# Zafeeruddin Miftahi

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Indian Mufti

Mawlāna, Mufti Zafeeruddin Miftāhi 2nd President of Islamic Fiqh Academy In office 2002 – 31 March 2011 Preceded by Mujahidul Islam Qasmi Succeeded by Nematullah Azami[1] Personal life Born 7 March 1926 Darbhanga, British India (present day Bihar, India) Died 31 March 2011(2011-03-31) (aged 85) Notable work(s) Compilation of the Fatāwa Darul Uloom Deoband of Azizur Rahman Usmani, Islām Ka Nizām-e-Masājid Religious life Religion Islam Denomination Sunni Hanafi Movement Deobandi Muslim leader Students Ishtiaque Ahmad Qasmi

**Zafeeruddin Miftāhi** (7 March 1926 – 31 March 2011) was an [Indian](/source/Indian_people) Muslim scholar and jurist who served as a Mufti of [Darul Uloom Deoband](/source/Darul_Uloom_Deoband) and the second president of [Islamic Fiqh Academy](/source/Islamic_Fiqh_Academy%2C_India). He compiled the religious verdicts of [Azizur Rahman Usmani](/source/Azizur_Rahman_Usmani), called the *Fatāwa Darul Uloom Deoband* in twelve volumes and wrote books including *Islām Ka Nizām-e-Masājid*, *Islām Ka Nizām Iffat-o-Asmat* and *Tārīkh-e-Masājid*.

Miftāhi was an alumnus of Jamia Miftahul Uloom. He was a member of Board of Studies at the Sunni Theology department of Aligarh Muslim University. He served the Deoband seminary for fifty years and issued one hundred thousand religious edicts.

## Biography

Zafeeruddin Miftāhi was born on 7 March 1926 (22 [Sha'ban](/source/Sha'ban) 1344 [AH](/source/Hijri_year)) in [Darbhanga](/source/Darbhanga).[2] He received his primary education at home and was schooled at Madrasa Mahmudiya, in [Terai](/source/Terai), [Nepal](/source/Nepal). He studied intermediate classes of Arabic and Persian at Madrasa Wāris al-Ulūm in [Chhapra](/source/Chhapra) from 1933 to 1940. He graduated from the Jamia Miftahul Uloom where he studied from 1940 to 1944 with [Habib al-Rahman al-'Azmi](/source/Habibur_Rahman_Azami) and Abdul Lateef Nomani.[3] His other teachers include [Hussain Ahmad Madani](/source/Hussain_Ahmad_Madani), [Sulaiman Nadwi](/source/Sulaiman_Nadwi), [Minatullah Rahmani](/source/Minatullah_Rahmani), [Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi](/source/Abul_Hasan_Ali_Nadwi) and [Muhammad Tayyib Qasmi](/source/Muhammad_Tayyib_Qasmi).[4]

After his graduation in 1944, Miftāhi taught at the Jamia Miftahul Uloom for one year and then moved to Ma'dan al-Ulūm in [Lucknow](/source/Lucknow) where he taught for three years between September 1945 and January 1948.[3] From January 1948 to 1956, he taught at Darul Uloom Muīnia in [Begusarai](/source/Begusarai), with a gap of one year in between; during which he taught at [Jamia Islamia Talimuddin](/source/Jamia_Islamia_Talimuddin).[3] In [Shawwal](/source/Shawwal) 1364 [AH](/source/Hijri_year), Miftāhi went to study at the [Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama](/source/Darul_Uloom_Nadwatul_Ulama) in Lucknow at [Sulaiman Nadwi](/source/Sulaiman_Nadwi)'s suggestion and studied there for few months.[3]

Miftāhi was first appointed in the [Darul Uloom Deoband](/source/Darul_Uloom_Deoband) to compile [fatawa](/source/Fatawa).[5] Between 1962 and 1972, he compiled the fatawa of [Azizur Rahman Usmani](/source/Azizur_Rahman_Usmani) in twelve volumes.[3] In [Safar](/source/Safar) 1385 AH, the executive council of Deoband seminary appointed him to write the [editorial](/source/Editorial) for *[Monthly Darul Uloom](/source/Monthly_Darul_Uloom)*, which he continuously wrote for seventeen years.[6][7] In 1993, he was appointed a Mufti in the Darul Ifta of [Darul Uloom Deoband](/source/Darul_Uloom_Deoband); a post he served till 21 August 2008.[6] He served in the Deoband seminary for fifty years and wrote one [lakh](/source/Lakh) [fatawa](/source/Fatawa).[8] He retired from Deoband on 22 August 2008 at a monthly pension of 2000 [INR](/source/Indian_rupees) which he received throughout his life.[6]

Miftāhi was a founding figure of the [Islamic Fiqh Academy](/source/Islamic_Fiqh_Academy%2C_India) and became its president after [Mujahidul Islam Qasmi](/source/Mujahidul_Islam_Qasmi).[9] He was a member of Board of Studies at the Sunni Theology department of [Aligarh Muslim University](/source/Faculty_of_Theology%2C_Aligarh_Muslim_University).[10]

