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Sibte Jaffar Zaidi ( ur, سيد سبط جعفر زيدى) or commonly known as

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Sibte Jaffar (

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: اُستاد سبطِ جعفر) (born 1957) was a Pakistani professor, poet, advocate, principal, religious reciter, writer and social worker. A principal, a teacher, a poet, and mentor. He started 7 colleges in interior sindh, each costing around Rs 6 million. He had set up educational centers. Apart from looking after educational wings of around 5 welfare organizations, he was overseeing numerous charity organizations and

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s. He received an Honorary award from

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. He ran a school in Tando Adam where Muslim and

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studied for free. He was a poet, an intellectual, a principal in a college. He was shot down when he was returning from his college on his bike. Born and raised in

Shia Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest branch of Islam Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the ...

Muslim family, Sibte Jaffer got the early attachment with

Ahl al-Bayt Ahl al-Bayt ( ar, أَهْل ٱلْبَيْت, ) refers to the family of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, but the term has also been extended in Sunni Islam to apply to all descendants of the Banu Hashim (Muhammad's clan) and even to all Muslims. ...

. Sibte Jaffer chose to write poetry for

, through this Zaidi started getting momentum among masses, he used to recite

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which was written by himself in different

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organized by different people at different locations mostly in

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, Pakistan. His skilled poetry and unique recitation style gave him the Title of "Sha'ir-e-Ahle Bait" (Poet of Ahle Bait). He is also the paternal grandson of Nasim Amrohvi and childhood bestfriend of Rehan Azmi

Manqabats

* Jab Imam Ayenge * jab khuda ko pukara Ali aa gae

Death

Sibt e Jaafar was killed by two people who were on a motorcycle in

Liaquatabad Liaquatabad, also known as Laloo Khait or Lalukhet ur, لیاقت آباد), is a neighborhood in Liaquatabad Town, within Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Liaquatabad was named after Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan ...

, Karachi on 18 March 2013. On 4 April 2013, the two suspects were arrested in Karachi.

References

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