Posted by Ebrahim INTRODUCTION The roving Ambassador of Islam of this Century His Eminence Maulana Shah Muhammad Abdul Aleem Siddiqui (R.T.A.) was the famous preacher of Islam in the present century. He carried out the message of Islam to the far-flung countries for about forty years. Thousands of non-Muslims in Asia, Africa, Europe and America embraced Islam in his hands. Millions of Muslims received religious and worldly blessings through his dynamic and refulgent personality. Numerous Islamic missionary societies, mosques, schools, hospitals, libraries, infirmaries, orphanages and periodicals sprang up in the wake of his immoral missionary labors. BIRTH EDUCATION The religious and literary education thus acquired had been the “end of the road” for most Muslim religious leaders of that time. But the latent flame of desire to understand the modern problems of mankind and to carry out the message of Islam to the world at large, urged him to acquire modern English education. After the completion of Dars-e-Nizami he acquired modern education at the Islamia High School, Etawah and the Divisional College, Meerut. He also obtained his degree with distinction in 1917. He also studied law, but with academic motive and not professional. As regards his religious studies, he did not discontinue them when acquiring modern education. On the contrary, he devoted himself simultaneously and especially during vacations to advanced Islamic studies under the guidance of the greatest Islamic Scholar and reformer of this century Hazrat Maulana Shah Ahmnad Raza Khan Bareilvi. In fact he continued it even many years after he entered the field as a religious leader and amassed further knowledge in Qura;anic exegesis, Hadith, Tasawwuf, and the four schools of Sunni Islamic Law at Mecca and Madina through discussions with Muslim Scholars and studies in Islamic Libraries and at the feet of such masters as Hazrat Maulana Abdul Bari of Farangi Mahal, Hazrat Sheikh Ahmad Al-Shams of Morocco and Hazrat Sheikh Al-Sennousi of Libya. SPIRTIUAL TRAINING The formal completion of training, while on the one hand it raised His Eminence to the level of a Sufi-teacher, it became on the other hand a prelude to further quest for spiritual illumination. This necessitated further struggle and led His Eminence to make frequent journeys to Mecca and Median and to visit such luminaries as A’ala Hazrat Maulana Shah Ahmad Raza Khan Qadri of Bareilly (India) and the son of spiritualism, Hazrat Shaikh Ahmad Al-Shams of Morocco. MISSIONARY WORK Wherever he went he had to encounter dissension, religious backwardness, ignorance of higher Islamic values, indifference to collective obligations lack of vision, absence of planning and spiritual inertia and misunderstanding of Islam among non-Muslims and the consequent friction. Everywhere he had to carve out his path in stony rocks. Everywhere he had to raise the edifice of his great message almost on virgin foundation. But everywhere he overwhelmed the obstacles and handicaps with the see mingle infinite store of his spiritual energy, the inexhaustible treasure of his moral earnestness, his profound sincerity, his deep piety, his versatile knowledge, his practical common sense and the matchless smile which was his constant companion. His thundering but musical voice proved itself to possess a magical influence in awakening the sleeping humanity while his polite persuasions and sweet advices healed many a scar wrought by intellectual or more perversions. His clarion call for the establishment of righteous-ness and the effacement of sin for the adoption of good and subjugation of evil for the enthronement of harmony and the dethronement of strife echoed over mountains and plains, across green valleys and sandy deserts in the orient as well as among the blacks. His message of God realization of moral resuscitation and of spiritual revival penetrated millions of ears and hearts. His travels around the global brought the message of peace to the millions of human souls. His visits everywhere gave new impetus to the religious fervor of the people. Allama Shah Muhammad Abdul Aleem Siddiqui (R.A.) always had a desire to rest in Jannat-ul-Baqi and Allah (S.W.TA) rewarded him by resting him in his belonging place. His Eminence noble soul returned to Allah’s mercy on 22nd Zil Hajj, 1372 (August 22, 1954) in Medina Shareef. To carry out his mission further, His son His Eminence Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani siddiqui (R. T. A.) took over his charge and dedicated his life for the preaching of Islam around the world. Under his supervision and as a President of World Islamic Mission, thousands of non-Muslims entered Islam. Till his last breath he struggled to pioneer the implementation of Islamic Sharia’ah (Nizaam-e-Mustafa) in Pakistan. For this great dedication and devotion towards the Muslim Umma’ah he was granted the Title of “Quaid-e-Ahle-Sunnat”. He was awarded the Title of “Quaid-e-Millat-Islamia” by all famous Ullama’s leading different Islamic parties. After the great loss of the Muslim world’s great scholar and leader, His beloved son Maulana Shah Anas Noorani Siddiqui has taken on the charge of accomplishing his father and grand father’s mission. He is the Presiding Chairman of the World Islamic Mission and may Allah grant him courage and passion to continue the aspiration of his forefathers
on February 9, 2005, 4:18 am
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His Exalted Eminence Maulana Shah Muhammad Abdul Aleem Siddiqui (R.T.A)
His Eminence Maulana Shah Muhammad Abdul Aleem Siddiqui was born on the 15th of Ramazan in 1310 A.H. (3rd April 1892) at Meerut (U.P. India). His father Hazrat Maulana Shah Muhammad Abdul Hakim Siddiqui (R.T.A.) was noted for his scholarly, poetic and spiritual merits.
Endowed with unusual intelligence and exceptional memory, His Eminence commenced his education at the early age of three years and some month and devoted himself to acquisition of Islamic learning, completing finally his studies in Dars-e-Nizami at the Madrasah Arabia Quamiah, Meerut at the age of sixteen.
As far as spiritual training is concerned His Eminence completed it under his elder brother, Hazrat Maulana Shah Ahmad Mukhtar Siddiqui (R.T.A.) receiving finally his Ijazah (authority) in several Sufi orders.
From his very boyhood, Maulana Shah Muhammad Abdul Aleem Siddiqui had formed the idea of becoming a missionary of Islam. He began his work of preaching as he completed his theological studies. The countries he visited are: Burma, Ceylon, Malaysia, Indoneisa, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Japan the Philippines, Mauritius, Madagascar, South Africa, Portuguese, East Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Belgium, Congo, the Hedjaz, Egypt, Syria Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, France England, West Indies, Guyana, Suriname, United States of America and Canada.
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