Aziz Ur Rehman Hazarvi dies: Maulana Fazl pays tribute

Senior Jamiat Ulema-e-Isalam-F leader and religious scholar Aziz Ur Rehman Hazarvi died on Tuesday.

Maulana Fazlur Rehman has termed the death of Aziz Ur Rehman Hazarvi a loss to entire Ummah .

The maulana paid tribute to Peer Aziz for guiding the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam and for his services for Islam.

Hazarvi was a prominent Islamic scholar and the president of Jamia Darul Uloom Zakaria in Islamabad.

According to religious circles, Peer Aziz Ur Hazarvi was the authorized caliph of Muhammad Zakariyya al-Kandhlawi.

In 2014 Pir Aziz Ur Rahman Hazarvi gave Khilafat to Muhammad Ilyas Ghuman, a Deobandi scholar from Sargodha, Punjab.

Thousands of people attended the funeral prayers of the late cleric in Tarnol area of Islamabad.