Bilal ali ansari bio
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Mawlana Bilal Ali Ansari received his undergraduate education in Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana, IL, and in the Applied Behavioral Sciences at National-Louis University in Lisle, IL, from where he graduated with a Bachelors in Arts in the field of Applied Behavioral Sciences with a focus on adult learning theory (andragogy).
Mawlana Bilal acquired an education in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Jāmiʿat al-Ḥasanayn in Faisalabad, Pakistan, where he studied classical and modern texts in Arabic, Islamic Theology, Islamic lag, Qur&#;anic Studies, and Hadith. His teachers there include Mawlana Khwaja ʿUbayd Allāh, Mufti Aḥmad ʿAlī, and Shaykh Ramzī al-Ḥabīb al-Tūnisī.
Mawlana Bilal completed his Dars Niẓāmī studies at the Jāmiʿat Dār al-ʿUlūm in Karachi, where received certification (ijāzah) in Hadith from Mufti Muḥammad Taqī al-ʿUthmānī, Mufti Muḥammad Rafīʿ al-ʿUthmāni, Muftī Maḥmūd Ashraf al-ʿUthmāni, Mufti ʿAbd al-Raʿūf al-Sikharwī, and Mawlana Ifti
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Review by Bilal Ali Ansari
Upon first receiving a copy of Shaykh Akram Nadwi&#;s &#;Madrasah Life&#;, I was first impressed by the relatively small size of the book. It is no more than a hundred pages and being a narrative, an easy and fun reading.
The book explores a day in the life of a madrasah student at the famed Nadwat al-Ulama in Lucknow, India. Known for its emphasis on language and literature, it is not surprising that the esteemed author includes frequent references to poetic verse and literary discussion in this short piece.
The literary prowess of the author and his natural inclination towards academic discussion is apparent throughout the book, as he moves from friend to friend discussing a wide variety of issues related to the Islamic sciences. At times, the descriptions of the author appear melodramatic, though much of that has to do with the fact that the style of the original urdu is much lost in translation. When the descriptive and flowery urdu paragraphs
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Students of sacred knowledge are best known by the noble and erudite teachers with whom they study. Like parents (who were my first teachers and spiritual guides), teachers of the sacred sciences merit any and all credit for what their students achieve.
Though I have little achievement to my name and am embarrassed to be considered in any way representative of my teachers and parents, I can think of no better way to describe myself than to mention the many noble, pious, and scholarly souls who have been most influential in my life and to whom I owe the utmost gratitude.
My studies in the Islamic sciences began at Madrasat al-Ḥasanayn in under the guidance and supervision of its founder, Mawlana Ṭāriq Jamīl (may Allah preserve him). There, I studied the Arabic language and Islamic sciences under a long list of compassionate, erudite, and spiritually accomplished &#;ulama. I have listed their names below with the sciences I was fortunate enough to study with them:
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