Mufti Taqi Usmani to deliver Friday sermon at Baitul Mukarram on 27 November

Meanwhile, on 27 November (Friday), he will deliver a sermon before Jumma and lead the prayer as imam at the National Mosque Baitul Mukarram.

On Wednesday (11 November), this was stated in the final itinerary in a press release signed by Mufti Mizanur Rahman Sayed, founder of Sheikh Zakaria Islamic Research Centre in Dhaka.

The press release said that due to age-related weakness and physical illness, several changes were made earlier to the schedule of Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani's Bangladesh visit. Later, on 6 November, many important pre-scheduled programmes were cut, and final approval was given to only a few specific programmes.

According to the itinerary, on 22 November, the 15th Dastarbandi and International Islamic Grand Conference will be held at Sheikh Zakaria Islamic Research Centre; on 23 November, the 70th Dastarbandi Grand Conference at Jamea Arabia Faridabad; on 24 November, an Ulama Conference at Darul Uloom Hathazari Madrasa; on 25 November, an Islamic Grand Conference at Sylhet Alia Madrasa grounds; on 26 November, an Ulama Conference organized by Befaq and Hayatul Ulaya; and on 28 November, Dars-e-Bukhari at Jamea Madania Jatrabari. On 27 November at noon, he will deliver the Jumma khutbah and sermon at Baitul Mukarram, and after Isha he will deliver an Islahi sermon at Jamea Hakimul Ummat, Keraniganj.

In the press release, Mufti Mizanur Rahman Sayed called upon clerics and devout worshippers from all walks of life in the country to specially pray for the health and safe journey of Sheikhul Islam.

It may be noted that Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani is one of the top Islamic scholars, jurists and muhaddiths of the contemporary world and one of the architects of modern Islamic economics. Born in 1943 in Deoband, India, this thinker is the worthy son of Pakistan's former Grand Mufti Muhammad Shafi Usmani (RA). He currently serves as the Muhtamim and Sheikhul Hadith of Jamea Darul Uloom Karachi.

Besides, he was a former judge of the Sharia Appellate Bench of the Pakistan Supreme Court and a permanent member of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) of Saudi Arabia. He has more than a hundred timeless books on tafsir, hadith and Islamic economics in Arabic, Urdu and English.