Ghulam Ullah Khan (born; 1905 - 27 May 1980) ( Urdu: ) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar.

Early life and education

Khan was born in 1904 to Malik Feroze Khan in

Chhachh Chhachh or Chach (Hindko and ur, چھچھ ) is a region located between Peshawar and Islamabad at the northern tip of Attock, consisting of an alluvial plain extending from Attock District of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab, Pakistan, southwest of Topi ...

Attock district Attock District (Urdu and pnb, ) is a district in Pothohar Plateau of the Punjab Province of Pakistan. Its capital is Attock city. The district was created in April 1904 by the merging of tehsils of nearby districts. Its former name was C ...

. His father was pious and a village Nambardar belongs to

Awan Tribe Awan ( Punjabi and ur, ) is a tribe living predominantly in the northern, central, and western parts of Pakistani Punjab, with significant numbers also present in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Azad Kashmir, and to a lesser extent in Sindh and Balochistan ...

. He learned Quran from

Rashid Ahmad Gangohi Rashīd Aḥmad ibn Hidāyat Aḥmad Ayyūbī Anṣārī Gangohī (182611 August 1905) ( ur, ) was an Indian Deobandi Islamic scholar, a leading figure of the Deobandi jurist and scholar of hadith. His lineage reaches back to Abu Ayyub al-A ...

. He passed the middle school examination from Hazro High School and then moved to

Rawalpindi Rawalpindi ( or ; Urdu, ) is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad, and third largest in Punjab after Lahore and Faisalabad. Rawalpindi is next to Pakistan's ...

and read early Persian and grammar books from Maulana Ahmad Din, a student of Maulana Saif-ur-Rehman Peshawari. Then he learned various books from Maulana Sikandar Ali and his elder brother Maulana Muhammad Ismail, a resident of Kokal (Hazara). Studied art books from Maulana Abdullah Patwar and Maulana Muhammad Din. Studied last books of rationality from Maulana Ghulam Rasool of Gujarat District and his son-in-law Maulana Waliullah. Mishkat,

Jalalayn ''Tafsīr al-Jalālayn'' ( ar, تفسير الجلالين, lit=Tafsir of the two Jalals) is a classical Sunni interpretation ( tafsir) of the Qur'an, composed first by Jalal ad-Din al-Maḥalli in 1459 and then completed after his passing by J ...

Tafsir al-Baydawi ''Anwar al-Tanzil wa-Asrar al-Ta'wil'' ( ar, أنوار التنزيل وأسرار التأويل, lit=The Lights of Revelation and the Secrets of Interpretation), better known as ''Tafsir al-Baydawi'' ( ar, تفسير البيضاوي), is o ...

and translation of the Quran were also studied here. Later from Maulana Hussain Ali, a resident of

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, learned Qur'an exegesis from him and on his instructions made a journey to

Darul Uloom Deoband The Darul Uloom Deoband is an Islamic seminary ( darul uloom) in India at which the Sunni Deobandi Islamic movement began. It is located in Deoband, a town in Saharanpur district, Uttar Pradesh. The seminary was established by Muhammad Qa ...

and studied most literature books there. Maulana Rasul Khan Hazarvi took the entrance exam. In 1933 he studied the hadith in

Jamiah Islamiah Talimuddin Dabhel Jamiah Islamiah Talimuddin Dabhel (or Dabhel Jamiah Islamiah or Jamiah Islamiah Dabhel) is a Deobandi Islamic seminary in Dabhel, Gujarat, India. Education pattern The Jamiah has the following departments: * Nazirah-e-Qur'an (reading the Qur' ...

Career

After graduation from

on the behest of

Anwar Shah Kashmiri Anwar Shah Kashmiri (known with honorifics as ''Sayyid Muḥammad Anwar Shāh ibn Mu‘aẓẓam Shāh al-Kashmīrī''; 16 November 1875 – 28 May 1933) was a Kashmiri Muslim scholar and jurist who served as the first principal of Madrasa Am ...

, he continued to teach there for one year. There he assisted

Shabbir Ahmad Usmani Shabbir Ahmad Usmani (11 October 188713 December 1949) was an Islamic scholar who supported the Pakistan Movement in the 1940s. He was a religious scholar, writer, orator, politician, and expert in Tafsir and Hadith. Born in 1887 in Bijnor, Us ...

in compiling the ''Tafseer-e-Usmani''. On the instructions of his Sheikh Maulana Hussain Ali, he was assigned to teach at the Madrasa Barakat-ul-Islam in Wazirabad. Sheikh Abdul Ghani brought him from Wazirabad to Rawalpindi in 1939, where he worked in high school for few months. After leaving school, he started teaching in the old fort mosque and started lecturing on the Qur'an in addition to giving speeches in different places. In 1930 founded Darul Uloom Taleemul Quran. He wrote a commentary on the Qur'an called "Tafsir Jawahar-ul-Quran". He was one of the prominent scholars of Jamiat-e-Ishaat-e-Tawhid-o-Sunnah Pakistan and held the post of Nazim-e-Ala. In 1980, he was a special supporter of

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Muhammad Shafi Muḥammad Shafī‘ ibn Muḥammad Yāsīn ‘Us̱mānī Deobandī ( ur, ; ar, محمد شفيع بن محمد ياسين العثماني الديوبندي, ''Muḥammad Shafī‘ ibn Muḥammad Yāsīn al-‘Uthmānī ad-Diyūbandī''; ...

and

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. And as the Ameer of Central Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Punjab, he raised the word of truth together with these gentlemen against socialism and communist movements.

Death

On the night of 26 May 1980, he died of a heart attack in

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. Syed Inayatullah Shah Bukhari led the funeral prayers in Liaqat Bagh and the then Chief of Army Staff and President of Pakistan General

Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq HI, GCSJ, ร.ม.ภ, (Urdu: ; 12 August 1924 – 17 August 1988) was a Pakistani four-star general and politician who became the sixth President of Pakistan following a coup and declaration of martial law i ...

also shouldered the funeral bed. About 200,000 people attended the funeral. He was buried at Jamia Ishaat-ul-Islam Attock.

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