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Ziya ur-Rahman Faruqi
Pakistani Islamic scholar From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mawlānā Zia ur Rehman Farooqi (Urdu: ضیاءالرحمن فاروقی; 1953 – 18 January 1997) was the co-founder and former head of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan.[1][2][3]
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Early life and education
Abu Rehan Zia-ur-Rehman Farooqi was born on March 4, 1953 in the town of Sarajia, Khanewal in a religious Deobandi family. His father's name was Maulana Muhammad Ali Janbaz, who was an active member of the Tehreek-e-Majlis Ahrar-e-Islam. At the time of his birth, he was also imprisoned in the central jail of Sukkur in the same regard.
He received his primary education from Sarajia, Khanewal. He studied memorization of the Holy Quran from Jamia Rashidiya, Sahiwal. For further religious education, he was associated with Darul Uloom Kabirwala and Babul Uloom Kahroorpakka. After that, he joined Jamia Khair-ul-Madaris, Multan and completed his studies in the science of Hadith. He also passed his BA examination with distinction from Punjab University.
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Early religious and political career
He started his political life from the platform of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI). He was in the forefront of Mufti Mahmood's election campaign in the 1970 general elections. After Mufti Mahmood became the chief minister, he worked with him for three months. After that, he was appointed as the provincial leader of the Jamiat.
Joining Sipah-e-Sahaba
He remained associated with the Jamiat-ul-Islam Students' Association and the Jamiat-ul-Ulema-e-Islam for a while, upon the establishment of the Sipah-e-Sahaba (SS), he came under the influence of Haq Nawaz Jhangvi as his colleague, The Farooqi left Jamiat and helped Jhangvi to establish the Sipah-e-Sahaba (SS) from Jhang to all over Pakistan and become the most influential leader of Sipah-e-Sahaba (SS) that he was officially considered as the co-founder of Sipah-e-Sahaba for his active participation in the activities of the organization meanwhile he was also remained associated with Tehreek-e-Majlis Ahrar-e-Islam.
Leadership of Sipah-e-Sahaba
In 1991 following the Killing of Haq Nawaz Jhangvi and Isar-ul-Haq Qasmi the Zia-ur-Rehman Farooqi was appointed as the patron-in-chief of Sipah-e-Sahaba (SS) at that time, Zia-ur-Rehman was on a Tablighi tour of Bangladesh. As patron-in-chief of Sipah-e-Sahaba he struggled hard to establish, represent and spread the message of Islam and also aims to spread the influence of Sipah-e-Sahaba alongside Tehreek-e-Majlis Ahrar-e-Islam in Pakistan and all over Muslim World including to the non-Muslim nations around the world in their own languages but after returning from Bangladesh he faced many challenges in Pakistan as he was taken under house arrest by Pakistani authorities for almost 3 years and also restricted multiple times by the government of Pakistan from travelling abroad on the charges of hate speech against the Shia Muslim community of Pakistan.[4]
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Educational activities
His family and colleagues claimed that the Zia's dream was to establish a high-quality university with the aim of producing scholars who could convey the message of Islam to non-Muslim nations around the world in their own languages. In this regard, he proposed to further expand Jamia Umar Farooq Islamia and establish Umar Farooq Islamic University. For this proposed university, He had acquired 42 kanals of land on Faisalabad Road and also required big funding from Sipah-e-Sahaba, but on November 20, 1995, he was arrested and jailed in a case for the first time for anti-Shia activities, due to which this grand project could not be completed.[5]
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Arrest and death
The Zia-ur-Rehman Farooqi and Azam Tariq were arrested and jailed on 20 November 1995 during an crackdown by the Government of Pakistan on the leadership of Sipah-e-Sahaba for anti-Shia activities. In February 1997, during the appearance of both of them, due to poor security measures and government collusion a huge explosion took place in the Sessions Court Lahore in which Zia-ur-Rehman was killed, Meanwhile the Azam Tariq was seriously injured in this explosion, The Sipah-e-Sahaba accused the government and Sipah-e-Muhammad for the explosion and called it as a pre-planned murder (assassination) of Zia-ur-Rehman Farooqi and Azam Tariq in which Tariq survived.[6] Following the killing of Zia-ur-Rehman Farooqi the Sipah-e-Sahaba appointed Azam Tariq as the new chief-in-Patron of the organization.[4]
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Writings
He has authored more than 60 religious books on various subjects. His two famous books, "The Leaders and the Prophets" and "Faisal, a Bright Star", were awarded prizes by the Saudi government and the International Research Center, respectively.
Some of his books include:
- شہید کربلا
- سیدہ فاطمہ
- تاریخی دستاویز
- خطابات منبر و محراب
- خطبات فاروقی
- جواہرات فاروقی
- عائشہ صدیقہ
- ابوبکر صدیق
- عمر فاروق
- سیدنا عثمان غنی
- سیدنا علی المرتضی
- سیرت النبی
- رہبر و رہنما
- فیصل ایک روشن ستارہ
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References
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