Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi

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Mawlānā
Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi
Sahbān al-Hind
1st General Secretary of
Hussain Ahmad Madani
Succeeded bySyed Fakhruddin Ahmad
3rd Rector of Madrasa Aminia
In office
1953 – September 1955
Preceded byKifayatullah Dehlawi
Succeeded byHafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi
Personal
Born1888 (1888)
Deobandi
Notable work(s)Fear of Hell, Key to the Garden of Bliss
Alma materMadrasa Aminia

Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi (also known as Sahbān al-Hind; 1888 – 4 December 1959) was an Indian Muslim scholar and

Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind. He also served as the third rector of Madrasa Aminia
and authored books such as Fear of Hell and Key to the Garden of Bliss.

Biography

Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi in 1888 in Daryaganj, Delhi.[1] He received his primary education from Abdul Majeed Mustafabadi and Muhammad Yasin Sikandarabadi, and memorized the Quran at Madrasa Hussainia in Delhi.[1] He entered Madrasa Aminia in 1328 AH and graduated in 1336 AH.[2] His teachers included Kifayatullah Dehlawi.[1]

Saeed participated in the

Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind (JUH) and was appointed the interim secretary in the meeting of inception in November 1919.[5]

Saeed was appointed the first general secretary of the JUH in November 1920, a position he served for twenty years.[1][5] He served as the vice-president of the JUH for seventeen years from 1940 to 1957.[4] He taught at the Madrasa Aminia and was appointed its rector in 1953 following the death of Kifayatullah Dehlawi.[1][6] He served as the president of the JUH for two years from 1957 until his death on 4 December 1959 in Delhi.[3][4]

Saeed was seen as an influential speaker.[3] He was known as Sahbān al-Hind.[2]

Legacy

In September 2019, JUH organized a two-days seminar on the life and works of Saeed. It was attended by scholars and poets including

Gulzar Dehlvi and Usman Mansoorpuri.[7]

Literary works

Saeed wrote Kashf-ur-Rahman, an exegesis of the Quran, in Urdu, in two volumes.[3] His other works include:[8]

  • Dozakh ka khatka (Fear of Hell)
  • Jannat ki Kunji (Key to the Garden of Bliss)
  • Jannat ki Zamānat
  • Khuda ki baatein
  • Rasūlullāh ke tīn sau mo'jizāt (Three Hundred Miracles of Muhammad)
  • Shaukat Āra Begum

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Salman Mansoorpuri, Tehreek Azadi-e-Hind Mai Muslim Ulama aur Awaam ka Kirdar, p. 193
  2. ^ a b Asir Adrawi. Tazkirah Mashāhīr-e-Hind: Karwān-e-Rafta. p. 20.
  3. ^ a b c d Asir Adrawi. Tazkirah Mashāhīr-e-Hind: Karwān-e-Rafta. p. 21.
  4. ^ a b c d Salman Mansoorpuri, Tehreek Azadi-e-Hind Mai Muslim Ulama aur Awaam ka Kirdar, p. 194
  5. ^
    OCLC 16907808
    .
  6. ISBN 978-81-7121-176-0
    .
  7. ^ "جمعیۃ علماء ہند کے زیر اہتمام مولانا عبدالباری فرنگی محلی اور مولانا احمد سعید دہلوی پر دوروزہ سیمینار" [Two days seminar on Abdul Bari Farangi Mahali and Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi]. The Daily Siasat. 23 September 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
  8. ^ "Books by Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi". WorldCat. Retrieved 11 July 2021.

Bibliography

  • Salman Mansoorpuri (2014). Tehreek Azadi-e-Hind Mai Muslim Ulama aur Awaam ka Kirdar (in Urdu). Deoband: Deeni Kitab Ghar. pp. 194–195.
  • Asir Adrawi (April 2016). Tazkirah Mashāhīr-e-Hind: Karwān-e-Rafta (in Urdu) (2 ed.). Deoband
    : Darul Muallifeen. pp. 20–21.
  • Shahjahanpuri, Abu Salman (2011). Sahban-ul-Hind Mawlānā Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi: Ek Siyāsi Mutāla (in Urdu). Delhi: Farid Book Depot.


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