Mufti Zar Wali succumbs to Covid-19

JamiaAhsanulUloom’s founder and principal Mufti ZarWaliKhan passed away on Monday at the age of 67, a private hospital here in the metropolis confirmed. Mufti ZarWali, an Islamic scholar, was undergoing treatment at Karachi’s Indus Hospital for the deadly coronavirus, a spokesperson said. He had reportedly been shifted to the medical facility after his health condition worsened. His funeral prayers would be offered tomorrow — Tuesday — at 2pm in Karachi’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal area, according a post on the seminary’s Facebook page. He had founded the JamiaAhsanulUloom and, in the late 1970s, also founded the Jamia Arabia AhsanulUloom in Karachi. Having authored a number of books, he also taught fiqh, or Islamic jurisprudence, tafsir, hadith, and tasawwuf. The cleric was born in 1953 in Jehangira, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.