Muhammad Abdul Aleem Siddiqi Al-Qaderi Meeruti (3 April 1892 – 22 August 1954) also known as ''Muballigh-e-Islam'' was an Islamic scholar, spiritual master, author and preacher from Pakistan who belonged to the

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of Sunni Islam. He was a student of

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. He was the leader of the All Malaya Muslim Missionary Society, Singapore (now known as

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). Despite being a great preacher of Islam he was scholar of comparative religion.

Life

Maulana Abdul Aleem Siddiqi was born on 3 April 1892 in

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and was descendant of Hazrat

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Siddique. It is said that he had memorized the Quran by the age of four, and obtained a degree in Islamic theology at the age of 16. He learned the

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and

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Ba’at and Khilafat

He became a mureed of Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi in the Qadiriyya Razviya order and got his khilafat.

Missionary activities

Siddique traveled extensively overseas for 40 years to preach and propagate Islam. He advocated inter-religious harmony and spread message of peace and came to seem by some people as a Roving Ambassador of Peace. In 1930 he went to Singapore as a missionary. In 1932 he took the lead in establishing the All-Malaya Muslim Missionary Society (now known as Jamiyah Singapore). This society had branches all over the Malaya. The All-Malaya Muslim Missionary Society (now known as Jamiyah Singapore) named the

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after him. In early 1949, he founded the Inter-Religious Organization of Singapore and Johor Bahru with the total support of the British Colonial Government and leaders of the Hindu, Jewish, Zoroastrian (Parsi), Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and Muslim leaders from Singapore and Johor Bahru. The then president of Jamiyah Singapore, Syed Ibrahim Omar Alsagoff, who was already active in inter faith work assisted him by garnering the support and cooperation of the other religious leaders or representatives. He visited

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in 1950 and launched

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(WIM) at Port of Spain Jama Mosque. In 1926, he founded, the Muslim Association of the Philippines (MUSAPHIL) which became an influential organization in Philippines. In the early 1950s, his visit to

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encouraged some Muslims to revive the madrasah system of education. His disciple and son-in-law Muhammad Fazlur Rahman Ansari was also a scholar, who established Aleemiyah Institute of Islamic Studies, an English-medium institution of Islamic theology, named after Abdul Aleem Siddiqui, in Karachi, Pakistan.

Politics

A supporter of the

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and a friend of Jinnah, at partition his family relocated there where his son, Shah Ahmad Noorani, became a political figure and at one time was head of the opposition in Pakistan's parliament . He led Pakistan's first

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Books and booklets

Some of his works include:Profile
on ''

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'' *''Elementary teachings of Islam'' *''The principles of Islam'' *''A Shavian and a theologian : an illuminating conversation between

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, the sceptic, and Mohammed Abdul Aleem Siddiqui, al-Qaderi, the spiritualist at Mombasa, Kenya'' *''The forgotten path of knowledge'' *''The history of the codification of Islamic law : being an illuminating exposition of the conformist view-point accepted by the overwhelming majority of the Islamic world''

References

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