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  "ar": "محمد أشرف آصف جلالي",
  "en": "Muhammad Ashraf Asif Jalali",
  "ur": "محمد اشرف آصف جلالی"
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  "ar": "عالم دين وزعيم حركي باكستاني مقيم في لاهور؛ مؤسس تحريك صراط مستقيم ورئيس تحريك لبيك يا رسول الله وجناحها السياسي تحريك لبيك إسلام، وهي تنظيمات منفصلة عن تحريك لبيك باكستان التي أسسها خادم حسين رضوي.",
  "en": "Pakistani scholar and movement leader based in Lahore; founder of Tehreek-e-Sirat-e-Mustaqeem and chairman of Tehreek Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah and its political wing Tehreek Labbaik Islam — organisations distinct from Khadim Hussain Rizvi's Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan.",
  "ur": "لاہور میں مقیم پاکستانی عالم دین اور تحریکی رہنما؛ تحریک صراط مستقیم کے بانی اور تحریک لبیک یا رسول اللہ اور اس کے سیاسی ونگ تحریک لبیک اسلام کے چیئرمین۔"
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   "note": "Born 12 April 1968 in Bhikhi Sharif, district Mandi Bahauddin; the date and place are given by his organisation's official biography and matched by his party's website. Hijri year derived from the Gregorian date.",
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    "value": "Muhammad Ashraf Asif Jalali"
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    "value": "محمد أشرف آصف جلالي"
   }
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   {
    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "His own party's website describes him as 'affiliated with the Ahle Sunnat Wa Jamaat Barelvi movement', and reporting likewise places him inside the Barelvi movement; that is movement affiliation (milieu), not a prose attestation of a specific school of law for Jalali himself. No two independent texts attesting a specific school for him personally were found, so the value stays unknown and the Barelvi-movement reading is preserved here.",
    "sources": [
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  "roles": [
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   "preacher",
   "teacher",
   "writer",
   "activist",
   "politician"
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  "born": {
   "edtf": "1968-04-12",
   "hijri": "1388",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Born 12 April 1968 in Bhikhi Sharif, district Mandi Bahauddin; the date and place are given by his organisation's official biography and matched by his party's website. Hijri year derived from the Gregorian date.",
   "sources": [
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   "source/bitter-winter-tlp-taking-to-the-streets",
   "source/bitter-winter-wilders-verdict",
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  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Writer C web research for wave 193: the official biography on siratemustaqeem.net, the Tehreek Labbaik Islam About page, two Bitter Winter articles and vidIQ channel statistics, read in full on 5 November 2026.",
   "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Wonder)",
   "run": "modern-figures-wave-193"
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   "review": "published",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "حياته وتعليمه",
     "markdown": "اسمه الكامل محمد أشرف آصف، ابن صوفي غلام سرور، وقد وُلد في 12 أبريل 1968 في بيخي شريف بقضاء مندي بهاء الدين.{cite:sirat-e-mustaqeem-jalali-biography} ويورد موقع حزبه تاريخ الولادة ومكانها نفسيهما.{cite:tehreek-labbaik-islam-about} ويُعرف بلقب «كنز العلماء».{cite:sirat-e-mustaqeem-jalali-biography} وبحسب سيرته الرسمية في موقع منظمته، حفظ القرآن في جامعة محمدية نورية رضوية في بيخي شريف، وأكمل منهج الدرس النظامي بين عامي 1984 و1993، وحصل على دبلوم في اللغة العربية الحديثة من الجامعة المستنصرية في بغداد، ثم على الدكتوراه من قسم اللغة العربية بجامعة البنجاب سنة 2001.{cite:sirat-e-mustaqeem-jalali-biography} وتذكر السيرة أنه بايع سنة 1981 بير سيد محمد جلال الدين شاه النقشبندي القادري.{cite:sirat-e-mustaqeem-jalali-biography} وبدأ التدريس في لاهور في منتصف التسعينيات، ومن ذلك توليه إدارة جامعة جلالية رضوية مظفر الإسلام في داروغه والا.{cite:sirat-e-mustaqeem-jalali-biography}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "قيادته الحركية",
     "markdown": "أسس في 11 مايو 2007 إدارة صراط مستقيم باكستان، التي يقع مركزها الحالي في لاهور.{cite:sirat-e-mustaqeem-jalali-biography} ويصفه موقع حزبه بأنه مؤسس تحريك صراط مستقيم ورئيس تحريك لبيك يا رسول الله.{cite:tehreek-labbaik-islam-about} وقد سُجلت تحريك لبيك إسلام، الجناح السياسي لتحريك لبيك يا رسول الله، لدى مفوضية الانتخابات الباكستانية سنة 2018 برئاسة جلالي.{cite:tehreek-labbaik-islam-about} ويصف موقع الحزب جلالي بأنه منتمٍ إلى حركة أهل السنة والجماعة البريلوية.{cite:tehreek-labbaik-islam-about}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مواقف وجدالات منقولة",
