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  "ar": "ميرواعظ يوسف شاه",
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  "ur": "میرواعظ محمد یوسف شاہ"
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  "ar": "محمد يوسف شاه عالم دين وسياسي كشميري تولّى منصب ميرواعظ كشمير منذ 1931، وشارك في تأسيس المؤتمر الإسلامي، وقاد مؤتمر المسلمين الأحرار في المنفى، وتولّى رئاسة كشمير الحرة مرتين، وألّف «بيان الفرقان» أول ترجمة وتفسير شامل للقرآن باللغة الكشميرية.",
  "en": "Mirwaiz Muhammad Yusuf Shah was a Kashmiri scholar and politician who held the hereditary office of Mirwaiz of Kashmir from 1931, co-founded the Muslim Conference, led the Azad Muslim Conference in exile, twice served as president of Azad Kashmir, and produced Bayan-ul-Furqan, the first comprehensive Kashmiri translation and commentary of the Quran.",
  "ur": "محمد یوسف شاہ کشمیری عالم دین و سیاست دان تھے جو 1931ء سے میرواعظ کشمیر رہے، مسلم کانفرنس کی تاسیس میں شریک ہوئے، جلاوطنی میں آزاد مسلم کانفرنس کی قیادت کی، دو بار آزاد کشمیر کے صدر بنے اور «بیان الفرقان» تصنیف کی، جو قرآن کی پہلی جامع کشمیری ترجمہ و تفسیر ہے۔"
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   "note": "Born in Rajouri Kadal, Srinagar. The English article and Wikidata give 19 February 1894, the English article itself pairing the date with 13 Shaban 1311; the Urdu article's running text instead gives a 10 February 1896 birth, while its infobox and categories copy 1894. The 1894 date is carried as debated and the Hijri year is derived tabularly from it.",
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   "note": "Died in exile in Rawalpindi. The English article, the Urdu article's infobox and Wikidata give 12 December 1968; the Urdu article's running text gives 7 December 1968 with a Hijri pairing ('16 Ramadan 1388') that does not match that date either. The 12 December date is carried as debated and the Hijri year is derived tabularly from it.",
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    "note": "No consulted source names his school. His Wikidata item carries only the generic Islam value (Q432), which never counts; his study at Darul Uloom Deoband from 1925, where he took hadith from Anwar Shah Kashmiri, is education, and the Mirwaiz office he inherited from his uncle in 1931 is a hereditary headship — neither counts under the lane rules, so the Deobandi reading his formation suggests is preserved here unclassified. FLAGGED for a founder ruling.",
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   "source": "English and Urdu Wikipedia biographies and a Kashmiri press feature on Mirwaiz Muhammad Yusuf Shah (Q30508083), read in full; the queued dates stand, with the Urdu article's divergent 1896 birth year and 7 December 1968 death date preserved in the date notes, and the Mirwaiz succession recorded as an office, never a relation.",
