Muhammad Ahmed Ansari, Maulana

b. Jamad-ul-Oola 1342H/ December 1923

A renowned elder and orator of Tableeghi Jama'at. He belongs to Bahawalpur (Pakistan). He got his early religious education from his father Maulana Farooq Ahmad RAHMATULLÂH A'LAIHE,. who was the nephew of Maulana Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri RAHMATULLÂH A'LAIHE. In 1942, he went to Dar-ul-Uloom Deoband for completing the `review of Hadees', so as to. maintain the traditional ties with the elders, where he studied Hadees from Maulana Husain Ahmad Madni RAHMATULLÂH A'LAIHE: (d. Jamad-ul-Oola 12, 1377H/ December 6, 1957) and many other renowned teachers of Hadees. He memorised the Holy Qur'an in 1956.

He was the Sheikh-ul-Hadees in Jaami'a Abbasiya (now Islamia University), Bahawalpur. During service, Hadees, theology, history and Arabic literature were the subjects of his teaching. He is the disciple of Sheikh- ul-Hadees Hazrat Maulana Muhammad Zakariyya RAHMATULLÂH A'LAIHE.

His association with the work Tableegh is from his student life (late 1930s). He has visited many countries, especially the Arabworld, in Tableeghi journeys. His grip on the subject of nations' rising and downfalls is very firm. He is famous for giving lectures in the light of the history of nations, and giving comparisons between the believing and non-believing nations and practicing and nonpracticing people. He touches the methodology and status of religious work, and talks on the global aspects of the work of Da `wat and Tableegh. He names Muslims as Allah's Ambassadors. His lectures are specially popular both in the people of religious knowledge and the people vested with contemporary knowledge.

( EXCERPTS FROM"WORDS AND REFLECTIONS"OF THE REVIVALIST OF THE WORK OF TABLEEGH HAZRAT MAULANA MUHAMMAD ILYAS RAHMATULLÂH A'LAIHE )