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{{Short description|Islamic scholar and jurist (1964–2021)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}}
{{Infobox religious biography
| religion = Islam
| title =
| honorific_prefix = Mufti
| name = Faizul Waheed
| image = Faizul Waheed.jpg
| caption = Faizul Waheed in 2021
| birth_date = {{birth year|1964}}
| birth_place = Dodasan Bala, [[Thanamandi]], [[Rajouri]], India
| death_date = {{death date and given age|df=y|2021|6|1|56}}
| death_place = ASCOMS, [[Jammu]]
| alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|[[Darul Uloom Deoband]]| [[Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University]]}}
| denomination = [[Sunni]]
| jurisprudence = [[Hanafi]]
| main_interests = [[Tafsir]]
| notable_works = ''Faiz al-Mannān''
}}

'''Faizul Waheed''' (also known as '''Faizul Waheed Qāsmī''';<ref>{{cite news |title=عملی زندگی میں جذبات کے بجائے حکمت عملی اور منصوبہ بندی سے آپ کو کام کرنا ہوگا |trans-title=You need to work through strategies rather than through emotions |url=https://urdu.millattimes.com/story/40189 |access-date=1 June 2021 |work=Millat Times |date=28 April 2019 |archive-date=2 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602215426/https://urdu.millattimes.com/story/40189 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 1964 – 1 June 2021) was an Indian Islamic scholar, jurist and an [[Wikt:exegete|exegete]] of the [[Quran]] from [[Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)|Jammu and Kashmir]], who served as the chief-[[mufti]] of Markaz-ul-Ma'arif, an Islamic seminary in Bathindi, [[Jammu]]. He wrote ''Faiz al-Mannān'', the first ever translation and commentary of the Quran in [[Gojri language]].

==Biography==
Faizul Waheed was born into [[Muslim Gujjars|Muslim Gujjar]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hussain |first=Masood |date=2021-06-18 |title=The Quran Gujraan Wastay |url=https://kashmirlife.net/the-quran-gujraan-wastay-vol-13-issue-11-269733/ |access-date=2025-10-18 |website=Kashmir Life |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Bakhsh |first=Zenaira |date=2021-06-02 |title=Mufti Faiz-ul-Waheed: A scholar who translated Quran in jail |url=https://thekashmirwalla.com/mufti-faiz-ul-waheed-a-scholar-who-translated-quran-in-jail/ |access-date=2025-10-18 |website=The Kashmir Walla |language=en-US}}</ref> family in Dodasan Bala, [[Thanamandi]], [[Rajouri]], in 1964.<ref name="edu">{{Citation|author1=Nisar Aḥmad Bhat Trāli |author2=Yūsuf al-Azam |title=Ā'īna-e-Madāris Jammu wa Kashmīr|volume=1|page=236}}</ref> He was schooled at the Madrasa Kāshif-ul-Uloom in Thanamandi and the Madrasa Tālim-ul-Qur'ān in [[Muzaffarnagar]].<ref name="edu"/> He studied two years of the [[dars-e-nizami]] in Madrasa Khādim-ul-Islam in [[Hapur]] and graduated from the [[Darul Uloom Deoband]] in 1991.<ref name="edu2">{{Citation|author1=Nisar Aḥmad Bhat Trāli |author2=Yūsuf al-Azam |title=Ā'īna-e-Madāris Jammu wa Kashmīr|volume=1|page=237}}</ref> He received an [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] in [[Urdu language|Urdu]] from the [[Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University]].<ref name="edu2"/>

