Mufti Ghulam Rasool Jamaati
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Mufti Ghulam Rasool Jamaati
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| Birth | 1923 CE in the city of Gujrāt, Pakistan[1] |
| School/tradition | Hanafi [2] |
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Mufti Ghulam Rasool Jamaati (Arabic: مفتي غلام رسول جمعاتي) is a Sunni Hanafi [2] Islamic scholar [1].
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Mufti Ghulam Rasool was born in 1923 in the city of Gujrāt, Pakistan. He received the major part of his Islamic education from the “Teacher of the Teachers” `Allāmah Sultān Ahmad d. 1999/1420 whose educational transmission extends to the renowned scholar and jurist of his era `Allāmah Fadl al-Haq Khayrābādī d. 1278/1861. During his stay in Pakistan he taught the Islamic sciences as well as issuing fatwas on various issues.
In 1985 he moved to Britain and began teaching in London at the madrassa (Islamic school) of one of the world’s foremost Muslim scholars, Sayyid `Abd al-Qādir Jilānī. During this period, he was also appointed honorary Mufti of The Muslim Council UK in 1990 and has since issued over two thousand fatwas. Fluent in Arabic, Persian and Urdu, the Mufti is a master in numerous fields of Islamic scholarship including Jurisprudence, Principles of Jurisprudence, Exegeses, Principles of Exegesis, hadith, Principles of hadith, Doctrine, Logic, Scholastic Theology, Philosophy, Sufism, Moral and Ethical Philosophy, Polemics, Astronomy, Morphology, Syntax, Rhetoric, Oratory, Lexicology, Literature (including pre-Islamic), Poetry and others. As well as teaching and issuing fatwas, he has authored around forty books on a variety of topics from the aforementioned sciences.
His command on the sacred and legal sources, and the ability to apply them to practical legal problems is the cause for his reverence among the more learned Sunni circles of the sub-continent.[3]
