Mustafa Raza Khan Qadri
{{Short description|Indian Sunni Muslim scholar (1892–1981)}}
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| honorific-prefix = His Eminence, Mufti-azam-i-Hind
| name = Mustafa Raza Khan Qadri Noori
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| image = Dargah Aala Hazrat 2.jpg
| native_name = مصطفى رضا خان القادري النوري
| native_name_lang = Arabic
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1892|7|18}} (22nd Dhu al-Hijjah 1310 AH)
| birth_place = Bareilly, North-Western Provinces, British India
| death_date = {{death date and age |1981|11|11|1891|7|18|df=yes}} (14 Muharram 1402 AH){{Cite web |url=http://www.alahazrat.net/islam/introduction-maulana-mustafa-raza-khan.php |title=Brief Introduction Maulana Mufti Mustafa Raza Khan |access-date=8 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180406202014/http://www.alahazrat.net/islam/introduction-maulana-mustafa-raza-khan.php |archive-date=6 April 2018 |url-status=dead }}
| death_place = Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India
| nationality = Indian
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| occupation = Grand Mufti of India
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| era = Contemporary
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| organization = Jama'at Raza-e-Mustafa
| known_for = Fatawa-e-Mustafawia
| notable_works = Fatawa-e-Mustafawia, 1977 (against vasectomy)
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| style = Grand Mufti
| title = Grand Mufti of India
| predecessor = Ahmad Raza Khan Barelvi
| successor = Akhtar Raza Khan ,
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| father = Ahmad Raza Khan
| relatives = Hamid Raza Khan Elder brother
| family = Barelvi family
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| denomination = Sunni Islam
| jurisprudence = Hanafi
| creed = Maturidi
| movement = Barelvi
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|title= Mufti E Azam Hind, Tajdar E Ahlesunnat
|teacher= Ahmad Raza Khan,Ahmed ibn Muhammad al-Nuri
|students=Sardar Ahmad Chishti, Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki, Qamaruzzaman Azmi
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| office1 = Grand Mufti of India
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| religious = Mufti Azam-e-Hind, and Mufti al-Diyar al-Hindiyyah and Shaykh al-Islām
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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.{{Sfnp|Sanyal|1998}} He was known as Mufti-Azam-i-Hind to his followers.{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=NVnVOGluM3UC&q=mufti+azam+-e-+hind+mustafa+raza+khan&pg=PA34|title = Madrasas in South Asia: Teaching Terror?|isbn = 9781134107636|last1 = Malik|first1 = Jamal|date = 27 November 2007|page = 34|publisher = Routledge|quote = Among the guests at the ceremony were Maulana Mustafa Raza Khan of Bareilly (d. 1981), who was known to his followers as 'Mufti-Azam-i-Hind', and, second in importance ...|access-date = 6 November 2020|archive-date = 7 April 2022|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220407010257/https://books.google.com/books?id=NVnVOGluM3UC&q=mufti+azam+-e-+hind+mustafa+raza+khan&pg=PA34|url-status = live}} He is widely known as Mufti-e-Azam-e-Hind.{{Sfnp|Razvi|2011}} On his death date his follower celebrate Urs name as Urs-e-Noori on every 14th Muharram of Islamic Year.
Lineage
{{Lineage
| 1|-1|Naqi Ali Khan|1830-1880
| 2| 1|Ahmad Raza Khan |1856 -1921
| 3| 1|Hassan Raza Khan|1859 -1908
| 4| 1|Muhammad Raza Khan|
| 5| 1|3 Daughters|
| 6| 2|Hamid Raza Khan |1875 -1943
| 7| 2|Mustafa Raza Khan|1892–1981
| 8| 2|5 Daughters|
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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.{{cite book|title=Sufis and Salafis in the Contemporary Age|author=Ridgeon, L.|date=2015|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=9781472532237|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WipfBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA187|page=187|access-date=28 July 2015|archive-date=9 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240209222709/https://books.google.com/books?id=WipfBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA187#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
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.{{cite book|title=Communal and pan-Islamic trends in colonial India|author1=Hasan, M.|author2=Jamia Millia Islamia (India). Dept. of History|date=1985|publisher=Manohar|isbn=9780836416206|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xRBuAAAAMAAJ|access-date=28 July 2015|archive-date=9 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240209222824/https://books.google.com/books?id=xRBuAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
