Habibur Rehman Ludhianvi (3 July 1892 – 2 September 1956) was an Islamic scholar who served as the third president of the Majlis-i Ahrar-i Islam from 1935 to 1939. He belonged to an

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tribe and was a direct lineal descendant of Shah Abdul Qadir Ludhianvi, the freedom fighter against British Colonial rule during the

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. An Arain freedom fighter (Habib-ur-Rehman Ludhianvi)
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Biography

Family history

Habibur Rehman Ludhianvi's grandfather Shah Abdul Qadir Ludhianvi led an armed rebellion against the British

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during the

and was among the first ones to rebel against them from the Punjab. He gathered a large fighting force that drove the British out of not only Ludhiana but also

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. This fighting force included Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs. He then proceeded to

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to support the Mughal emperor

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. He gave his life fighting along with thousands of others at

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, Delhi in 1857. Habibur Rehman Ludhianvi was born on 3 July 1892 at

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. He married Bibi Shafatunnisa, the daughter of Abdul Aziz.

Early life and career

Ludhianvi was one of the founders of

Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam Majlis-e Ahrar-e Islam (), also known simply as the Ahrar, is a religious Muslim political party in the Indian subcontinent that was formed during the British Raj (prior to the Partition of India) on 29 December 1929 at Lahore. The group becam ...

, a nationalist movement that wanted an end to the British rule in India. He chose to stay back in East Punjab, India to represent thousands of Muslims still remaining there, after the partition and the

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on 14 August 1947. He argued, at that time, that the remaining Muslims in East Punjab should not be abandoned. Ludhiana is considered a major industrial city of

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. A large number of working Muslims from the provinces of

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and

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also come there to work.

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