Faizul Waheed (also known as Faizul Waheed Qāsmī;[1] 1964 – 1 June 2021) was an Indian Islamic scholar, jurist and an
exegete of the
Quran from
Jammu and Kashmir, who served as the chief-
mufti of Markaz-ul-Ma'arif, an Islamic seminary in Bathindi,
Jammu. He wrote Faiz al-Mannān, the first ever translation and commentary of the Quran in
Gojri language.
In 1992, Faizul Waheed began teaching at the Madrasa Ashraf-ul-Uloom in
Jammu.[3] He alongside Jamāluddīn and Nazīr Aḥmad started Jamia Markaz-ul-Ma'arif, an Islamic seminary in Bathindi,
Jammu and moved there on 5 October 1995.[3] As the new institution started, he was subject to some
Deobandi–
Barelvi conflicts triggered by local followers of the Barelvi movement, which led to his arrest in August 1995.[3] He was imprisoned under the
Public Safety Act for eleven months.[3] He continued teaching at the madrasa for next two years and was arrested again in May 1997.[3] He was released in August 2000 and he continued teaching at the Markaz-ul-Ma’arif.[3] He served as the chief-mufti and patron of the Markaz-ul-Ma’arif.[4][5][6]
Faizul Waheed was an authority in
Islamic jurisprudence and an exegete of the Quran.[5] He translated the Qur'ān into
Gojri language and owned the credit of being its first translator in that language.[5] He had penned the translation and the exegesis of the Qur'ān during his imprisonment.[3] In November 2018, he said while speaking at a convention in
Gool, Ramban that "the success of every person is concealed in the Qur'ān".[7]
^Abdur Rahman, Muhammad (2019). تفسیر فیض المنان میں مفتی فیض الوحید کے منہج و اسلوب کا تحقیقی مطالعہ [A study of Mufti Faizul Waheed's adopted methodology and style in the Tafseer Faiz al-Mannan] (Thesis) (in Urdu).
Islamabad:
Allama Iqbal Open University.