| Honorific Prefix: | Hazrat-e-Khatib-ul-Islam حضرت خطيب الإسلام | ||||||||||||
| Faiz-ul Hassan Shah سيد فیض الحسن شاه | |||||||||||||
| Birth Name: | Faiz ul Hassan Shah | ||||||||||||
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| Birth Place: | Allo Mahar, Punjab, British India | ||||||||||||
| Religion: | Islam | ||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 1911 | ||||||||||||
| Death Place: | Allo Mahar, Punjab, Pakistan | ||||||||||||
| Resting Place: | Allo Mahar, Punjab, Pakistan | ||||||||||||
| Lineage: | Husayn | ||||||||||||
| School Tradition: | Ahl as-Sunnah wa’l-Jamā‘h | ||||||||||||
| Main Interests: | Hadith, Oratory, Tasawwuf, Islamic Philosophy | ||||||||||||
| Influences: | Ahmad Sirhindi, Muhammad Channan Shah Nuri, Imam Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti, Ahmed Rida Khan, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi | ||||||||||||
| Background: | green | ||||||||||||
| Creed: | Maturidi | ||||||||||||
| Denomination: | Sunni | ||||||||||||
| Jurisprudence: | Hanafi | ||||||||||||
Faiz-ul Hassan Shah, known by some as Khatib-ul-Islam, was a Pakistani Islamic religious scholar, orator, poet, and writer.
He was president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan for ten years, and struggled to establish Islamic reforms in Pakistan. He was also a provincial president of Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam.[1]
In 1932, after the death of his father, he became the religious leader of Allo Mahar. He began leading Friday prayers and teaching the congregation of Allo Mahar in different parts of the Indian subcontinent and became a famous orator. He contributed to the Tahreek-e-Tahaffuz-e-Khatm-e-Nubuwwat, which is an organization created to preserve the Islamic tenet of Finality of Prophethood.} He led the movement in the days of British rule in India against Ahmadis. For 20 years he led the Eid prayer in the police line at Gujranwala.He visited Karachi as a president of Jamiat Ulma e Pakistan and made his historic speech which was highly appreciated by all scholars at that time.[2]
The most well-known treatises and reports, written by the authors of the early period are: