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He was one of the founders of Jamaat Ahle Sunnat Pakistan and its first chairman, founded the Jamia Hanafiyya Ashraf-ul-Madaris at Okara, delivered over 18,000 speeches in 38 years, and was awarded the Sitara-i-Imtiaz posthumously in 1985.", "ur": "پاکستانی عالم اور خطیب (1930ء–1984ء) جن کا تعلق کھیم کرن، پنجاب سے تھا، 1947ء میں اوکاڑہ ہجرت کی اور پھر کراچی میں خطیب کی حیثیت سے آباد ہوئے۔ جماعت اہلِ سنت پاکستان کے بانیان اور اس کے پہلے چیئرمین تھے، اوکاڑہ میں جامعہ حنفیہ اشرف المدارس قائم کیا، 38 برس میں 18,000 سے زائد خطابات کیے اور 1985ء میں بعد از وفات ستارۂ امتیاز سے نوازے گئے۔" }, "stub": false, "wings": [ "people" ], "regions": [ "south-asia" ], "periods": [], "tags": [], "aliases": [], "themes": [], "span": { "earliest": 1930.0867916521215, "latest": 1984.3137778325042 }, "display": { "start": { "edtf": "1930-02-02", "hijri": "1348", "calendar": "gregorian", "precision": "day", "status": "debated", "derived": true, "note": "The English and Arabic articles and Wikidata give his birth as 2 February 1930 at Khem Karan, East Punjab, which the record follows. The Urdu article's infobox and birth section give the year 1929 — the reading the lane queue carries — but the Urdu infobox's own Hijri pairing, 2 Ramadan 1348 AH, converts to 2 February 1930, so the Urdu article is internally inconsistent and its stated year is not followed. Khem Karan has no place entity, so no born_in edge is written.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-en", "source/wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ur", "source/wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ar", "source/wikidata-muhammad-shafee-okarvi" ] }, "end": { "edtf": "1984-04-24", "hijri": "1404", "calendar": "gregorian", "precision": "day", "status": "historical", "derived": true, "note": "Died at Karachi on 24 April 1984 after a third heart attack, as all three articles and Wikidata agree, and was buried at Karachi; Karachi has no place entity, so no died_in or buried_in edge is written. The Hijri year is a conversion.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-en", "source/wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ur", "source/wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ar", "source/wikidata-muhammad-shafee-okarvi" ] } }, "data": { "names": [ { "value": "Muhammad Shafee Okarvi", "kind": "full" }, { "value": "محمد شفيع أوكاروي", "kind": "full" }, { "value": "محمد شفیع اوکاڑوی", "kind": "full" }, { "value": "Khateeb-e-Pakistan", "kind": "laqab" }, { "value": "خطيب باكستان الأعظم", "kind": "laqab" }, { "value": "Okarvi", "kind": "nisba" } ], "gender": "male", "roles": [ "scholar", "preacher", "politician" ], "born": { "edtf": "1930-02-02", "hijri": "1348", "calendar": "gregorian", "precision": "day", "status": "debated", "derived": true, "note": "The English and Arabic articles and Wikidata give his birth as 2 February 1930 at Khem Karan, East Punjab, which the record follows. The Urdu article's infobox and birth section give the year 1929 — the reading the lane queue carries — but the Urdu infobox's own Hijri pairing, 2 Ramadan 1348 AH, converts to 2 February 1930, so the Urdu article is internally inconsistent and its stated year is not followed. Khem Karan has no place entity, so no born_in edge is written.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-en", "source/wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ur", "source/wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ar", "source/wikidata-muhammad-shafee-okarvi" ] }, "died": { "edtf": "1984-04-24", "hijri": "1404", "calendar": "gregorian", "precision": "day", "status": "historical", "derived": true, "note": "Died at Karachi on 24 April 1984 after a third heart attack, as all three articles and Wikidata agree, and was buried at Karachi; Karachi has no place entity, so no died_in or buried_in edge is written. The Hijri year is a conversion.