Nadeem al-Wajidi

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Mawlana
Nadeem al-Wajidi
Personal
Born
Wasif Hussain

(1954-07-23) 23 July 1954 (age 69)
Deoband, Saharanpur district, India
ReligionIslam
NationalityIndian
ChildrenYasir Nadeem al Wajidi[1][2]
Parent
  • Wajid Hussain Deobandi (father)
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanafi
MovementDeobandi
Main interest(s)Urdu Literature, Arabic Literature
Notable work(s)Ihyaul Uloom (Urdu translation), Al-Qamoos al-Maudoo'ī (dictionary), Naye Zehen Ke Shubhāt aur Islam Ka Mauqif
Alma materMiftahul Uloom Jalalabad, Darul Uloom Deoband
Teachers
Pen nameNadeem al-Wajidi
OccupationColumnist, writer

Wasif Hussain Nadeem al-Wajidi (born 23 July 1954), also spelled Maulana Nadeem-Ul-Wajidi, is an Indian Islamic scholar, columnist, critic, and writer who specializes in Urdu and Arabic language and literature.[3] He is the father of Yasir Nadeem al Wajidi.[4]

Early life and education[edit]

Nadeem al-Wajidi was born on July 23, 1954 in Deoband.[5][6] His birth name is Wasif Hussain, suggested by Hussain Ahmad Madani.[7]

His family was also literary, and his family settled in Deoband from Bijnor about a century and a half ago. His grandfather Ahmad Hasan Deobandi was the Sheikh al-Hadith of Jamia Miftahul Uloom, Jalalabad, and his father Wajid Husain Deobandi was the Sheikh al-Hadith of Jamia Islamia Talimuddin, Dabhel.[1][8] His maternal uncle, Sharif Hasan Deobandi was Sheikh-ul-Hadith of Darul Uloom Deoband.[9]

He received his primary education in Deoband, then at Madrasa Miftahul Uloom in Jalalabad, where he got academic benefits from Masihullah Khan Sherwani also.[8][10][7]

After that, in 1967, he was enrolled in Darul Uloom Deoband, and graduated from there in 1974 (1393 AH). After graduation, he studied Arabic language and literature for two more years in the departments of completion of Arabic literature and specialization in Arabic literature in Darul Uloom.[11][12][7]

He is one of the notable students of Wahiduzzaman Kairanawi. He was appointed as the representative of Darul Uloom's Arabic student club An-Nadi al-Adabi by Kairanawi. At that time, he used to bring out a wall magazine called Ash-Shu'oor from the same club.[11][13]

Career[edit]

After graduation, Nadeem taught for one year in a seminary in Arabia in Hyderabad, Deccan, on the orders of his teachers, Sharif Hasan Deobandi, Naseer Ahmad Khan, and Muhammad Naeem Deobandi. Then, in 1978, the advisory council of Darul Uloom Deoband chose him as the supervisor of the writing and compilation department of the centenary celebration, where he worked for two years and published various books and magazines in Arabic and Urdu.[14][15] In 1978, he founded the Arabic Teaching Center in Deoband, from which thousands of students benefited for years. Seven such books were published under this center and have been included in the curricula of several madrasas.[15][16]

In 1980, after the centenary celebration of Darul Uloom Deoband, he established a publishing house called Darul Kitab in Deoband itself,[2][17] and in the period of seven years between 1980 and 1987, he translated Al-Ghazali's renowned book, Ihyā-ul-Uloom, in installments, which was published in four volumes in Lahore and Karachi in Pakistan and Dhaka in Bangladesh.[18] From this publishing house, he has also published numerous books on academic and non-curricular subjects in local and foreign countries such as Beirut, Lebanon, Syria, and Egypt, and now this library is a well-known and famous library in the subcontinent.[17][19]

In 2001, he established the first residential educational institution for girls in Deoband under the name of Ma'had Ayesha As-Sadiqah in Deoband in an effort to correct the deterioration of Muslim society, especially women, in the name of women's freedom. He appointed his wife as manager for internal affairs, who is himself an Islamic scholar.[20]

He is the President of the All India Tanzeem-e-Ulama-e-Hind[21][22] and a General Member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board,[23] among other posts.

