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Foreword 1<br />
Shaykh Mawlānā Muḥammad Saleem Dhorat 1<br />
My first acquaintance with Ḥaḍrat Mawlānā Muḥammad Sarfarāz Khān Ṣafdar<br />
sahib (may Allāh sanctify his soul) was when Ḥaḍrat had come to the UK to<br />
attend a conference as the chief guest and also visited Leicester during that<br />
trip. It was the sheer grace of Allāh that Ḥaḍrat’s host called me and requested<br />
that I should make all necessary arrangements whilst Ḥaḍrat was in Leicester. I<br />
took this opportunity as an honour for myself and made arrangements for his<br />
stay at my late father’s residence.<br />
This was my first meeting with the honourable Ḥaḍrat Mawlānā Muḥammad<br />
Sarfarāz Khān Ṣafdar sahib and thereafter my love and respect for this<br />
luminary only increased as I continuously learnt of his academic status<br />
through his works, publications and other leading luminaries.<br />
The honourable Ḥaḍrat has been amongst those great scholars from whom I<br />
have longed to seek ijāzah in ḥadīth, but have been unfortunate and this grief<br />
and sorrow will always remain with me.<br />
Mawlānā <strong>Badrul</strong> <strong>Islam</strong> sahib, who has authored this short biography, is a<br />
graduate of Jāmiʿah Dār al-ʿUlūm at Karachi and a murīd of the honourable<br />
Ḥaḍrat. Mawlānā is a young academic ʿālim who has much love for our pious<br />
predecessors and elders and also has much love and respect for me. Due to this<br />
love, after the honourable Ḥaḍrat’s demise, I requested Mawlānā to write an<br />
article for our monthly Magazine, Riyāḍul Jannah, which would concisely<br />
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Khalīfah of Shaykh Mawlānā Muḥammad Yūsuf Ludhyānwī Shahīd; founder and Shaykh al-Ḥadīth,<br />
Jamiʿah Riyāḍ al-ʿUlūm; founder, Islāmic Daʿwah Academy (Leicester, England); editor, Riyāḍul Jannah<br />
Magazine.<br />
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