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Muhammad Mustafa Jauhar (10 May 1895 – 24 October 1985) was a prominent and distinguished Pakistani Scholar, Religious Leader, Public Speaker, Poet and Philosopher. He was born on 10 May 1895 (14th Zeq’ad 1312 H) in Bihar, India. Maulana Jauhar was considered as an Authority on Uloom-e-Falsafah-o-Mantiq. He wrote many books on different Uloom. He died on 24 October 1985 (09 Safar 1406 H) when he was 90 years old. His son Allama Talib Jauhri

Allama Talib Jauhri

Allama Talib Jauhari is a Pakistani Islamic scholar, religious leader, public speaker, Urdu poet and philosopher from the Shi'ite sect of Islam who holds the position of Zakir-e-Sham-e-Ghariban on GEO TV in 2007 and on Pakistan Television for several years.He has delivered speeches on Islamic...

is also a very famous Aalim-e-Deen.

Sultanul Madaris (Lucknow)

Maulana

Mawlānā is an Arabic word literally meaning "our lord" or "our master" ....

Muhammad

Muhammad |ligature]] at U+FDF4 ;Arabic pronunciation varies regionally; the first vowel ranges from ~~; the second and the last vowel: ~~~. There are dialects which have no stress. In Egypt, it is pronounced not in religious contexts...

Mustafa

Mustafa is the primary transliteration of the Arabic given name, . The name is an epithet of Muhammad that means, Chosen One. It is a very common male given name, throughout the Muslim world.-Mostafa:...

Jauhar

Jauhar and Saka refer to the ancient Indian tradition of honorary self immolation of women and subsequent march of men to the battle field to end their life with respect. It was followed by the Rajput clans in order to avoid capture and dishonour at the hands of their enemies...

was the elder son of Hakeem Muhammad Muslim. Hakeem sahib used to do his clinic (matab) in Bhagalpur

Bhagalpur

Bhagdattpuram was one of the most influential towns in "Aryavarta" . It is supposed to have been concurrent to Patliputra or Patna. Bhagdattpuram finds its mention in the Vedas and Ramayana as well. It is supposed to be the kingdom of Daanvir Karna, the son of Kunti and the Sun God...

during 1910, there Maulana Jauhar was studying in an English School. One day Hakeem sahib scolded his son saying that I wanted you to study Arabic not English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

. Jauhar sahib left the school next day and also left Bhagalpur

Bhagalpur

for Lucknow

Lucknow

Lucknow is the capital city of Uttar Pradesh in India. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of Lucknow District and Lucknow Division....

, where he took admission in Sultanul Madaris

Sultanul Madaris

Sultanul Madaris is a Shia Islamic religious school for higher religious education in Lucknow, India founded in 1892 by Ayatullah Syed Muhammad Abul Hasan "Abbu sahab" son of Ayatullah Syed Ali Shah. The extensive buildings were erected under the supervision of the Nawab Mehdi Hasan Khan....

. Maulana completed his education from Sultanul Madaris

Sultanul Madaris

Lucknow

Lucknow is the capital city of Uttar Pradesh in India. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of Lucknow District and Lucknow Division....

in 1923.

Madrassa Abbasia (Patna, British India)

Madrassa Abbasia was inaugurated in 1923 (23rd Zil Haj, 1342 H) by Sarkar Baqar-al-aloom Syed Muhammad Baqir. Maulana was appointed as its first Naib Mudarris-e- Alla on August 1925 ( Safar 1344 H), Later after some months he became Mudarris-e-Alla of Madrassa Abbasia on January 1926 ( 13 Rajab 1344 H). He called Maulana Syed Abul Hassan to Patna

Patna

Paṭnā , is the capital of the Indian state of Bihar and the second largest city in Eastern India . Patna is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world...

and appointed him as the Naib Mudarris-e- Alla in the Madrassa. The owners couldn’t give salaries to Mudarraseen for 6 months. Than all of the Mudarraseen decided to resign and they submitted their combined resignation from the Madrassa on May 1940 during summer vacations, and later Madraassa Abbasia got closed for ever.
Around 1945 he went to Kanpur and remained there till 1949 as Imam Jumma wal Jammaat for the Masjid of Patka Pur. During partition of India

Partition of India

The Partition of India was the partition of British India on the basis of religious demographics that led to the creation of the sovereign states of the Dominion of Pakistan and the Union of India on 14 and 15...

most of the momineen migrated from India to Pakistan but he remained stayed there in Kanpur till early 1949. After 1949 firstly he moved to Hyderabad (Deccan) and later after some time he finally migrated to newly formed Islamic Republic of Pakistan and settled in Karachi

Karachi

Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...

