Muhammad Saad Kandhlawi

Muhammad Saad Kandhlawi (born 10 May 1965) is an Indian Muslim scholar and preacher. He is great grandson of the Tablighi Jamat founder Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi.[1][2] He heads one faction of the Tablighi Jamat.[3][4]

Muhammad Saad Kandhlawi
Ameer of Tablighi Jamaat (Nizamuddin group)
Assumed office
16 November 2015
Preceded byPosition established
Personal
Born10 May 1965 (1965-05-10) (age 55)
Kandhla, Shamli district, Uttar Pradesh, India
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
Alma materMadarsa Kashiful Uloom, Hazrat Nizamuddin
OccupationPreacher
RelativesSalman Mazahiri (father-in-law)

Early life

Saad Kandhlawi was born on 10 May 1965 (1385 AH) in Western Uttar Pradesh's Kandhla town in Shamli District. He is great grand son of the founder of Tablighi Jamat, Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi through former ameer of the Tablighi Jamat Muhammad Yusuf Kandhlawi.[2]

He completed his Dars-e-Nizami studies from Madrasa Kashiful Uloom at Nizamuddin Markaz, New Delhi in 1987.[2][5]

Career

Former head of the Tablighi Jamat Inamul Hasan Kandhlawi had formed a 10-member legislation before his death in 1995 to look after the Jamat affairs and this legislation (commonly shura) was intact until 2015. Most of the scholars in this group passed away during these 20 years including Zubair ul Hassan Kandhlawi. A meeting was held in Raiwind Markaz on 16 November 2015 to fill up the vacant spaces of the shura legislation and a new shura consisting of 13 members including Muhammad Abdul Wahhab was formed. Kandhlawi did not agree with this shura and declared himself as the head of Jamat.[6]

Kandhlawi leads the Nizamuddin Markaz faction of the Jamat.[1][4]

Reception

Some of Kandhlawi's statements lead the Deobandi scholars to issue fatawa against him. South African Mufti Ebrahim Desai published a fatwa on his website AskImam.[7] The Islamic seminary of India Darul Uloom Deoband issued a fatwa against Kandhlawi, questioning his leadership.[8][9][10]

Zaid Mazahiri of the Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama also wrote many treatises over this issue including Tablighi Jamat Ka Bahami Ikhtelaf awr Ittehad-o-Ittefaq awr Sulah-o-Safaii Ki ek Koshish. (transl. Internal Dispute of Tablighi Jamat: An attempt to mutually unite, and reconcile).[11] Following these reactions, British scholar Yusuf Motala wrote and spoke in the defence of Kandhlawi.[12]

Nizamuddin Markaz COVID-19 hotspot
Further information: 2020 Tablighi Jamaat coronavirus hotspot in Delhi

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic in India, a number of patients from Nizamuddin Markaz tested positive for coronavirus,[13] which resulted in the Delhi Government registering an FIR against Kandhlawi for organizing a Tablighi Jamat religious event at the Markaz, despite the restriction of such gatherings after 16 March.[14][15][16][17][18] They had also sought help from authorities for vacating the premises on 25 March.[19] ,The Union Home Ministry had said the Tablighi Jamaat gathering in Delhi's Nizamuddin locality in March led to the spread of coronavirus infection. Its members were accused of being 'super spreaders', with terms like 'Corona Jihad' creating a lot of noise. However, a Delhi court on Tuesday, 15 December, acquitted 36 foreigners who were facing trial for allegedly flouting COVID-19 and visa norms whilst attending the event, which had around 9,000 participants.News headlines like "Nizamuddin ka Villain Kaun?", "Jamata se Corona Phailane ki Inside Story" added fuel to the fire.Even Delhi's AAP government compiled a separate press release of COVID positive patients related to the Tablighi Jamaat. However, after objections from the Delhi Minorities Commission, they started calling it “special operations".

However, on hearing the verdict, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Arun Kumar Garg acquitted 36 foreign nationals of all charges. The court said:

“It is ‘reasonably probable’ that none of them was present at Markaz during the relevant period and they had been picked up from different places so as to maliciously prosecute them.”Earlier, the Bombay High Court had also spoken about the "virtual persecution of against these foreigners".[20][21]

Family life

Kandhlawi is son-in-law of Salman Mazahiri.[22]

See also

References
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  22. "بڑی خبر : مولانا سعد کاندھلوی کی کورونا رپورٹ نیگیٹیو!". millattimes.com (in Urdu). Retrieved 20 July 2020.
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