Kifayatullah Dihlawi
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Mufti Kifayatullah Dihlawi مفتی کفایتاللہ دہلوی |
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| 1st President of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind | |
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In office In office 1919–1938 |
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| Title | Mufti-e-Azam-e-Hind (Grand Mufti of India) |
| Born | 1875 Shahjahanpur, British India (in present-day UP, India) |
| Died | c. 31 December 1952 Delhi, Republic of India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni Islam |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Notable work(s) | Ta'limul-Islam |
| Alma mater | Madrasah I'zaziyah, Shahjahanpur Madrasah Shahi, Muradabad Darul Uloom Deoband |
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Muḥammad Kifāyatullāh ibn 'Ināyatullāh Shāhjahānpūrī Dihlawī (Urdu: محمد کفایتاللہ بن عنایتالله شاہجہانپوری دہلوی; c. 1875 – c. 31 December 1952), known as Mufti Kifayatullah, was an Indian Islamic scholar. He provided Indian Muslims with guidance through various spiritual and political turmoils for nearly fifty years. He was an educationist. The final years of his life were devoted to educational and social work.
Maulana Mufti Kifayatullah was the founder member of Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He was one of the member of foundation committee for Jamia which was headed by Sheikhul Hind Maulana Mahmood Hasan. The committee met on 29 October of 1929 in Aligarh in United Province, British India. Maulana Abdul Haq, Maulana Abdul Bari Farang Mahli, Maulana Hussein Ahmad Madani, Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar, Maulana Shabbir Ahmad Usmani etc. were also the member of foundation committee of Jamia Millia Islamia.
Hazrat Mufti's ancestors hailed from Yemen, but his great-grandfathers were traders from Bahrain, who would travel to India to sell their goods. Once, his family was aboard a ship that ran into a storm and sank. There were no survivors except for a Shaikh Jamaluddin Yamani, who used a piece of debris to float to the shore. At the shore, he was found by a man from Bhopal, who adopted him. Shaikh Jamaluddin Yamani eventually married into a local family. The sinking of the ship is estimated to have occurred approximately three hundred years before Hazrat Mufti's birth. After Shaikh Jamaluddin Yamani, there is no detailed record of Hazrat Mufti's ancestors. At an unknown time, Hazrat Mufti's family shifted from Bhopal to Shahjahanpur. Hazrat Mufti's father, Shaikh Inayatullah, was an extremely noble and pious man. He had four sons and two daughters, but was rather poor.
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