A Few Words About Bahr-ul-Uloom

چند سطور بحر العلوم کے بارے میں

Hazrat Bahr-ul-Uloom Muhammad Abdul Qadeer Siddiqui (Hasrat) was born into a family of eminent scholars. History attests that when he was still in his mother's womb, his father passed away. After a few months his mother too departed this world, and in this manner he was deprived of parental affection and upbringing from the very earliest age. His grandfather and other relatives cared for him, but no one gave him proper education and nurture. He learned from life itself — his own poverty and hardship and lack of any formal school became his teachers. In this way, wandering through the wilderness of ignorance and deprivation, a tremendous spiritual revolution manifested itself in his forty-fifth year, such that the sun of guidance arose in his heart and illumined the whole world, and the springs of knowledge and gnosis began to flow from his breast, quenching the thirst of the wanderers and bewildered in the desert of ignorance:

"He whom they considered illiterate — libraries bowed before him" (Sa'di, rendered in Urdu)

[A passage in the original Urdu source describing how Hazrat Bahr-ul-Uloom devoted his life to the exposition of Qurʾanic knowledge and the propagation of its sciences among all peoples — making it a universal gift for humanity, following in the tradition of the Prophet ﷺ whose greatest miracle was the Qurʾan itself. The precise rendering of this passage awaits access to a clear copy of the Urdu source.]