Ayatollah Allama Syed Muhammad Dehlavi was a first Official Supreme Leader of Shiites of Pakistan &
Shia scholar, who was elected as the first president of Shiite Demands Committee later called Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Fiqh-e-Jafaria (later called
Tehrik-e-Jafaria Pakistan
Tehreek-e-Jafaria ( ur, ; TJP ; en, Movement of Shia Law) was a Shia political party, which was founded in 1979 by Syed Arif Hussain Al Hussaini.Its creation coincided with the enforcement of controversial Islamic laws by then President of Pakis ...
). He had authored his
fiqhi
resalah named ''Wasael-ush-Sharia'' in
Urdu, and the famous Urdu book ''Tohfat-ul-Awam'' on
Jafari fiqh was largely based on it.
[Maulana Manzoor Hussain Naqi, ''Tuhfa-tul-Awam'', pp. 3-4, 1956]
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Muhajir people
Pakistani Shia Muslims
Pakistani writers
Pakistani politicians
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