In 1992, Faizul Waheed began teaching at the Madrasa Ashraf-ul-Uloom in [[Jammu]].<ref name="edu2"/> He alongside Jamāluddīn and Nazīr Aḥmad started Jamia Markaz-ul-Ma'arif, an Islamic seminary in Bathindi, [[Jammu]] and moved there on 5 October 1995.<ref name="edu2"/> As the new institution started, he was subject to some [[Deobandi]]–[[Barelvi]] conflicts triggered by local followers of the Barelvi movement, which led to his arrest in August 1995.<ref name="edu2"/> He was imprisoned under the [[Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978|Public Safety Act]] for eleven months.<ref name="edu2"/> He continued teaching at the madrasa for next two years and was arrested again in May 1997.<ref name="edu2"/> He was released in August 2000 and he continued teaching at the Markaz-ul-Ma’arif.<ref name="edu2"/> He served as the chief-mufti and patron of the Markaz-ul-Ma’arif.<ref name="ku">{{cite news |title=مفسر قرآن مفتی فیض الوحید نے آخری حدیث کا درس دیا |trans-title=Mufti Faziul Waheed, the exegete of Quran gives a sermon of Hadith |url=https://www.kashmiruzma.net/NewsDetail?action=view&ID=82568 |access-date=1 June 2021 |work=Kashmir Uzma |language=ur |archive-date=11 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210611120530/https://www.kashmiruzma.net/NewsDetail?action=view&ID=82568 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="kashmirwalla"/><ref>{{cite news |title=Anjuman Nusrat-ul-Islam condoles demise of Haji Khursheed Ahmad Deen, Mufti Faiz-ul-Waheed |url=http://www.knskashmir.com/anjuman-nusrat-ul-islam-condoles-demise-of-haji-khursheed-ahmad-deen--mufti-faiz-ul-waheed-80496 |access-date=1 June 2021 |work=Kashmir News Service |date=1 June 2021|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210619021358/http://www.knskashmir.com/anjuman-nusrat-ul-islam-condoles-demise-of-haji-khursheed-ahmad-deen--mufti-faiz-ul-waheed-80496|archive-date=19 June 2021}}</ref>

Faizul Waheed was an authority in [[Islamic jurisprudence]] and an exegete of the Quran.<ref name="kashmirwalla">{{cite news |title=Mufti Faizul Waheed, who first translated Quran into Gojri, critical |url=https://thekashmirwalla.com/2021/05/mufti-faizul-waheed-who-first-translated-quran-into-gojri-critical/ |access-date=1 June 2021 |work=The Kashmir Walla |date=24 May 2021|url-status=usurped|archive-date=19 June 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210619021216/https://thekashmirwalla.com/2021/05/mufti-faizul-waheed-who-first-translated-quran-into-gojri-critical/}}</ref> He translated the ''Qur'ān'' into [[Gojri language]] and owned the credit of being its first translator in that language.<ref name="kashmirwalla"/> He had penned the translation and the exegesis of the ''Qur'ān'' during his imprisonment.<ref name="edu2"/> In November 2018, he said while speaking at a convention in [[Gool, Jammu and Kashmir|Gool, Ramban]] that "the success of every person is concealed in the ''Qur'ān''".<ref>{{cite news |title=مدرسہ دارالعلوم فریدیہ گول میں5حفاظ کرام کی دستار بندی |url=https://kashmiruzma.net/NewsDetail?action=view&ID=41999 |access-date=1 June 2021 |work=Kashmir Uzma |date=5 November 2018 |archive-date=10 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610091736/https://kashmiruzma.net/NewsDetail?action=view&ID=41999 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Faizul Waheed was admitted at the Acharaya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences (ASCOMS) in [[Jammu]] on 23 May 2021 to be treated for [[COVID-19]];<ref name="kashmirwalla"/><ref name="siasat"/> he died on 1 June 2021 from post COVID-19 complications.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.siasat.com/renowned-islamic-scholar-mufti-faiz-ul-waheed-dies-of-post-covid-complications-2144848/?fbclid=IwAR0fhMwjTNDpObEpfP9sJWL2oJNvyREqnFmaGnY6OVMhhuiAjXzTQbq5x1s | title=Renowned Islamic scholar Mufti Faiz-ul-Waheed dies of post Covid complications | date=June 2021 }}</ref><ref name="kashmirwalla"/><ref name="chenab">{{cite news |title=Renowned Islamic scholar Mufti Faiz-ul-Waheed passes away at Jammu hospital |url=https://thechenabtimes.com/2021/06/01/renowned-islamic-scholar-mufti-faiz-ul-waheed-passes-away-at-jammu-hospital/ |access-date=1 June 2021 |work=The Chenab Times |date=1 June 2021|url-status=live|archive-date=19 June 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210619021510/https://thechenabtimes.com/2021/06/01/renowned-islamic-scholar-mufti-faiz-ul-waheed-passes-away-at-jammu-hospital/}}</ref> [[Altaf Bukhari]], [[Ghulam Ahmad Mir]] and [[Syed Basharat Ahmed Bukhari]] expressed grief over his death.<ref name="siasat">{{cite news |title=Renowned Islamic scholar Mufti Faiz-ul-Waheed dies |url=https://www.siasat.com/renowned-islamic-scholar-mufti-faiz-ul-waheed-dies-of-post-covid-complications-2144848/ |access-date=1 June 2021 |work=[[The Siasat Daily]] |date=1 June 2021|url-status=live|archive-date=19 June 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210619021907/https://www.siasat.com/renowned-islamic-scholar-mufti-faiz-ul-waheed-dies-of-post-covid-complications-2144848/}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Basharat Bukhari condoles demise of Mufti Faiz-ul-Waheed |url=http://www.knskashmir.com/basharat-bukhari-condoles-demise-of-mufti-faiz-ul-waheed-80506 |access-date=1 June 2021 |work=KNS Kashmir |date=1 June 2021|url-status=live|archive-date=19 June 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210619021749/http://www.knskashmir.com/basharat-bukhari-condoles-demise-of-mufti-faiz-ul-waheed-80506}}</ref> [[Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali]] expressed that the scholar's death was an irreparable loss.<ref name="chenab"/>

