10 Facts About Tariq Jamil

The recipient of the Pride of Performance award, Tariq Jamil has been named in The 500 Most Influential Muslims year since 2012.

Tariq Jamil was born on 1 October 1953 in Mian Channu, Punjab and belongs to a well-off Punjabi Rajput family of large landholders descending from Prithviraj Chauhan, a 12th-century ruler.

Tariq Jamil's family ruled Tulamba, a town close to Mian Channu, during the reign of Sher Shah Suri in the 16th century, who distributed the lands around Tulamba.

Tariq Jamil's younger brother Dr Muhammad Tahir Kamal Sahu is a well-known cardiologist, working at the Punjab Institute of Cardiology in Lahore.

Tariq Jamil is an alumnus of Government College University, Lahore, and received his Islamic education from Jamia Arabia, Raiwind, where he studied the Qur'an, hadiths, Sufism, logic and Islamic jurisprudence.

Tariq Jamil enrolled in King Edward Medical College after finishing a pre-medical education from Government College Lahore, but he left the college without completing his MBBS when he decided to pursue religious education.

Tariq Jamil has delivered religious sermons internationally and comes from a school of thought called Deoband.

Tariq Jamil's sermons focus on "self-purification, avoidance of violence, observance of Allah's orders and pursuing the way of Prophet Muhammad".

Tariq Jamil has been named as one as of The 500 Most Influential Muslims in the world by the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought in Jordan every year since 2012.

Jamil launched the Maulana Tariq Jamil Foundation, which is a non-profit organization in Tulamba, Khanewal.