Kifayatullah Dehlawi was appointed as an interim president of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind on its foundation, and as its second president following the death of Mahmud Hasan Deobandi.
20 Facts About Kifayatullah Dehlawi
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Kifayatullah Dehlawi was regarded as the Grand Mufti of India.
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Kifayatullah Dehlawi was a founding member of Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, and was on its foundation committee, which was headed by Mahmud Hasan Deobandi.
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Kifayatullah Dehlawi ibn Inayatullah ibn Faidhullah ibn Khairullah ibn 'Ibadullah Dehlvi was born in Shahjahanpur, a district in Uttar Pradesh, India in 1875.
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Kifayatullah Dehlawi was admitted and remained at the residence of Muhammad Isma'il.
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Kifayatullah Dehlawi completed his studies at Darul Uloom Deoband in 1898 at the age of twenty-two.
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Kifayatullah Dehlawi became a teacher there and handled the secretarial and administrative duties.
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Kifayatullah Dehlawi's salary was reduced from eighteen to sixteen rupees per month.
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Thereafter, Kifayatullah Dehlawi moved to Delhi and became a teacher at Madrasa Aminia.
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Besides teaching hadith and answering fatwas, Kifayatullah Dehlawi managed the organizational affairs of the madrasa.
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The fatwas of Kifayatullah Dehlawi were extremely concise yet full of well-written evidence.
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Kifayatullah Dehlawi's fatwas were always answered according to the intent of the questioner.
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Kifayatullah Dehlawi was appointed the first president of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind, a position he served until 1940.
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Kifayatullah Dehlawi drafted a fatwa recommending a boycott of British goods which was signed by around 500 Muslim scholars.
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Kifayatullah Dehlawi's second major work was an Arabic poem, Raudur Rayyaahin, published in 1909.
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The eloquence and grandeur of the poem were such that Kifayatullah Dehlawi was requested to produce an Urdu translation with footnotes, providing more details than and explaining difficult words from the original.
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Kifayatullah Dehlawi's most renowned publication is Ta'limul Islam, four volumes of questions and answers for children as well as adults in simple language.
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Kifayatullah Dehlawi wrote other religious books which are no longer available.
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Kifayatullah Dehlawi actually produced few works because his teaching, political activities, domestic activities, and answering fatwas busied him to such an extent that he had no time to write.
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Kifayatullah Dehlawi was buried near Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki, in Mehrauli, Delhi.