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|name = Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi<br />
|honorific_prefix = Mawlānā, Mufti<br />
|office1= 4th Rector of [[Madrasa Aminia]]<br />
|term_start1= September 1955<br />
|term_end1= 1979<br />
|image = <br />
|caption = <br />
|predecessor1 = [[Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi]]<br />
|module = {{Infobox religious biography|embed = yes|religion=Islam<br />
|birth_date = {{birth date|1910|2|10|df=y}}<br />
|birth_place = [[Shahjahanpur]], [[British India]]<br />
|death_date = {{date of death and age|1987|3|13|1910|2|10|df=y}}<br />
|death_place = [[Delhi]], India<br />
|alma_mater = [[Madrasa Aminia]]<br />
|notable_works = ''Urdū Masdar Nāmā'', ''Zar-i gul''<br />
|father = [[Kifayatullah Dehlawi]]<br />
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'''Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi''' (10 February 1910 – 13 March 1987) was an Indian Muslim scholar, jurist, literary critic, and a poet of the [[Urdu]] language, who served as the rector of [[Madrasa Aminia]] from 1955 to 1979. He participated in the [[Indian freedom struggle]] movement and authored books such as ''Adabī bhūl bhulayyān̲'', ''Urdū Masdar Nāmā'' and ''Taz̲kirah-yi Sā'il''. He compiled the religious edicts of his father [[Kifayatullah Dehlawi]] as ''Kifāyat al-Mufti'' in nine volumes.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi was born on 10 February 1910 in [[Shahjahanpur]].{{Sfn|Shahjahanpuri|2005|pp=105-106}} He was the eldest son of [[Kifayatullah Dehlawi]], the [[Grand Mufti of India]].{{Sfn|Shahjahanpuri|2005|pp=105-106}}{{Sfn|Adrawi|2016|p=82}} He studied at the [[Madrasa Aminia]] with his father Kifayatullah Dehlawi and scholars including Khuda Bakhsh and Abdul Ghafoor Aarif Dehalvi.{{Sfn|Dehlavi|2011|p=19}} He studied [[Islamic calligraphy]] with Hamid Hussain Faridabadi and Munshi Abdul Ghani.{{Sfn|Dehlavi|2011|p=20}}<br />
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Wasif was a calligrapher, literary critic, poet and an Islamic jurist.{{Sfn|Amini|2017|p=177}}{{Sfn|Dehlavi|2011|p=22}} Aged 15, he started to write poetry in [[Persian language|Persian]]. His earliest poetry in [[Urdu]] was a [[marsiya]] about [[Hakim Ajmal Khan]], which appeared in the 22 January 1928 edition of ''Al-Jamiat''.{{Sfn|Dehlavi|2011|p=44}} He wrote in the [[ghazal]], [[nazm]], [[qasida]], [[musaddas]] and other genres of Urdu poetry.{{Sfn|Dehlavi|2011|p=44}} He was a student of Saail Dehlavi and Nooh Narvi in poetry.{{Sfn|Amini|2017|p=188}}{{Sfn|Dehlavi|2011|p=45}} [[Jameel Mehdi]] would say that, "Wasif is the only poet after [[Jigar Moradabadi]] who has an equal command over calligraphy. If he was not a poet, he would have been a great calligrapher."{{Sfn|Dehlavi|2011|p=22}}<br />
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Wasif started his career as a teacher of [[Arabic language]] and literature in the [[Government of Delhi]]'s education department.{{Sfn|Dehlavi|2011|p=24}} In 1936, his father made him the manager of Kutub Khana Rahimiya.{{Sfn|Dehlavi|2011|p=24}} He was appointed the vice-rector of [[Madrasa Aminia]] in 1953.{{Sfn|Dehlavi|2011|p=24}} He became the rector in September 1955 and resigned in 1979.{{Sfn|Dehlavi|2011|pp=25-26}} He also participated in the [[Indian freedom struggle]].{{Sfn|Dehlavi|2011|p=28}}{{Sfn|Amini|2017|p=185}} He died on 13 March 1987 in Delhi.{{Sfn|Adrawi|2016|p=82}}<br />
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==Literary works==<br />
Wasif compiled the religious edicts issued by his father [[Kifayatullah Dehlawi]] as ''Kifāyat al-Mufti'' in nine volumes.{{Sfn|Amini|2017|pp=210-211}} Pakistani historian [[Abu Salman Shahjahanpuri]] has regarded this as his major academic, political, religious and living work.{{Sfn|Shahjahanpuri|2005|pp=105-106}} Wasif's other works include:{{Sfn|Amini|2017|pp=210-211}}<br />
* ''Adabī bhūl bhulayyān̲: zabān-o-qawā'id aur Urdū imlā par tanqīd''<br />
* ''Jamī'at-i Ulamā par ek tārīk̲h̲ī tabṣirah'' (A book discussing the history of [[Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind]] and its establishment)<br />
* ''Sih lisānī Masdar Nāmā'' (Dictionary of Urdu verbs with their Arabic and Persian equivalents)<br />
* ''Taz̲kirah-yi Sā'il'' (''Biography of [[Saail Dehalvi]]'')<br />
* ''Urdū Masdar Nāmā''<br />
* ''Zar-i gul'' (Poetic collection)<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[List of Deobandis]]<br />
==References==<br />
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===Bibliography===<br />
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* {{cite book |last1=Amini |first1=Noor Alam Khalil |author-link=Noor Alam Khalil Amini |title=Pas-e-Marg-e-Zindah |publisher=Idara Ilm-o-Adab |location=[[Deoband]] |pages=177–213 |edition=5 |date=February 2017 |language=Urdu |chapter=Hadhrat Mawlāna Hafīzur Raḥmān Wāsif Dehalvi}}<br />
* {{cite book |last1=Dehlavi |first1=Muḥammad Qāsim|title=Mawlānā Ḥafīẓurraḥmān Wāsif Dehlavī |date=2011 |publisher=[[Urdu Academy, New Delhi|Urdu Academy]] |location=New Delhi |isbn=978-81-7121-176-0}}<br />
* {{cite book |last1=Shahjahanpuri |first1=Abu Salman |author1-link=Abu Salman Shahjahanpuri |title=Mufti-e-Azam Hind |date=2005 |publisher=[[Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library]] |location=Patna |language=ur}}<br />
* {{cite book |last1=Adrawi |first1=Asir |author1-link=Asir Adrawi |title=Karwān-e-Rafta: Tazkirah Mashāhīr-e-Hind |trans-title= The Caravan of the Past: Discussing Indian scholars|date=April 2016 |publisher=Darul Muallifeen |location=Deoband |edition=2nd|language=ur}}<br />
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