Shafiq-Uz-Zaman Khan

In 1990,a competition in Saudi Arabia aimed at choosing an artist to restore 133-year-old calligraphy work of great calligrapher Abdullah Zuhdi at Al-Masjid an-Nabawi Khan was selected.Zuhdi started painting at the mosque in 1857 during the reign of Abdulmejid I, an Ottoman ruler and himself an accomplished calligrapher. He on the old structure of the Masjid Nabwi the second holiest site for Muslims and created fresh designs for new structures added to the building.[4] At the time, Khan made a living painting billboards and hoardings and the organizers of the competition at first refused to register him for the contest, saying he was not a professional calligrapher. But not only did Khan manage to convince them that his passion for the craft deserved a shot, he eventually went on to win the contest and embark on a lifelong journey of restoring calligraphic works at what is now one of the largest mosques in the world.[5][6]

The Basmala in an 18th-century Islamic calligraphy from the Ottoman region, Thuluth script

Today, after nearly half a century in Saudi Arabia, eighty-five percent of the work on the walls of the Prophet's Mosque Al-Masjid an-Nabawi is handwritten by Shafiq al-Zaman, even through on the door Baab-al-Salaam gate of Masjid Nabvi[7][8][9]

• first prize in the First International Arabic Calligraphy Competition 2012

Shafiq-Uz-Zaman Khan won first prize in the First International Arabic Calligraphy Competition organized in Makkah.[10]

• Presidential Pride of Performance تمغائے حسن کارکردگی in Pakistan in 2014.[11]