Literary works[edit]

Nadeem started writing essays in his student days,[24] and he was encouraged in his writing by the fortnightly Urdu magazine Makarz of Deoband.[17] He was the editor of the wall magazine Shu'oor during his student life.[25][15] From that time until 2013, about 400 of his articles had been published in quality newspapers and magazines in the country and abroad, and thirteen collections of his articles had been published until 2013. His articles are often published in the magazines Darul Uloom Deoband, Naya Daur Lucknow, Aaj Kal, Rashtriya Sahara, Daily Sahafat, Sada-e-Dawat, etc.[24][9][15] He is one of the current Indian literature in Arabic.[26] He is a renowned researcher with a pen-and-style personality.[27][9][28]

In 2000, he published a monthly magazine called Tarjuman-e-Deoband, which is still being published and is popular and well-known among scholars in the country and abroad, as well as the writings of prestigious writers in the country and abroad.[29][2][17][30]

He has authored nearly fifty books, including:[31][16][32][9][28][33]

  • Ihyaul Uloom (Urdu translation of Al-Ghazali's Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn in four volumes)
  • Al-Qamoos al-Maudoo'ī (a trilingual dictionary in Arabic, English, and Urdu)
  • Jam'-ul-Khasāil (an Urdu comentary on Al-Tirmidhi's Shama'il)
  • Aazādi se Jamhūriyyat tak (From freedom to democracy)
  • Islam; Haqāiq aur Ghalat-fehmiyān (Islam; Facts and Misconceptions)
  • Insāni Masāil; Islami Tanāzur Mein (human problems in the Islamic context)
  • Teen Talāq Awām Ki Adālat Mein (triple talaq in public court)
  • Islam aur Humāri Zindagi (Islam and our lives)
  • Quran-e-Karīm Ke Waqi'āt (Events mentioned in the Holy Quran)
  • Musalmānon Ki Milli aur Siyāsi Zindagi (Social and Political Life of Muslims)
  • Naye Zehen Ke Shubhāt aur Islam Ka Mauqif (New Mind Skepticism and the Position of Islam)
  • Humāre Madāris: Mizāj aur Minhāj (Our Schools: Mood and Mindfulness)
  • Ramadan Kaise Guzārein (How to Spend Ramadan? in Urdu and Hindi)
  • Aaj Raat Ki Taraweeh' (Tonight's Taraweeh in Urdu and Hindi)
  • Ramadan; Naikiyon Ka Mausam-e-Bahār (Ramadan is the spring of goodness)
  • Millat-e-Islāmia Ka Dhadakta Huwa Dil (The beating heart of the Nation of Islam)
  • Qiyāmat Ki Nishāniyan aur Maulana Wahiduddīn Khān Ke Nazriyyāt (Doomsday signs and theories of Maulana Wahiduddin Khan)
  • Phir Soo-e-Haram Le Chal (Take us to the Haram again)
  • Khuda Rehmat Kunad (May God have mercy)
  • Mu'allim al-Arabiyyah (an Arabic teaching book in three parts)