Karachi, Pakistan

In Karachi

Karachi

he delivered Majalis in Chagla Compound Kharadar for four years during the holy month of Muharram

Muharram

Muharram is the first month of the Islamic calendar. It is one of the four sacred months of the year in which fighting is prohibited...

. Due to the high demand of his majalis, his speeches got translated very next day into Gujarati language

Gujarati language

Gujarati is an Indo-Aryan language, and part of the greater Indo-European language family. It is derived from a language called Old Gujarati which is the ancestor language of the modern Gujarati and Rajasthani languages...

and spread in the Gujarati community. During his early days in Karachi, he did Imamate

Imamate

The word Imamate is an Arabic word with an English language suffix meaning leadership. Its use in theology is confined to Islam.-Theological usage:...

in Khoja Masjid Kharadar and in Imambargah Martin Road. He also served as Mudarris e Alla for two years in Jamia Imamia Nazim abad founded by Maulana Zafar Hassan Amrohavi. When he shifted to North Nazimabad

North Nazimabad

North Nazimabad is a suburb of North Nazimabad Town, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. North Nazimabad was developed in early 1950s to settle Muslim refugees in Pakistan.-History:...

he started delivering daily lectures at his residence on Tafseer-e-Quran, Hadith

Hadith

The term Hadīth is used to denote a saying or an act or tacit approval or criticism ascribed either validly or invalidly to the Islamic prophet Muhammad....

, Islamic history, and other religious subjects after the prayers of Maghrabain. Also he gave solutions for complex religious and philosophical myths and answers of querries related to Islam

Islam

Islam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...

and shariyah during these sittings. Ulema and Fuqha from Sunni sect were also regular attendees of these gatherings. Dignitaries from all walk of life also liked to attend such gatherings, such as Allama Rasheed Turabi, Josh Malihabadi

Josh Malihabadi

Josh Malihabadi was a noted Urdu poet born in British India, who was an Indian citizen until 1958, when he emigrated to Pakistan and became a Pakistani citizen...

, Prof. Ali Husnain Shefta, Muhammad Ali Habib (Habib Bank), Agha Sultan Ahmad Mirza Dehlavi, and Tehzeeb ul Hassan (Chief Engineer).

Memory

Maulana Jauhar had exceptional memory. For him the essence of life was Study. He never forgot any writing which he read till whole life, even the details like the stuff was in which page of which book which volume etc. During 1975 he suffered from glaucoma

Glaucoma

Glaucoma is an eye disorder in which the optic nerve suffers damage, permanently damaging vision in the affected eye and progressing to complete blindness if untreated. It is often, but not always, associated with increased pressure of the fluid in the eye...

. When he did Istikhara for Operations it was negative so he didn’t opt for Operations. In that condition when somebody use to ask him about the location of specific book he gave him full location that check in that line and after third book, check the fourth book this is your required book and he was never wrong.

Library

Raees-e-Azam of Hussain Ganj District Saewan Babu Yousaf Muhammad Ali was a learned person and an expert in many languages i.e. Arabic, Persian

Persian language

Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...

, Urdu

Urdu

Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

. He was also a very religious and pious man with God Consciousness Taqwa

Taqwa

Taqwá is the Islamic concept of the fear of God.-Etymology:The term taqwá comes from the Arabic root W-Q-Y from the 8th stem verb, ittaqá "be wary, Godfearing."...

and Purity Taharat. He was very regular in Namaz-e-Shab “ Tahajjud

Tahajjud

Tahajjud , also known as the "night prayer" is a voluntary prayer, performed by followers of Islam. It is not one of the five obligatory prayers required of all Muslims, yet still, the Islamic prophet, Muhammad has been recorded as performing the tahajjud prayer regularly and encouraging his...

” and all the obligatory prayers including daily Amal-e-Ashoora. He was fond of studying books. He used to order books from Lukhnow, Bombay, Dehli even from Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

and Iraq

Iraq

Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

, and one can find his notes on each and every book. So later after some time there became a big library in his home in which there were thousands of books and reference materials. He was the only person who had 25 editions of Biharul anwar in the whole state of Behar

Behar

Behar, BeHar, Be-har, or B’har is the 32nd weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the ninth in the book of Leviticus...

. After his death his descendants gifted all of these books to Maulana Jauhar to get benefit out of them. Now all of these books are present in Maulana’s library at his home in Karachi.

