Present Pakistan United Kingdom Bangladesh Sri Lanka South Africa Ghulam Ali Okarvi (Punjabi, Urdu: غلام علی اوکاڑوی; 11 June 1919 CE or 20 Ramadan 1337 AH – 16 May 2000 CE or 11 Safar 1421 AH) was an Islamic scholar, orator, jurist, muhadis, mufasir, and linguist from Pakistan.

Ghulam Ali was born in the small village of Babanian near Lalamusa, Gujrat in British India.

[citation needed] Furthermore, he was greatly influenced by different scholars of his era, including Naeem ud Deen Muradabadi, Ahmed Yaar Khan Naeemi, Abul Hasanat Qadri, Syed Muhammad Ashrafi, etc.

He studied in Lahore with Abul Barakat Syed Ahmad Qadri[1] from Hizb ul Ahnaf who gave him the title "Shaikh ul-Quran", later adopted by others.

[3] In 1964, he, along with other scholars, declared that to assign the office of the Head of the State to a female is "un-Islamic and Haram," and "destructive" for the country and the nation.