Chairman BOG, Minhaj University Lahore
To develop a real human character that becomes a source of peace, love, ethical values, spirituality and integration, one must work for society’s unity and avoid conflict; which is why Minhaj University Lahore (MUL) promotes the concept of knowledge that connects the ancient with the modern, secular with the spiritual, and the outer aspects of the personality with the inner ones. Always remember that knowledge is more than just reading books, listening to lectures, taking notes, giving exams, and receiving degrees. While all these factors are unavoidable prerequisites for an academic career, knowledge itself is an entirely different thing.
Process of knowledge starts from becoming a recipient of guidance and deciding the right direction with purpose, which leads to ponder upon the realities of surrounding and understanding what is right and wrong. It leads some to achieve the reasons and develop a successful future. The rationality develops into the meditation that forms the hallmark of an advancing generation. It leads an individual towards the actual research and fundamental methodologies. These abilities are completed by the living heart, wisdom, the certainty of knowledge, intellectuality, understanding, and unshakable faith.
My dear sons & daughters, we aim to revive the unity of knowledge in such ways that were used in the earlier centuries of Islamic history. In our times, the unity has been shifted to duality, comprising of religious and secular knowledge. Religiosity and secularity have become two different entities. Some institutions only follow religiosity, while others merely follow secularity. However, at MUL, we are binding with both, running the movement of knowledge, wisdom, meditation, a revival of spiritual values, and reunifying mundane and spiritual aspects of the knowledge. You must develop a positive future by creating a culture of love, tolerance, integration, and denouncing all kinds of extremism and terrorism. As the elders of nation, we have great expectations from you.
Dr. Tahir ul Qadri is a Pakistani-Canadian Islamic scholar, author, and founder of the Minhaj-ul-Quran International organization. Dr. Qadri has a PhD in Islamic Law from the University of Punjab in Pakistan and has written over a 1000 books on a wide range of topics including Islamic jurisprudence, spirituality, and Sufism. He has also delivered lectures on Islam and other topics in various countries around the world. Dr. Qadri is also a well-known public speaker and has been actively involved in social and political issues in Pakistan.
Dr. Tahir ul Qadri, was awarded with the title of "Shaykh ul Islam" by his teachers and peers in recognition of his scholarly contributions to Islamic studies. It is a title traditionally given to Islamic scholars who are recognized for their extensive knowledge of Islamic sciences, their piety, and their contributions to the Islamic community. The title is not an official or formal one, but rather an honorific used to refer to respected Islamic scholars.
This new fatwa from the renowned authority of Islamic world, Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, leader of the overwhelming majority of Muslims deals a devstating blow to al-Qaeda and its affiliates by removing decisively any remnant of theological justifications for terrorism. It is the most comprehensive edict on this topic in the history of Islam, Dr. Qadri has explicated how suicide bombings and terrorism is unequivocally un-Islamic and has condemned terrorism unconditionally without any "ifs and buts". Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri is a globally recognised authority on the Islamic and International law and Islamic scholarship.
Drawing on his deep, erudite insight into the life and teaching of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and fourteen centuries of Islamic scholarship, Dr Qadri`s 512-page, detailed fatwa demolishes the theological arguements advanced by terrorists in prisons, on websites, videos and their literature which are root causes of today`s home grown terrorists. For the first time available in the United States this contains a foreword by the Washington D.C. based expert on Islam, Prof John Esposito of Georgetown University and Introduction by Dr. Joel Hayward (Royal Air Force College, UK) and a validation by Al-Azhar University, Egypt who have supported this fatwa.