     "markdown": "ينقل تقرير مجلة «بيتر وينتر» عن اعتصام فيض آباد في نوفمبر 2017 أن جلالي رفض الاتفاق الذي أنهاه بوساطة الجيش، وواصل الاحتجاجات في لاهور دون دعم رضوي، وغادر تحريك لبيك باكستان بتنظيم منشق خاص به.{cite:bitter-winter-tlp-taking-to-the-streets} وينقل التقرير نفسه قوله إنه هو المؤسس الرئيسي لتحريك لبيك يا رسول الله وليس رضوي.{cite:bitter-winter-tlp-taking-to-the-streets} ويذكر أيضًا أنه اعتُقل سنة 2020 بعد اتهامه بالتجديف بسبب أقوال عن فاطمة بنت النبي محمد.{cite:bitter-winter-tlp-taking-to-the-streets} وفي 9 سبتمبر 2024 حكمت عليه محكمة مقاطعة لاهاي غيابيًا بالسجن أربع عشرة سنة بسبب دعواته العلنية إلى قتل السياسي الهولندي غيرت فيلدرز، وقد فُسرت أقواله بأنها ترويج للإرهاب.{cite:bitter-winter-wilders-verdict} ولا توجد معاهدة لتسليم المطلوبين بين باكستان وهولندا.{cite:bitter-winter-wilders-verdict}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الجمهور",
     "markdown": "بلغ عدد مشتركي قناته على يوتيوب (@thedrjalali) 413,000 مشترك، ومجموع مشاهداتها 57,349,175 مشاهدة، وعدد مقاطعها 3,514 مقطعًا حتى 5 نوفمبر 2026.{cite:vidiq-thedrjalali}"
    }
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   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/muhammad-ashraf-asif-jalali",
    "lang": "ar",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Life and education",
     "markdown": "His full name is Muhammad Ashraf Asif, son of Sufi Ghulam Sarwar, and he was born on 12 April 1968 in Bhikhi Sharif, district Mandi Bahauddin.{cite:sirat-e-mustaqeem-jalali-biography} His party's website gives the same birth date and place.{cite:tehreek-labbaik-islam-about} He is known by the honorific Kanzul Ulama.{cite:sirat-e-mustaqeem-jalali-biography} According to his organisation's official biography, he memorised the Qur'an at Jamia Muhammadia Nooriyah Razawiyyah in Bhikhi Sharif, completed the Dars-e-Nizami curriculum between 1984 and 1993, took a diploma in Modern Arabic at Mustansiriyah University in Baghdad, and completed a PhD in the Arabic department of the University of Punjab in 2001.{cite:sirat-e-mustaqeem-jalali-biography} The biography records that he took bay'ah in 1981 from Pir Syed Muhammad Jalaluddin Shah Naqshbandi Qadri.{cite:sirat-e-mustaqeem-jalali-biography} He began teaching in Lahore in the mid-1990s, including as principal of Jamia Jalaliyah Razawiyyah Muzaffar al-Islam in Darogha Wala.{cite:sirat-e-mustaqeem-jalali-biography}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Movement leadership",
     "markdown": "On 11 May 2007 he founded Idarah Sirat Mustaqeem Pakistan, whose present centre is in Lahore.{cite:sirat-e-mustaqeem-jalali-biography} His party's website describes him as founder of Tehreek-e-Sirat-e-Mustaqeem (TSM) and chairman of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah (TLY).{cite:tehreek-labbaik-islam-about} Tehreek Labbaik Islam (TLI), the political wing of TLY, was registered with the Election Commission of Pakistan in 2018 with Jalali as its chairman.{cite:tehreek-labbaik-islam-about} His party's website describes him as affiliated with the Ahle Sunnat Wa Jamaat Barelvi movement.{cite:tehreek-labbaik-islam-about}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Reported positions and controversies",
     "markdown": "Bitter Winter's account of the November 2017 Faizabad sit-in reports that Jalali rejected the army-brokered agreement that ended the protest, continued protests in Lahore without Rizvi's support, and left Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan with his own splinter organisation.{cite:bitter-winter-tlp-taking-to-the-streets} The same account reports that he claimed he, rather than Rizvi, had been the main founder of TLYRA.{cite:bitter-winter-tlp-taking-to-the-streets} It also reports that he was arrested in 2020 after being accused of blasphemy over remarks about Fatimah, the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad.{cite:bitter-winter-tlp-taking-to-the-streets} On 9 September 2024 the District Court of The Hague sentenced him in absentia to fourteen years in prison for public appeals to kill the Dutch politician Geert Wilders, his remarks construed as promoting terrorism.{cite:bitter-winter-wilders-verdict} There is no extradition treaty between Pakistan and the Netherlands.{cite:bitter-winter-wilders-verdict}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Audience",
     "markdown": "His YouTube channel @thedrjalali had 413,000 subscribers, 57,349,175 total views and 3,514 videos as of 5 November 2026.{cite:vidiq-thedrjalali}"
    }
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