Tafseer Surah Naas part 1 mufti taqi usmani

Muhammad Taqi Usmani (Urdu: محمد تقی عثمانی‬‎, Muhammad Taqī ‘Usmāni, born 5 October 1943) (also spelled Uthmani) is a Deobandi Hanafi Islamic scholar from Pakistan.[2] He served as a judge on the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan from 1981 to 1982 and the Shariat Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan between 1982 and 2002.[2] He is an expert in the fields of Islamic Jurisprudence (fiqh), economics, Tasawwuf, and hadith. He also held a number of positions on the Shariah Boards of prestigious Islamic institutions,[2] and was instrumental in the writing of the Hudood Ordinances under General Zia ul-Haq.[3] He is the brother of Islamic scholars Muhammad Rafi Usmani, Muhammad Wali Razi, and Muhammad Razi Usmani, as well as of the Urdu poet Muhammad Zaki Kaifi.[citation needed] He has written translations of the Qur'an in both English and Urdu.[2]