Research Review of Maulānā Shāh Hakīm Muhammad Akhtar's Teaching in Bengal (Bangldesh) and the Impact of Silsila-e-Akhtaria

Waleed Khan, Dr. Shabbir Hussain Usmani
2020 Iḥyāʾalʿulūm - Journal of Department of Quran o Sunnah  
Maulānā Hakīm Muhammad Akhter was born in 1923 in village Atthiyah in the District of Partābgarrh province Uter Pardesh (UP) India. He got his religious education from his spiritual guide Maulānā Abdul Ghanī Phūlpūrī in Madarasa Bait-al-'Alūm which is located at Sarā'-i-Meer district 'Azam Gharr India and after this, he got Medical Education from Tibbia College Alahabād. He was a Sufi, a great scholar, acknowledged writer and a kind reformer. Maulānā Hakīm Muhammad Akhter was the founder of
more » ... ila-e-Akhrtaria (Religious and Spiritual genealogy). He also set up a Madrasa Asharaf al-Madāris and Khānqāh Imdādia Ashrafia in Karachi. Number of his followers and scholars are his disciple who got the knowledge of Sharia (Islamic laws) Tarīqat (mystic ways of life). Moreover, he established a NGO "al-Akhtar trust International" in 2001 for the well-being of humanity. As in the present scenario, our society is carried by nominal Islamic practices and trends, thus in this regard Shāh Hakīm Muhammad Akhter came forward to root out these types of evils from the society through the succession of Silsila-e-Akhatria.
doi:10.46568/ihya.v20i01.79 fatcat:7nkdcj2snzdbtd7btm5nqj5zl4