29 Facts About Muhammad Amjad

Muhammad Amjad, was a legal scholar of Qur'an, Hadith, and the Hanafi school of Islamic law.

Muhammad Amjad was against all the practices resulting in undue homage to the tombs and graves of Sufis and saints.

Muhammad Amjad believed that Islam was corrupted by Sufism, pantheism, theology, philosophy and by all sorts of superstitious beliefs.

Muhammad Amjad was a great legal scholar of the Hanafi school of Islamic law.

Muhammad Amjad preferred this school because, among the four established Sunni schools of legal thought in Islam, the Hanafi school is the oldest.

Muhammad Amjad rendered a great service to Islamic laws and Fiqah.

Muhammad Amjad issued many fatwa on important issues at the request of the Muslims of his time.

Muhammad Amjad helped the common Muslim not to lose heart in the years of his servitude, poverty and deprivation.

Muhammad Amjad established a mosque in Naushera; the call for prayers went forth from the minarets five times a day, allegiance was proclaimed to God and Muhammad punctually and persistently.

Muhammad Amjad acknowledged Ibn Arabi superiority in philosophy and spiritual insight, but he never followed him if he found him deviating from Sunnah.

Muhammad Amjad used his knowledge of Islamic mysticism, Sufism and "Wahdt al Wujud" only for purely academic purposes and never allowed his devotees, followers and descendants to treat him as a Pir.

Muhammad Amjad forbade his descendants not to establish Dargah after his death and made a will to bury him in the ordinary grave.

Muhammad Amjad was a Sufi and Alim at the same time.

Sir Muhammad Amjad Iqbal criticised the pirs of Punjab in his poem "To The Punjab Pirs".

Sir Muhammad Amjad Iqbal denounced these pirs in one of his poems as merely pale reflections of the great medieval Sufi saints, "Crows" occupying the "Eagle nests" of Punjab's greatest religious men.

Muhammad Amjad had correspondence with various famous Sufis of his time including Shams-ud-Din Sialvi of Sial Sharif, Khawaja Muhammad-ud-Din, Khawaja Zia-ud-Din, Pir Meher Ali Shah, Pir Jalalpur Sharif.

Muhammad Amjad inherited a library of rare Arabic manuscripts from his ancestors, to which he added every rare book or manuscript that he could find.

Muhammad Amjad left many books still in the form of manuscripts, religious decisions, letters, and notes.

Muhammad Amjad died in 1920, leaving his younger comrade Pir Meher Ali Shah as the only authority on this subject in India.

Muhammad Amjad used to spend all summer and winter nights sitting on a slab of stone in the shape of a prayer mat, devoted to prayer and meditation.

Muhammad Amjad wrote a letter to Pir Meher Ali Shah stating that now there was no body in whole Hindustan, to whom he could consulted in this matter, requesting him to tell about Ibn Arabi concept of Space and Time.

Qazi Mian Muhammad Amjad was a disciple and Khalifa of Shams-ud-din Sialvi in the Silsila-e-Chishtia Nizamiyah.

Muhammad Amjad was a great admirer of Syed Ahmed Khan, and Aligarh Movement.

Muhammad Amjad requested to the British Deputy Commissioner of District Shahpur, now District Sargodha, to establish a High School in Naushera.

Muhammad Amjad organised lotteries, staged drama and felt no hesitation to visit any place, including red light areas, to collect money.

Qazi Mian Muhammad Amjad himself gave donation and persuaded all local influential landlords to contribute in this regard.

Muhammad Amjad was a "Hakeem" or herbalist of first rank.

Muhammad Amjad did not accept remuneration from patients for his treatments.

Muhammad Amjad was buried in Naushera, Soon Valley of Punjab, where his tomb became a site of Sufi veneration.