shah wali ullah realised " the renaissance of islam and muslim society cannot be affected until the intellectual life of the muslims is reformed". discuss critically.
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Among Shah Waliullah’s main contributions is the fact that he broke the shackles of taqlid (compulsory adherence to any one of the four main schools of Islamic jurisprudence), which has been the single biggest factor in the intellectual stagnation of Islam.

Shah Waliullah’s main point of departure was the attempt to work out the social basis underlining the Qur’aanic injunctions. The shariah, he pointed out, only aims at the reform of society. But, no shariah takes place in a vacuum. It develops in the context and on the basis of usages and customs of the society concerned. This is also true of the Islamic shariah. The customs of the Arabs, and, among them especially of the tribe of Quraish, constituted the raw material of the shariah of Islam

One of his main desires was to intellectually revive Islamic learning and he did so by emphasising studies in madrassas (Islamic schools), especially his own, Madrassa-i Rahimiyya. Waliullah advocated the strenuous study of the Islamic "sciences of revelation", which comprised studies of the Hadith (the oral tradition of the sayings of the Prophet) and the Qur'an (the Islamic holy scripture). Shah Waliullah attempted to simplify the texts in order to spread their message to Muslims of every educated class. In addition, Waliullah was a powerful advocate of the establishment of Urdu as a mainstream literary and liturgical language, citing it as the lingual link among all Indian Muslims. Shah Waliullah's approach to learning and his Muslim revivalist agenda inspired the Deobandi movement, who claim their scholastic heritage and lineage back to Shah Waliullah).

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