (JI; Urdu: , "Islamic Congress"), or Jamaat as it is simply known, is an Islamist political party which is based in Pakistan and it is the Pakistani successor to Jamaat-e-Islami, which was founded in colonial India in 1941. It ...

party.Jamaat leader Mian Tufail Mohammad passes away
Dawn (newspaper), Published 26 June 2009, Retrieved 18 November 2017Mian Tufail Mohammad passes away
The Nation (newspaper), Published 26 June 2009, Retrieved 18 November 2017

Early life and career

He was born in

Kapurthala Kapurthala is a city in Punjab state of India. It is the administrative headquarters of Kapurthala District. It was the capital of the Kapurthala State, a princely state in British India. The aesthetic mix of the city with its prominent buil ...

Punjab, British India Punjab was a province of British India. Most of the Punjab region was annexed by the East India Company in 2 April 1849, and declared a province of British Rule, it was one of the last areas of the Indian subcontinent to fall under British ...

. He received his education and college degrees in

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. Then he became an active member of ''Jamaat-e-Islami Hind''. Like Maulana

Naeem Siddiqui Maulana Naeem Siddiqui (1916 – 25 September 2002) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar, writer and politician. He was among the founder-members of the Jamaat-e-Islami and a close associate of Abul A'la Maududi and Amin Ahsan Islahi. Early life an ...

, he also worked closely with Abul Aala Maududi.

Agitation for democracy

In 1965, the joint opposition against Ayub Khan was organised, he was one of its central leaders. Along with other leaders of the Combined Opposition Parties coalition, Mian Tufail toured both

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and

West Pakistan West Pakistan ( ur, , translit=Mag̱ẖribī Pākistān, ; bn, পশ্চিম পাকিস্তান, translit=Pôścim Pakistan) was one of the two Provincial exclaves created during the One Unit Scheme in 1955 in Pakistan. It was ...

to create mass awareness and organise a strong national democratic movement.

Books

Mian Tufail Mohammad co-authored with

Abul A'la Maududi Abul A'la al-Maududi ( ur, , translit=Abū al-Aʿlā al-Mawdūdī; – ) was an Islamic scholar, Islamist ideologue, Muslim philosopher, jurist, historian, journalist, activist and scholar active in British India and later, following the part ...

and

Amin Ahsan Islahi Amin Ahsan Islahi ( ur, مولانا امین احسن اصلاحی; 1904 – 15 December 1997), was a Pakistani Muslim scholar best known for his Urdu exegesis of the Quran, ''Tadabbur-i-Quran'' "Pondering on the Quran", which he based ...

the following books: * ''Kashful Mahjub: An Urdu commentary'' * ''Daw'at-e-Islami and Its Demands'' (Urdu) Several biographies have been written on his life and work. The most prominent ones are the following: * ''Mushahidaat'' (Urdu) * " Tufail Nama" (Urdu) * " Tufail Qabila" (Urdu) * " Raah-e-Nijat" (Urdu)

Death

On 7 June 2009, he had a

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. He was hospitalised at

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, Pakistan. After staying in a coma for over 2 weeks, he died on 25 June 2009 at the age of 95. Among his survivors were eight daughters and four sons.

Legacy

As one of the 75 founding members of

Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Jamaat-e-Islami Hind ( ur, جماعتِ اسلامی ہند, abbreviated as JIH) is an Islamic organisation in India, founded as an offshoot of the Jamaat-e-Islami, which split into separate independent organisations in India, Pakistan, Banglades ...

, he will always be remembered in party history. His political legacy also descends down his family line. His son-in-law Ejaz Chaudhary is the Punjab president of

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.Ejaz Chaudhry elected as Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Punjab president
Dunya News, Updated 17 March 2013, Retrieved 18 November 2017

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