Mawlana Faizani was born in Herat Afghanistan, (on the twenty-first day of Ramadan) April 17th, 1923. After completing high school in Herat, he graduated from Kabul University in 1941, and then served for eight years as a high school principal in the state of Herat.

After that, due to some spiritual incident he was in solitude for five years pondering and worshipping. During that time, he earned his living from private teaching. His religious learning and teaching includes the following books:

• Tafaseer (Interpretaions of Qur'an): Interpretations, Jalalayn, Khazin, RoohulMa'anee, Jamal and RoohulBayan, etc.
  
  
• Hadeeth Books: Saheehayn (Bukharee and Muslim), Mishkat, Termedhee, Sunayn Abu-Daoud and Ibn-Maja
  
  
• Languages spoken: Pashtoo, Dari and Arabic
  
  
• Number of books written: Fifty two volumes
  
  
• Subjects: Faith and Belief, Politics, Jurisprudence, Islamic Law, Rememberance and Contemplation and so forth.

1. General Questions on Faith, Mankind and the World
2. Knowing Oneself - Knowing God
3. Magnificence and Perfection of Glorious Artificer in Arts
4. Man and the Secrets of Nearness
5. Man and the Philosophy of Test
6. The Secrets of Creation up to the Court of Greatness
7. Alphabet of the Secrets of the Qur'an

The common point in all the writer's works is that all the topics covered by his works are in full agreement with the Quran, and strongly affirmed by Quranic understanding.

Mawlana Faizani started his first Islamic revolutionary steps in 1946 in Afghanistan. In 1970, he enthusiastically emerged in organizing the Religious Scholars' Uprising in Kabul and it resulted in his imprisonment.

Mawlana Watheeq, a famous Afghan scholar has stated the following about him:

"During the religious uprising of 1970, most religious scholars demonstrated in downtown Kabul, then they all gathered in Kabul's central, Pulikhishtee Mosque. Mawlana Faizani played a significant role in these demonstrations. During the time when nobody in Afghanistan knew much about Communism's philosophy, Mawlana was writing books on it far more advanced than books written even in this decade. At that time, when nobody had experienced Communism's darkness, it seemed to people to have a bright future, Mawlana had fully perceived its way and philosophy, and the dark future associated with it which the nation is facing today. He had written and prepared this in the form of epistles, and submitted them to the heedless Afghanistan government and to the people.

Mawlana Faizani was not only a religious scholar, but he possessed such a vast and versatile knowledge in most dimensions that, if you, for example, posed a historical question to him, about a certain nation, such as 'Who are the Arabs?' he would explain it to you from Adam to this instant in detail, even about their past kings, governments and regimes. If you posed a geographical question to him, such as "Where's Japan?" or any other country on the face of the earth, he would explain it to you in such detail as if he had built it himself. But, if you asked him about Islam's history, then you would have to listen to him for forty-eight days, and he would go on and on explaining."

In 1973, cruel President Daoud and the Communists falsely accused him of plotting a coup d'etat and this ended in life imprisonment for him and his chaste-hearted followers.

The continuation of his work and teachings since then, has always been strongly backed up in his established schools all over Afghanistan and in other countries by his students, and led by his honorable son, Ustad Mazhabi.

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