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Hazrat Shaikh Hafiz-e-Hadis Moulana Muhammad Abdullah Darkhawasti (1897 - 1994) was an eminent Islamic scholar of Pakistan. He ascribed to the Deobandi school of thought and became the Amir of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam in 1962. In 1994, he issued a fatwa which declared that a female ruler was haraam. During his lifetime, Hazrat established five hundred and patronised four thousand seminaries.

Hazrat Shaikh Hafiz-e-'Hadis Moulana Muhammad Abdullah Darkhawasti was born in Darkhawast, a village in the city of Khanpur in the Rahim Yar Khan district of southern Punjab, British India in 1897. His father, Moulana Hafiz Mahmud ud Din, was a learned and pious scholar. Between the age of nine and eleven, Hazrat completed the memorization of the Qur'an. Thereafter, he commenced his Arabic and Persian studies under Moulana Abdul Ghafur Hajipuri and Moulana Muhammad Siddiq Hajipuri. By the age of eighteen, he had completed his studies in Arabic, Persian, and hadith and acquired a sanad in hadith from Moulana Muhammad Siddiq Hajipuri. Hazrat also studied tafsir under Shaikhul Qur'an Moulana Husain Ali Waanbachaaran (RA). Hazrat then became a murid of Moulana Ghulam Muhammad Dinpuri. He also became a murid of Moulana Ahmad 'Ali Lahori, who later bestowed khilafah upon him. Upon Moulana Ghulam Muhammad Dinpuri's instructions, Hazrat founded Jamia Makhzan ul Uloom in Darkhawast in 1922, where he taught Qur'an and hadith for fifteen years. The madrasa was shifted to Chawlistan in 1937 for five years and then to the Eidgah of Shahi Masjid, Khanpur in 1941. From then onwards, it became his habit to teach tafsir in Sha'baan and Ramadaan only. Hazrat died in 1994 at the age of ninety-seven.