Mawlānā Muhammad Abdullah Ghazi (1 June 1935-17 October 1998) was was a Pakistani Islamic scholar who served as Chairman of Ruet-e-Hilal Committee and as the first Imam of Lal Masjid, and founded Faridia University and Jamia Hafsa.
He Graduated from Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia and served as the first Imam of Lal Masjid, the first mosque to be established in the islamabad.
In 1971, he founded Jamia Faridia in Islamabad, the first Islamic seminary to be established in Islamabad. He taught hadith at the madrasah, and was well-known by the title "Shaykh al-Hadith"
Biography[]
Ghazi was born in Basti-Abdullah in British Raj (present-day Pakistan) on 1 June 1935 in the district of Rajanpur. He graduated from Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia in Banori town in Karachi, and in 1966 he became the first Imam of the Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) in the capital city of Islamabad.
On 17, October, 1998, Ghazi was assassinated outside Lal Masjid
He is buried in the courtyard of Faridia University, Islamabad.