==Literary works==
Faizul Waheed wrote ''Faiz al-Mannān'',<ref>{{cite thesis |last1=Abdur Rahman |first1=Muhammad |title=تفسیر فیض المنان میں مفتی فیض الوحید کے منہج و اسلوب کا تحقیقی مطالعہ |trans-title= A study of Mufti Faizul Waheed's adopted methodology and style in the Tafseer Faiz al-Mannan|date=2019 |publisher=[[Allama Iqbal Open University]] |location=[[Islamabad]] |language=ur}}</ref> the first ever translation and commentary of the ''Qur'ān'' in [[Gojri language]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=2 June 2021|title=J&K mufti who translated Quran into Gojri, helped tribal children pursue education, dies|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/jk-mufti-who-translated-quran-into-gojri-helped-tribal-children-pursue-education-dies-7340284/|access-date=12 February 2022|work= [[The Indian Express]]|language=en}}</ref>

His other works include:<ref>{{Cite news|last=Web|first=GK|title=Mufti Faiz-ul-Waheed, who first translated Qur'an into Gojri language passes away|url=https://www.greaterkashmir.com/jammu/mufti-faiz-ul-waheed-who-first-translated-quran-into-gojri-language-passes-away|access-date=12 February 2022|work=[[Greater Kashmir]]|language=en}}</ref>
* ''Sirājum Muneera'' (''The Shining Lamp'', A biography of Islamic prophet [[Muhammad]].)
* ''Pāki ke Masā'il Qur'ān-o-Hadees ki Roshni Mein'' (''The Rules of Purity in the Light of Qur'ān and [[Hadith]]'')
* ''Mareez-o-Mayyit awr Warāsat ke Ahkām Qur'ān-o-Hadees ki Roshni Mein'' (''Rules of the Ill, the Deceased and Inheritance in the Light of Qur'ān and Hadith'')
==See also==
* [[List of Deobandis]]

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==Bibliography==
* {{cite book |author1=Nisar Aḥmad Bhat Trāli |author2=Yūsuf al-Azam |title=Ā'īna-e-Madāris Jammu wa Kashmīr |volume=1 |date=November 2015 |publisher=Afaq Printers |location=Srinagar |pages=236–237 |language=ur |chapter=Faizul Waheed}}

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[[Category:1964 births]]
[[Category:2021 deaths]]
[[Category:Muslim Gujjars]]
[[Category:Indian Islamic studies scholars]]
[[Category:Indian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam]]
[[Category:Deobandis]]
[[Category:Interpreters]]
[[Category:People from Rajouri district]]
[[Category:Darul Uloom Deoband alumni]]
[[Category:Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University alumni]]
[[Category:Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in India]]

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ErnestLithgow16 at 09:53, 18 October 2025