Miftāhi died on 31 March 2011. His funeral prayer was led by Saud Alam Qasmi, the former dean of the Faculty of Theology at [Aligarh Muslim University](/source/Faculty_of_Theology%2C_Aligarh_Muslim_University) on 1 April 2011.[11]

## Literary works

Miftāhi compiled the religious verdicts of [Azizur Rahman Usmani](/source/Azizur_Rahman_Usmani), commonly known as *Fatāwa Darul Uloom Deoband* in twelve volumes between 1962 and 1972.[3][12] His discourses on the Quran, entitled *Dars-e-Qur'ān*, were published in ten volumes. He wrote biographical works about [Muhammad Qasim Nanautawi](/source/Muhammad_Qasim_Nanautawi), [Manazir Ahsan Gilani](/source/Manazir_Ahsan_Gilani) and [Muhammad Tayyib Qasmi](/source/Muhammad_Tayyib_Qasmi).[7] His other books include:[7]

- *Islām Ka Nizām-e-Masājid* (Its English translation *Mosque in Islam* by Zaheerun Nabi was published in 1996 by Institute of Objective Studies, New Delhi).

- *Islām Ka Nizām Iffat-o-Asmat* (Its English translation *Modesty and chastity in Islam* was first published in [Kuwait](/source/Kuwait) and second time by Qazi Publishers during 1993 in [New Delhi](/source/New_Delhi). Persian translation was published as *Hijāb-o-Iffat az Dīdgah-e-Islām* in [Tehran](/source/Tehran)).

- *Tārīkh-e-Masājid*

- *Mashāhīr Ulama-e-Deoband*

- *Darul Uloom: Qayām awr Iska Pas-e-Manzar*

- *Darul Uloom: Ek Azeem Maktab Fikr*

- *Nizām-e-Tarbiyyat* (Darul Uloom Deoband has published its Arabic translation *Ināyat al-Islām bi al-Tarbiyyat al-Atfāl*).

- *Islām Ka Nizām-e-Hayāt*

- *Jurm-o-Saza Kitāb-o-Sunnat Ki Roshni Mai*

- *Islāmi Hukūmat ke Naqsh-o-Nigār*

- *Islām ka Nizām-e-Amn*

## References

### Citations

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Maulana Nematullah Azmi elected as president of Islamic Fiqh Academy"](https://twocircles.net/2011may31/maulana_nematullah_azmi_elected_president_islamic_fiqh_academy.html). *[Two Circles](/source/Two_Circles)*. 31 May 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAmīni2017929_2-0)** [Amīni 2017](#CITEREFAmīni2017), p. 929.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAmīni2017930_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAmīni2017930_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAmīni2017930_3-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAmīni2017930_3-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAmīni2017930_3-4) [***f***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAmīni2017930_3-5) [Amīni 2017](#CITEREFAmīni2017), p. 930.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAmīni2017922_4-0)** [Amīni 2017](#CITEREFAmīni2017), p. 922.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEQāsmi2011132_5-0)** [Qāsmi 2011](#CITEREFQāsmi2011), p. 132.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAmīni2017931_6-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAmīni2017931_6-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAmīni2017931_6-2) [Amīni 2017](#CITEREFAmīni2017), p. 931.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEQāsmi2011219–223_7-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEQāsmi2011219–223_7-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEQāsmi2011219–223_7-2) [Qāsmi 2011](#CITEREFQāsmi2011), pp. 219–223.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEQāsmi201131–32_8-0)** [Qāsmi 2011](#CITEREFQāsmi2011), pp. 31–32.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEQāsmi2011153–154_9-0)** [Qāsmi 2011](#CITEREFQāsmi2011), pp. 153–154.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEQāsmi2011363_10-0)** [Qāsmi 2011](#CITEREFQāsmi2011), p. 363.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEQāsmi2011130_11-0)** [Qāsmi 2011](#CITEREFQāsmi2011), p. 130.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** Julia Stephens (21 June 2018). [*Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in Modern South Asia*](https://books.google.com/books?id=8glaDwAAQBAJ&q=deoband+ifta&pg=PA76). [Cambridge University Press](/source/Cambridge_University_Press). p. 77. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781107173910](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781107173910). Retrieved 7 October 2020.

### Bibliography

- Qāsmi, Muhammad Saud Alam, ed. (September 2011). *Hayāt-e-Zafeer* [*The Life of Zafeer*] (in Urdu). [Islamic Fiqh Academy, India](/source/Islamic_Fiqh_Academy%2C_India): IFA Publications.

- [Amīni, Nūr Alam Khalīl](/source/Noor_Alam_Khalil_Amini) (February 2017). "Hadhrat Mawlāna Mufti Muḥammad Zafeeruddin Miftāhi Sāheb". *Pas-e-Marg Zindah* (in Urdu). [Deoband](/source/Deoband): Idāra Ilm-o-Adab. pp. 913–932.

## Further reading

- [Mufti Md Zafiruddinshakhsiat Aur Khidmat](https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/497233) (PhD thesis) by Sasim Akhtar

- Qasmi, Nayab Hasan (2013). "Mufti Zafeeruddin Miftāhi". *Darul Uloom Deoband ka Sahāfati Manzarnāma* (in Urdu). [Deoband](/source/Deoband): Idara Tahqeeq-e-Islami. pp. 214–216.

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