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Muslim Reformist Movements
Mujadad Alf Sani
Sheikh Ahmad Sirhindi
Brief Life History
Birth 26th June 1564, Sirhind in East Punajb. Named Ahmed and title was Badr-ul-Dir
S/o Sheikh Abdul Ahad uptio Hazrat Umer Farooq
Read Quran, Hadith and Fiqh from father and Maulana Kamal and Maulana Yaqub Kashmiri
Journey to Agra and met with Fazl and Faizi
Journey to Delhi and met with Hazrat Khawaja Baqi Billah Bairang
Died in 10th December 1624 in Sirhin
Quotation
Hazrat Khwaja Baqi Billah predicted
“Sheikh Ahmad is such a light which will illuminate the whole world”
Service to Islam
Origin of Concept of Wahdatul Shahood against Mohayyudin Ibn-e-Arabi’s concept
Efforts against Bhakti Movement and Deen-e-Ilahi
The Bhakti movement is a Hindu religious movement in which the main spiritual practice is loving devotion among the Vaishnava saints.
Bhakti Movement
The history of the movement goes back to the time of great reformer Shankracharya who gave Hinduism a solid philosophical background. But the movement became popular in the middle ages. Chaitanya led the movement in the east( modern Uttar Pradesh), Tuka Ram, Nam Dev and Tirlochan in the Central India, Sadna, Pipa, Mirabai, Tulsi Das and above all Kabir were its leaders in the north. Kabir’s teachings had great influence in the Punjab, but actually the movement in the Punjab was led by Guru Nanak and his nine successors. The message of love and devotion to god was spread among the people of the Punjab for ten generations. This intense and organized propaganda of the Bhakti cult by the Sikh Gurus led to the foundation of a community of Bhaktas known as the Sikhs.
Quotation
“To consider Ram and Rehman as one is stupidity because creator cannot be one with its creation”
Reformation Efforts
Transfer of Kingdom to Prince Saleem (Jehangir)
Connection with Dignitaries specially with Ameer Nawab Jahan Khan
“You can add the abiding by of Shariat in your services and do the work of prophets which will exalt the religion. Begars like us cannot reach anywhere near you even if we try for yers with our lives”
Imprisonment by Jehangir in Gwaliar for one year but later recdeived Khilat-e-Fakhira and 1000 rupess
Promotion of Naqshbandia Chain
Reformin Scholars and Mystics
Oppsition of Bidaat
Reformation through Documents
Starting of two-nation theory
Concept of Government (Amir Sheikh Farid Bukhari
“The position of a king is the same as that of the heart in the body, if the heart is pure the body will be pure and if the heart is not pure how an the body be pure.”
Effect of Teachings
Differentiation of Kurf and Islam (Ram and Rahman, Kaaba and Kaashi, Quran and Paran)
Dominance of Islam
Opposing United Nationnhood
Advise on Shariat
Shariat’s superirority to Myticism
Quotations
“Kashf and revelation get value through the book of Allah and Sunnah and not through wajd”
“If Muslims want to live as a nation than they have to quit the talk of shirk and Bidat and stay separate from Hindus. If the awareness of separate national identity is not awakened in Muslims than it is feared that they would be swept away with the flood of combined nationhood. Islam would become observed in the soil of and would be destroyed like Buddhism and other religion which have been observed in Hinduism.”