Khatib-e-Pakistan Sayyedina Maulana Shafi Okarvi Rahmatullahi ’alayh was the great Mujahid of Islam.
He is from Okara in Multan , He fight the fox of deoband and tableegi in his lifetime.
Glad tiding of his birth : Hazrat Sher-e-Rabbaani Miyan Sher Muhammad Sharqpuri (Rahmatul Laahi ‘Alaihi) is the personality who had one year before the birth of Hazrat Maulana Okarvi given this glad tiding to Maulana Okarvi’s father, Haaji Karam Ilaahi Sahib, “Karam Ilaahi! More streams of light will flow. Streams of Al-Laah’s grace will flow”.
The special traits, which the Bountiful Creator had endowed him with, are not given to everyone. During the course of 40 years of striving after truth he made more than 18000 inspiring speeches, a world record so far. His memory is unforgettable. Our benefactor and spiritual guide, Maulana Okarvi, left this mortal world for his heavenly abode on the morning of the 24th of April, 1984, while engaged in sending Durood and Salaam to his beloved Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa (Sallal Laahu ‘Alaihi Wa Sallam).
In-naa Lil-Laahi Wa ln-naa llaihi Raaji’oon
Even his opponents were forced to accept his greatness and his steadfastness. His very name used to send tremors through the chambers of falsehood. Ghulaam Khan, a Wahaabi aalim of Rawalpindi (Pakistan). Openly admitted, “had a great personality like Maulana Okarvi been present in the fold of Deoband. All Pakistanis would have embraced the creed”,
and the saying of Allamah Sayyid Ahmad Sa’eed Kaazimi, an Imaam of the Ahle Sunnat, that because of his special traits, “Maulana Okarvi was envied by all the world,” is a true testimony to his greatness.