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.{{Cite news|url = https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-30040790|title = India's dark history of sterilisation|work = BBC News|date = 14 November 2014|last1 = Biswas|first1 = Soutik|access-date = 14 March 2019|archive-date = 1 May 2019|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190501202340/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-30040790|url-status = live}} In such circumstances Mustafa Raza Khan argued this order of Indian government given by Indira Gandhi.Arun Shourie, The World of Fatwas or the Sharia in Action, pg. 135. ASA Publications, 1995. {{ISBN|9788190019958}}{{cite web|url=http://www.noori.org/files/products/61-1379508485.pdf|date=11 April 2011|title=Shajrah-E-Muqad'das of the Silsila Aaliyah Qaaderiyah Barakaatiyah Radawiyyah|access-date=28 July 2015|archive-date=11 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711100450/http://www.noori.org/files/products/61-1379508485.pdf|url-status=live}}
Works
- 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){{cite web|url=http://www.alahazratnetwork.org/modules/sunnilibrary/item.php?itemid=22|title=Saman-e-Bakhshish – اسلامی شاعری و نعتیہ دیوان – – Sunni Library – Alahazrat Network|publisher=alahazratnetwork.org|access-date=28 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711112251/http://www.alahazratnetwork.org/modules/sunnilibrary/item.php?itemid=22|archive-date=11 July 2015|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|title=Saamaan e Bakhshish • Ridawiyyah|url=https://ridawiyyah.com/download/saamaan-e-bakhshish/|access-date=2021-09-12|website=Ridawiyyah|language=en-GB|archive-date=28 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220628215647/https://ridawiyyah.com/download/saamaan-e-bakhshish/|url-status=live}}
- 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:{{Cite web|url=https://www.ziaetaiba.com/en/scholar/mufti-azam-hind-muhammad-mustafa-raza-khan-noori|title=Muslim Scholar, Mufti Azam Hind Muhammad Mustafa Raza Khan Noori, Islamic Story in Urdu, Family Tree, Photoes, Date of Birth, Islamic Scholar – Ziaetaiba.|website=www.ziaetaiba.com|access-date=5 June 2020|archive-date=29 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929175655/http://www.ziaetaiba.com/en/scholar/mufti-azam-hind-muhammad-mustafa-raza-khan-noori|url-status=dead}}{{Failed verification|reason=There seems no immediate way this source can contribute straightforwardly to this list|date=June 2020}}
- Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0uNFAQAAIAAJ|title=امام دار البعثة السيد محمد بن علوي المالكي الحسني وآثاره في الفكر الاسلامي|year=2010|page=37|publisher=دار الكتب العلمية،|isbn=9782745164469|access-date=15 February 2021|archive-date=11 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230311054020/https://books.google.com/books?id=0uNFAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
- Sayed Muhammad Ameen{{Cite web|url=http://www.taajushshariah.com/Mufti%20Azam.htm|title=Ghausul Waqt, Huzoor Mufti-e-Azam Hind, Mawlana Mustapha Raza Khan|id=Famaous Khulafa|website=taajushshariah.com|access-date=5 June 2020|archive-date=11 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230311054033/http://www.taajushshariah.com/Mufti%20Azam.htm|url-status=live}}
- Muhammad Mujeeb Ashraf{{Cite web|url=http://ashrafulfuqaha.com/aboutus.htm|title=Ashraful Fuqaha, Mufti-e-Azam Maharashtra, Mufti Muhammad Mujeeb Ashraf|id=Famous Khulafa|website=ashrafulfuqaha.com|access-date=9 August 2020|archive-date=22 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200722102009/http://www.ashrafulfuqaha.com/aboutus.htm|url-status=live}}
- Mahmood Ahmad Razvi Quadri Ashrafi{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
- Muhammad Idrees Raza Khan Qadri Razvi Hashmati
- Mohammed Akhtar Raza Khan Azhari
- Qamaruzzaman Azmi{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
- Muhammad Afzal Husain
- Muhammad Husain
- Rehan Raza Khan
- Tehseen Raza Khan
- Sayed Noor Muhammad
- Zia Ul Mustafa{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
- Shaykh Abdul Hadi Qaadri
- Ahmad Muqaddam Qaadri
- Badrul Qaadri
- Ghulam Sarwar Al Qaadri
- Mahmood Ahmad Qadri Rafaqati{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
- Arshadul Qadri{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
- Muhammad Ibrahim Raza
- Muhammed Abdul Hamid Palmer Razvi
- Muhammad Ghufraan Siddiqi
- Muhammad Muslehuddin Siddiqui{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
- Sayed Shah Shah Turab-ul-Haq
- Dr. Mufti Ghulam Sarwar Qadri
- Badruddin Ahmed Qadri
- Mufti Abdul Rashid Mufti e Azam Baraar
- Mufti Mujeeb Ali
- Allahma Akbar ali Rezvi
- Mufti Anwarul Hak Qadri
See also
References
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Bibliography
- {{Cite book|editor-last=Razvi |editor-first=Moulana Muhammad Afthab Cassim|date=10 May 2011|title=Mufti-e-Azam-e-Hind — Imam Mustapha Raza Khan
|publisher=books.nafseislam.com|url=http://www.nafseislam.com/en/Literature/English/Books/MuftieAzam/MuftieAzam.pdf
|url-status=live|archive-date=12 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612223501/http://www.nafseislam.com/en/Literature/English/Books/MuftieAzam/MuftieAzam.pdf}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Sanyal|first=Usha|date=July 1998
|title=Generational Changes in the Leadership of the Ahl-e Sunnat Movement in North India during the Twentieth Century
|journal=Modern Asian Studies|volume=32|issue=3|publisher=Cambridge University Press|pages=635–656|doi=10.1017/S0026749X98003059|doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 |jstor=313161}}
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| years = 20th century
| before = Amjad Ali Aazmi
| after = Akhtar Raza Khan
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