Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi (10 February 1910 – 13 March 1987) was an Indian Muslim scholar, jurist, literary critic, and a poet of the Urdu language, who served as the rector of Madrasa Aminia from 1955 to 1979.
He participated in the Indian freedom struggle movement and authored books such as Adabī bhūl bhulayyān̲, Urdū Masdar Nāmā and Taz̲kirah-yi Sā'il.
[1][2] He studied at the Madrasa Aminia with his father Kifayatullah Dehlawi and scholars including Khuda Bakhsh and Abdul Ghafoor Aarif Dehalvi.
"[6] Wasif started his career as a teacher of Arabic language and literature in the Government of Delhi's education department.
[14] Pakistani historian Abu Salman Shahjahanpuri has regarded this as his major academic, political, religious and living work.