Irshad Alam Mujaddidi 5 - TAFSIR MAZHARI

This is the English translation of the Juz’ Amma (30th Part of the Quran) and Surah Yasin from the famous Tafsir al-Mazhari by the Sunni Islamic scholar Qazi Sanaullah, a tafsir of the Qur'an, translated by Sufi Irshad Alam Mujaddidi. He named his commentary after his teacher Mirza Mazhar Jan Janan. He completed this commentary in 1208 AH. According to this period, this commentary of Qazi Sanaullah Panipati (1195 AH to 1208 AH) was completed in 14 years. Qazi Sanaullah's writing style was very laborious because while writing Tafsir-e-Mazhari, he made use of ancient commentaries, and ancient commentaries which are completely in Arabic. The language in which Tafsir Mazhari was written is Urdu, and many commentaries have been written in Urdu. Most of them are such that the words used in them are so difficult that the common man is sometimes unable to understand them. This has also been pointed out by Qazi Sanaullah Panipati. Qazi Sanaullah Panipati adopted a research style at every point in his commentary, and even if it is called a research commentary, it would not be wrong because of the colors of research that he has scattered in this commentary. Irshad Alam followed the same Sufi order with author of Tafsir al-Mazhari, the Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi sufi order. His sufi shaykh considers this to be the best tafsir ever as it contains the Sufi wisdom of the great Mujaddid Ahmad Sirhindi in addition to a comprehensive knowledge of all the tafsirs before as it was written by a great scholar. He stated that many verses had several different meanings and he took the meaning that had the most spiritual interpretation. Qādi Panipati learned mysticism from Mirza Jan Janan Mazhar to whom he was quietly influenced by and later on dedicated the title of his tafsīr, Tafsīr al-Mazhari. As…