Fuzail Ahmad Nasiri


Fuzail Ahmad Nasiri is a Sunni Islamic scholar and Urdu writer and poet from Bihar, India. He works at Jamia Imam Anwar Shah at Deoband.

Birth

Fuzail Ahmad was born in a religious family of Nasir Ganj in Darbhanga, Bihar, India. His great grandfather’s brother Shah Munawwar Ali Darbhangwi was a disciple of Imdadullah Muhajir Makki. Jameel Ahmad Nasiri, father of Fuzail Ahmad, was among the early graduates of Darul Uloom Mau.

Education

Fuzail Ahmad Nasiri completed his primary studies with his father in Madrasa Mehr-ul-Uloom in Madhubani, a town in Bihar. He studied under Qari Shabbir Ahmad in Madrasa Diniya Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh and later at Madrasa Islamia in Darbhanga, Bihar. He graduated from Darul Uloom Deoband in 1998.

Recognition

The All India Tanzeem Ulama-e-Haq awarded Ahmad the Maulana Anzar Shah Kashmiri Award in 2014 during its Milli Convention. On 2 March 2018, he received the Allama Iqbal Award in All India Quran Competition at Mumbai.

Career

Fuzail Ahmad began teaching in July 1999. He taught in the Darul Uloom Azizia in Mira Road for four years. During this time, he was a regular columnist of Urdu Times for two years and his articles also appeared in Roznama Inqelab. Later he taught at Madrasa Faizan-ul-Quran and Jamia Darul Quran in Ahmedabad, Gujarat for nearly four years. Since 2008, he has taught hadith at Jamia Imam Anwar Shah, Deoband. Fuzail Ahmad serves the Jamia as Vice Administrator of Education since 10 January 2018.

Poetry

In 1996, Fuzail Ahmad began writing poetry. He is among the pupils of Kalim Ajiz, who has a different accent.
His first poetry collection Hadees-e-Ambar consists of hamd, naat, nazm, ghazal etc. and is over 250 pages. Fuzail Ahmad wrote a poem about Muhammad Taqi Usmani after he survived an assassination attempt. Hafiz Faseeh Asif sung the poem, and it features on Message TV.

Literary works