Mufti Faizul Waheed

Faizul Waheed (also known as Faizul Waheed Qāsmī; 1964 – 1 June 2021) was an Indian Islamic scholar, jurist and an exegete of the Quran from Jammu and Kashmir, who served as the chief-mufti of Markaz-ul-Ma'arif, an Islamic seminary in Bathindi, Jammu. He wrote Faiz al-Mannān, the first ever translation and commentary of the Quran in Gojri language.

Biography Faizul Waheed was born into Muslim Gujjar family in Dodasan Bala, Thanamandi, Rajouri, in 1964. He was schooled at the Madrasa Kāshif-ul-Uloom in Thanamandi and the Madrasa Tālim-ul-Qur'ān in Muzaffarnagar. He received an M.A. in Urdu from the Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University.

Faizul Waheed was an authority in Islamic jurisprudence and an exegete of the Quran. He translated the Qur'ān into Gojri language and owned the credit of being its first translator in that language.

Faizul Waheed was admitted at the Acharaya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences (ASCOMS) in Jammu on 23 May 2021 to be treated for COVID-19; Altaf Bukhari, Ghulam Ahmad Mir and Syed Basharat Ahmed Bukhari expressed grief over his death. Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali expressed that the scholar's death was an irreparable loss. the first ever translation and commentary of the Qur'ān in Gojri language.

His other works include: Sirājum Muneera (The Shining Lamp, A biography of Islamic prophet Muhammad.) Pāki ke Masā'il Qur'ān-o-Hadees ki Roshni Mein (The Rules of Purity in the Light of Qur'ān and Hadith) Mareez-o-Mayyit awr Warāsat ke Ahkām Qur'ān-o-Hadees ki Roshni Mein (Rules of the Ill, the Deceased and Inheritance in the Light of Qur'ān and Hadith)