Faizul Waheed (also known as Faizul Waheed Qāsmī; 1964 – 1 June 2021) was an Indian Islamic scholar, jurist and an

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of the

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from

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, who served as the chief-

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of Markaz-ul-Ma'arif, an Islamic seminary in Bathindi,

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. He wrote ''Faiz al-Mannān'', the first ever translation and commentary of the Quran in

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Biography

Faizul Waheed was born in Dodasan Bala,

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, in 1964. He was schooled at the Madrasa Kāshif-ul-Uloom in Thanamandi and the Madrasa Tālim-ul-Qur'ān in

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. He completed memorizing the Quran and specialising in the "

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" (Quran recitations) in 1982. He studied two years of the

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in Madrasa Khādim-ul-Islam in

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and graduated from the

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in 1991. He received an

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from the

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. In 1992, Faizul Waheed began teaching at the Madrasa Ashraf-ul-Uloom in

. He alongside Jamāluddīn and Nazīr Aḥmad started Jamia Markaz-ul-Ma'arif, an Islamic seminary in Bathindi,

and moved there on 5 October 1995. As the new institution started, he was subject to some

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–

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conflicts triggered by local followers of the Barelvi movement, which led to his arrest in August 1995. He was imprisoned under the

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for eleven months. He continued teaching at the madrasa for next two years and was arrested again in May 1997. He was released in August 2000 and he continued teaching at the Markaz-ul-Ma’arif. He served as the chief-mufti and patron of the Markaz-ul-Ma’arif. Faizul Waheed was an authority in

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and an exegete of the Quran. He translated the ''Qur'ān'' into

and owned the credit of being its first translator in that language. He had penned the translation and the exegesis of the ''Qur'ān'' during his imprisonment. In November 2018, he said while speaking at a convention in Gool, Ramban that "the success of every person is concealed in the ''Qur'ān''". Faizul Waheed was admitted at the Acharaya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences (ASCOMS) in

on 23 May 2021 to be treated for

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; he died on 1 June 2021 from post COVID-19 complications.

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and Syed Basharat Ahmed Bukhari expressed grief over his death. Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali expressed that the scholar's death was an irreparable loss.

Literary works

Faizul Waheed wrote ''Faiz al-Mannān'', the first ever translation and commentary of the ''Qur'ān'' in

. His other works include: * ''Sirājum Muneera'' (''The Shining Lamp'', A biography of Islamic prophet

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.) * ''Pāki ke Masā'il Qur'ān-o-Hadees ki Roshni Mein'' (''The Rules of Purity in the Light of Qur'ān and

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'') * ''Mareez-o-Mayyit awr Warāsat ke Ahkām Qur'ān-o-Hadees ki Roshni Mein'' (''Rules of the Ill, the Deceased and Inheritance in the Light of Qur'ān and Hadith'')

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