Qazi Mian Muhammad Amjad

Who is Qazi Mian Muhammad Amjad?

Qazi Mian Muhammad Amjad, was an eminent legal scholar of Qur'an, Hadith, and the Hanafi school of Islamic law . As a master of all the branches of contemporary knowledge of Islam, he was an acknowledged authority on Muslim jurisprudence. He was also a Sufi saint of Chishti Order, and perhaps the only Sufi in the South Asia who did not establish the 'Khanqah',"Darbar" or Astana ‘Aliya and forbade his descendants not to establish Dargah after his death and made a will to bury him in the ordinary grave. He was against all the practices resulting in undue homage to the tombs and graves of sufis and saints. He believed that Islam was corrupted by sufism, pantheism, theology, philosophy and by all sorts of superstitious beliefs. Belonging to a qadi's family which had, since the 16th century, been prominent among the landed aristocracy of the Soon Valley, he adopted 'Faqr' and 'Darwayshi'. Unlike other pirs of Punjab he did not change his monkish cap to lordly turban. He was also a "Hakeem", but his greatness as a Hakeem and Sufi was eclipsed by his greatness as a jurist.