Hazrat Maulana Ghulam Farid Hanifi Teghi is one of the prominent Islamic scholars and Islamic mystics belonging to the Teghi and Aabadani orders of Islamic mysticism and Sufism being practiced by a large section of the Muslim community in India and elsewhere. His father Shah Mohammad Hafiz Hanif Qadri Teghi was a distinguished Sufi Buzurg and an author of many books. I (Hamid Siddiqui) have the honor to be blessed by him in my childhood so I have a vivid picture of him as a person having both of the inner and outer beauty, goodness, handsomeness and smartness.
I am fortunate that one of his daughters was my step grandmother married to my maternal grandfather Maulana Abu Zafar Siddiqui and she was like my mother’s own mother as long as she lived and whenever I would go to my Nanihal Mauna, she treated me like her own maternal grandson.
The inspiration to write some words about Maulana Mohammad Ghulam Farid Hanifi Teghi is a Facebook post posted by one of my friends Mufti Kaiful Hasan Qadri, the author of Tanveerul Quran and founder director of Tanveerul Quran Institute, Delhi NCR. Nowadays, he is profiling the prominent Islamic personalities from a major district of the State of Bihar, Muzaffarpur, which is highly appreciable like his other contributions to the world of poetry, biography and journalism including others.
Mohammad Ghulam Farid son of Mohammad Hanif son of Shatab Ali, Sheikh Siddiqui resident of Babhangawan Sharif post Aurai, District Muzaffarpur, Bihar was born in 1931 about 17 years before India got independence from colonialism of the British Empire, in his Nanihal village Atrar, block Aurai, District Muzaffarpur, Bihar. Educational institutions he attended include Darul Uloom Alimia, Anwarul Uloom Damodarpur, Muzaffarpur, Darul Uloom Manzar-e-Islam Bareily Sharif, UP. He was educated and training by his own father, Hanif-e-Millat, Hazrat Shah Hafiz Hanif Qadri (A), Mufti Kazim Ali Azizi, Damodarpur, Mustafa Raza Khan, Mufti Shariful Haq, Mufti Aslam Razvi and Mufti Mohammad Ihsan Ali Hamidi Faizpuri and others.
Maulana Mohammad Ghulam Farid took the oath of allegiance before Sarkar-e-Surkahi in 1955 and the permission to lead his mystical order was granted by his father, which he promoted and is promoting with dedication and enthusiasm.
He was married in the year 1963 to the daughter of Janab Mohammad Fazal Kareem resident of Saghari Rampur, District Muzaffarpur, Bihar in the year 1957 and he was blessed with four daughters and four sons namely Ahmad Raza, Hamid Raza, Hasan Raza and Ali Raza.
Maulana Ghulam Farid Hanifi led active life teaching in Darul Uloom Shah Alam Ahmadabad Gujarat and since 1967 till date in Madrasa Teghia Hanifia Babhangawan Sharif Aurai Muzaffarpur, attending religious gatherings and mystical congregations in the local area, state and outside of the State. He participated in theological debates with Tahir Gayavi touring with Sher-e-Bihar Mufti Aslam Razvi in Khanpur, Berai, Bhutan and other places. He has been touring Delhi, Allahabad, Lucknow, Kolkata, Raipur, Bilaspur Raniganj, Hazaribagh and others to spread the teachings and messages of Islam.
Hazrat Maulana Ghulam Farid Teghi is blessed with a worthy grandson Mufti Masood Raza, who continues the legacy of his great grandfather, grandfather and father, being an effective speaker and spreader of the Islamic messages of love, piety and truth. (Hamid Siddiqui)
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