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{{Short description|Indian Islamic scholar, writer, poet, preacher and reformer}}
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{{Infobox religious biography|religion=[[Islam]]
|honorific_prefix = His Holiness
|name = Imamul Aroos
|image =
|image_size = 250px
|caption =
|title = Imam, Allamah Qutbuz Zaman, Al-Siddiqi
|birth_name =
|birth_date = 1816
|birth_place = [[Kayalpattinam]], [[British Raj|British India]] (now [[Tamil Nadu]], India)
|death_date = 1898
|death_place = [[Kilakarai]], Tamil Nadu, India
|resting_place = [[Arusiyyah Madrasah|Arusiyya Tekke]], [[Kilakarai]]
|other_names = Mappillai Lebbai Alim
|nationality = Indian
|era = 19th Century, [[Modern era]]
|region = [[South India]], Sri Lanka
|occupation =
|denomination = [[Sunni]] ([[Sufi]])
|jurisprudence = [[Shafi'i]]
|creed = [[Maturidi]]
|movement =
|main_interests = [[Arabic]], [[Arwi]], [[Tamil language|Tamil]], [[Aqidah]], [[Fiqh]], [[Tafsir]], [[Tasawwuf]], History
|notable_ideas =
|notable_works = ''Maghani'',''Fathud Dayyan'',''Fathul Matin'',''Ratibul Jalaliyyah'',''Minhatul Sarandib Fi Madahil Habib''
|alma_mater =
|Sufi_order = 'Arusi-[[Qadiriyya|Qadiri]]
|disciple_of = Kilakkarai Thaika sahib Wali
|awards =
|influences = Thaika sahib Wali, Sheikh Ahmed
|influenced = Sahib al-Jalwa Shahul Hamid, Sahib al-Khalwa Abdul Qadir, A. M. Wappachi Marikkar
|website =
|signature =
}}

'''Imamul Aroos''' (1816–1898) also known '''Quthubu zamaan Mappillai Lebbai Alim''' was [[Islamic scholar|scholar]], writer, poet, preacher and reformer. He was one notable contributor for [[Arwi]] (Arabic Tamil) literature.<ref>{{cite book|last=Shukri|first=M A M|title=Muslims of Sri Lanka : Avenues to Antiquity|publisher=Jamiya Naleemiyah Institute|date=1986|location=Beruwela|isbn=|page=351}}</ref> He also founder of Aroosiyatul [[Qadiriya]] tariqa (branch of qadiri Sufi order).<ref>{{cite book|last=Shuayb Alim|first=Dr.Tayka|title=Arabic, Arwi and Persian in Serandib and Tamil Nadu|publisher=Imamul Arus Trust |date=1996|location=Madras|isbn=|page=63}}</ref>

==Early life ==
Imaul Aroos was born in [[Kayalpattinam]] , [[South India]]. His father was Wellai Ahmadu Alim.<ref>[http://www.geni.com/people/Mappillai-Lebbai-Alimsa/6000000007817681254 Family Tree of Imamul Aroos] accessed on 19 June 2016</ref>
His birth name was Sayyid Muhammad. Imamul Aroos's family moved to [[Kilakkarai]], [[South India]] at his age of two. He is a descendant of the Caliph [[Abu Bakr]], tracing his lineage through Sadaq Maraikkayar, (a companion of Nagore Shahul Hamid), who was a descendant of Muhammad Khalji.<ref name="tslineage">{{cite web|url= http://thaikashuaib.com/lineage-forefathers/|title= Ark of Guidance – Lineage and Forefathers|publisher= Thaika Shuaib|date= |accessdate= 15 November 2013|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140201202123/http://thaikashuaib.com/lineage-forefathers/|archive-date= 1 February 2014|url-status= dead}}</ref>

==Education==
Imaul Aroos memorized [[Al-Quran]] before the age of ten and he studied [[Tafsir]], [[Hadith]], [[Fiqh]], [[Tasawwuf]] and Islamic history and other fundamental religious under his father. Later Imamul Aroos studied under Taika sahib wali in Kilakkarai. He studied various Islamic Sciences under his teacher. Also, he studied under many great scholars of that time.<ref>{{cite book|last=Shuayb Alim|first=Dr.Tayka|title=Arabic,Arwi and Persian in Serandib and Tamil Nadu|publisher=Imamul Arus Trust |date=1996|location=Madras|isbn=|page=585,586}}</ref>

== Later life==
Imamul Aroos married daughter of his teacher taika shaib and Taika sahib wali grant kilafath (Authority of train and follow Sufi order) to Imaul Aroos. Imamul Aroos inherited the [[Arusiyyah Madrasah]] (seminary) from his father-in-law, Shaikh 'Abd al-Qādir al-Kirkari, he renovated the library and amassed a wide collection of manuscripts.<ref name="Aniff-Doray">Aniff-Doray, S. '' Opening Towards Understanding the Best of Religions.'' A.S.Noordeen, 1999. {{ISBN|983-065-060-X}}</ref>

Imamul Aroos who had earlier visited to Sri Lanka as businessman was pained to see the pathetic condition in which the Muslims of the Island had been placed as a result of the oppressive rules of Europeans. The young businessman who could not bear the thought of such situation, abandoned the course of his business activities and embarked on missionary works.<ref>{{cite book|last=Shuayb Alim|first=Dr.Tayka|title=Arabic,Arwi and Persian in Serandib and Tamil Nadu|publisher=Imamul Arus Trust |date=1996|location=Madras|isbn=|page=46}}</ref>

