Yusuf Motala

Yusuf ibn Suleman ibn Qasim Motala (25 November 1946 – 8 September 2019) was a British Indian Sunni Muslim scholar, founder of Darul Uloom Bury and one of the disciples of Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi.^[1][2]

Shaykh al-Hadith Maulana Yusuf Motala
Gravestone of Shaykh Yusuf Motala
Personal
Born	25 November 1946 Nani Naroli, Surat district, India
Died	9 September 2019(2019-09-09) (aged 72) Mississauga, Canada
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Hanafi
Movement	Deobandi (Tablighi Jamaat)
Alma mater	Mazahir Uloom, Saharanpur
Teachers	Zakariyya Kandhlawi Yunus Jaunpuri
Organization
Founder of	Darul Uloom Bury
Muslim leader
Students Riyadh ul Haq Muhammad Al-Kawthari Abdur Rahman Mangera
Influenced Tariq Jamil
Arabic name
Personal (Ism)	Yūsuf يوسف
Patronymic (Nasab)	ibn Sulaymān ibn Qāsim Mutālā بن سليمان بن قاسم متالا
Toponymic (Nisba)	as-Sūrtī السورتي

Early life and education

Yusuf Motala was born in Nani Naroli in Gujarat, British India, on 25 November 1946. He graduated from Mazahir Uloom,^[3] where he studied under Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhlawi and Muhammad Yunus Jaunpuri.^[4]

Career

Upon the instruction of Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi, Maulana Yusuf Motala established Darul Uloom Al-Arabiyyah Al-Islamiyyah in Holcombe, Bury, Lancashire, in 1973.^[5] He subsequently established several other educational institutes.^[6] He was included in the 2019 list of "The 500 Most Influential Muslims," published annually by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre.^[4]

Death

He died in Toronto, Canada on 8 September 2019 following a heart attack.^[2]

Works

Motala's works are:^[7]

• Aḍwā' al-Bayān fī Tarjamatul Qurʼān (Urdu translation of the Quran).^[8]
• ' Aimma Araba aur Sufia Kiram (Urdu)
• Juz' ʿAmma Tafsīr in Arabic (with Urdu and English Tarjumma)^[9]
• Arabic Khutbahs
• Hadyah-e-Haramain (Salaatus-Salaam Compilations - Arabic-Urdu)
• Buzurgon ke Wisal Ke Ahwaal (Urdu)
• Fitno se Hifazat ke liye Masnoon Duaaei (Urdu)
• Shaykh al-Ḥadīth, Ḥaḍrat Mawlānā Muḥammad Zakariyya saheb raḥmatullahe alayhe Aur Unke Khulafa Ikraam- Part 2 and Part 3 (Urdu)
• Inayat Naame (Urdu)
• Itaat-e-Rasool ﷺ (Urdu)
• Jamale Mohammadi ﷺ Jable Noor Pur (Urdu)
• Jamale Mohammadi ﷺ darse Bukhari ke Aaine mei  - Vol 1 & 2 Combined (Urdu)
• Jamale Muhammadi ﷺ ki Jalwa Gahen - Vols 1 and 2 (Urdu)
• Jāmiʿ al-Siyar (Urdu)
• Karamat Wa Kamalat-e-Awliya - Volumes 1 and 2 (Urdu)
• Majmua e Darood o Salaam (Urdu)
• Mashaa'ikh Ahmadabad Volumes 1 and 2 (Urdu)
• Mere Bhai Jaan (Urdu)
• Muhabbat Naamay Volumes 1 and 2 (Urdu)
• Sham-o-Hind ke Awliya' ʿIzam (Urdu)

English translations of Shaykh Yusuf Motala's works are:^[10]

• Final Moments of the Pious (English Translation)
• Ḥaḍrat Shaykh and I (English)
• Miṣbāḥ al-Ẓalām fi al-Ṣalāt wa al-Salām ʿalā khayr al-Anām, compiled by Imām Nūr al-Dīn Al-Shūni (RA), emphasised by Ḥaḍrat Mawlānā Yūsuf Motālā ṣaheb (English /Arabic)
• 99 Names of Allah (Asmaaul-Husnaa) and 99 Attributes/Appellations of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
• The Need for Simple Weddings (English)

References

1. Sheikh Yusuf Motala - a pioneer of Islam in Britain - dies
2. , Andrew Norfolk, Times Online, 10 September 2007.
3. Ballard, Roger; Banks, Marcus (1994). Desh Pardesh: The South Asian Presence in Britain. Hurst. ISBN 9781850650911.
4. Mufti ARM (30 May 2018). "Obituary to Mawlana Yusuf". themuslim500. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
5. Inside Britain's Islamic Colleges, Dominic Casciani, BBC News Online, 15 January 2004.
6. Police Harassment of Leading British Muslim Scholar Archived 3 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Iqbal Sacranie, MCB Press Release, 15 November 2003.
7. "Books authored by Mawlānā Yūsuf Motālā". inter-islam.org. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
8. "Hazrat Maulana Yusuf Motala Great Pioneer in the UK". baseeratonline. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
9. Motala, Yusuf (7 May 2020). "Juz' ʿAmma Tafsīr" (PDF).
10. "Books authored by our beloved Ḥaḍrat, Shaykh al-Ḥadīth, Ḥaḍrat Mawlānā Yūsuf Motālā ṣaheb (ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF URDU BOOKS/BOOKLETS)". Inter-Islam. 18 June 2020.