{{Short description|Indian Muslim scholar and politician (1928 – 2006)}} {{Use Indian English|date=March 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = [[Maulana]] | name = As’ad Madani | image = Asad Madani.jpg | caption = | title = | office = [[Member of Parliament]], [[Rajya Sabha]] | constituency = [[List of Rajya Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh|Uttar Pradesh]] | term_start = 3 April 1974 | term_end = 2 April 1980 | constituency1 = [[List of Rajya Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh|Uttar Pradesh]] | term_start1 = 5 July 1980 | term_end1 = 5 July 1986 | constituency2 = [[List of Rajya Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh|Uttar Pradesh]] | term_start2 = 3 July 1988 | term_end2 = 2 July 1994 | office3 = 7th President of [[Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind]] | term_start3 = 11 August 1973 | term_end3 = 6 February 2006 | predecessor3 = [[Syed Fakhruddin Ahmad]] | successor3 = {{bulleted list|[[Arshad Madani]] (A group) | [[Usman Mansoorpuri]] (M group)}} | office4 = 6th General Secretary of [[Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind]] | term_start4 = 9 August 1963 | term_end4 = 10 August 1973 | predecessor4 = [[Muhammad Miyan Deobandi]] | successor4 = [[Syed Ahmad Hashmi]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1928|4|27|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Moradabad district|Moradabad]], [[British India]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2006|02|06|1928|04|27|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Apollo Hospital]], Delhi, India | death_cause = | resting_place = [[Mazar-e-Qasmi]], Deoband, Uttar Pradesh, India | party = [[Indian National Congress]] | citizenship = {{Flag|British India|name=British Indian}} (1928-1947) <br> {{Flag|India|name=Indian}} (1947-2006) | children = [[Mahmood Madani]] | father = [[Hussain Ahmad Madani]] | relatives = Brothers: [[Arshad Madani]], [[Asjad Madani]] | profession = Politician, [[islamic scholar]] | alma_mater = [[Darul Uloom Deoband]] | module = {{Infobox religious biography |embed = yes | religion = Islam |denomination = [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]] |jurisprudence = [[Hanafi]] |movement = [[Deobandi]] |influenced = [[Farid Uddin Masood]] |disciples = [[Ishaq Faridi]] }} | awards = [[Awards and decorations of the Bangladesh Liberation War#Bangladesh|Friends of Liberation War Honour]] }} '''As’ad Madani''' (27 April 1928 – 6 February 2006) was an Indian Deobandi [[Islamic scholar]] and a [[politician]], who served as the sixth general secretary and the seventh President of the [[Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind]]. He was a member of the executive body of [[Darul Uloom Deoband]]. He was a member of the [[Rajya Sabha]], upper house of the [[Parliament of India]] representing [[Uttar Pradesh]] for three terms as a member of the [[Indian National Congress]].
==Early life and education== Asad Madni was born in 1928 to [[Hussain Ahmad Madani]] in [[Moradabad district|Moradabad]] at his maternal uncle's home. He was raised in Madani Manzil in [[Deoband]].<ref name=bd>{{citation|title=জীবনী|language=bn|chapter=ফেদায়ে মিল্লাত সায়্যিদ আসআদ মাদানী (র:)|author=Muhammad Ruhul Amin Nagori|publisher=As Siraz}}</ref> He graduated from Darul Uloom Deoband in 1945.<ref name="rajya">{{cite web |title=RAJYA SABHA MEMBERS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 1952 - 2003 |url=https://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/pre_member/1952_2003/m.pdf |website=Rajya Sabha (Indian parliament) website|publisher=[[Rajya Sabha]] |accessdate=11 March 2020}}</ref> He then stayed in [[Madinah]] for a few years before returning as teacher at Darul Uloom Deoband for 12 years.
