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{{short description|Indian Islamic scholar}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2019}}
{{Infobox religious biography
|religion= [[Islam]]
|honorific_prefix = {{small|Maulana}}
|name = Muhammad Sufyan Qasmi
|birth_date = {{birth date and age |df=yes|1954|9|26}}
|birth_place =
|father = [[Muhammad Salim Qasmi]]
|region = [[India]]
|denomination = [[Sunni]]
|jurisprudence = [[Hanafi]]
|movement = [[Deobandi]]
|alma_mater = [[Darul Uloom Deoband]], [[Aligarh Muslim University]], [[Al-Azhar University]]
|office1= 2nd Rector of [[Darul Uloom Waqf, Deoband]]
|term_start1 =3 September 2014
|term_end1 =
|predecessor1 = [[Muhammad Salim Qasmi]]
|relatives = [[Qari Muhammad Tayyib]] (grandfather), [[Hafiz Muhammad Ahmad]] (great-grandfather), [[Muhammad Qasim Nanautawi]] (great-great-grandfather)
}}
'''Muhammad Sufyan Qasmi Siddiqi''' is an [[Indian people|Indian]] [[Sunni]] Muslim scholar<ref name="jang">{{cite news |title=Famous Islamic Scholar Muhammad Sufyan Qasmi to speak in Birmingham |url=https://jang.com.pk/news/725536-europe |accessdate=24 May 2020 |work=[[Daily Jang]] |date=24 January 2020}}</ref> and current rector of [[Darul Uloom Waqf, Deoband]].<ref name="baseerat">{{cite news |title=A Condolence Meet of Hazrat Maulana Salim Qasmi and Mufti Abdullah Kapodri |url=https://english.baseeratonline.com/2018/07/20/a-condolence-meet-of-hazrat-maulana-salim-qasmi-and-mufti-abdullah-kapodri-ra/ |accessdate=24 May 2020 |work=Baseerat Online}}</ref>

==Name and lineage==
His [[Arabic name#Ism|ism]] ([[given name]]) is Muhammad Sufyan. His ''[[nasab]]'' ([[patronymic]]) is: Muhammad Sufyan ibn [[Muhammad Salim Qasmi|Muhammad Sālim]] ibn [[Muhammad Tayyib Qasmi|Muhammad Tayyib]] ibn [[Hafiz Muhammad Ahmad|Muhammad Ahmad]] ibn [[Muhammad Qasim Nanautawi|Muhammad Qāsim]] ibn Asad Ali ibn Ghulam Shāh ibn Muhammad Bakhsh ibn Alāuddīn ibn Muhammad Fateh ibn Muhammad Mufti ibn Abd al-Samī ibn Muhammad Hāshim.<ref name="sawaneh">{{cite book |last1=Gīlānī |first1=Manāzir Ahsan |authorlink1=Manazir Ahsan Gilani |title=Sawānih Qāsmi |trans-title=Biography of Qāsim|publisher=Maktaba Darul Uloom Deoband |location=[[Deoband]]|volume=1|language=Urdu |page=113}}</ref>

==Biography==
Qasmi was born on 26 September 1954.<ref name="dud">{{cite web |title=Maulana Mohammad Sufyan Qasmi, The Rector, Jamia Islamia Darul Uloom Waqf, Deoband |url=https://dud.edu.in/index.php/en?id=12 |website=dud.edu.in |accessdate=2 June 2019}}</ref> His father [[Muhammad Salim Qasmi]] was former rector of [[Darul Uloom Waqf, Deoband]], whilst his grandfather [[Qari Muhammad Tayyib]] remained vice-chancellor of the [[Darul Uloom Deoband]] for about half century.<ref name="rising">{{cite news |title=Deoband rector Maulana Salim Qasmi no more |url=http://risingkashmir.com/news/deoband-rector-maulana-salim-qasmi-no-more |work=[[Rising Kashmir]]|accessdate=2 June 2019}}</ref><ref name="mahbub">{{cite book |last1=Rizwi |first1=Syed Mehboob |translator=Murtaz Husain F Quraishi |authorlink1=Syed Mehboob Rizwi |title= Tarikh Darul Uloom Deoband |trans-title= History of the Dar al-Ulum Deoband |volume = 2 |page = 175|publisher=[[Darul Uloom Deoband]] |location=[[Deoband]] |edition=1980}}</ref>

Qasmi graduated with traditional [[dars-e-nizami]] from [[Darul Uloom Deoband]] in 1975<ref name="fikreinqelab1">{{cite journal |editor1-last=Mahtab |editor1-first=Ahsan |title=Urdu Ke Farogh Mai Ulama-e-Deoband Ka 150 Saala Kirdar |journal=Fikr-e-Inqelab |date=16-31 January 2017 |volume=5 |issue=112 |page=294-295 |trans-title=150 year role of the scholars of Darul Uloom Deoband in the propagation of Urdu |publisher=All India Tanzeem Ulma-e-Haque Trust |language=Urdu}}</ref> and studied intermediate classes in private from [[Aligarh Muslim University]] (AMU). He got a BA and MA degree from AMU in private and acquired master's degree in Kulyah ash-Sharia from [[Al-Azhar University]].<ref name="pasemargezindah">{{cite book |author1=[[Noor Alam Khalil Amini]] |title=Pas-e-Marg-e-Zindah|publisher=Idara Ilm-o-Adab |location= Deoband |page=175|language=Urdu}}</ref>

Qasmi joined [[Darul Uloom Waqf, Deoband]] as a teacher in 1983 and later took administrative responsibilities as well. In the seminary, he teaches books of Hadith including [[Sahih Bukhari]] and ''Tirmidhi'' along with other primary books.<ref name="fikreinqelab1"/><ref name="pasemargezindah" /> He served the seminary as deputy rector for 12 years<ref name="dud" /> and was appointed as rector by the Advisory Board on 3 September 2014 <ref name="milli">{{cite news |title=Advisory Council constituted in Darul Uloom (Waqf), Deoband |url=http://www.milligazette.com/news/11055-advisory-council-constituted-in-darul-uloom-waqf-deoband |accessdate=24 May 2020 |work=[[The Milli Gazette]] |date=30 September 2014}}</ref> He is also a member of the executive council of [[All India Muslim Personal Law Board]] since 2007.<ref name="pasemargezindah" />

Qasmi maintains the view that knowledge is a unit and it is wrong to divide it as Islamic and Non-Islamic. He argues that in Islam, knowledge can be grouped as profitable (نافع) and non-profitable (غیر نافع). <ref> {{Cite news| title=
عصری و دینی علوم کی تقسیم اسلامی مزاج کے مغائر |trans-title=Knowledge is a Unit|url=https://urdu.siasat.com/news/عصری-و-دینی-علوم-کی-تقسیم-اسلامی-مزاج-کے-950242/amp/|work=[[The Siasat Daily]] |date=5 January 2019|accessdate=30 May 2020}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of Darul Uloom Deoband alumni]]

==References==
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{{Qasmi family}}
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[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Scholars from Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Indian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam]]
[[Category:1954 births]]
[[Category:Deobandis]]
[[Category:Darul Uloom Deoband alumni]]
[[Category:Al-Azhar University alumni]]
[[Category:Aligarh Muslim University alumni]]
[[Category:Qasmi family]]

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