Qazi Mazhar Qayyum

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Who is Qazi Mazhar Qayyum?

Qazi Mazhar Qayyum 'Raees-Azam Naushera', came from a qadi's family which had, since the 16th century, been prominent among the landed aristocracy of the Soon Valley. He belonged to Awans tribe of ancient repute. He was the famous "Hakeem", especially of Muslim medicine and unani medicine of Soon Valley. He was the authority on these subject in his time. He was consulted by many notable Hakeem from all British India. He never took fees for his medical practice from any poor or rich patient. A private man, without wealth, without jagir, without official title or office, yet he exercised great influence over the people. He was known as "Raees Azam Naushera".

He was one of those Muslim rural elites who during the 1946 Punjab Provincial Assembly Election, supported Punjab Muslim League, and, without its victory in Punjab in that election", in the words of Ian Talbot, "the Muslim League would not have gotten Pakistan". Being as a son of a famous academic Sufi, he was considered Sajjada Nashin by the people of his area. In the Punjab, the Sajjada Nashin or Pir families were not so rich in terms of land as the great land lords of Punjab but these Sajjada Nashin or Pir families exerted great political and religious influence over the people. The British could not administer the area without their help and no political party could win the election without their help. "Sajjada nashins", David Gilmartin asserts, "claimed to be the descendants of the Sufi, ‘saints’, intermediaries between the Faithful and their God, and this cut against the grain of Islamic orthodoxy......in kind, of their special religious status, these Sajjada Nashins had become men of local standing in their own right." However he never claimed to be a Sajjada Nashin or Pir. As his father, Qazi Mian Muhammad Amjad forbade his descendants to establish Dargah, and made a will to bury him in the ordinary grave, he made every effort to stop the people from making Dargah of the grave of his father. Instead, much to the horror of his tribe, he considered this as superstition.

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