==Career== In 1960, he was appointed as the president of the [[Uttar Pradesh]] circle of Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind and on 9 August 1963, he was appointed as the general secretary of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind. He became the president of Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind on 11 August 1973.<ref name="pasemargezindah">{{cite book |title=Pase Marge Zindah|author=Nur Alam Khalil Amini|author-link=Nur Alam Khalil Amini|publisher=Deoband: Idara Ilm-o-Adab|language=Urdu|page=764}}</ref> He was president of [[Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind]] for 32 years.<ref name=indiankanoon149461836>{{cite web |title=Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind & Anr. vs Maulana Mahmood Asad Madni & Anr. on 25 August, 2008 |url=https://indiankanoon.org/doc/149461836/ |website=IndianKanoon |accessdate=11 March 2020}}</ref> He was a member of the upper house of the Indian parliament from 1968 to 1974, 1980 to 1986 and 1988 to 1994.<ref name="rajya" />
==Death and legacy== [[File:Manmohan Singh, releasing a collection of Parliamentary speeches of Maulana Syed Asad Madani, at the Fida-e-Millat Seminar on "Hazarat Maulana Syed Asad Madani Life and Contribution", in New Delhi on April 23, 2007.jpg|thumb|Prime Minister [[Manmohan Singh]] releasing the parliamentary speeches of Asad Madni]] [[File:The Inscription on the grave of Fidā e Millat Maulana Sayed As‘ad Madani.jpg|thumb|Inscription on the grave of As‘ad Madani]] On 6 February 2006, Madani died in [[Delhi]], India.<ref name="deoband">{{cite web | url=http://www.deoband.net/1/post/2006/02/hadhrat-maulana-sayed-asad-madani-1926-2006.html | title=Profile of Maulana Sayed Asad Madani: 1928-2006 | website=Deoband.org website | date=2 October 2006 | accessdate=11 March 2020 | author=Qasmi, Obaidullah | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203010838/http://www.deoband.net/1/post/2006/02/hadhrat-maulana-sayed-asad-madani-1926-2006.html | archive-date=3 December 2013 | url-status=dead }}</ref> He is survived by his son, [[Mahmood Madani]], who is the current president of [[Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind]] (M).<ref name=20060403hindustantimes>{{cite web |title=Jamiat party heads for a split |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/jamiat-party-heads-for-a-split/story-s3khwgi1inUTifDd8RRn1K.html |website=Hindustan Times (newspaper)|author=M. Hasan|date=3 April 2006|accessdate=11 March 2020}}</ref><ref name="millattimes">{{cite news|last=Siddiqui|first=Zafar|date=18 September 2021|title=سبھی ریاستی جمعیتوں کی متفقہ تجویز پر مولانا محمود مدنی اگلے ٹرم کے لئے صدر منتخب جمعیۃ علماء ہند طالبان کی نئی حکومت سے حقوق انسانی کے احترام اور بھارت سے خوشگوار تعلقات کے خواہاں|language=ur|trans-title=Mahmood Madani appointed president of JuH's Mahmood faction|work=Millat Times|url=https://urdu.millattimes.com/archives/75115|access-date=3 January 2023}}</ref>
An international seminar was organized in his memory in New Delhi on 23 and 24 April 2007. Madani's parliamentary speeches were released by the former Prime Minister of India [[Manmohan Singh]] in the same seminar.<ref name="pmo">{{cite web |title=PM releases book on parliamentary speeches of Maulana Syed Asad Madani |url=https://archivepmo.nic.in/drmanmohansingh/speech-details.php?nodeid=508 |website=ArchivePmo.nic.in |accessdate=11 March 2020}}</ref>
He is a very popular figure in the neighbouring country of [[Bangladesh]] which he frequently used to visit. He first visited eastern Bengal in 1933, and since 1973 he used to go there nearly every year. During the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]] of 1971, Madni strongly protested against the brutal torture of the [[Pakistan Army]] and its allied forces, and distributed adequate aid to the memorial camps. He projected his views to stop the torture of innocent Bengalis and marched in the streets of [[Delhi]] with more than fifty thousand Indian Muslims in favour of Bangladesh. His last visit to the country was on 2 April 2005 when he was an honorary guest at the National Conference of [[Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh]] at [[Paltan]] Maidan, [[Dhaka]].<ref name=bd/>
==See more== * [[List of Deobandis]]
== References == {{Reflist}}
==Bibliography== * {{cite book |editor1-last=Salman Mansoorpuri |title=Tazkirah Fidā-e-Millat |date=May 2012 |publisher=Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind |location=New Delhi |url=https://archive.org/details/Tazkira-Fida-i-Millat |access-date=12 July 2021}}
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