Majlis-e Ahrar-e Islam

Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam or simply called 'Ahrars' had an anti-imperialist, anti-feudal and Indian nationalist ideology. It worked to free India from the British rule. This party, before fading away, was highly active in Punjab Province (British India) and left an impact on major cities of Punjab like Amritsar, Lahore, Sialkot, Multan, Ludhiana and Gurdaspur.

The Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam,Samina Awan, Political islam in colonial Punjab Majlis-e-Ahrar 1929–1949, P.153, Politics of Islamic symbolism, The MAI: Politics of Personalities, Oxford University Press was originally part of the failed Khilafat movement and emerged as a religio-political party after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919 and the disintegration of the Khilafat movement in 1922.

Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari presided over the meeting and Maulana Mazhar Ali Azhar delivered the manifesto of an All India Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam. It became first line offending party against Ahmadi Muslims by declaring that their objectives were to guide the Muslims of India on matters of nationalism as well as religion. Ahrar spearheaded the movement to have Ahmadi Muslims officially declared as non-Muslims.Samina Awan, Political Islam in colonial Punjab Majlis-e-Ahrar 1929–1949, P.27, Politics of Islamic symbolism, The MAI: Politics of Personalities, Oxford University Press

By the early 1930s, the Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam (hereafter called Ahrars) had become an important political party of Muslims in the Punjab. The activists' agitation centered on the princely states, and was predicated on mobilisation around socio-religious issues. Besides these campaigns, the Ahrar also participated in the mainstream political developments of British India between 1931 and 1947. Its political career can be divided into two parts; the AHRAR's response to political and constitutional issues, and its performance in electoral politics.Samina Awan, Political Islam in colonial Punjab Majlis-e-Ahrar 1929–1949, P.67, Politics of Islamic symbolism, The MAI: Politics of Personalities, Oxford University Press

The Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam stood strongly against the partition of India, with its leader Afzal Haq stating that the "Partition of India is, in fact, the cry of upper classes …. It is not a communal demand as some people think but a stunt in order that the poor classes may not concentrate their thought and energies on all important questions of social and economic justice."{{cite web |last1=Ali |first1=Afsar |title=Partition of India and Patriotism of Indian Muslims |url=http://www.milligazette.com/news/15756-partition-of-india-and-patriotism-of-indian-muslims |work=The Milli Gazette |date=17 July 2017}} It was a member of the All India Azad Muslim Conference, which gathered to show support for a united India.{{cite book |last1=Qasmi |first1=Ali Usman |last2=Robb |first2=Megan Eaton |title=Muslims against the Muslim League: Critiques of the Idea of Pakistan |date=2017 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781108621236 |page=2 }}

Syed Muhammad Kafeel Bukhari is present President Of Majlis Ahrar Islam Pakistan.

In November 2012, the Government of Pakistan banned Abdul Latif Khalid Cheema, leader of Tehreek-e-Khatme Nabuwwat and Secretary General of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam, from delivering a speech in the Chichawatni and district Sahiwal area due to the security situation in Muharram.{{cn|date=October 2024}}

In Pakistan, the party opposed the Ahmadiyya Movement.{{Cite web|url=https://time.com/archive/6620371/pakistan-the-mad-mullahs/|title=PAKISTAN: The Mad Mullahs|date=30 March 1953|website=TIME}}{{cite book | first=Kalim | last=Bahadur | title=Democracy in Pakistan: crises and conflicts | page=176 | publisher=Har Anand Publications | year=1998}}[https://herald.dawn.com/news/1398687 The early champions of anti-Ahmadi cause] Herald (Dawn Group of Newspapers), Published 3 November 2018, Retrieved 19 December 2018 This culminated in the 1953 Lahore riots; in 1954, Majlis-e-Ahrar was banned. The associated Islamist religious movement Tehreek-e-Khatme Nabuwwat remains.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}}

• Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, founder, 1st presidentMajlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam, History, Introduction, Achievements, published from Multan edited by Syed Kafeel Bukhari editor of Naqeeb-e-Khatme Nabuwwat
• Chaudhry Afzal Haq, co-founder, 2nd president, Member of the Legislative Assembly, 1934–1942
• Mazhar Ali Azhar, co-founder, secretary General, Member of the Legislative Assembly, 1934–1942
• Habib-ur-Rehman Ludhianvi, third President, 1942–1944
• Syed Muhammad Kafeel Bukhari, President
• Professor Khalid Shabbir Ahmad, Vice president
• Abdul Latif Khalid Cheema, vice President.
• Muhammad Mughira General Secretary
• Dr Omar Farooq Ahrar, Secretary Information,
• Master Taj-ud-Din Ansari
• Sheikh Hissam-ud-Din
• Agha Shorish Kashmiri
• Janbaz Mirza, official Ahrar historian

• Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, founder and first President, 1929–1930, 1946–1948
• Chaudhry Afzal Haq, second President, 1931–1934 Member of the Legislative Assembly
• Habib-ur-Rehman Ludhianvi, third President, 1935–1939
• Sheikh Hissam-ud-Din, 1939–1940, 1942–1946, 1962–1966
• Master Taj-ud-Din Ansari, 1948–1952
• Ghulam Ghaus Hazarvi, 1958
• Ubaid Ullah Ahrar, 1966–1974
• Syed Abuzar Bukhari, 1975–1978, 1993–1994
• Malik Abdul Ghafur Anwari, 1979–1980
• Mirza Muhammad Hassan Chughtai, 1981–1992
• Abdul Haq Chauhan, 1995–1997
• Syed Ata-ul-Mohsin Bukhari, 1998–1999
• Syed Ata-ul-Muhaimin Bukhari, President 1999–2021 president of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam, Pakistan[https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/341559-khatm-e-nabuwwat-oath-religious-parties-flay-govt-for-challenging-verdict Khatm-e-Nabuwwat oath: Religious parties flay govt for challenging verdict] The News International (newspaper), Published 14 July 2018, Retrieved 19 December 2018
• Syed Muhammad Kafeel Bukhari, President 2021–present

• Maulana Dawood Ghaznavi, founder, 1st Secretary General, 1929–1932
• Maulana Mazhar Ali Azhar, founder, 2nd Secretary General, 1932–1933, 1933–1938, 1941–1945 Member of the Legislative Assembly
• Agha Shorish Kashmiri, 1939–1940, 1945 secretary Ahrar Punjab
• Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, 1946–1947
• Sheikh Hissam-ud-Din, 1948–1953
• Syed Abuzar Bukhari, 1962–1963, 1965–1973
• Janbaz Mirza, 1964–1965
• Chaudhry Sana Ullah Bhutta, 1973–1974
• Syed Ata-ul-Mohsin Bukhari, 1975–1983, 1990–1995
• Abdul Aleem Raipuri Shaheed, 1984–1986
• Syed Ata-ul-Momin Bukhari, 1987–1989
• Ishaq Saleemi, 1990–1995
• Professor Khalid Shabbir Ahmad, 1998–2008
• Abdul Latif Khalid Cheema, 2008–2011, 2012–present

• Janbaz Mirza, journalist
• Muhammad Ismail Zabeeh, Secretary, Punjab, 1937
• Syed Faiz-ul Hassan Shah, scholar
• Haji Abdul Jabar Khan Abbottabad NWFP

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