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{{Short description|Indian Mufti}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Mujahidul Islam Qasmi<br><small>{{Nastaliq|قاضی مجاہد الاسلام قاسمی}}</small>
| honorific_prefix = Mawlana, Qazi
| birth_date = 1936
| birth_place = [[Jale, Bihar|Jale]], Darbhanga, British India
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2002|4|4|1936}}
| office1 = President of [[All India Muslim Personal Law Board]]
| term_start1 =
| term_end1 = 2002
| successor1 = [[Rabey Hasani Nadwi]]<ref name="pioneer" />
| office2 = 1st President of [[Islamic Fiqh Academy, India|Islamic Fiqh Academy]]
| term_start2 = "office established"
| term_end2 = 4 April 2002
| predecessor2 =
| successor2 = [[Zafeeruddin Miftahi]]<ref>{{cite book |author= Ateeque Ahmad Bastawi|author-link=Ateeque Ahmad Bastawi|editor1-last=Qāsmi |editor1-first=Muhammad Saud Alam |title=Hayāt-e-Zafeer |trans-title = The Life of Zafeer|publisher=IFA Publications |location=[[Islamic Fiqh Academy, India]] |edition=September 2011 |language=Urdu|chapter= Mawlāna Mufti Zafeeruddin ki Ilmi wa Dīni Khidmāt (Educational and Religious Services of Mawlāna Mufti Zafeeruddin)|pages= 153–154}}</ref>
| module2 = {{Infobox religious biography| embed = yes
|religion=[[Islam]]
|denomination = Sunni Hanafi
|movement = [[Deobandi]]
|disciple_of = [[Hussain Ahmad Madani]], [[Sayyid Minatullah Rahmani]]
|alma_mater = [[Darul Uloom Deoband]]
|founder = [[Islamic Fiqh Academy, India|Islamic Fiqh Academy]]
|relatives = {{Bulleted list|[[Khalid Saifullah Rahmani]] (nephew)|[[Omar Abedeen Qasmi Madani]] (grandnephew)}}
}}
}}
{{Deobandi}}
'''Mujahidul Islam Qasmi''' (1936–4 April 2002) was an [[Indian people|Indian]] [[Mufti]], [[Qadhi]] and Islamic scholar, founder of [[Islamic Fiqh Academy, India|Islamic Fiqh Academy]]. He served as the President of [[All India Muslim Personal Law Board]].<ref name="pioneer">{{cite news |title=Rabey Hasani Nadwi re-elected president of AIMPlB |url=https://www.dailypioneer.com/2016/state-editions/rabey-hasani-nadwi-re-elected-president-of-aimplb.html |accessdate=22 May 2020 |publisher=[[The Pioneer (India)|The Pioneer]] |date=20 November 2016}}</ref><ref name="milligazette" /><ref>{{Cite thesis|first=MOHAMMED|title=The Contribution of Deoband School to Hanafi Fiqh A Study of Its Response to Modern Issues and Challenges|date=2018|degree=Phd|publisher=Centre for Federal Studies, [[Jamia Hamdard University]]|url=https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/326073|last=ULLAH|pages=129–132|hdl=10603/326073}}</ref>

==Biography==
Qasmi was born in 1936 in Jale [[Darbhanga]], [[British India]]. He was educated at Madrasa Mahmood al-Ulum, [[Damla, Bihar|Damla]] and local madrasas of [[Mau, Uttar Pradesh|Mau]], [[Uttar Pradesh]] and later joined [[Darul Uloom Deoband]] from where he graduated in 1955. In Deoband, he studied under [[Hussain Ahmad Madani]], [[Syed Fakhruddin Ahmad]] and Abdul Haffeez Balyawi.<ref name="milligazette">{{cite news |author1=M Sulaiman Akhtar Farooqui |title=Qazi Mujahidul Islam Qasmi remembered |url=http://www.milligazette.com/Archives/01052002/0105200238.htm |accessdate=22 May 2020 |work=[[The Milli Gazette]]}}</ref><ref name="mashahir">{{cite book |author1=Dr Muhammad Ghitreef Shahbaz Nadwi |title=Aalam-e-Islam Ke Chand Mashaheer (Sawaneh wa Afkar ka Mutala) |trans-title = Few Islamic Contemporaries |publisher=Rahbar Book Service, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi |pages=222–230|edition=March 2017 |language=Urdu}}</ref>

