Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) from the Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him), that he said: “At the beginning of every century Allah will send to this ummah someone who will renew its religious understanding.” Narrated by Abu Dawood (4291); classed as saheeh by as-Sakhkhaawi in al-Maqaasid al-Hasanah (149) and by al-Albaani in as-Silsilah as-Saheehah (no. 599). Al-Haafiz adh-Dhahabi aur Al-Haafiz Ibn Hajar kehte hain ki isse murad sirf ek shakhs nahi balki giroh hai.

Alhamdulillah Urdu speaking ulema aur duaat me mujhe abhi apni zindagi me kuch khaas aisi shakhsiyaat se milne aur unse iLm hasil karne ka mauqa Allah ne inayat farmaya, jinho ne iLm ke beshqeemti motiyon ka tohfa mujhe diya hai. Mein samajhta hu ki yeh maujooda daur ke woh sabse zaheen, faheem aur aqlmand log hain jinse mujhe mulakat ka sharf hasil hua aur jinse istefada karne ki mujhe tawfeek naseeb hui.

Aisa nahi hai ki inse zyada iLmo faham rakhne wale log nahi hai, bilkul hain, lekin yeh fehrist sirf unlogo par mushtamil hai jinse mein mila hu aur mujhe jinse fahme salaf hasil hua hai. Allah in sab ki umr me aur iLm me barkat ata farmaye aur inme se jo is faani duniya se kooch kar gaye, Allah unhe jannatul firdaus me aala maqam ata farmaye. Some of the highly intelligent people of our times, I have met in my life, alhamdulillah, who gifted me pearls and gems of islamic knowledge:—

• Shaikh Wasiullah Abbas

• Shaikh Shaikh maqsood ul hasan Faizi

• Shaikh Zafarul Hasan Madani - ظفر الحسن مدني

• Shaikh Taha Sayeed Madani

• Shaikh Safi Ahmed Madani (marhoom)

• Shaikh Ubaidur Rahman Madani

• Shaikh Inayatullah Madani

• Shaikh Muhammad Rahmani

• Shaikh Hussain Zahrani

• Shaikh Sanaullah Shabbir Ahmad Madani

• Shaikh Hafiz Jalaluddin Qasmi حفظه اللہ

• Shaikh Hafiz Abdul Azeem Madani

• Shaikh Abdul Haseeb Umari Madani

• Shaikh Ubaidullah Faizi

• Shaikh Yasir AlJabri Madani

• Shaikh Muhammad Muaz Abu Quhafa Umri

• Sheikh Abu Zaid Zameer

• Shaikh Arshad Basheer Madani

• Shaikh Nooruddin Umeri

• Shaikh Noorul Hasan Madani

• Shaikh Rafeeq Madani

• Sheikh Abdus Salam Madani

• Shaikh Syed Hussain Madani

• Shaikh Mujahid Umri

• Shaikh Arif Kaleem Madani

• Shaikh Abdul Hadi Al-Omri Madani

• Shaikh Mohammed Ashfaq Salafi Madani

• Shaikh Hafiz Javeed Usman Rabbani (marhoom)

• Shaikh Dr. Syed Meraj Rabbani Madani

• Shaikh Usman Anees Umri

• Shaikh Abdur Raheem Makki

• Shaikh Abdus Samad Jamai

• Shaikh Maulana Jarjis Ansari

• Shaikh Faheem Shareef Salafi

• Shaikh Irshad Ahmed Salafi

• Shaikh Sajid Usaid Nadwi

And last but not the least my beloved maternal uncle Abdul Aziz Memon (marhoom) who became a pathway to enlightenment towards Salafiyyah for me. However, this list will be incomplete if I do not mention the name of Shaykh Abu Adnan Mohammed Munir Qamar whom I never met but my uncle used to give his audio cassettes to us in an era when there was no youtube, google and social media, and alhamdulillah we learned a lot from him.