Hakim Muhammad Akhtar

Hakeem Muhammad Akhtar (1928 – 2 June 2013) was a Pakistani Sunni Muslim scholar, poet, philanthropist and a Sufi mentor. He established the Jamiah Ashraful Madāris in Karachi. He was an alumnus of the State Unani Medical College Allahabad and the Madrasa Bait-ul-Uloom, Sarai Mir. He was an authorized disciple of Abrarul Haq Haqqi. His works include Ma'ārif-e-Masnawi and Faizān-e-Muḥabbat.

Biography Hakeem Muhammad Akhtar was born in 1928 in Pratapgarh. He was schooled in Pratapgarh and studied Persian with Qāri Muḥammad Siddīq in Sultanpur. He was inclined towards studying Islamic sciences, and completed the traditional dars-e-nizami at the Madrasa Bait-ul-Uloom in Sarai Mir in four years.

Akhtar studied the Sihah Sittah with Abdul Ghani Phulpuri, a student of Majid Ali Jaunpuri. Haqqi authorized him in the Ashrafia, Chistiyyah, Naqshbandiyah, Qadiriyyah and the Suhrawardiyya orders of Sufism. In 1980, he started the "Khanqāh Imdādiya Ashrafiya" in Karachi at the wishes of Abrarul Haq Haqqi. His disciples have started branches of it in Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Mauritius, Myanmar, Réunion, South Africa and Turkey.

Akhtar died on 2 June 2013 in Karachi. His disciples in Sufism include Abdul Hamid Ishaq, Fazlur Rahman Azmi, Muhammad Ilyas Ghuman, Salman Nadvi and Younus Patel.

Literary works Akhtar's works include: Lessons on the Mathnawi of Moulana Rumi: on love and recognition Tajalliat-E-Jazb: manifestation of Allah's attraction Ma'rifat-e-Ilāhiya Rūh ki bīmāriyān aur unka ilāj Faizān-e-Muḥabbat