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Latest NewsAllamah Sheikh Muhi Uddin Khan Passes Away
Sunday 26 June 2016
Inna lillahi Wa Inna illaihi Rajiun.
A great Scholar of Asian Subcontinent Allamah Sheikh Muhi Uddin Khan has sadly passed away on Saturday, the 25th of June 2016 in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh in the age of 80.
Allamah Sheikh Muhi Uddin Khan was the head of Jamiat Ulama-E-Islam, a leading Muslim Scholars organisation in Bangladesh. He was also a member World Muslim League.
He is a prolific scholar, thinker of Islam and a renowned commentator of the glorious Quran. The Sheikh is the founder and the editor of the first Islamic Magazine in Bangladesh called "The Monthly Madina" which is one of the most well read Islamic journals in the world with a circulation of 140,000.
One of the biggest projects to date is when Sheikh Muhi Uddin was invited by the Saudi Royal family to undertake a revision and summarization of his Tafseer Ma'ariful Quran. He was bestowed with luxuries usually reserved for royalty and completed 9 volumes in 90 days.
The Sheikh has profound knowledge of Islam and specialises in various fields of Islamic Sciences. He was a respected authority on the Qur'an and Sunnah and a master of the Arabic Language. There are not many in the realms of writing and politics that are as practical as Sheikh Muhi Uddin Khan.
Throughout his life, he has worked and struggled hard for the causes justice and fairness. A man of simplicity and sincerity, he has stood undaunted against recurring onslaughts and ultimately scarified everything for the sake of Allah.
Indeed Maulana Muhi Uddin Khan has enormous contribution in Islamic literary works especially many of the classical works of Arabic, Persian and Urdu as well as modern works of translation in to Bengali.
He is the student of great scholar of Hadeeth Allamah Zafar Ahmed Uthmani Rahimahullah who is famous for his great mastery work in the field of Hadith related to Hanafi Fiqh called I'laa Us Sunan.
On the other hand he is a student of Mufti Sayyid Amimul Ehsan Rahimahullah whose literary works are taught in advanced years of Darul Ulooms and Islamic Universities.
Sh Kazi Luthfur Rahman
Imam of The London Central Mosque Trust & The Islamic Cultural Centre