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-en", "source/wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ur", "source/wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ar", "source/wikidata-muhammad-shafee-okarvi" ] }, "faith": [ { "value": "sunni", "basis": "documented", "note": "Two independent texts name his Sunni affiliation personally. The Urdu text's lead calls him a distinguished scholar of Ahl-e-Sunnat wa Jama'at and the founder of its central Jamaat Ahle Sunnat. The Arabic text's lead gives, among his well-known titles, 'reviver of the maslak of Ahl al-Sunna' (mujaddid maslak Ahl al-Sunna). The English text corroborates that he founded Jamaat Ahle Sunnat and became its first chairman. No madhhab segment is recorded: Hanafi appears in the English infobox's jurisprudence field and in the names of institutions he founded, such as the Jamia Hanafiyya at Okara, neither of which is a text naming his own madhhab, and the reading is preserved here.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ur", "source/wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ar" ] }, { "value": "sufi", "basis": "documented", "note": "Two independent texts state his personal discipleship and khilafa, which is the lane's test for a sufi segment. The Urdu text's Bay'ah and Iradat section names his pir and murshid as Mian Ghulamullah Sharqpuri (Sani Sahib), of the Naqshbandiyya Mujaddidiyya line of Mian Sher Muhammad Sharqpuri, and states that he held ijaza and khilafa from numerous shaykhs in all the tariqa silsilas and that his murids number in the thousands across the world. The Arabic text states independently that he gained thousands of murids throughout the world. His tariqa affiliation and his school are kept separate, neither inferred from the other.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ur", "source/wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ar" ] } ], "external_ids": { "wikidata": "Q4116376" }, "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-en", "source/wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ur", "source/wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ar", "source/wikidata-muhammad-shafee-okarvi" ], "provenance": { "layer": "own-research", "source": "English Wikipedia 'Shafee Okarvi' (revision 1378880993), Urdu Wikipedia 'محمد شفیع اوکاڑوی' (revision 9375330) and Arabic Wikipedia 'محمد شفيع أوكاروي' (revision 71707653), each fetched by its recorded revision id with the returned id asserted equal before use, and Wikidata item Q4116376 (item revision 2518987803). The Urdu and Arabic articles are independently written compositions with their own sources. Existence checks by name fragments (okarvi, اوکاڑوی, أوكاروي), by Arabic label across data/person, by biography and by QID found no prior record for this man. The member_of edge to group/naqshbandiyya is written once, here, from the Urdu text's statement of his murshid's line; no group entity exists for Jamaat Ahle Sunnat, so his founding of it is stated in prose only, and no person record exists for his murshid Mian Ghulamullah Sharqpuri or his teacher Pir Muhammad Inayat Ahmad Naqshbandi, so no student_of edge is written. Khem Karan and Karachi have no place entities. The lane queue gives 1929–1984; the birth year is corrected to 1930 on the English and Arabic articles and Wikidata against the Urdu article's internally inconsistent 1929, as the born note records.", "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)", "run": "century-additions-78" }, "status": { "review": "published", "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)" } }, "prose": { "ar": { "sections": [ { "heading": "موجز", "markdown": "محمد شفيع أوكاروي (2 شباط 1930 – 24 نيسان 1984) قائد ديني وخطيب باكستاني، عُرف بألقاب منها «مجدد مسلك أهل السنة» و«خطيب باكستان الأعظم»، وكان من مؤسسي جماعة أهل السنة في باكستان وأول رئيس لها.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ar}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-en} تصفه المقالة الأردية بأنه من ممتاز علماء أهل السنة والجماعة.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ur} ألقى خلال 38 عاماً ما يزيد عن 18,000 خطاب.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ar}" }, { "heading": "نشأته وهجرته", "markdown": "وُلد في خيم كاران بشرق البنجاب، الابن الأكبر للحاج شيخ كرم إلهي، التاجر المحلي؛ تعطي المقالتان الإنجليزية والعربية وويكيداتا مولده بـ2 شباط 1930، بينما تذكر المقالة الأردية سنة 1929 مع اقتران هجري (2 رمضان 1348هـ) يقابل 2 شباط 1930.