Yusuf al-Qardhawi was born on September 9, 1926 is an Egyptian Muslim scholar and Islamist preacher best known for his al Jazeera program, ash-Shariah wal-Hayat (“Shariah and Life”), and IslamOnline (a website that he helped found in 1997), where he offers opinions and religious edicts (“fatwa“) based on his interpretation of the Qur’an. He has also published 50 books, including The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam and Islam: The Future Civilization. He is the winner of eight international prizes for his scholarly contributions.
Although Qardhawi has long had one of the more prominent roles within the thought leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood, he has twice turned down offers for the official directorship role of the organization. Among many Muslims, he is considered a moderate conservative, who seeks to explain and adapt the ideals of the Islamic lifestyle with those of modern society.
Dr. Al-Qardhawi was born in Egypt. Following his father’s death, the two year old Qardhawi was raised by his uncle. His family urged him to either run a grocery store or to become a carpenter. Instead, he read and memorized the entire Qur’an by the time he was nine years old. Qardhawi was a follower of Hasan al-Banna during his youth and was imprisoned first under the monarchy in 1949, then three times after the publication of Tyrant and the Scholar. He attended the Al-Azhar Theological Seminary before moving to Qatar.
He was supervisor of the work of the Institute of the imams of the Egyptian Ministry of Religious Endowments, the Dean of the Islamic Department at the Faculties of Shariah and Education in Qatar until 1990, and served as chairman of the Islamic Scientific Councils of Algerian Universities and Institutions.
He was a longtime member of the Muslim Brotherhood, and has turned down offers to be the Brotherhood’s leader various times. Qaradawi is the head of the European Council for Fatwa and Research.
(Source:http://www.khilafahmovement.org/qardawai.htm)
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May our Yusuf Zufayri continues the effort of The Yusuf Qardhawi…Amin…
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