Shamsul-hasan Shams Barelvi
Shamsul-hasan Shams Barelvi was a Pakistani Islamic scholar and a translator of classical Islamic texts from Persian and Arabic into Urdu. He was a professor of Persian and Arabic at Manzar-e-Islam in Bareilly, prior to his migration to Karachi, Pakistan.
His book Sarwar-e-Kaunain ki Fasahat won an award from the Government of Pakistan.
He lived and died in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan where he migrated from British India. The later years of his life were plagued by health problems. He had nine children in various countries and his wife died before him. He received the Sitara-i-Imtiaz for his academic work in 1995. He also received the literary award Hilal-e-Quaid-i-Azam.Literary works
His works include:
- Nizam-e-Mustufa by himself
- Sarwar-e-Kaunain ki Fasahat
- Ḥaz̤rat Ḥasan Raz̤ā Barelvī kī nʻat goʾī aur un ke divān-i zoq-i nʻat par nāqadānah naẓar
- Auranzeb-Khutut ke Ayenah Mae
- Aʻlā Ḥaz̤rat Imām Ahl-i Sunnat Maulānā Shāh Ḥāfiz Aḥmad Raz̤ā K̲h̲ān̲ Raz̤ā ke naʻtiyah kalām kā taḥqīqī aur adabī jāʾizah
Translation works
- Awaarif-ul-muwaarif by Shaikh-ul-Shuyukh Shihabuddin al-Suhrawardi
- Al-Ghunya li-talibi tariq al-haqq wa al-din by Shaikh Abdul-Qadir Gilani
- Nafahat al Uns by Shaikh Nuruddin Jami
- Sad Maktubat by Shaikh Muniri
- Tareekh-ul-Khulufaa by Imam al-Suyuti
- Imām Aḥmad Raz̤ā kī ḥāshiyah nigārī/jāʼizah nigār by Imam Ahmad Raza Khan
- Qadiri Ridwi Majmu’ah Wazaaif by Shaykh Iqbal Nuri
- Ruq'at-e-Alamgir by Alamgir I
- Mukāshafat al-qulūb by Imam Ghazzali
- Kitābulḥaqūq o kitābuṣṣidq by Imam Ghazzali
