08-14-2003, 10:02 AM
Shah waliullah - whose curriculum is taught in all madrasas is an important figure in Indian history . He is responsible for much of the backwardness of the muslim in India today. The birth of Pakistan and the problems India is having with the Islamist minorities is in large part due to a few people among whom Shah Waliullah ranks very high.
[url="http://www.bharatvani.org/books/muslimsep/ch6.htm"]http://www.bharatvani.org/books/muslimsep/ch6.htm[/url]
But Rizvi has summarized them in the following words from Waliullah's magnum
opus in Arabic, Hujjat-Allah al-Baligha: "According to Shah Wali-Allah the
mark of the perfect implementation of the Sharia was the performance of
jihad. There were people, said the Shah, who indulged in their lower nature
by following their ancestral religion, ignoring the advice and commands of
the Prophet Mohammed. If one chose to explain Islam to people like this it
was to do them a disservice. Force, said the Shah, was the better course -
Islam should be forced down their throats like bitter medicine to a child.
This, however, was possible only if the leaders of the non-Muslim
communities who failed to accept Islam were killed, the strength of the
community was reduced, their property confiscated and a situation was
created which led to their followers and descendants willingly accepting
Islam. Another means of ensuring conversions was to prevent other religious
communities from worshipping their own gods. Moreover, unfavourable
discriminating laws should be imposed on non-Muslims in matters of rule of
retaliation, compensation for manslaughter, and marriage and political
matters. However, the proselytization programme of Shah Wali-Allah only
included the leaders of the Hindu community. The low class of the infidels,
according to him, were to be left alone to work in the fields and for paying
jiziya. They like beasts of burden and agricultural livestock were to be
kept in abject misery and despair."3
Shah Waliullah was son of Shah Abdur Rahim, a sufi who was employed by
Aurangzeb for compiling the Fatãwa-i-Ãlamgîrî. Those who have illusions
about Sufism will do well to study this master-piece of the sufi mind. The
son was also a sufi. But instead of turning to Rumi or Attar or Hafiz, he
chose Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni as his hero. According to the Shah, Mahmud was
the greatest figure in the history of Islam after the first four caliphs. He
accused the historians of Islam of failing to recognise the fact that Mahmud
's horoscope had been identical with that of the Prophet, and that Mahmud
had won as many and as significant victories in jihãd as the Prophet
himself.
Waliullah had travelled all the way to Mecca and Medina - a difficult and
dangerous undertaking in his days - and studied under half a dozen Sufis and
savants of 'Islamic sciences', only to 'discover' and declare what the
meanest mullah in the most obscure village mosque in India had been mouthing
for more than a thousand years. He himself wrote as many as 43 books between
1732 and 1762 - thirty thoughtful years - only to re-echo the routine
ravings of a thousand theologians who had continued to thunder ever since
the advent of Islam in this country! He wrote hundreds of letters to his
contemporary Muslim monarchs and mercenaries, including Ahmad Shah Abdali,
whom he considered to be the saviours of Islam in India, only to convey the
conventional Islamic message which all of them
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3. To Najibuddaulah
.There are three groups in Hindustan which are known for the qualities of
fanaticism and zeal. So long as these three are not exterminated, no king
can feel secure, nor any noble. The people (read Muslims) also will not be
able to live in peace.
Religious as well as worldly interests dictate that soon after winning the
war with the Marhatahs, you should turn towards the forts of the Jats, and
conquer them with the blessings from the hidden (occult) world. Next is the
turn of the Sikhs. This group should also be defeated, while waiting for
grace from Allah.
.I appeal to you in the name of Allah and his Prophet that you should not
cast your eye on the property of any Muslim. If you take care in this
regard, there is hope that the doors of victory will be opened to you one
after another. But if this caution is ignored, I fear that the wails of the
oppressed may become obstacles in the way towards your goal
[url="http://www.bharatvani.org/books/muslimsep/ch6.htm"]http://www.bharatvani.org/books/muslimsep/ch6.htm[/url]
But Rizvi has summarized them in the following words from Waliullah's magnum
opus in Arabic, Hujjat-Allah al-Baligha: "According to Shah Wali-Allah the
mark of the perfect implementation of the Sharia was the performance of
jihad. There were people, said the Shah, who indulged in their lower nature
by following their ancestral religion, ignoring the advice and commands of
the Prophet Mohammed. If one chose to explain Islam to people like this it
was to do them a disservice. Force, said the Shah, was the better course -
Islam should be forced down their throats like bitter medicine to a child.
This, however, was possible only if the leaders of the non-Muslim
communities who failed to accept Islam were killed, the strength of the
community was reduced, their property confiscated and a situation was
created which led to their followers and descendants willingly accepting
Islam. Another means of ensuring conversions was to prevent other religious
communities from worshipping their own gods. Moreover, unfavourable
discriminating laws should be imposed on non-Muslims in matters of rule of
retaliation, compensation for manslaughter, and marriage and political
matters. However, the proselytization programme of Shah Wali-Allah only
included the leaders of the Hindu community. The low class of the infidels,
according to him, were to be left alone to work in the fields and for paying
jiziya. They like beasts of burden and agricultural livestock were to be
kept in abject misery and despair."3
Shah Waliullah was son of Shah Abdur Rahim, a sufi who was employed by
Aurangzeb for compiling the Fatãwa-i-Ãlamgîrî. Those who have illusions
about Sufism will do well to study this master-piece of the sufi mind. The
son was also a sufi. But instead of turning to Rumi or Attar or Hafiz, he
chose Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni as his hero. According to the Shah, Mahmud was
the greatest figure in the history of Islam after the first four caliphs. He
accused the historians of Islam of failing to recognise the fact that Mahmud
's horoscope had been identical with that of the Prophet, and that Mahmud
had won as many and as significant victories in jihãd as the Prophet
himself.
Waliullah had travelled all the way to Mecca and Medina - a difficult and
dangerous undertaking in his days - and studied under half a dozen Sufis and
savants of 'Islamic sciences', only to 'discover' and declare what the
meanest mullah in the most obscure village mosque in India had been mouthing
for more than a thousand years. He himself wrote as many as 43 books between
1732 and 1762 - thirty thoughtful years - only to re-echo the routine
ravings of a thousand theologians who had continued to thunder ever since
the advent of Islam in this country! He wrote hundreds of letters to his
contemporary Muslim monarchs and mercenaries, including Ahmad Shah Abdali,
whom he considered to be the saviours of Islam in India, only to convey the
conventional Islamic message which all of them
---------
3. To Najibuddaulah
.There are three groups in Hindustan which are known for the qualities of
fanaticism and zeal. So long as these three are not exterminated, no king
can feel secure, nor any noble. The people (read Muslims) also will not be
able to live in peace.
Religious as well as worldly interests dictate that soon after winning the
war with the Marhatahs, you should turn towards the forts of the Jats, and
conquer them with the blessings from the hidden (occult) world. Next is the
turn of the Sikhs. This group should also be defeated, while waiting for
grace from Allah.
.I appeal to you in the name of Allah and his Prophet that you should not
cast your eye on the property of any Muslim. If you take care in this
regard, there is hope that the doors of victory will be opened to you one
after another. But if this caution is ignored, I fear that the wails of the
oppressed may become obstacles in the way towards your goal