English

Maulana had a good command over English language

English language

. Once he got affected with an itching skin decease, he felt that in this condition he cant remain in purity “ taharat” so he restrain himself from studying Quran and other religious books for some time. As study was his hobby how could he live without it so he decided to bring the English translation of Alif Laila

Alif Laila

Alif Laila is a TV series based on the stories from The Arabian Nights. It was produced by Sagar Films . It was made in two seasons. The first season was aired on DD National and the second SAB TV. Later, it was also aired on ARY Digital. The series became very popular. The dialogue is in Urdu...

and started reading it. Till the time he recovered from this decease he had already finished the book and Maulana sahib became expert in English.

Simplicity and Contentment

He led his life with great simplicity. He used to wear simple but clean clothes. He ate less and simple food. He was such a person who never had a greed for power or wealth. He likes to deliver Majlis like he is doing prayers which is purely for Allah

Allah

Allah is a word for God used in the context of Islam. In Arabic, the word means simply "God". It is used primarily by Muslims and Bahá'ís, and often, albeit not exclusively, used by Arabic-speaking Eastern Catholic Christians, Maltese Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox Christians, Mizrahi Jews and...

's blessings. If anybody ask any question during his Majlis he became very happy and try to answer him clearly so that the person who asked that question should have the answer clear in his mind. He never demanded money for his lectures. Tafsir

Tafsir

Tafseer is the Arabic word for exegesis or commentary, usually of the Qur'an. Ta'wīl is a subset of tafsir and refers to esoteric or mystical interpretation. An author of tafsir is a mufassir .- Etymology :...

-e-Quran and Studies of Quran were his special subject of interests and he volunteered himself for spreading the teachings of Muhammad

Muhammad

and his Ahle Bait.

Poetry

In poetry he was considered as an Ustad

Ustad

Ustad is an Arabized Persian word is a honorific title for a Muslim man in South Asia. The title precedes the name and is usually used for well regarded teachers and artists, most often musicians. It is applied and used via informal social agreement. It is abbreviated as ut. or ud.-References:*...

in the literary circles of Patna and other cities . During his stay in Patna many poets get benefit from him and make themselves his student. Had his poetry got compiled it could have been a treasure for the momineen as he was a poet of Ahle Bait. He used his Takhalus as “Jauhar

Jauhar

” in his poetry. Qais Zangi puri used his Takhalus and said this verse,

Arz dunya o mafia Muhammad Mustafa Jauhar

Marital Life

He married to the daughter of Syed Muhammad Kazim of Hussain Ganj. After the death of his wife he married to his wife’s sister. Allah blessed this couple with a baby girl. Later on his second wife also died. Then he married to the daughter of Mr. Muhamamd Raza of Hussain Ganj, and Allah blessed them with two sons Abu Talib Jauhar (Allama Talib Jauhri

Allama Talib Jauhri

) and Abul Qasim Jauhar ( Abul Qasim Jauhari).
Three of his grandsons, (sons of Allama Talib Jauhri

Allama Talib Jauhri

) Allama Asad Jauhari, Allama Riaz Jauhari and Allama Amjad Jauhari

Allama Amjad Jauhari

Allama Amjad Jauhari is a promoinent Islamic Scholar, Religious Leader and Public Speaker from the Shi'ite sect of Islam.-Khandan-e-Jauhar:Allama Amjad Jauhari belongs to a distinguished family rooted in Islamic sciences and literature. The "Khandan-e-Jauhar" has produced many Scholars, Ulema's and...

are also following his footprints. They received religious education from renowned Islamic Hauza Ilmia in Iran

Iran

and now spreading the message of Muhammed and his Ahle Bait through Majalis.

Literary work

Study was the essence of Maulana's life. He was considered as an authority on Uloom-e-Falsafa o mantaq & Sufi metaphysics. He wrote many books, among them, some are listed here

Tauheed o adal Nahj al-Balagha ki raushani main

Aqaid-e-Jaafria

Asool-e-Jaafria

Saboot-e-Khuda

Janab Syeda (s.a) kay tareekhi khutba fidak ka tarjuma which is included in Seerat-e-Fatima Zahra (s.a) by Agha Sultan Ahmad Mirza

Translation of AL Ghadeer (Volume 1)

Death

He died on 24 October 1985 (09 Safar 1406 H). His son Allama Talib Jauhri

Allama Talib Jauhri

was delivering Majlis in Imam Bargah Bab ul Ilm when he got this sad news. His dead body was brought from Imam Bargah Mehfil-e-Murtaza after Tajheez o Takfeen at 1:30 am to his home, which was later shifted to Imam Bargah Rizvia at 09:00 am. At 10:00 am Namaz –e-Janaza for him was offered which was attended by thousands of mourners. After funeral

Funeral

A funeral is a ceremony for celebrating, sanctifying, or remembering the life of a person who has died. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from interment itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honor...

he was buried in Sakhi Hussain graveyard.

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