Happy Birthday to Shaykh ul Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir ul Qadri

Great contemporary Islamic thinker, exegete, scholar and statesman, Professor Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri was born in the city of Jhang in 1951, four years after the creation of Pakistan. He graduated in arts and law with distinction from the Punjab University. He was awarded PhD by the Punjab University in 1986 on the thesis Punishments in Islam, their classification and philosophy. He took allegiance at the hand of Sayyidina Tahir Ala-ud-Din al-Qadri al-Gilani who groomed him in the mystic way of life and who is his spiritual benefactor. Among his teachers are included his father Dr Farid-ul-Din Qadri, Mawlana Zia-ud-Din Madani, Mawlana Ahmad Saeed Kazmi, Dr Burhan Ahmad Farooqi, Dr Muhammad bin Alawi, all men of high intellectual calibre and scholarly stature. He has delivered thousands of lectures spanning diverse facets of Islam, its religious, spiritual, historical, moral, legal, political, economic, social and scientific aspects and its comparison with other religions. He also delivers lectures at foreign universities on various intellectual and contemporary issues. He has written numerous books in Urdu, English and Arabic to date. Many of his books have been translated into different languages. His lectures are also broadcast from different TV channels in the Western and Arabian world.

Minhaj-ul-Quran International launched by him is thriving now in more than 80 countries of the world. He also laid the foundation of mass education programme (MEP) in Pakistan, which is the greatest educational plan at the unofficial level. His political party, Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT), is playing a vital role in national politics by promoting the tradition of tolerance, principle observance and progressiveness in national political culture. He is a unifying symbol of Muslim world and known as an ambassador of peace and human welfare. His intellectual and social contributions to human progress are internationally acknowledged. American Biographical Institute has pronounced him outstanding man of the 20th century and his name has been included in the Millennium Biographical Dictionary as a distinguished intellectual and thinker of the world. Moreover, he is also included among the 500 most effective leaders at the end of the second millennium as recognition of his original research and services to humanity. He was declared 1998-99 personality by the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge as an acknowledgement of his educational and social contributions. In the recent past it is hard to find an individual who has rendered such unprecedented services in such a short span of time for the improvement of the Islamic community through his intellectual and practical struggle.

Dr Qadri is, therefore, not an individual but a tradition. He is not only a sensitive interpreter of Islamic values but also a harbinger of the resplendent future of Islam.

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