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Amin, Rashid (2 June 2021). "Doctor Mufti Yasir Nadeem al-Wajidi par ek tāirāna nazar" [A cursory glance on Dr. Mufti Yasir Nadeem al-Wajidi]. Baseerat Online (in Urdu). Archived from the original on 23 October 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
  2. ^ a b c al-Wajidi 2017, p. 68.
  3. ^ "Govt hurting Muslim sentiments: Maulana of saffron-painted Haj house". Business Standard. 5 January 2018. Archived from the original on 5 January 2018. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
  4. ^ "With His Challenge Being Rejected, Mufti Wajidi Takes on Tarek Fatah on Twitter". Clarion India. 2017-02-16. Retrieved 2024-04-27.
  5. ^ Abbasi, Ibn al-Hasan (October 2020). Yādgār-e-Zamāna Shakhsiyyāt Ka Ahwāl-e-Mutāla'a [Study life of memorable personalities] (in Urdu) (1st ed.). Karachi: Majlis Turāth al-Islam. p. 226.
  6. ^ al-Wajidi, Nadeem (2001). "Ihyā-ul-Uloom Ke Mutarjim: Ek Mukhtasar Ta'āruf" [A brief introduction about the translator of Ihyā-ul-Uloom]. In Faizi, Javed Akhtar (ed.). Ihyā-ul-Uloom (Urdu translation) (in Urdu). Vol. 1. Urdu Bazar, Karachi: Darul Ishā'at. p. 29.
  7. ^ a b c al-Wajidi 2017, p. 67.
  8. ^ a b al-Wajidi 2001, p. 29.
  9. ^ a b c d Usmani, Manzoor (2015). "Maulana Nadeem al-Wajidi". Khushbu-e-Watan (in Urdu). Vol. 2 (1st ed.). Sufaid Masjid, Deoband: Maktaba Madaniyya. pp. 13–17.
  10. ^ Hasan, Nayab (2013). Darul Uloom Deoband Ka Sahafati Manzarnama [Journalistic scenario of Darul Uloom Deoband] (in Urdu) (1st ed.). Deoband: Idara-e-Tahqīq-e-Islami. p. 258.
  11. ^ a b al-Wajidi 2001, pp. 29–30.
  12. ^ Qasmi, Muhammad Tayyib (2018). Darul Uloom Diary (Lail o Nahār: Faizan-e-Maulana Sharif Hasan Deobandi number) (in Urdu). Deoband: Idara Paigham-e-Mahmood.
  13. ^ Abbasi 2020, pp. 230–231.
  14. ^ al-Wajidi 2017, pp. 67–68.
  15. ^ a b c d al-Wajidi 2001, p. 30.
  16. ^ a b Abbasi 2020, p. 226.
  17. ^ a b c d Qasmi, Farooq Azam (17 February 2021). "Ilm-o-Amal ka haseen imtizāj: Maulana Nadeem al-Wajidi" [A beautiful combination of knowledge and practice: Maulana Nadeem al-Wajidi]. Qindeel Online. Archived from the original on 22 April 2024. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
  18. ^ al-Wajidi, Nadeem (2017). "Wasif Hussain Nadeem al-Wajidi". Be-Mithāl Shakhsiyyat Ba-Kamāl Ustādh [Unparalleled personality, excellent teacher] (in Urdu). Deoband: Darul Kitāb. p. 68.
  19. ^ Asim, Obaid Iqbal (2019). Deoband Tarikh-o-Tehdheeb Ke Aayine Mein [Deoband in the mirror of history and civilization] (in Urdu) (1st ed.). Deoband: Naeemia Book Depot. p. 122.
  20. ^ Asim 2019, pp. 342–345.
  21. ^ "Deoband slams Kerala woman imam". The Times of India. 2018-02-03. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2024-04-18.
  22. ^ Srivastava, Piyush (2 December 2017). "Deoband for film ban". The Telegraph (India). Archived from the original on 26 April 2024. Retrieved 26 April 2024.
  23. ^ "General members of AIMPLB". aimplb.org. Archived from the original on 18 April 2024. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
  24. ^ a b Hasan 2013, p. 258.
  25. ^ Usmani 2015, p. 15.
  26. ^ al-Qasimi, Haqqani. Darul Uloom Deoband: Adabi Shanakhtnama [Darul Uloom Deoband: A Literary Identity] (in Urdu). Vol. 1 (May 2006 ed.). Jamia Nagar, New Delhi: All India Tanzeem-e-Ulama-e-Haq. p. 39.
  27. ^ Choudhary, Samir (1 January 2021). "Formal release of four new books by Maulana Nadeem Al-Wajdi, a prominent religious scholar". Asre Hazir. Archived from the original on 22 April 2024. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
  28. ^ a b Qaiser, Naseem Akhtar. Apne laug (in Urdu) (January 2012 ed.). Mohalla Khanaqah, Deoband: Azhar Academy, Shah Manzil. pp. 110–113.
  29. ^ Asim 2019, pp. 154–155.
  30. ^ Hasan 2013, pp. 144, 259.
  31. ^ Hasan 2013, pp. 260–261.
  32. ^ "The works of Maulana Nadeem al-Wajdi". Book gide (in Urdu) (November 2021 ed.). Deoband: Darul Kitab. pp. 154–155.
  33. ^ Qasmi, Muhammadullah Khalili (October 2020). Darul Uloom Deoband Ki Jame O Mukhtasar Tareekh (in Urdu) (2nd ed.). India: Shaikh-Ul-Hind Academy. pp. 404–405. OCLC 1345466013.
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