Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali

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Taqi ud-Din al-Hilali
Personal
Born1893 (1893)
Salafi[1]
Political partyUNFP
Muslim leader
Influenced by
Influenced

Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din bin Abdil-Qadir Al-Hilali (

The Noble Qur'an
.

Biography

Early life and education

Hilali was born in

Sajalmasah in 1893 (1311 AH).[3]

In his twenties, Hilali moved to

French protectorate of Morocco
.

In Asia and Europe

After performing the

Al-Masjid an-Nabawi, Islam's second holiest site, for two years and taught in Mecca at Masjid al-Haram
, Islam's most holy site, for one more year.

After finishing his duration of teaching in Mecca, Hilali enrolled in

Foreign Office and helped Hilali enroll (again, both as a student and a teacher) at the University of Bonn.[6]
A disciple of Rashid Rida, the Salafi scholar and anti-colonial activist who began teaching Arabic at Bonn University in 1936 and became the head of the cultural department of the Foreign Office's Islamic Central Institute, as well as a Radio Berlin broadcaster in Arabic. In 1942, Amin al-Husayni sent him to Morocco to organize covert operations.

Return to Morocco, then Iraq, then Morocco, then Saudi Arabia, then Morocco

Toward the end of

Fes.[5]

In 1968, Saudi Arabian

Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz wrote to Hilali requesting that he take up a teaching position at Islamic University of Madinah
, of which Bin Baz was the president. Hilali accepted, living in Saudi Arabia for one more time between 1968 and 1974.

In 1974, Hilali permanently retired from teaching, moving to Meknes initially and later to Casablanca, where he owned a house. Hilali died at June 22, 1987 (25th of Shawal in the year 1408 AH).[7][3] He was buried in the neighborhood of Sbata.

Reception

Views on Hilali within the Muslim world itself - specifically within Sunni Islam - have been positive. Algerian national hero

Abdelhamid Ben Badis, in particular, considered Hilali to be one of the most knowledgeable Muslim of their era.[2]

Hilali was criticized by a number of Muslim scholars and Western academics due to his translation of the Qur'an. Dr. Ahmed Farouk Musa, an academician at Monash University, considered the Hilali-Khan translation as being a major cause of extremism and a work of propaganda distributed by Saudi religious authorities with money from its oil-rich government.[8] Similarly, Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, head of Bethesda's Minaret of Freedom Institute, has falsely claimed that the translation is a Wahabi rendering of the Qur'an and is not accepted by Muslims in the US.[9]

Since Hilali's translation is based on the classical tafsir (Qur'anic commentary), most of those who criticized his translation had ulterior motives.

Additionally, Khaled Abou El Fadl and Khaleel Mohammed criticized Hilali's translation as being a distortion of the meaning of the Qur'an[10][11]

A number of academics have also criticized the Hilali-Khan translation on stylistic and linguistic grounds.[

Dr. Abdel-Haleem, Arabic Professor at SOAS, London University, noted that he found the Hilali-Khan translation "repelling".[citation needed] The Director of King Fahd International Centre for Translation, King Saud University, Riyad, Dr. A. Al-Muhandis, expressed his dissatisfaction with the translation's style and language, being too poor and simplistic.[citation needed
]

Works

Hilali worked with

Salafi school directly into the English rendition of the Qur'an. It has been accused of inculcating Muslims and potential Muslims with militant interpretations of Islam through parenthesis, as teachings of the Qur'an itself.[13]

Personal life

Hilali was an adherent of the

Islamic law according to his children and students. Administrators of his website edited his biography to remove all references to his adherence to the school, with which modern-day Zahirites took issue.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Henri Lauzière, M.A., The Evolution of the Salafiyya in the Twentieth Century through the life and thought of Taqi al-Din al-Hilali, iii
  2. ^ a b c Dr. Abdul-Baqi al-Sayyid Abdul-Hadi, Biography of the Sheikh, Dr. Muhammad Taqi ud-Din al-Hilali. Alhady Alzahry, 13 November 2010.
  3. ^ a b "Dr. Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din Al-Hilali".
  4. ^ Interview with Dr. Taqi ud-Din al-Hilali Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine with The True Call, official magazine of the Moroccan Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs. 26 Rajab, 1429 Hijri.
  5. ^ a b c Dr. Mohammed Amrani Hanchi, How I came to know Dr. Al-Hilali? Archived 2011-09-12 at the Wayback Machine at Civilizationist Dialogue. Wednesday, 13 July 2005.
  6. ^ Fifth page of the biography from Hilali's official website.
  7. ^ Biography of Taqi ud-Din al-Hilali on Subul as-Salam
  8. ^ "Muslim extremism found in problematic Quran translation, forum told - The Malaysian Insider". www.themalaysianinsider.com. Archived from the original on 2016-02-16. Retrieved 2016-01-17. I believe that propaganda such as the Hilali-Khan translation and other materials coming out of Saudi Arabia are one of the major root causes that feed extremist ideas among Muslims, violence against Christians and other minorities
  9. ISSN 0190-8286
    . Retrieved 2016-02-11. And it wasn't just liberals. I couldn't find an American Muslim who had anything good to say about that edition. I would call it a Wahhabi Koran.
  10. ^ Khaled Abou El Fadl: Corrupting God's Book, in Conference of the Books
  11. ^ Khaleel Mohammed: Assessing English Translations of the Qur'an
  12. ^ Brannon Wheeler, Prophets in the Quran: An Introduction to the Quran and Muslim Exegesis, pg. 366. London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2002.
  13. ISBN 9780199759996
    . In the 1980's two Salafi scholars based in the Islamic University of Medina and working under the supervision of Bin Baz, Taqi al-Din al-Hilali and Muhsin Khan institutionalized an interpretation of Islam... through their work Translations of the meanings of the Noble Qur'an in the English Language (1985). In it they used sustained interpolations to insert the interpretation of the Bin Baz school directly into the English rendition of the Qur'an. It was... used to inculcate Muslims and potential Muslims with militant interpretations of Islam artfully disguised, through parenthesis, as teachings of the Qur'an pure and simple.

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