Talib Jauhari

Talib Jauhari (27 August 1939 – 21 June 2020)

He was widely renowned as the most prominent Shia scholar, and his sermons were broadcast on PTV (Pakistan Television Network).

Career Jauhari was a promoter of Shia-Sunni unity in Pakistan. Allama Talib Jauhari was among the most famous Shia scholars of Pakistan. He was also a poet, and three compilations of his poetry were published during his lifetime.

The following is a list of his known works:

Tafseer-e-Quran: Ahsan al Hadees (Qur'anic exegesis)

Maqtal: Hadees e Karabala (on the subject of Imam Husayn ibn Ali and events at Karbala)

Death and legacy The 80-year-old Jauhari was admitted to a private hospital on 10 June 2020. He is said to have developed cardiovascular complications and was on ventilator since then, He died on 22 June 2020. However Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah revealed in a speech at Sindh Assembly that Talib Jauhri, Munawar Hasan and Mufti Naeem, all of the three clerics who died in the past week were due to COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan. Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan, President Arif Alvi, Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa expressed sadness over his death. Earlier in 2014 his son-in-law Syed Mubarak Raza Kazmi was killed in 'sectarian' attack in Karachi 13/B, Gulshan-e-Iqbal.