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{{short description|Indian Mufti}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix = Mawlāna, Mufti
| name = Zafeeruddin Miftāhi
| image = Mufti Zafeeruddin Miftahi.jpg
| office2 = 2nd President of [[Islamic Fiqh Academy, India|Islamic Fiqh Academy]]
| term_start2 = 2002
| term_end2 = 31 March 2011
| predecessor2 = [[Mujahidul Islam Qasmi]]
| successor2 = [[Nematullah Azami]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Maulana Nematullah Azmi elected as president of Islamic Fiqh Academy |url=https://twocircles.net/2011may31/maulana_nematullah_azmi_elected_president_islamic_fiqh_academy.html |access-date=7 October 2020 |work=[[Two Circles]] |date=31 May 2011}}</ref>
| module2 = {{Infobox religious biography| embed = yes
|birth_date = 7 March 1926
|birth_place = [[Darbhanga]], [[British India]]<br>{{small|(present day [[Bihar]], India)}}
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2011|03|31|1926|03|07}}
|resting_place =
|religion=[[Islam]]
|alma_mater = Jamia Miftahul Uloom
|students = [[Ishtiaque Ahmad Qasmi]]
|denomination = Sunni Hanafi
|movement = [[Deobandi]]
|notable_works = Compilation of the ''Fatāwa Darul Uloom Deoband'' of [[Azizur Rahman Usmani]], ''Islām Ka Nizām-e-Masājid''
}}
}}
'''Zafeeruddin Miftāhi''' (7 March 1926 – 31 March 2011) was an [[Indian people|Indian]] Muslim scholar and jurist who served as a Mufti of [[Darul Uloom Deoband]] and the second president of [[Islamic Fiqh Academy, India|Islamic Fiqh Academy]]. He compiled the religious verdicts of [[Azizur Rahman Usmani]], called the ''Fatāwa Darul Uloom Deoband'' in twelve volumes and wrote books including ''Islām Ka Nizām-e-Masājid'', ''Islām Ka Nizām Iffat-o-Asmat'' and ''Tārīkh-e-Masājid''.

Miftāhi was an alumnus of Jamia Miftahul Uloom. He was a member of Board of Studies at the Sunni Theology department of Aligarh Muslim University. He served the Deoband seminary for fifty years and issued one hundred thousand religious edicts.

==Biography==
Zafeeruddin Miftāhi was born on 7 March 1926 (22 [[Sha'ban]] 1344 [[Hijri year|AH]]) in [[Darbhanga]].{{Sfn|Amīni|2017|p=929}} He received his primary education at home and was schooled at Madrasa Mahmudiya, in [[Terai]], [[Nepal]]. He studied intermediate classes of Arabic and Persian at Madrasa Wāris al-Ulūm in [[Chhapra]] from 1933 to 1940. He graduated from the Jamia Miftahul Uloom where he studied from 1940 to 1944 with [[Habibur Rahman Azami|Habib al-Rahman al-'Azmi]] and Abdul Lateef Nomani.{{Sfn|Amīni|2017|p=930}} His other teachers include [[Hussain Ahmad Madani]], [[Sulaiman Nadwi]], [[Minatullah Rahmani]], [[Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi]] and [[Muhammad Tayyib Qasmi]].{{Sfn|Amīni|2017|p=922}}

After his graduation in 1944, Miftāhi taught at the Jamia Miftahul Uloom for one year and then moved to Ma'dan al-Ulūm in [[Lucknow]] where he taught for three years between September 1945 and January 1948.{{Sfn|Amīni|2017|p=930}} From January 1948 to 1956, he taught at Darul Uloom Muīnia in [[Begusarai]], with a gap of one year in between; during which he taught at [[Jamia Islamia Talimuddin]].{{Sfn|Amīni|2017|p=930}} In [[Shawwal]] 1364 [[Hijri year|AH]], Miftāhi went to study at the [[Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama]] in Lucknow at [[Sulaiman Nadwi]]'s suggestion and studied there for few months.{{Sfn|Amīni|2017|p=930}}

