12-02-2005, 08:57 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-rajesh_g+Dec 1 2005, 07:57 PM-->QUOTE(rajesh_g @ Dec 1 2005, 07:57 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->An interesting quote I ran into..
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->2. On Mussalmans (of Eastern Punjab)
"In the eastern portion of the Punjab the faith of Islam, in anything like its original purity, was till quite lately to be found only among the Saiyads, Pathans, Arabs and other Mussalmans of foreign origin, who are for the most part settled in towns. The so-called Mussalmans of the villages were Mussalmans in little but name. They practiced circumcision, repeated the Kalimah, or mahomadan profession of faith, and worshipped the village deities. <b>But after the Mutiny a great revival took place. Mahomadan priests traveled far and wide through the country preaching the true faith, and calling upon believers to abandon their idolatrous practices⦠But the villager of the East is still a very bad Mussalman⦠As Mr. Channing puts it, the Mussalman of the villages âobserves the feasts of both religions and the fasts of neither.</b>"<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
http://www.esamskriti.com/html/new_inside....d=170&count1=13
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Not unsurprising as hindu cultural practices were widely practiced by Indian muslims until the Tabligh movement set in the early 20th century by Mawlana Muhammad Ilyas.
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->2. On Mussalmans (of Eastern Punjab)
"In the eastern portion of the Punjab the faith of Islam, in anything like its original purity, was till quite lately to be found only among the Saiyads, Pathans, Arabs and other Mussalmans of foreign origin, who are for the most part settled in towns. The so-called Mussalmans of the villages were Mussalmans in little but name. They practiced circumcision, repeated the Kalimah, or mahomadan profession of faith, and worshipped the village deities. <b>But after the Mutiny a great revival took place. Mahomadan priests traveled far and wide through the country preaching the true faith, and calling upon believers to abandon their idolatrous practices⦠But the villager of the East is still a very bad Mussalman⦠As Mr. Channing puts it, the Mussalman of the villages âobserves the feasts of both religions and the fasts of neither.</b>"<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
http://www.esamskriti.com/html/new_inside....d=170&count1=13
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Not unsurprising as hindu cultural practices were widely practiced by Indian muslims until the Tabligh movement set in the early 20th century by Mawlana Muhammad Ilyas.