About Moulana Ishaq Madni

Muḥammad Isḥāq Madnī (1933–2013) was one of the popular Pakistani Islamic scholars.

He was born in 1933 in a landholding Arain family in Lyallpur. After matriculation he passed his Fellow of Arts (FA) in first division from Government College Lyallpur with Mathematics as an additional subject. Later on he developed a tendency towards religion and in order to understand religious works he learned Arabic, Persian, Urdu and English. He used to help his father in working his lands and continued reading books in one hand while ploughing the fields. Molvi Ahmed Mallah taught him Sarf (morphology) and Nahw (syntax) then he sought guidance about logic, philosophy, and other fine arts from Maulana Imadad ul Haq. He became an expert in Arabic language and literature, and entered the field of research.