06-09-2007, 01:41 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-09-2007, 01:45 AM by Bharatvarsh.)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Anyways, so many things are said about Khusro - some say he was a bigot who abused Hindu art like Hussain is doing these days (if he tried, at least he seems to have not succeeded). Some say he was very generous and tolerant. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Imam Hanifa criticized by Amir Khusru
Amir Khusru was a contemporary of Qazi Mughis-ud-din. He is presented by the modem Muslims and lionised by the educated Hindus as the pioneer of secularism in India. He had, however, something very specific to say on the status of Hindus vis-à -vis the Islamic state. Happy HindUstAn, he wrote, �the splendour of Religion. where the Law finds perfect honour and security. In learning Dehli can now compete with BokhAra, for IslAm has been made manifest by its kings. The whole country, by means of the sword of our holy warriors, has become like a forest denuded of its thorns by fire. The land has been saturated with the water of the sword, and the vapours of infidelity have been dispersed. The strong men of Hind have been trodden under foot, and all are ready to pay tribute. IslAm is triumphant, idolatry is subdued. Had not the law [of Imam Hanifa] granted exemption from death by the payment of poll-tax, the very name of hind, root and branch, would have been extinguished. From GhaznI to the shore of the ocean you see all under the domination of IslAm. Cawing crows5 see no arrows pointed at them; nor is the TarsA (Christian) there, who does not fear (taras) to render the servant equal with Allah; nor the Jew who dares to exalt the Pentateuch to a level with the KurAn; nor the Magh who is delighted with the worship of fire, but of whom the fire complains with its hundred tongues. The four sects of MusulmAns are at amity and the very fish are SunnIs.�6
It has to be remembered that Amir Khusru was one of the foremost disciples of Nizam-ud-din Awliya of Delhi who is counted among the five great sufis of the Chishtiyya school. He is himself regarded as an outstanding sufi on whose mazAr in Delhi urs is held every year. His Hindi verses are cited as a proof positive of his love for the land of his birth. But what the Amir says about Hindustan and Hindus speaks volumes about sufis and Sufism. The few �educated� Hindus who admit that Prophetic Islam is �somewhat fanatic�, believe that Sufistic Islam is �large-hearted and liberal�. The Chishtiyya school of Sufism in particular is supposed to have �built bridges between the two communities�.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The literary sources, like epigraphic, provide evidence of the elation which Muslims felt while witnessing or narrating these �pious deeds.� A few citations from Amir Khusru will illustrate the point. The instances cited relate to the doings of Jalalud-Din Firuz Khalji, Alaud-Din Khalji and the letter�s military commanders. Khusru served as a court-poet of sex successive sultans at Delhi and wrote a masnavi in praise of each. He was the dearest disciple of Shaikh Nizamud-Din Awliya and has come to be honoured as some sort of a sufi himself. In our own times, he is being hailed is the father of a composite Hindu-Muslim culture and the pioneer of secularism. Dr. R. C. Majumdar, whom the Marxists malign as a �communalist historian� names him as a �liberal Muslim�.
1. Jhain: �Next morning he (Jalalud-Din) went again to the temples and ordered their destruction� While the soldiers sought every opportunity of plundering, the Shah was engaged in burning the temples and destroying the idols. There were two bronze idols of Brahma, each of which weighed more than a thousand mans. These were broken into pieces and the fragments were distributed among the officers, with orders to throw them down at the gates of the Masjid on their return (to Delhi)� (Miftah-ul-Futuh).
2. Devagiri: �He (Alaud-Din) destroyed the temples of the idolaters and erected pulpits and arches for mosques� (Ibid.).
3. Somanath: �They made the temple prostrate itself towards the Kaaba. You may say that the temple first offered its prayers and then had a bath (i.e. the temple was made to topple and fall into the sea)� He (Ulugh Khan) destroyed all the idols and temples, but sent one idol, the biggest of all idols, to the court of his Godlike Majesty and on that account in that ancient stronghold of idolatry, the summons to prayers was proclaimed so loudly that they heard it in Misr (Egypt) and Madain (Iraq)� (Tarikh-i-Alai).
4. Delhi: �He (Alaud-Din) ordered the circumference of the new minar to be made double of the old one (Qutb Minar)� The stones were dug out from the hills and the temples of the infidels were demolished to furnish a supply� (Ibid.).
5. Ranthambhor: �This strong fort was taken by the slaughter of the stinking Rai. Jhain was also captured, an iron fort, an ancient abode of idolatry, and a new city of the people of the faith arose. The temple of Bahir (Bhairava) Deo and temples of other gods, were all razed to the ground� (Ibid.).
6. Brahmastpuri (Chidambaram): �Here he (Malik Kafur) heard that in Bramastpuri there was a golden idol� He then determined on razing the temple to the ground� It was the holy place of the Hindus which the Malik dug up from its foundations with the greatest care, and the heads of brahmans and idolaters danced from their necks and fell to the ground at their feet, and blood flowed in torrents. The stone idols called Ling Mahadeo, which had been established a long time at the place and on which the women of the infidels rubbed their vaginas for (sexual) satisfaction, these, up to this time, the kick of the horse of Islam had not attempted to break. The Musulmans destroyed in the lings and Deo Narain fell down, and other gods who had fixed their seats there raised feet and jumped so high that at one leap they reached the fort of Lanka, and in that affright the lings themselves would have fled had they had any legs to stand on� (Ibid).
