Tariq Jamil (
Punjabi, ; ; born 1 October 1953)
[ is a Pakistani Islamic cleric, preacher and member of the Tablighi Jama'at.] The recipient of the Pride of Performance
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award, Tariq Jamil has been named in ''The 500 Most Influential Muslims
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'' year since 2012. In the 2024 edition of the publication, he was ranked 34th most influential Muslim alive and topped YouGov polls in 2018 and 2020 for Pakistan’s most admired man.
Early life and education
Tariq Jamil was born on 1 October 1953 in Mian Channu, Punjab
Punjab (; ; also romanised as Panjāb or Panj-Āb) is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia. It is located in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of modern-day eastern Pakistan and no ...
[According to his personal website, he was born 1 October 1953, though an article in the ]Daily Jang
The ''Daily Jang'' () is an Urdu language newspaper headquartered in Karachi, Pakistan. It is considered one of Pakistan's newspaper of record and a leading newspaper of Pakistan.
History
It is the oldest newspaper of Pakistan in continuous p ...
says 1 January 1953.
and belongs to a well-off Punjabi Rajput
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family of large landholders descending from Prithviraj Chauhan
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, a 12th-century ruler. His family ruled Tulamba
Tulamba (also Tulambah) () is a small town in Punjab
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, a town close to Mian Channu, during the reign of Sher Shah Suri
Sher Shah Suri (born Farid al-Din Khan; 1472 or 1486 – 22 May 1545), also known by his title Sultan Adil (), was the ruler of Bihar from 1530 to 1540, and Sultan of Hindustan from 1540 until his death in 1545. He defeated the Mughal Empire, ...
in the 16th century, who also distributed the lands around Tulamba. His younger brother Dr. Muhammad Tahir Kamal Sahu is a well-known cardiologist
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, working at the Punjab Institute of Cardiology in Lahore
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.
Jamil completed his primary education at Central Model School, Lahore. He is an alumnus of Government College University, Lahore
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, and received his Islamic education from Jamia Arabia, Raiwind
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, where he studied the Qur’an
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, hadith
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s, Sufism
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, logic
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and Islamic jurisprudence
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.
Jamil enrolled in King Edward Medical College
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after finishing a pre-medical education from Government College Lahore
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, but he left the college without completing his MBBS
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when he decided to pursue religious education.
Career
Jamil has delivered religious sermons internationally and comes from a school of thought called Deoband
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. He supports ethnic and sectarian harmony.
Jamil's sermons focus on "self-purification, avoidance of violence, observance of Allah's orders and pursuing the way of Prophet Muhammad
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".
Jamil has been named as one as of The 500 Most Influential Muslims
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The publication is compiled by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies C ...
in the world by the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought
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It is affiliated with the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre.
The late King Hussein Bin Tala ...
in Jordan every year since 2012.
Views on COVID
In April 2020, he blamed God's wrath at dishonesty in society and the immodesty of women for the outbreak and spread of COVID-19
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. Besides praying for the welfare of the country and an end to vice, he said: "when a Muslim's daughter practices immodesty and the youth(boys) indulges in immorality, then Allah
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’s torment is unto such a nation."
Human rights
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proponents and other members of Pakistani society condemned the remarks. Human Rights Minister Shireen Mazari
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responded by saying "misogynistic' and 'ignorant' comments blaming women and youth for the ongoing coronavirus crisis were 'absolutely unacceptable".
Revenue
Jamil launched his flagship clothing brand named MTJ Brand. It was launched in March 2021. Its headquarters are located in Karachi
Karachi is the capital city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Sindh, Pakistan. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, largest city in Pakistan and 12th List of largest cities, largest in the world, with a popul ...
. It is claimed the revenue from the business is used to fund his madressahs, and build schools and hospitals in the country. Jamil also launched the Maulana Tariq Jamil Foundation, which is a non-profit organization in Tulamba, Khanewal. It is a project that gathers funds for social work, health, and education to serve the people of Pakistan
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Awards
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Religious Authority, Popular Preaching and the Dialectic of Structure-Agency in an Islamic Revivalist Movement: The Case of Maulana Tariq Jamil and the Tablighi Jama’at
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1953 births
Living people
Punjabi people
Central Model School, Lahore alumni
Government College University, Lahore alumni
Islamic television preachers
Pakistani Muslim missionaries
Pakistani Islamic religious leaders
Pakistani media personalities
Pakistani religious writers
Pakistani Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam
People from Khanewal District
People from Punjab, Pakistan
Recipients of the Pride of Performance
Tablighi Jamaat people
20th-century Muslims
21st-century Muslims
21st-century Muslim scholars of Islam
21st-century Pakistani clergy