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-en}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ar}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ur}{cite:wikidata-muhammad-shafee-okarvi} هاجر سنة 1947 إلى أوكارا حيث بنى مع والده مسجد غوثية، وكان سنة 1954 من مؤسسي الجامعة الحنفية أشرف المدارس ورعاتها.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-en}" }, { "heading": "بيعته وخلافته", "markdown": "يذكر قسم البيعة والإرادة في المقالة الأردية أن بيره ومرشده هو ميان غلام الله الشرقبوري من السلسلة النقشبندية المجددية المنسوبة إلى ميان شير محمد الشرقبوري، وأنه نال الإجازة والخلافة من مشايخ كثيرين في جميع سلاسل الطريقة، وأن مريديه بالآلاف في العالم.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ur} وتذكر المقالة العربية أيضاً أن مريديه صاروا بالآلاف في العالم أجمع.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ar}" }, { "heading": "خطابته وعمله العام", "markdown": "صار من سنة 1956 محاضراً وإماماً لمسجد ميمون في كراتشي، وأسس جماعة أهل السنة وصار أول رئيس لها؛ ودعا في الشرق الأقصى والشرق الأوسط وجنوب إفريقيا والإمارات وموريشيوس، وأسس في جنوب إفريقيا أنجمن أهل السنة والجماعة سنة 1976.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-en} وبدأ في كراتشي باسم أهل السنة والجماعة مجالس المحرم العشرة ومواكب عيد ميلاد النبي.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ur} انتُخب لعضوية مجلس الأمة الباكستاني سنة 1977، ونجا من محاولة اغتيال في كراتشي سنة 1962، ومُنح وسام الامتياز (ستارة امتياز) بعد وفاته سنة 1985.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-en}" }, { "heading": "وفاته", "markdown": "توفي في كراتشي في 24 نيسان 1984 إثر أزمة قلبية ثالثة عن عمر 54 عاماً، ودُفن في كراتشي.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ar}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-en}" }, { "heading": "المراجع", "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ar}} {{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ur}} {{cite:wikidata-muhammad-shafee-okarvi}}" } ], 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the Urdu article states the year 1929 alongside a Hijri pairing, 2 Ramadan 1348 AH, that converts to 2 February 1930.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-en}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ur}{cite:wikidata-muhammad-shafee-okarvi} In 1947 he migrated to Okara, where he and his father built Masjid Ghausiyah, and in 1954 he was among the founders and sponsors of the Jamia Hanafiyya Ashraf-ul-Madaris on Grand Trunk Road.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-en}" }, { "heading": "Bay'ah and khilafa", "markdown": "The Urdu article's section on his bay'ah and devotion names his pir and murshid as Mian Ghulamullah Sharqpuri, of the Naqshbandiyya Mujaddidiyya line of Mian Sher Muhammad Sharqpuri, and states that he held ijaza and khilafa from numerous shaykhs in all the tariqa silsilas, with murids in the thousands across the world.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ur} The Arabic article likewise states that he gained thousands of murids throughout the world.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ar}" }, { "heading": "Preaching and public work", "markdown": "From 1956 he was lecturer and imam of Memon Masjid in Karachi and founded Jamaat Ahle Sunnat, becoming its first chairman; he preached across the Far East, the Middle East, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates and Mauritius, and established the Anjuman Ahl-e-Sunnat wa Jama'at in South Africa in 1976.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-en} In Karachi he started the ten-day Muharram gatherings and the Mawlid processions in the name of Ahl-e-Sunnat wa Jama'at.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ur} He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan in 1977, survived an assassination attempt in Karachi in 1962, and was awarded the Sitara-i-Imtiaz posthumously in 1985.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-en}" }, { "heading": "Death", "markdown": "After a third heart attack he died at Karachi on 24 April 1984, aged 54, and was buried in Karachi.