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VOLUME 1
QURANIC
ENCYCLOPAEDIA
VOLUME 1
SHAYKH-UL-ISLAM
DR MUHAMMAD TAHIR-UL-QADRI
Minhaj-ul-Quran Publications
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Author: Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
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Acknowledgements
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A
cknowledgements
We would like to thank the following individuals and organisations for
their support towards this project:
Ahmed Nawaz (Birmingham)
Aminh Qadri (Manchester)
Arshad Hussain (Sheffield)
Minhaj Dawah Project
Moazzam Raza (Nelson)
Mohammed Hamza Nawaz (Birmingham)
Mr and Mrs Arshad Aziz (Birmingham)
Mr and Mrs Mohammed Sarfraz (London)
Mubashir Sohail (Nottingham)
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Shabber Shabir Mirza (Reading)
Shabnam Parveen (Birmingham)
Shahid Iqbal (London)
Syed Ali Abbas Bukhari (Slough)
Tahzeem Akthar (Bradford) late mother of Babar Khan (Bradford)
Shaheeb Hussain (Sheffield)
Minhaj Welfare Foundation
Minhaj-ul-Quran Birmingham
Minhaj-ul-Quran London
T A W
ransliteration of rabic ords
The following table shows the system followed in transliterating letters of
the Arabic alphabets:
a J. ta t
I alif
a (long vowel) Ji Zd
ba b cayn
ta t '•r ghayn gh
tha th fa f
jim i L? qdf <7
ha h kaf k
V
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dal d mint m
dhdl dh d nun n
ra r ha h
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za z w (consonantal)
J
waw
J
sin s u (long vowel)
shin sb y (consonantal)
ya
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sad s 1 (long vowel)
dad d * hamza
Short Vowels:
-— (fatha) a
-— {kasra} = i
-— (damma) = u
F A E
ormulaic rabic xpressions
(Subhanahu wa ta'ala)—an invocation to describe the Glory of
Almighty Allah: ‘the Exalted and Sublime’
(Salla-Llahu calayhi wa alibi wa sallam}—an invocation of God’s
blessings and peace upon the Prophet Muhammad and his family: ‘God’s
blessings and peace be upon him and his family’
(cAlayhis-salam)—an invocation of God’s blessings and peace upon a
Prophet or an angel: ‘May peace be upon him’
(cAlayhas-salam)—an invocation of God’s blessings and peace upon a
Prophet’s mother, wife, daughter and other pious woman: ‘May peace be
upon her’
(cAlayhimas-salam)—an invocation of God’s blessings and peace upon
two Prophets or two angels: ‘May peace be upon both of them’
(cAlayhimus-salam)—an invocation of God’s blessings and peace upon
three or more Prophets: ‘May peace be upon them’
& (Radiya-Llahu canhu)—an invocation of God’s pleasure with a male
Companion of the Prophet Muhammad ‘May God be pleased with him’
(Radiya-Llahu canha)—an invocation of God’s pleasure with a female
Companion of the Prophet Muhammad ‘May God be pleased with her’
(Radiya-Llahu ‘anhuma)—an invocation of God’s pleasure with two
Companions of the Prophet Muhammad $>: ‘May God be pleased with
both of them’
(Radiya-Llahu 'anhum)—an invocation of God’s pleasure with more
than two Companions of the Prophet Muhammad ‘May God be pleased
with them’
I
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r uhammad ahir ul adri
Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri was born in 1951 in
the city of Jhang, Pakistan, hailing from a family of Islamic saints,
scholars and teachers. His formal religious education was initiated in
Medina at the age of 12 in Madrasa al-'Ulum al-Shar'iyya, a
traditional school situated in the blessed house of the Companion of
the Prophet Muhammad Abu Ayyub al-Ansarl He completed
the traditional studies of classical and Arabic sciences under the
tutelage of his father and other eminent scholars of the time. He
continued to travel around the Islamic world in pursuit of sacred
knowledge, and studied under many famous scholars of Mecca,
Medina, Syria, Baghdad, Lebanon, the Maghreb, India and Pakistan,
and received around five hundred authorities and chains of
transmission from them in hadith and classical Islamic and spiritual
sciences. Amongst them is an unprecedented, unique and highly
honoured chain of authority which connects him, through five
teachers, to al-Ghawth al-A'zam al-Shaykh 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jilam
(of Baghdad), al-Shaykh al-Akbar Muhyi al-Din b. 'Arabi—the
author of al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya—(Damascus) and al-Hafiz Ibn
Hajar al-'Asqalanl, the great hadith authority of Egypt. Through
another chain he is linked to Imam Yusuf b. Isma'il al-Nabhani
directly via only one teacher. His chains of transmission are
published in two of his thabts (detailed lists): al-]awahir al-Bahira fl
al-Asanid al-Tahira and al-Subul al-Wahabiyya fi al-Asanid al-
Dhahabiyya.
In the academic sphere, Dr Qadri received a First Class Honours
Degree from the University of the Punjab in 1970. After earning his
MA in Islamic studies with University Gold Medal in 197Z and
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