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Allama Kaukab Noorani Okarvi

Allama Kaukab Noorani Okarvi (Born 17 August 1957) is an Islamic scholar, researcher, orator, writer and cleric of Ahle-Sunnat Wa Jamaa’at Sunni (Barelvi). He is known as Khateeb-e-Millat (“Orator of the Nation”) by his followers.

He is the son of Khateeb-e-A’zam Muhammad Shafi Okarvi (رحمۃ اللہ علیہ).

Early life and education

Okarvi was born in Karachi, Pakistan. Before his birth in a family of eleven brothers and sisters, His two eldest brothers had passed away.[citation needed] He is from a business family of Yemani Shaeikhs which converted to Islam due to Abu Bakr.[citation needed] The members of his family came to India for business and settled there hundreds of years ago.

His elders were mostly businessmen by profession but personally they had spiritual temperament in nature.

In his book, Deoband to Bareilly he writes, “To tell you the truth, I am a mere seeker of knowledge in the fields of religion, spirituality, and scholast