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-en}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ar}" }, { "heading": "References", "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ur}} {{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ar}} {{cite:wikidata-muhammad-shafee-okarvi}}" } ], "frontmatter": { "id": "person/muhammad-shafee-okarvi", "lang": "en", "source_lang": "ar", "translators": [] }, "updated": "2026-10-27" }, "ur": { "sections": [ { "heading": "خلاصہ", "markdown": "حافظ محمد شفیع اوکاڑوی (2 فروری 1930ء – 24 اپریل 1984ء) پاکستانی عالم دین اور خطیب تھے جنھیں «خطیبِ پاکستان» کہا جاتا ہے اور جو جماعت اہلِ سنت پاکستان کے بانیان اور اس کے پہلے چیئرمین تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-en} اردو مضمون انھیں اہلسنت وجماعت کے ممتاز عالم دین اور مرکزی جماعت اہل سنت کے بانی قرار دیتا ہے، اور عربی مضمون ان کے القاب میں «مجدد مسلك أهل السنة» درج کرتا ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ur}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ar} انھوں نے 38 برس میں 18,000 سے زائد خطابات کیے۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-en}" }, { "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی و ہجرت", "markdown": "کھیم کرن، مشرقی پنجاب میں پیدا ہوئے، مقامی تاجر حاجی شیخ کرم الہٰی کے بڑے صاحبزادے تھے؛ انگریزی و عربی مضامین اور وکیڈیٹا ولادت 2 فروری 1930ء دیتے ہیں، جبکہ اردو مضمون سنہ 1929ء لکھتا ہے مگر اس کا اپنا ہجری اقتران (2 رمضان المبارک 1348ھ) 2 فروری 1930ء ہی بنتا ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-en}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ar}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ur}{cite:wikidata-muhammad-shafee-okarvi} 1947ء میں اوکاڑہ ہجرت کر گئے جہاں والد کے ساتھ مسجد غوثیہ بنائی، اور 1954ء میں جامعہ حنفیہ اشرف المدارس کے بانیان اور سرپرستوں میں شامل تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-en}" }, { "heading": "بیعت و خلافت", "markdown": "اردو مضمون کا باب «بیعت و ارادت» ان کے پیر و مرشد حضرت میاں غلام اللہ شرقپوری (ثانی صاحب) کو قرار دیتا ہے جن کا تعلق میاں شیر محمد شرقپوری کے سلسلۂ عالیہ نقشبندیہ مجددیہ سے تھا، اور لکھتا ہے کہ اوکاڑوی کو طریقت کے تمام سلاسل میں متعدد مشائخ سے اجازت و خلافت حاصل تھی اور ان کے مریدین ہزاروں کی تعداد میں دنیا بھر میں موجود ہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ur} عربی مضمون بھی لکھتا ہے کہ ان کے مرید دنیا بھر میں ہزاروں کی تعداد میں ہو گئے۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ar}" }, { "heading": "خطابت و عوامی خدمات", "markdown": "1956ء سے کراچی کی میمن مسجد کے خطیب و امام بنے اور جماعت اہلِ سنت کی بنیاد رکھ کر اس کے پہلے چیئرمین بنے؛ مشرقِ بعید، مشرقِ وسطیٰ، جنوبی افریقا، امارات اور ماریشس میں تبلیغ کی اور 1976ء میں جنوبی افریقا میں انجمن اہلِ سنت و جماعت قائم کی۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-en} کراچی میں انھوں نے اہلِسنّت و جماعت کی طرف سے دس روزہ مجالسِ محرم اور جشنِ عید میلاد النبی کے جلوس و جلسوں کا سلسلہ شروع کیا۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ur} 1977ء میں قومی اسمبلی کے رکن منتخب ہوئے، 1962ء میں کراچی میں قاتلانہ حملے میں زخمی ہوئے اور 1985ء میں بعد از وفات ستارۂ امتیاز سے نوازے گئے۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-en}" }, { "heading": "وفات", "markdown": "تیسرے دل کے دورے کے بعد 24 اپریل 1984ء کو کراچی میں 54 برس کی عمر میں انتقال ہوا اور کراچی ہی میں دفن ہوئے۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-en}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ar}" }, { "heading": "حوالہ جات", "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ur}} {{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-shafee-okarvi-ar}} {{cite:wikidata-muhammad-shafee-okarvi}}" } ], "frontmatter": { "id": "person/muhammad-shafee-okarvi", "lang": "ur", "source_lang": "ar", "translators": [] }, "updated": "2026-10-27" } }, "degree": 2, "contemporaries": [ "person/abd-al-aziz-al-ghumari", "person/abd-al-fattah-abu-ghudda", "person/abd-al-rahman-badawi", "person/abd-al-razzaq-nawfal", "person/abd-allah-ibn-al-siddiq-al-ghumari", "person/abderrahmane-youssoufi", "person/abdoldjavad-falaturi", "person/abdul-aziz-mollazadeh", "person/abdul-basit-abd-us-samad", "person/abdul-hai-arifi", "person/abdul-hameed-swati", 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