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Place of Birth: Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan
About Farhat Hashmi
- Farhat Hashmi (Urdu: ???? ??????) (born December 22, 1957) is a Pakistani Canadian Islamic scholar, Muslim television preacher, and founder of Al-Huda Institute.She holds a PhD degree in Islamic studies from the University of Glasgow, Scotland and was formerly a lecturer and assistant professor at the Faculty of Usul-al-Din at International Islamic University, Islamabad.
- Hashmi founded Al-Huda International Welfare Foundation in 1994.
- The foundation started a number of schools to teach the Quran and Hadith to women in order to "help women become better observant muslims by helping them understand the Quran".
- The foundation now runs a network of schools, seminaries and social welfare projects.
- In 2004, the foundation established the Al-Huda Institute in Mississauga (Toronto area), Ontario, Canada.
- This institute offers courses on exegesis of the Quran and Hadith and attracts students from a number of foreign countries such as Australia.She has gained popularity as a feminist scholar both in Pakistan and abroad, as evidenced by crowds of up to ten thousand that attend her religious lessons, called "Dars".
- Most followers come from liberal, literate and modern backgrounds; and most are women.
- She has stated that her mission is to bring a renewal in Islam, through better understanding of the core scriptures.
- In contrast to rigid and confrontational styles of proselytising, Hashmi has emphasized the need for her students to engage in voluntarily educating others through their examples.
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