Answers of Quiz 1825 (Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi)

1. On 14th Shawal 1272 AH / 14th June 1856 AD in Bareilly, UP, India
2. Muhammad
3. Barech tribe of Pushtuns
4. Naqi Ali Khan
5. Raza Ali Khan
6. In 1878
7. Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi
8. Dar-ul-Uloom Manzar-e-Islam
9. (i) Muhammad, although human, possessed a noor (light) that predates creation (ii) He is Hazir Nazir (iii) God has granted him ilm-e-ghaib
10. (i) Qawali (ii) Tawaf of Tomb (iii) Sajda on shrines & tombs (iv) Tazieh, plays re-enacting religious scenes (v) Women going to visit tomb
11. Mirza Ghulam Ahmed Qadiani
12. Deoband, Wahhabism, Ahmediyyah & Shia sects
13. Law, Philosophy, Sciences
14. He declared that India is Dar-ul-Islam & here Muslims enjoy religious freedom, they are free to practice Islam. He said that Government has not imposed restrictions & prohibitions to follow Islam. According to him those arguing the contrary merely wanted to take advantage of the provisions allowing Muslims living under non-Muslim rule to collect interest from commercial transactions & had no desire to fight Jehad or perform Hijrat. Therefore, he opposed labeling British India to be Dar-ul-Harb (Land of War), which meant that waging holy war jehad & migration from India Hijrat were inadmissible as they would cause disaster to the community.
15. I have carefully studied the decrees of Imam Ahmed Raza & thereby formed this opinion; & his Fatawa bear testimony to his acumen, intellectual caliber, the quality of his creative thinking, his excellent jurisdiction & his ocean-like Islamic knowledge. Once Imam Ahmed Raza forms an opinion he stays firm on it; he expresses his opinion after a sober reflection. Therefore, the need never arises to withdraw any of his religious decrees & judgements. With all this, by nature he was hot tempered & if this was not in the way, then Shah Ahmed Raza would have been the Imam Abu Hanifa of his age.
16. Fatwa Radawiyyah, Kanzul Iman, Husamul Haramain, Hadayake Bakhshish, Ahkaam-e-Shariat etc
17. On 25 Safar 1340 AH / 28 October 1921
18. 65 years
19. Ala Hazrat, Imam-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat
20. Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi
21. 25 Safar every year
22. Jamaat Ahle Sunnat, Pakistan Sunni Tehrik, Sunni Ittehad Council, Dawat-e-Islami etc
23. Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa, United States & UK
24. On 7 September 1974
25. Ahmed = Highly praised
Raza = Hope
Khan = King

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