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     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "ميرواعظ محمد يوسف شاه ⁦(19 فبراير 1894 – 12 ديسمبر 1968)⁩ عالم دين وسياسي كشميري، تولّى منصب ميرواعظ كشمير — كبير وُعّاظ وادي كشمير ومقره الجامع الكبير في سريناغار — من 1931 حتى وفاته.{cite:wikipedia-mirwaiz-yusuf-shah-en}{cite:onlykashmir-mirwaiz-yusuf-shah} وُلد في راجوري كادال بسريناغار، ودرس في دار العلوم ديوبند منذ 1925 فأخذ الحديث عن أنور شاه الكشميري، ونال شهادة «مولوي فاضل» من جامعة البنجاب.{cite:wikipedia-mirwaiz-yusuf-shah-en}\n\nشارك سنة 1932 في تأسيس «مؤتمر مسلمي جامو وكشمير»، ثم انفصل عن الشيخ عبد الله فأسّس «مؤتمر المسلمين الأحرار» سنة 1934، ودعا إلى انضمام كشمير إلى باكستان.{cite:onlykashmir-mirwaiz-yusuf-shah} وبعد 1947 عاش في المنفى بكشمير الحرة فتولّى رئاستها مرتين ⁦(1951–1952 و1956)⁩، وأنجز سنة 1957 «بيان الفرقان»، أول ترجمة وتفسير شامل للقرآن باللغة الكشميرية.{cite:wikipedia-mirwaiz-yusuf-shah-en}{cite:onlykashmir-mirwaiz-yusuf-shah} توفي في راولبندي في 12 ديسمبر 1968.{cite:wikidata-mirwaiz-yusuf-shah}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Mirwaiz Muhammad Yusuf Shah (19 February 1894 – 12 December 1968) was a Kashmiri religious scholar and politician who held the office of Mirwaiz of Kashmir, the hereditary head preacher of the Kashmir Valley based at Srinagar's Jamia Masjid, from 1931 until his death.{cite:wikipedia-mirwaiz-yusuf-shah-en}{cite:onlykashmir-mirwaiz-yusuf-shah} Born in Rajouri Kadal, Srinagar, he studied at Darul Uloom Deoband from 1925, taking hadith from Anwar Shah Kashmiri, and took a Moulvi Fazil degree from the University of the Punjab.{cite:wikipedia-mirwaiz-yusuf-shah-en}\n\nIn politics he co-founded the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference in 1932 and, after breaking with Sheikh Abdullah over opening the party to non-Muslims, founded the Azad Muslim Conference in 1934 and supported Kashmir's accession to Pakistan.{cite:onlykashmir-mirwaiz-yusuf-shah} Exiled after 1947, he settled in Azad Kashmir and twice served as its president, in 1951–1952 and again in 1956.{cite:wikipedia-mirwaiz-yusuf-shah-en} His Kashmiri translation and commentary of the Quran, Bayan-ul-Furqan, completed in 1957, was the first comprehensive rendering of the Quran in Kashmiri.{cite:onlykashmir-mirwaiz-yusuf-shah} He died in Rawalpindi on 12 December 1968.{cite:wikidata-mirwaiz-yusuf-shah}"
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     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "میرواعظ محمد یوسف شاہ (19 فروری 1894ء – 12 دسمبر 1968ء) کشمیری عالم دین و سیاست دان تھے، جو 1931ء سے وفات تک میرواعظ کشمیر — وادی کشمیر کے موروثی خطیبِ اعظم، جن کا مرکز سرینگر کی جامع مسجد ہے — کے عہدے پر فائز رہے۔{cite:wikipedia-mirwaiz-yusuf-shah-ur}{cite:onlykashmir-mirwaiz-yusuf-shah} وہ راجوری کدل، سرینگر میں پیدا ہوئے، 1925ء سے دار العلوم دیوبند میں تعلیم حاصل کی جہاں انھوں نے انور شاہ کشمیری سے حدیث پڑھی، اور پنجاب یونیورسٹی سے مولوی فاضل کی سند لی۔{cite:wikipedia-mirwaiz-yusuf-shah-ur}\n\nانھوں نے 1932ء میں آل جموں و کشمیر مسلم کانفرنس کی تاسیس میں حصہ لیا، پھر شیخ عبد اللہ سے اختلاف کر کے 1934ء میں آزاد مسلم کانفرنس قائم کی اور کشمیر کے پاکستان سے الحاق کی حمایت کی۔{cite:onlykashmir-mirwaiz-yusuf-shah} 1947ء کے بعد وہ جلاوطنی میں آزاد کشمیر میں رہے، دو بار اس کے صدر بنے (1951ء–1952ء اور 1956ء)، اور 1957ء میں «بیان الفرقان» مکمل کی، جو قرآن کی پہلی جامع کشمیری ترجمہ و تفسیر ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-mirwaiz-yusuf-shah-ur}{cite:onlykashmir-mirwaiz-yusuf-shah} ان کا انتقال 12 دسمبر 1968ء کو راولپنڈی میں ہوا۔{cite:wikidata-mirwaiz-yusuf-shah}"
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