Qasmi taught in Jamia Rahmania in [[Munger]] and established [[Islamic Fiqh Academy, India|Islamic Fiqh Academy]] in 1989. He was also a member of [[International Islamic Fiqh Academy, Jeddah|International Islamic Fiqh Academy]], Jeddah, Fiqh Academy of [[Mecca]] and [[Aligarh Muslim University]]'s court.<ref name="zafar">{{cite book |author1=Zafar Ahmad Nizami |author-link=Zafar Ahmad Nizami |title=Qalmi Khake |publisher=Institute of Objective Studies |location=[[New Delhi]] |isbn=978-81-89964-96-2 |pages=233–234 |edition=1st, 2013 |language=Urdu |chapter=Mawlāna Qazi Mujāhidul Islam Qāsmi|year=2015 }}</ref> He was founding member of [[All India Muslim Personal Law Board]]<ref name="Constanze">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHHtWL7VK14C&q=Mujahidul+Islam+Qasmi&pg=PA206 |accessdate=22 May 2020|title=Reproductive Health Behavior and Decision-making of Muslim Women: An Ethnographic Study in a Low-income Community in Urban North India|isbn=9783643107701|last1=Weigl|first1=Constanze|year=2010|publisher=LIT Verlag Münster }}</ref> and was appointed as its president after the death of [[Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi]] in 1999. He launched [[All India Milli Council]] to bring Muslim organizations altogether on a single platform. Through Milli Council, Qasmi played a key role in the removal of [[Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act|TADA]] and restored confidence of Muslim youth.<ref name="milligazette" />

Qāsmi's religious and legal verdicts have been published as ''Fatawa Qadhi'' in Urdu by the [[Islamic Fiqh Academy, India|Islamic Fiqh Academy]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=we1fAQAAQBAJ |title = Legal Judgments by the Great Qazi|last1 = Qasmi|first1 = Maulana Mujahidul Islam}}</ref>

He died of cancer on 4 April 2002.<ref name="mashahir" />

==Literary works==
Qasmi authored over 40 books which include:<ref name="milligazette" />
* ''Al-Waqf''
* ''Annizamul Qadai''
* ''The Islamic Concept of Animal Slaughter''<ref name="slaughter">{{cite book |title=The Islamic Concept of Animal Slaughter |date=January 2009 |publisher=Dar Al-Kotob Al-ilmiyah |location=[[Lebanon]] |isbn=978-2-7451-6060-7}}</ref>
* ''Contemporary Medical Issues in Islamic Jurisprudence''.<ref name="medical">{{cite book |title=Contemporary Medical Issues in Islamic Jurisprudence |date=January 2009 |publisher=Dar Al-Kotob Al-ilmiyah |translator= Salar M Khan |location=[[Lebanon]] |isbn=978-2-7451-6064-5 |pages=232}}</ref>

==Awards==
Qasmi was conferred with following awards:<ref name="nooralam">{{cite book |author1=Noor Alam Khalil Amini |author-link=Noor Alam Khalil Amini |title=Pas-e-Marg-e-Zindah |publisher=Idara Ilm-o-Adab |location=Deoband |pages=592–622 |edition=5th, February 2017 |language=Urdu |chapter=Mawlana Qadhi Mujahid al-Islam Qasmi.. Ek Azeem Faqeeh}}</ref><ref name="khalid">{{cite book |author1=Khalid Saifullah Rahmani |title=Hayat-e-Mujahid |trans-title= The Life of Mujahid|publisher=Farid Book Depot |location=Delhi |pages=153–154 |edition=June 2004 |language=Urdu}}</ref>
* Community Leadership Award from Al-Ameen Educational Trust
* 2nd Shah Waliullah Award from Institute of Objective Studies, New Delhi <ref name="ios">{{cite web |title=Shah Waliullah Award |url=http://www.iosworld.org/content.aspx?id=318 |website=iosworld.org |accessdate=16 June 2020}}</ref>
* Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi Award from American Federation of Muslims of Indian Origin
* Best Islamic Personality Award from [[Muslim Educational Association of Southern India]]
* Fiqh Award from Executive Arbitration Committee, [[Government of Kuwait]]
* Gold Medal from the [[Cabinet of Morocco]]

==Legacy==
Nomana Khalid wrote her [[Master of Philosophy|M Phil]] thesis "Qadhi Mujahidul Islam Ki Fiqh-e-Islami Mein Khidmat" from [[University of the Punjab|Punjab University, Lahore]].<ref>{{cite book |author1=Nomana Khalid |title=Qadhi Mujahidul Islam Ki Fiqh-e-Islami Mein Khidmat |publisher=[[Islamic Fiqh Academy, India]]}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:20th-century Muslim scholars of Islam]]
[[Category:1936 births]]
[[Category:2002 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Darbhanga]]
[[Category:Darul Uloom Deoband alumni]]

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