Abdul Khaliq Sambhali (4 January 1950 – 30 July 2021) was an Indian Muslim scholar and writer who served as the vice-rector of Darul Uloom Deoband. He was an alumnus of the Deoband seminary and had studied with scholars including Mahmood Hasan Gangohi, Muhammad Tayyib Qasmi and Syed Fakhruddin Ahmad. He translated Abdul Majeed al-Zindani's Al-Tawḥīd into Urdu and gave religious discourses criticizing the Maududism.
Mawlana Abdul Khaliq Sambhali | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Vice-Rector of Darul Uloom Deoband | |
| In office 2008 – 30 July 2021 | |
| Personal | |
| Born | 4 January 1950 |
| Died | 30 July 2021 (aged 71) Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Religion | Islam |
| Alma mater | Darul Uloom Deoband |
Biography
editAbdul Khaliq Sambhali was born on 4 January 1950 in Sambhal.[1] He was schooled at the Madrasa Khair al-Madaris and Madrasa Shamsul Uloom in Sambhal. He memorized the Quran under the tutelage of Hafiz Farīduddīn.[2] He went to Darul Uloom Deoband in 1968,[1] and graduated in the Dars-e-Nizami course in 1972. He specialized in Arabic literature in 1973.[3] His teachers included Syed Fakhruddin Ahmad, Muhammad Tayyib Qasmi, Mahmud Hasan Gangohi and Naseer Ahmad Khan.[2]
Sambhali began teaching the Islamic sciences at Madrasa Khadim al-Islam in Hapur in 1973, and then taught at the Madrasa Jami' al-Huda in Moradabad during 1979.[3] He was appointed a teacher at the Darul Uloom Deoband in 1982.[1] In 2008, he was appointed the vice-rector of the seminary.[3] He was a litterateur of Arabic and Urdu, and taught books of hadith such as the Sunan ibn Majah at the Deoband seminary.[4][5] He also gave discourses on the Poems of Al-Mutanabbi, the Dīwan-e-Mutanabbi, which was considered famous in the seminary.[5] His students included Mohammad Najeeb Qasmi.[6]
In an interview that Sambhali gave to the Deccan Herald in May 2009, he was reported saying that, "We are not against education of girls, but we are against co-education." He was asked about the Taliban closing the schools of girls.[7] In 2017, he said about the Indian government's ban on Triple Talaq that, "no one had a right to change the commandments of Shariah."[8] He translated Abdul Majeed al-Zindani's book Al-Tawḥīd (transl. Monotheism) into Urdu.[3] His discourses on the criticism of Maududism have been published from the Deoband seminary in several volumes.[3]
Sambhali died on 30 July 2021 in Muzaffarnagar.[6] He was buried in the Qasmi cemetery in Deoband.[4] Abul Qasim Nomani, Arshad Madani, Mahmood Madani and Muhammad Sufyan Qasmi expressed grief over his death.[9]
See more
editReferences
editCitations
edit- ^ a b c "دارالعلوم دیوبند کے نائب مہتمم مولانا عبدالخالق سنبھلی کا انتقال" [The vice-rector of Darul Uloom Deoband, Mawlānā Abdul Khaliq Sambhali passes away]. Baseerat Online. 30 July 2021. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
- ^ a b "دارالعلوم دیوبند کے استاذ حدیث مولانا عبدالخالق سنبھلی کا طویل علالت کے بعد انتقال، علمی حلقہ سوگوار" [Mawlānā Abdul Khaliq Sambhali passes away]. Millat Times (in Urdu). 30 July 2021. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
- ^ a b c d e Qāsmi 2020, p. 689.
- ^ a b "دارالعلوم دیوبند کے نائب مہتمم مولانا عبدالخالق سنبھلی کا انتقال" [The vice-rector of Deoband seminary, Maulana Abdul Khaliq Sambhali passes away]. Roznama Khabrein (in Urdu). 30 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ a b Talha, Muhammad Abu (31 July 2021). "خدا یاد آئے جنھیں دیکھ کر: حضرت استاد محترم مولانا عبد الخالق سنبھلی". Qindeel Online.
- ^ a b "Darul Uloom Deoband's vice-rector passes away". The Chenab Times. 30 July 2021. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
- ^ "Muslim politicians have lost bond with the community". Deccan Herald (Interview). 14 May 2009. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
- ^ Sharma, Swati (22 August 2017). "We stand by Muslim Personal Law Board on 'triple talaq': Darul Uloom Deoband". The Statesman. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
- ^ Bhatt, Prem Dutt (30 July 2021). "दारुल उलूम के नायब मोहतमिम मौलाना अब्दुल खालिक संभली का निधन, लंबे समय से थे बीमार" [Vice-rector of Darul Uloom Deoband, Mawlānā Abdul Khāliq Sambhali passes away]. Jagran (in Hindi). Retrieved 30 July 2021.
Bibliography
edit- Qāsmi, Muhammadullah Khalili (October 2020). Darul Uloom Deoband Ki Jame O Mukhtasar Tareekh (in Urdu) (3rd ed.). India: Shaikh-Ul-Hind Academy. OCLC 1345466013.