Hujjat al-Islam Professor Khwaja Muhammad Latif Ansari (1887-1979), alternatively spelled Muḥammad Latīf Anṣārī,[1] was a 20th-century Shia Muslim scholar, poet, historian, and cleric from Pakistan.

He served as the Secretary-General of the Punjab Shia Conference (PuSC) under British rule in the 1940s, struggling against the passivity of the organization and its inability to extract annual membership dues and regularly publish its weekly journal, Razâkâr.

[6] Ansari was intensely concerned with the state of Shi'i tabligh in these years, writing and speaking extensively on what this phenomenon's implications for the future of the Shi'ism would be.

[7] In one article from March 1956, he contends the following: During the last half century, the spreading of Shi‘ism was encouraging … in this respect we are grateful to the services of the Shia ‘ulamâ’ … who have spared no efforts in serving as unpaid preachers.

6) There are many countries of the world to which the message of the mazhab-i ahl-i bait has not yet arrived and where there is no hope of nazrâna; with a missionary system we will be able to fulfil our holy duty to spread the message of the Prophet Muhammad and his ahl-i bait to foreign countries … [8]Ansari left South Asia for Kenya in the 1950s, fulfilling his dream of preaching to distant, foreign Shi'i communities that he mentions in the above quote.