ISLAMABAD – Martyred Moulana Samiul Haq was born on December 18, 1937 inAkora Khattak, North-West Frontier Province of British India (now KhyberPakhtunkhwa, Pakistan). His father was Moulana Abdul Haq.
He began his education in 1366 AH (1946 or 1947 CE) at Darul UloomHaqqania, which was founded by his father. There he studied fiqh, usulal-fiqh, Arabic literature, logic, Arabic grammar (sarf and nahw), tafsir,and Hadith.
He was well versed in Arabic but also used Urdu, the national language ofPakistan, and the regional language of Pashto.
He was a religious scholar and former Senator. He was member of the Senatefrom 1985 to 1991 and again from 1991 to 1997.
Haq was the chancellor of Darul Uloom Haqqania. Haq served as chairman ofthe Difa-e-Pakistan Council and was the leader of his own faction of theJamiat Ulema-e-Islam political party, known as JUI-S. Samiul Haq was also afounding member of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal.
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He had also served as a member of the Senate. He formed Mutahida DeeniMahaz (United Religious Front), an alliance of relatively smallreligio-political parties, to participate in Pakistani general election,2013.
In the backdrop of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan calling polio-vaccinationun-Islamic and forcing people to quit vaccinating their children, MaulanaSamiul Haq on December 9, 2013, issued a fatwa in favour of poliovaccination. The fatwa says “vaccination against deadly diseases is helpfulin their prevention according to research conducted by renowned medicalspecialists. It adds that the vaccines used against these diseases are inno way harmful”.
