Muhammad Ali Mirza


Muhammad Ali Mirza commonly known as Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza is a Pakistani Islamic commentator, preacher, and YouTuber.

Personal life and career

Mirza was born in 1977 in Jhelum, a city in Punjab, Pakistan. He is a 19th grade engineer in a government department.
Mirza gives online lectures where he talks about different religious and social issues and runs a research academy where he imparts religious education. He has been criticized for a number of his speeches which have been deemed as derogatory towards Sahabah, Auliya and traditional scholars by his critics.

Controversy

Mirza was arrested on 4 May 2020 in suspicion of spreading hate speech towards religious scholars.
Pakistani actor Hamza Ali Abbasi and anchor Shafaat Ali posted on social media condemning his arrest. He was later released on 6 May 2020. According to Mirza, one of his lecture was presented out of context. He later cited several books as well as the Qur'an in support of his opinion.

Views

Mirza allegedly opined that present-day Ahmadis are better than the Kitabis. He later denied this and said that his video clips have been taken out of context.