Miftāhi was first appointed in the [[Darul Uloom Deoband]] to compile [[fatawa]].{{Sfn|Qāsmi|2011|p=132}} Between 1962 and 1972, he compiled the fatawa of [[Azizur Rahman Usmani]] in twelve volumes.{{Sfn|Amīni|2017|p=930}} In [[Safar]] 1385 AH, the executive council of Deoband seminary appointed him to write the [[editorial]] for ''[[Monthly Darul Uloom]]'', which he continuously wrote for seventeen years.{{Sfn|Amīni|2017|p=931}}{{Sfn|Qāsmi|2011|pp=219–223}} In 1993, he was appointed a Mufti in the Darul Ifta of [[Darul Uloom Deoband]]; a post he served till 21 August 2008.{{Sfn|Amīni|2017|p=931}} He served in the Deoband seminary for fifty years and wrote one [[lakh]] [[fatawa]].{{Sfn|Qāsmi|2011|pp=31-32}} He retired from Deoband on 22 August 2008 at a monthly pension of 2000 [[Indian rupees|INR]] which he received throughout his life.{{Sfn|Amīni|2017|p=931}}

Miftāhi was a founding figure of the [[Islamic Fiqh Academy, India|Islamic Fiqh Academy]] and became its president after [[Mujahidul Islam Qasmi]].{{Sfn|Qāsmi|2011|pp=153-154}} He was a member of Board of Studies at the Sunni Theology department of [[Faculty of Theology, Aligarh Muslim University|Aligarh Muslim University]].{{Sfn|Qāsmi|2011|p=363}}

Miftāhi died on 31 March 2011. His funeral prayer was led by Saud Alam Qasmi, the former dean of the Faculty of Theology at [[Faculty of Theology, Aligarh Muslim University|Aligarh Muslim University]] on 1 April 2011.{{Sfn|Qāsmi|2011|p=130}}

==Literary works==
Miftāhi compiled the religious verdicts of [[Azizur Rahman Usmani]], commonly known as ''Fatāwa Darul Uloom Deoband'' in twelve volumes between 1962 and 1972.{{Sfn|Amīni|2017|p=930}}<ref>{{cite book |author1=Julia Stephens |title=Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in Modern South Asia |date=21 June 2018 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |page=77 |isbn=9781107173910 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8glaDwAAQBAJ&q=deoband+ifta&pg=PA76 |access-date=7 October 2020}}</ref> His discourses on the Quran, entitled ''Dars-e-Qur'ān'', were published in ten volumes. He wrote biographical works about [[Muhammad Qasim Nanautawi]], [[Manazir Ahsan Gilani]] and [[Muhammad Tayyib Qasmi]].{{Sfn|Qāsmi|2011|pp=219–223}} His other books include:{{Sfn|Qāsmi|2011|pp=219–223}}
* ''Islām Ka Nizām-e-Masājid'' (Its English translation ''Mosque in Islam'' by Zaheerun Nabi was published in 1996 by Institute of Objective Studies, New Delhi).
* ''Islām Ka Nizām Iffat-o-Asmat'' (Its English translation ''Modesty and chastity in Islam'' was first published in [[Kuwait]] and second time by Qazi Publishers during 1993 in [[New Delhi]]. Persian translation was published as ''Hijāb-o-Iffat az Dīdgah-e-Islām'' in [[Tehran]]).
* ''Tārīkh-e-Masājid''
* ''Mashāhīr Ulama-e-Deoband''
* ''Darul Uloom: Qayām awr Iska Pas-e-Manzar''
* ''Darul Uloom: Ek Azeem Maktab Fikr''
* ''Nizām-e-Tarbiyyat'' (Darul Uloom Deoband has published its Arabic translation ''Ināyat al-Islām bi al-Tarbiyyat al-Atfāl'').
* ''Islām Ka Nizām-e-Hayāt''
* ''Jurm-o-Saza Kitāb-o-Sunnat Ki Roshni Mai''
* ''Islāmi Hukūmat ke Naqsh-o-Nigār''
* ''Islām ka Nizām-e-Amn''

==References==
===Citations===
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===Bibliography===
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* {{cite book |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]] |date=September 2011 |language=ur}}
* {{cite book |last1=Amīni |first1=Nūr Alam Khalīl |author-link1=Noor Alam Khalil Amini |title=Pas-e-Marg Zindah |publisher=Idāra Ilm-o-Adab |location=[[Deoband]] |date=February 2017|pages=913–932 |language=ur |chapter=Hadhrat Mawlāna Mufti Muḥammad Zafeeruddin Miftāhi Sāheb}}
{{refend}}

==Further reading==
* [https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/497233 Mufti Md Zafiruddinshakhsiat Aur Khidmat] (PhD thesis) by Sasim Akhtar
* {{cite book |last1= Qasmi |first1= Nayab Hasan|title=Darul Uloom Deoband ka Sahāfati Manzarnāma |publisher=Idara Tahqeeq-e-Islami |location=[[Deoband]] |pages=214–216 |date=2013 |language=ur |chapter=Mufti Zafeeruddin Miftāhi}}

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