Mufti Zarwali Khan dies of coronavirus in Karachi
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Prominent Islamic scholar Mufti Zarwali Khan died due to the coronaviurs in Karachi on Monday.
The founder and principal of Karachi’s Jamia Ahsanul Uloom’s succumbed to COVID-19 at a private hospital.
According to a statement he was undergoing treatment at Karachi’s Indus Hospital for the deadly coronavirus..
His funeral prayers would be offered tomorrow — Tuesday — at 2pm in Karachi’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal area, according a post on the seminary’s Facebook page.
He had founded the Jamia Ahsanul Uloom in the late 1970s, also founded the Jamia Arabia Ahsanul Uloom in Karachi. Having authored a number of books, he also taught fiqh, or Islamic jurisprudence, tafsir, hadith, and tasawwuf.
The cleric was born in 1953 in Jehangira, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.