Mustafa Raza Khan Qadri

Mustafa Raza Khan Qadri (1892–1981) was an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar and author, and leader of the Sunni Barelvi movement following the death of its founder, his father Ahmed Raza Khan. He was known as Mufti-Azam-i-Hind to his followers. He is widely known as Mufti-e-Azam-e-Hind. On his death date his follower celebrate Urs name as Urs-e-Noori on every 14th Muharram of Islamic Year.

Lineage

Life

He wrote books on Islam in Arabic, Urdu, Persian, and announced judgments on several thousand Islamic problems in his compilation of fatawa Fatawa-e-Mustafwia. Thousands of Islamic scholars were counted as his spiritual successors. He was the main leader of the Jama'at Raza-e-Mustafa in Bareilly, which opposed the Shuddhi movement to convert Muslims to Hinduism in pre-Partition India. During the time of emergency in 1977 in India, he issued a fatwa against vasectomy which was made compulsory and 6.2 million Indian men were sterilized in just a year. In such circumstances Mustafa Raza Khan argued this order of Indian government given by Indira Gandhi.

Works

Raza Khan's books include:

• Fatawa-e-Mustafawia 7Volumes (Religious rulings Mustafa Raza)
• Al Malfoozat of Ala Hazrat (Sayings of Ahmed Raza Khan)
• Saman-e-Bakhshish (Compilation of Islamic Poetry in the Honor of Prophet Muhammad)
• Taqiya Baazi (Hidden Faces of Wahhabism)
• Waqat-us-Sinan، Adkhal-us-Sinan، Qahr Wajid Diyan
• Turq-ul-Huda Wal Irshad Ilaa Ahkam Al Amara Wal Jehad
• Tasheeh Yaqeen Bar Khatm-e-Naiyeeen
• Tardush Shaitan An Sabee Lur Rehman (Fatwa Refuting Government of Saudi Arabia For Imposing Tax on Pilgrims in 1365 A.H)
• No Caste is Inferior

Disciples

His disciples include:

• Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki
• Sayed Muhammad Ameen
• Muhammad Mujeeb Ashraf
• Mahmood Ahmad Razvi Quadri Ashrafi
• Muhammad Idrees Raza Khan Qadri Razvi Hashmati
• Mohammed Akhtar Raza Khan Azhari
• Qamaruzzaman Azmi
• Muhammad Afzal Husain
• Muhammad Husain
• Rehan Raza Khan
• Tehseen Raza Khan
• Sayed Noor Muhammad
• Zia Ul Mustafa
• Abdul Hadi Qaadri
• Ahmad Muqaddam Qaadri
• Badrul Qaadri
• Ghulam Sarwar Al Qaadri
• Mahmood Ahmad Qadri Rafaqati
• Arshadul Qadri
• Muhammad Ibrahim Raza
• Muhammed Abdul Hamid Palmer Razvi
• Muhammad Ghufraan Siddiqi
• Muhammad Muslehuddin Siddiqui
• Sayed Shah Shah Turab-ul-Haq
• Dr. Mufti Ghulam Sarwar Qadri
• Badruddin Ahmed Qadri
• Mufti Abdul Rashid Mufti e Azam Baraar
• Mufti Mujeeb Ali

See also

• Urs-e-Noori
• List of students of Mustafa Raza Khan Qadri