Abdur Razzaq Iskander (1935 – 30 June 2021; ) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar and writer. He was the chancellor and senior

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-professor of

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of the Aalmi Majlis Tahaffuz Khatm-e-Nubuwwat and the president of Wifaqul Madaris in Pakistan. He was an alumnus of

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and the

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. He authored books such as ''At-Tarīqat al-Asriyyah'' and ''Tahafuzz-e-Madāris''.

Biography

Abdur Razzaq was born in 1935 into a religious family in Kokal,

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. He was schooled at the Madrassa Darul Uloom Chohar Sharif, Haripur and the Ahmed Al-Madrassa Sikandarpur. He later studied at the

and graduated in the

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from the

in 1956. He was the first student of dars-e-nizami at the Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia. He later enrolled at the

in 1962 and studied theology for four years. He completed his doctoral studies at the

in 1972. He was an authorized disciple of Muhammad Yusuf Ludhianvi in

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. His teachers include

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and Wali Hasan Tonki. Abdur Razzaq started his teaching career in 1955. He became the Shaykh al-Hadith (senior professor of

) of the

after

Nizamuddin Shamzai Nizamuddin Shamzai (also Nizam al-Din Shamzai, 12 July 1952 – 30 May 2004) was a pro-Taliban Pakistani Deobandi Sunni Islamic scholar and the senior professor of hadith at the Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia. He was considered "one of the most import ...

, and the chancellor after the assassination of Habibullah Mukhtar in 1997. He was made a member of the working committee of the Wifaq ul Madaris in 1997 and appointed its vice-president in 2001. He later served as its interim president for nine months following the death of Saleemullah Khan. He was appointed the president on 5 October 2017. In 1981, he was elected a member of the executive council of the Aalmi Majlis Tahaffuz Khatm-e-Nubuwwat (AMTKN). In 2008, he was appointed the central deputy-

following Sayed Nafees al-Hussaini's death. In 2015, he succeeded Abdul Majeed Ludhianvi as the emir of AMTKN. He also served as the president of

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. In August 2016, speaking to a congregation at the Birmingham Central Mosque, Abdur Razzaq said that, "Islam is complete and it means that nothing can be added, removed or altered in it". He maintained that the people opposing the finality of prophethood have disconnected themselves from

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. Abdur Razzaq died on 30 June 2021 in

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. His death was condoled by

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, Fazal-ur-Rehman,

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and

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Literary works

Literary works of Abdur Razzaq include: * ''At-Tarīqat al-Asriyyah'' (2 parts), this book is included in the curriculum of Wifaqul Madaris. * ''Mushāhidāt va tāʼas̲s̲urāt : ʻālam-i Islām kī cand ʻaẓīm shak̲h̲ṣiyyāt kā taz̲kirah'' * ''Taḥaffuz̤-i madāris aur ʻulmāʼ va t̤ulabāʼ se chand bāten̲'' * ''Tablighi Jamaat and Principles and Methodology of its Dawah''

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References

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