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Arshadul Qaudri (5 March 1925 - 29 April 2002) was an Islamic scholar of the Barelvi movement in India.
He founded a few institutions and organizations inside India. He earned international fame for two of his works Zalzala and Zer-o-Zabar. [1][2]
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Arshadul Qadri was born on 5 March 1925 in Syed Pura District Balia of eastern Uttar Pradesh. His father, Abdul Latif was a noted graduate from Darul Uloom Hanafia, Jaunpur. He was sent to Ghazipur for higher education. The period between the first and the second world wars was extremely tumultuous for him. His elder brother, Ghulam Aasi Piya brought him to Madrasa Ashrafia, Mubarakpur, which proved a major turning point in his life. In 1944, he got his post graduate (Fazilat) degree from Jamia Ashrafia, Mubarakpur. Hafiz Abdul Aziz from Mubarak played a very significant role to educate him. He had been a distinguished orator and a prolific writer since the beginning of his student life.
On the international level he organized movements such as World Islamic Mission, London, Dawat-e-Islami Karachi and Madinatul Islam, the Hague, Europe. In India, Jamia Faizul Uloom (Jamshedpur), Darul Ziaul Islam (Howrah), Darul Uloom Makhdumia (Guwahati), Madrasa Madinatul Uloom (Bangalore), Faizul Uloom High School, (Jamshedpur) and Jamia Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya (New Delhi).[1]
In April 1979 Hindu-Muslim riots broke out in jamshedpur.During the riots,Allama gave asylum to Muslims In his Maderssa: Jamia Faizul Uloom.[2] On 28 August, the riots again began,this time,the number of refugies rose to many thousands.[3] Using to politicle power, Allama Qadri was arrested and the maderssa and it's hostel were searched. Although, no objectionable material was found. Allama was moved to Sakchi jail, Jamshedpur, where He completed his world famous book Zer-o-Zabr.[4]
Qaudri criticised and condemned the prevailing sectarian differences among Muslim community. According to him, Muslim religious schools are infested with sectarian elements. They cannot agree even with one who belongs to their own school.
The leadership of the Muslim community is disintegrating and it is rather emerging as a chaos. He believed that madrasas are preservers of Islam and its fundamental tenets in India and he was aggrieved over the madrasas lacking in ability to take initiative, high moral and the will power to excel. Madrasas are victims of pessimism, obscurantism, frustration and inferiority complex. They curse others to hide their fiasco. Accordingly, Qaudri stated:
| “ | I feel the dire need of such ulema (clerics) who could interpret and propagate Islam in international languages. So I have resolved to establish such an institution which will equip the traditional ulema (clerics) with latest awareness and information. | ” |
Qaudri died on 29 April 2002 at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. On 30 April, his body was buried in the courtyard of Faizul Uloom in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand.
Zia'ul Mustafa Qadri Saheb produced a biography of Qaudri entitled Hayat-o-Khidmat.[5]