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| image = Rashid Ahmad Ludhianvi.jpg| image_size = Sunni Islam>Sunni| creed = df=yes09|26}}Ludhiana, Punjab Province (British India)>Punjab, British Indiadf=yes02192226}}| death_place = Karachi, Sindh, PakistanBritish Indian (1922-1947)|Pakistani (1947-2002)}}Rector (academia)>Rector of Jamia Tur Rasheed| term_start1 = 1977| term_end1 = 2002| predecessor1 = Position established| successor1 = Mufti Abdul RaheemDarul Uloom Deoband|Jamia Khairul Madaris}}Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam|Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam}}| notable_works = Ahsan-ul-Fatawa| jurisprudence = Hanafi| movement = DeobandiAid Organization of the Ulema|Jamia Tur Rasheed, Karachi}}Hussain Ahmed Madani}}Muhammad Rafi Usmani{{!}}Muhammad Taqi Usmani Mufti tariq masood}}Rashid Ahmad Ludhianvi (}}; also known as Mufti Rashid Ahmad;BOOK, The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America, 2003, United States Government Publishing Office, North Capitol Street, 983,books.google.com/books?id=lRs7AAAAIAAJ&dq=%22Mufti+Rashid+Ahmad%22&pg=PA983, 26 February 2022, 26 September 1922 – 19 February 2002), was a Pakistani Islamic scholar and Faqīh, who founded the Al Rashid Trust and the Jamia Tur Rasheed in Karachi. He served as the head of Darul Ifta Wal Irshad, a jurisprudential institute of the Darul Uloom Karachi and authored books such as Anwaar-ur-Rasheed, Jawahir-ur-Rasheed and Allah Ke Baghi Musalman. His religo-legal edicts were compiled and published as Ahsan ul-Fatawa in ten volumes.JOURNAL, Ghani, Usman, 2021-06-30, Religious Research And Evaluation Of Educative, Lexicographic And Guiding Contribution Of Mufti Rasheed Ahmad Ludhyanvi (R.A),journalusooluddin.com/index.php/irjdu/article/view/43, The International Research Journal of Usooluddin, en, 5, 1, 55–70, 2664-4940,

Early life

Rashid Ahmad Ludhianvi graduated from the Darul Uloom Deoband where his teachers included Husain Ahmed Madani.NEWS,zahidrashdi.org/1619, Zahid Ur Rashdi, حضرت مولانا مفتی رشید احمد لدھیانویؒ, 15 October 2002, 3 August 2020,

Career

Ludhianvi taught at institutions including Madinatul ‘Uloom, Hyderabad, Jamia Darul Huda Therhi, Jamia Darul Uloom, Karachi, and Darul Ifta Wal Irshad for approximately forty years. He served as the director of Education at Darul Ifta.{{which|date=August 2020}}. He established Al Rashid Trust, now called the Aid Organization of the Ulema.WEB, Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 895/2013 of 18 September 2013 amending for the 202nd time Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with the Al Qaida network,www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/895/annex/adopted?view=plain, legislation.gov.uk, 26 February 2022, NEWS,zahidrashdi.org/2067, Zahid Ur Rashdi, الرشید ٹرسٹ Ú©ÛŒ فلاحی Ùˆ رفاہی خدمات, 13 October 2006, 3 August 2020, He also founded Jamia Tur Rasheed, an Islamic seminary in Karachi.NEWS,alert.com.pk/archives/9742, alert.com.pk, محمد حماد اللہ, عظیم فقیہ مفتی رشید احمدؒ Ú©Û’ بیٹے مفتی شفیق لدھیانوی سے ملاقات, 12 April 2020, 3 August 2020, 19 August 2021,web.archive.org/web/20210819153359/https://alert.com.pk/archives/9742, dead,

Relations with the Afghan Taliban

He was also a notable supporter of the Afghan Taliban, and after he returned with “extremely positive impressions” from Afghanistan and wrote a book as advice for the Talibans, titled Obedience to the Amir and composed in 1998 or 1999, Mullah Omar was so impressed that he distributed Pashto and Dari versions of it to the visitors, saying it perfectly represented the Talibans’ ideology,BOOK, The Taliban Reader: War, Islam and Politics, Oxford University Press, 2018, Strick Van Linschoten, Alex, 117, Kuehn, Felix, while Barnett Rubin states that this “manual on how to run a militant organization” helped the Taliban “devise an organizational model that suppressed tribalism and patronage network more effectively than any other organization in Afghanistan.“BOOK, Rubin, Barnett, Afghanistan : What Everyone Needs to Know, Oxford University Press, 2020, 100,

Books

He authored more than 150 books,JOURNAL, Iqbal, Tariq, 2019-12-10, LIFE AND SERVICES OF MUFTI RASHEED AHMAD LUDYANVI: حضرت مفتی رشید احمد لدھیانوی ؒ حیات و خدمات,irjdu.com/index.php/irjdu/article/view/33, The International Research Journal Department of Usooluddin, en, 3, 2, 95–106, 2664-4940, including :

• Ahsanul Fatawa, his collection of fatwa in 10 volumes.WEB,catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22A%E1%B8%A5mad,%20Rash%C4%ABd,%201922-%22&type=author&inst=, hathitrust.org, Aḥsan al-fatāvā, 17 April 2020, WEB,www.central-mosque.com/fiqh/fatwau1.htm, central-mosque.com, Fatawa Works in the Urdu Language, 17 April 2020,
• Anwaar-ur-Rasheed
• Jawahir-ur-Rasheed
• Rasail-ur-Rasheed
• Har Preshani Ka Elaj
• Allah Ke Baghi Musalman

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