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Hakeem Muhammad Akhtar (1928 – 2 June 2013) was a Pakistani Sunni Muslim scholar, poet, philanthropist and a Sufi mentor. He established the Jamiah Ashraful Madāris in Karachi. He was an alumnus of the State Unani Medical College Allahabad and the Madrasa Bait-ul-Uloom, Sarai Mir. He was an authorized disciple of Abrarul Haq Haqqi. His works include Ma'ārif-e-Masnawi and Faizān-e-Muḥabbat.




Biography


Hakeem Muhammad Akhtar was born in 1928 in Pratapgarh. He was schooled in Pratapgarh and studied Persian with Qāri Muḥammad Siddīq in Sultanpur.He graduated from the State Unani Medical College Allahabad in 1944 where his teacher was Hakim Aḥmad Usmāni, the father of Hakim Hammad Usmani. He was inclined towards studying Islamic sciences, and completed the traditional dars-e-nizami at the Madrasa Bait-ul-Uloom in Sarai Mir in four years.
Akhtar studied the Sihah Sittah with Abdul Ghani Phulpuri, a student of Majid Ali Jaunpuri. He developed interest in Sufism in early days and benefitted from Abdul Ghani Phulpuri, Abrarul Haq Haqqi and Muhammad Ahmad Pratapgarhi. Haqqi authorized him in the Ashrafia, Chistiyyah, Naqshbandiyah, Qadiriyyah and the Suhrawardiyya orders of Sufism.
Akhtar migrated to Pakistan in 1960 with his Sufi mentor Abdul Ghani Phulpuri. In 1980, he started the "Khanqāh Imdādiya Ashrafiya" in Karachi at the wishes of Abrarul Haq Haqqi. His disciples have started branches of it in Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Mauritius, Myanmar, Réunion, South Africa and Turkey.Akhtar established the Jamiah Ashraful Madāris, a famous seminary in Gulistan-e-Johar, Karachi, in 1998.
Akhtar died on 2 June 2013 in Karachi. His funeral prayer was led by his son Hakeem Muḥammad Mazhar and attended by scholars including Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, Aurangzaib Farooqi, Mufti Muhammad Naeem, Muhammad Rafi Usmani, Saleemullah Khan and Zar Wali Khan. His disciples in Sufism include Abdul Hamid Ishaq, Fazlur Rahman Azmi, Muhammad Ilyas Ghuman, Salman Nadvi and Younus Patel.




Literary works


Akhtar's works include:

Ma'ārif-e-Masnawi, a commentary on the Masnavi of Rumi. This major work of Akhtar is hailed by Islamic scholars such as Yousuf Banuri, Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhlawi and Manzoor Nomani. It was rendered in English by the South African scholar Yusuf Karaan.
Lessons on the Mathnawi of Moulana Rumi: on love and recognition
Tajalliat-E-Jazb: manifestation of Allah's attraction
Ma'rifat-e-Ilāhiya
Rūh ki bīmāriyān aur unka ilāj
Faizān-e-Muḥabbat




See also


List of Deobandis




References






Bibliography


Khan, Waleed (2021). "An Introductory Review of the Remarkable Books and Exhortations of Molana Hakim Akhtar R.A (Silsla e Akhtaria)". Rahat-ul-Quloob (in Urdu). 5 (1): 87–94. doi:10.51411/rahat.5.1.2021/143. ISSN 2521-2869. S2CID 242123984.
Khaliq Dad (January–June 2019). "Maulana Shah Hakeem Muhammad Akhtar: Hayāt-o-Khidmāt" [Life and services of Maulana Shah Hakeem Muhammad Akhtar]. Rāhatul Qulūb. 3 (1): 28–41. Archived from the original on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
Sayyid Ishrat Jameel Mir. Rashk-e-Awliya, Hayat-e-Akhtar (in Urdu) (September 2017 ed.). Gulistan-e-Johar: Idara Taleefat-e-Akhtaria.

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