Faizul Waheed was an Indian Islamic scholar, jurist and an exegete of the Quran from Jammu and Kashmir, who served as the chief-mufti of Markaz-ul-Ma'arif, an Islamic seminary in Bathindi, Jammu.
16 Facts About Faizul Waheed
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Faizul Waheed wrote Faiz al-Mannan, the first ever translation and commentary of the Quran in Gojri language.
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Faizul Waheed was born in Dodasan Bala, Thanamandi, Rajouri in 1964.
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Faizul Waheed was schooled at the Madrasa Kashif-ul-Uloom in Thanamandi and the Madrasa Talim-ul-Qur'an in Muzaffarnagar.
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Faizul Waheed completed memorizing the Quran and specialising in the "qirat" in 1982.
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Faizul Waheed studied two years of the dars-e-nizami in Madrasa Khadim-ul-Islam in Hapur and graduated from the Darul Uloom Deoband in 1991.
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In 1992, Faizul Waheed began teaching at the Madrasa Ashraf-ul-Uloom in Jammu.
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Faizul Waheed was imprisoned under the Public Safety Act for eleven months.
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Faizul Waheed continued teaching at the madrasa for next two years and was arrested again in May 1997.
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Faizul Waheed was released in August 2000 and he continued teaching at the Markaz-ul-Ma'arif.
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Faizul Waheed served as the chief-mufti and patron of the Markaz-ul-Ma'arif.
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Faizul Waheed was an authority in Islamic jurisprudence and an exegete of the Quran.
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Faizul Waheed translated the Qur'an into Gojri language and owned the credit of being its first translator in that language.
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Faizul Waheed had penned the translation and the exegesis of the Qur'an during his imprisonment.
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Faizul Waheed was admitted at the Acharaya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences in Jammu on 23 May 2021 to be treated for COVID-19; he died on 1 June 2021 from post COVID-19 complications.
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Faizul Waheed wrote Faiz al-Mannan, the first ever translation and commentary of the Qur'an in Gojri language.