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Allama Qamruzzama Azmi is a UK based Indian Sufi Muslim Scholar and Preacher regarded as tallest Islamic figure of United Kingdoms. Allama Azmi is the general secretary of World Islamic Mission. He is the Khalifa of former Grand Mufti of India, Huzur Mustafa Raza Khan Khan qadri (a blessed son of Mujaddid Ahmed Raza Khan Hanafi Qadri) and Sarkar e Kalan, Sayyed Muhammad Mukhtar Ashraf (an eminent leader of Ashrafi order) He has received the honorifics Huzoor Mufakkir-e-Islam.

Recognition

The former Prime Minister of United Kingdom David Cameroon had appreciated the dedicated services of Allama Azmi towards integration of the community and interfaith dialogue 's promotion. Saeed Noori authored the Biography of Allama Azmi known as Tajalliyat e Qamar which was published by Raza Academy Mumbai. He has been mentioned in the list of World's 500 Most Influential Muslim consecutively from last 10 years from 2011 to 2021.

views and opinions of Allama Qamruzzama

While addressing a peace conference in Pune on June 2006, Allama Azmi said that associating the word terrorism With Islam is the big international conspiracy to defame Islam (Religion of Peace). He believed that saving one's life is saving the entire humanity and killing one innocent is killing of the whole humanity. Speaking on this occasion, he told that the students studying in English Medium School are going astray from Islam. He advised the students to study in a systematic way and get laurels to the Community.

Early Life and Career

Allama Qamruzzama was born into highly spiritual and well literate Sunni Sufi family on March 23, 1946 in Azamgarh district of Uttar Pardesh , India. His birth name is Mohammad Khan Qamaruzzaman Azmi. His noble father was Allama Abdul Hameed Khan who was the son of Allama Abdul Samad Khan. He learned Persian and Urdu from his father and grandfather and received the initial Islamic education from a local institution called Anwar-ul-Uloom. He was admitted to one of India's top Islamic institutions, Al Jamiatul Ashrafia, Mubarakpur, at the age of twelve. From there he was admitted in Darul uloom Nadwat-ul-Ulema at the age of eighteen, where he obtained his Aalim degrees and then returned to Al Jamiatul Ashrafia Mubarakpur where he received the Dastar-e-Fazilat (Turban of Honor) and the Sanad (Islamic degrees) by the hands of the founder of that university, He was ordered by Hafiz-e-Millat Hazrat Allama Abdul Aziz to go to Faizabad in 1966 at the age of eighteen to work as a Mudarris (religious teacher) . At that tender age of eighteen, he founded the Islamic University, Al-Jamiatul-Islamia, which is now recognized as one of India's top Islamic universities. In 1973, an agreement was made in the holy city of Mecca to establish the first international Sunni organization, The World Islamic Mission. The Ra'ees-ul-Qalam Hazrat Allama Arshad-ul-Qadri has invited Hazrat Allama Qamruzzama to join him as the Joint Secretary General. He subsequently moved to Bradford, Great Britain in 1974. A collection of scientific speeches by his hand has already been published in three volumes. Part one was compiled by Mohammad Rehan Raza Misbahi and Maulana Abdullah Azmi in a 376 pages book consisting of twelve major speeches on Khutbaat-e-Muffakir-e-Islam law (Speeches of the Great Thinker of Islam) published by Maktaba-e-Taiba, Mumbai, India. Part two was turned into a 512 pages book, consisting of nineteen speeches compiled by Mohammad Sajid Hussain Qadri entitled Khutbaat-e-Muffakir-e-Islam (Speeches of the Great Thinker of Islam) and published by Maktaba Taiba, Hyderabad. This was launched by former Grand Mufti of India Mufti Akhtar Raza Khan and Allama Zia-ul-Mustafa Razvi Qadri. Part three was turned into a 240 pages book consisting of eleven speeches entitled Ilmi taqreeray'n (scientific speeches) compiled by Imran Hussain Chaudhary and published by the Sunni Foundation in Pakistan in 2008. His collection of poetry Khayabaan-e-Midhat Volume One was published in 2007 by Maktaba Taiba, Mumbai, India and Volume Two in 2011 by the Sunni Foundation in Pakistan. These publications have been praised by newspaper critics, scholars and intellectuals around the world. He has written more than 200 articles which are currently collected and published under the title Maqaalat-e-Muffakir-e-Islam. His books like Jamaal-e-Mustafa are already in circulation in India. Allama Qamruzzama is continuing the missionary work from last 50 years, he has helped to build many organizations and institutions around the world such as mosques, colleges and universities in America, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Belgium and India. Al-Jamiatul Islamia in Raunahi alone saw four hundred Ulemas graduate in 2011. He has also been honored with awards and certificates of appreciation including the Mufti-e-Azam Award from the Raza Academy in Mumbai by the hands of Tanvir Miyan. Allama Qamruzzaman is the Chief Imam of North Manchester Jamia Mosque and Secretary-General of the World Islamic Mission, he was the attendee of the protest aginsts government regarding some provisions of right to education.

References

Times of India, Islam Has No Room for terror- London Scholar June 11 2016.
Jamia Mosque Organization official website
Muslim Mirror August 26 2013
Tajalliyat-e-Qamar, Rekhta
Jamia Madinatul Islam Netherland official website- Qamruzzama Azmi (Dutch).
sunninews on wordpress
Times of India, May 9 2012