Shaykh-ul-Hadeeth Hazrat Maulana Fida-ur-Rehman Darkhwasti (1939 – 1 January 2020) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar, academic and politician.

[1][2][3] Darkhwasti was born in 1939 to Abdullah Darkhawasti in Khanpur, Rahim Yar Khan District in an strict Islamic Scholar Shariya Arain family.

From the beginning of his education to Dars-i-Nizami, he studied at Jamia Makhzan-ul-Uloom, Eidgah Khanpur, an institution established by his father.

He graduated from the Hadith study in 1957, then remained a lecturer and Nazim-e-Talemat (Administrator of Education) at the same university till 1970, after which he moved to Karachi, where he established an institution called Madrasa Sariyat-ul-Jabal in Qasba Colony, with which He also built a mosque of the same name.

After that he founded Jamia Anwar-ul-Quran in Karachi in the year 1981, in which there are degrees ranging from reading and memorization of Quran to Hadith and specialization.