Ashiq Ilahi

Shaykh Ashiq Ilahi Bulandshehri (1343 AH - 1423 AH in the Islamic calendar or 1925 - 2002 in the Gregorian calendar) was a prolific writer and eminent muslim scholar of the Indian subcontinent.

Shaykh Ashiq Ilahi Bulandshehri was born in 1343 AH in Bulandshehr, Uttar Pradesh. After completing his primary education at Madrasa Imdadiyya in Muradabad and Jami' Masjid in Aligarh, he enrolled at Mazahirul Uloom, Saharanpur, in pursuit of a higher education. After completing his studies, he taught various subjects at madrasas in Ferozepur Jhirka and Calcutta and at Hayaatul Uloom in Muradabad. He later taught at Darul Uloom Karachi for several years at the request of Mufti Muhammad Shafi, where he assumed responsibility of the fatwa department and taught hadith and tafsir. Shaykh Ashiq Ilahi later moved to Madina, where he spent the last twenty-five years of his life. He was a disciple of Hadhrat Shaykh Maulana Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhlawi.

His works have been well received in numerous countries. "Tohfa-e-Khawateen", "Marne Ke Baad Kya Hōga?", "Islami Adab", "Huquq Al-Walidayn", and "Anwar Al-Bayaan", a voluminous commentary of the Qur’an, are among the well-known books that he authored. In the field of hadith, he authored "Zad At-Talibin" and "Al-Fawa’id Al-Saniyya fi Sharh Al-Arba'een Al-Nawawiyya". As for fiqh, he is the author of "At-Tashil Al-Daruri fi Masa’il Al-Quduri", as well as dozens of reformative booklets and articles. Shaykh Ashiq Ilahi passed away in Madina at the age of eighty and was buried in Jannatul Baqi.