He visited many Arab countries. When he went to [[makkah]] and [[madina]], he was honored by notables there.<ref>{{cite book|last= |first= |title=Souvenir : Third International Islamic Conference|publisher=Jamal Muhammed College |date=1978|location=Tiruchy|isbn=|page=38}}</ref> some of whom become his disciples. The display of oratorical and literary talents of a very high degree by this non-Arab, caused astonishment to the Arab intelligentsia. He found to his astonishment that the copy of his own 'Minhatu Sarandib' had been preserved with reverence in a library in the holy city of Makkah.<ref>{{cite book|last= Aniff Dorai |first= J |title=English Translation FATHUD DAYYAN|publisher=Fathud Dayyan Publication Committee |date=1978|location=Colombo|isbn=|page=xxi}}</ref>

===Social reformation===
The Muslim Coastal regions areas of Tamil Nadu like [[Kayalpattinam]] and [[Kilakkarai]] became worst affected victims of Portuguese atrocities during [[Portuguese rule in India|Portuguese rule]] in Tamil Nadu (1501–1575 AD).<ref>{{cite book|last=Ajmal Khan|first=Dr|title=MUSLIMS IN TAMIL NADU:BEFORE AND AFTER PORTUGUESE ARRIVAL|publisher=Department of Islamic Tamil Research,Madurai Kamaraj University |date=2003 |location=Madurai|isbn=|pages=33–37}}</ref> During Portuguese rule from 1505 to 1658 AD, They destroyed almost all Muslim institutions and monuments in Sri Lanka, resulting in a serve blow to the old grandeur of [[Ceylon Moors|Muslim culture]]. They were unable to carry on their social transaction in Islamic Way. In short, they could not live as Muslims.<ref>{{cite book|last=Faroque|first=M.H.Z|title=The Introduction of Muslim Law in Ceylon|publisher=Ismaic Moor Cultural Home|date=1965|location=Colombo|isbn=|page=16}}</ref>

Imamul Aroos contribute to Islamic revival in [[Tamil Nadu]] and Sri Lanka. He was one of notable reformer in his time. He built hundreds of mosques and institutions in Sri Lanka, after destruction of Muslim institutions and monuments during Portuguese rule. According to the record available with the association founded by him in 1848, had been instrumental building over 350 mosques with attached arwi school in Sri Lanka. He has also established several maktabs and built some mosques in India. For each and every such mosque built, both in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. He has composed Arabic poems commending the services of those who helped in the construction and other associated activities. Every one of such stanza embodies chronogram which expresses the year of commencement or completion of the construction.<ref>{{cite book|last=Shamsudeen|first=A.T|title=Imamul Aroos|publisher=Muslim Nesan Press |date=1898|location=Colombo|isbn=|page=20}}</ref>

The people of Sri Lanka are well aware that traveling to the remote places such as Marichikkaddi and Karadikkuli even in these days with modern transportation is very tiresome and dangerous, as the area is infested with wild animals and the roads are very difficult to track through. But, Imamul Arus managed to visit even such remote and dangerous areas 150 years ago and constructed mosques and schools in those desolate villages. This speaks of the selfless nature of all of his efforts in public causes.<ref>{{cite book|last=Shuayb Alim|first=Dr.Tayka|title=Arabic,Arwi and Persian in Serandib and Tamil Nadu|publisher=Imamul Arus Trust |date=1996|location=Madras|isbn=|page=513}}</ref>

=== Works of Imamul Aroos ===
Imamul Aroos was one of great [[Arwi]] scholar and Contribute [[Arwi]] literature. Imaul Aroos alone has produced about 100 large works and about 200 minor works.<ref>{{cite book|last=Shuayb Alim|first=Dr.Tayka|title=Arabic,Arwi and Persian in Serandib and Tamil Nadu|publisher=Imamul Arus Trust |date=1996|location=Madras|isbn=|pages=610–621}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/journal/kolam/vols/kolam5%266/1AOldLit/Arwi.htm |title=Arwi Literature: Arwi (Arabic-Tamil) – An Introduction |accessdate=2017-04-09 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040822180630/http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/journal/kolam/vols/kolam5%266/1AOldLit/Arwi.htm |archivedate=22 August 2004 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> Some of them given here :
# Maghani
# [http://www.islamicbookstore.com/b11118.html Fathud Dayyan]
# Fathul Matin
# Ganimatus Salikin
# Fathus Salam
# Ratibul Jalaliyyah
# Talai Fathiha
# Minhatul Sarandib Fi Madahil Habib
# Madinatun Nuhas
# Mawahibullahil Aliyyi Fi Manaqibish Shail Barbaliyyi

== See also ==
* [[Thaika Ahmad Abdul Qadir]]
* [[Thaika Shuaib]]
* [[Sheikh Mustafa]]
*[[Arusiyyah Madrasah]]
*[[Arwi|Arwi or Arabic-Tamil]]
*[[Tamil Muslim]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160129142937/http://www.thaqwa.info/Im%C4%81m_al-Ar%C5%ABs_Mapillai_Lebbai_Alim.html/ Biography of Imamul Aroos]
*[http://sufimanzil.org/mappillai-lebbe-alim/ Short Biography of Imamul Aroos]

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[[Category:Islam in Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:People from Thoothukudi]]
[[Category:19th-century Muslim theologians]]
[[Category:Qadiri order]]
[[Category:Scholars of Sufism]]
[[Category:Indian Sufi religious leaders]]
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