7. Madura: �They found the city empty for the Rai had fled with the Ranis, but had left two or three hundred elephants in the temple of Jagnar (Jagannatha). The elephants were captured and the temple burnt� (Ibid.).
8. Fatan: (Pattan): �There was another rai in these parts �a Brahmin named Pandya Guru� his capital was Fatan, where there was a temple with an idol in it laden with jewels. The rai fled when the army of the Sultan arrived at Fatan� They then struck the idol with an iron hatchet, and opened its head. Although it was the very Qibla of the accursed infidels, it kissed the earth and filled the holy treasury� (Ashiqa).
9. Ma�bar: (Parts of South India): �On the right hand and on the left hand the army has conquered from sea to sea, and several capitals of the gods of the Hindus, in which Satanism has prevailed since the time of the Jinns, have been demolished. All these impurities of infidelity have been cleansed by the Sultan�s destruction of idol-temples, beginning with his first holy expedition to Deogir, so that the flames of the light of the Law (of Islam) illumine all these unholy countries, and places for the criers of prayers are exalted on high, and prayers are read in mosques. Allah be praised!� (Tarikh-i-Alai).
http://voi.org/books/htemples1/ch2.htm<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Imam Hanifa criticized by Amir Khusru
Amir Khusru was a contemporary of Qazi Mughis-ud-din. He is presented by the modem Muslims and lionised by the educated Hindus as the pioneer of secularism in India. He had, however, something very specific to say on the status of Hindus vis-à -vis the Islamic state. Happy HindUstAn, he wrote, �the splendour of Religion. where the Law finds perfect honour and security. In learning Dehli can now compete with BokhAra, for IslAm has been made manifest by its kings. The whole country, by means of the sword of our holy warriors, has become like a forest denuded of its thorns by fire. The land has been saturated with the water of the sword, and the vapours of infidelity have been dispersed. The strong men of Hind have been trodden under foot, and all are ready to pay tribute. IslAm is triumphant, idolatry is subdued. Had not the law [of Imam Hanifa] granted exemption from death by the payment of poll-tax, the very name of hind, root and branch, would have been extinguished. From GhaznI to the shore of the ocean you see all under the domination of IslAm. Cawing crows5 see no arrows pointed at them; nor is the TarsA (Christian) there, who does not fear (taras) to render the servant equal with Allah; nor the Jew who dares to exalt the Pentateuch to a level with the KurAn; nor the Magh who is delighted with the worship of fire, but of whom the fire complains with its hundred tongues. The four sects of MusulmAns are at amity and the very fish are SunnIs.�6
It has to be remembered that Amir Khusru was one of the foremost disciples of Nizam-ud-din Awliya of Delhi who is counted among the five great sufis of the Chishtiyya school. He is himself regarded as an outstanding sufi on whose mazAr in Delhi urs is held every year. His Hindi verses are cited as a proof positive of his love for the land of his birth. But what the Amir says about Hindustan and Hindus speaks volumes about sufis and Sufism. The few �educated� Hindus who admit that Prophetic Islam is �somewhat fanatic�, believe that Sufistic Islam is �large-hearted and liberal�. The Chishtiyya school of Sufism in particular is supposed to have �built bridges between the two communities�.
http://voiceofdharma.org/books/tcqp/chi7.htm#5<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The literary sources, like epigraphic, provide evidence of the elation which Muslims felt while witnessing or narrating these �pious deeds.� A few citations from Amir Khusru will illustrate the point. The instances cited relate to the doings of Jalalud-Din Firuz Khalji, Alaud-Din Khalji and the letter�s military commanders. Khusru served as a court-poet of sex successive sultans at Delhi and wrote a masnavi in praise of each. He was the dearest disciple of Shaikh Nizamud-Din Awliya and has come to be honoured as some sort of a sufi himself. In our own times, he is being hailed is the father of a composite Hindu-Muslim culture and the pioneer of secularism. Dr. R. C. Majumdar, whom the Marxists malign as a �communalist historian� names him as a �liberal Muslim�.
1. Jhain: �Next morning he (Jalalud-Din) went again to the temples and ordered their destruction� While the soldiers sought every opportunity of plundering, the Shah was engaged in burning the temples and destroying the idols. There were two bronze idols of Brahma, each of which weighed more than a thousand mans. These were broken into pieces and the fragments were distributed among the officers, with orders to throw them down at the gates of the Masjid on their return (to Delhi)� (Miftah-ul-Futuh).
2. Devagiri: �He (Alaud-Din) destroyed the temples of the idolaters and erected pulpits and arches for mosques� (Ibid.).
3. Somanath: �They made the temple prostrate itself towards the Kaaba. You may say that the temple first offered its prayers and then had a bath (i.e. the temple was made to topple and fall into the sea)� He (Ulugh Khan) destroyed all the idols and temples, but sent one idol, the biggest of all idols, to the court of his Godlike Majesty and on that account in that ancient stronghold of idolatry, the summons to prayers was proclaimed so loudly that they heard it in Misr (Egypt) and Madain (Iraq)� (Tarikh-i-Alai).
4. Delhi: �He (Alaud-Din) ordered the circumference of the new minar to be made double of the old one (Qutb Minar)� The stones were dug out from the hills and the temples of the infidels were demolished to furnish a supply� (Ibid.).
5. Ranthambhor: �This strong fort was taken by the slaughter of the stinking Rai. Jhain was also captured, an iron fort, an ancient abode of idolatry, and a new city of the people of the faith arose. The temple of Bahir (Bhairava) Deo and temples of other gods, were all razed to the ground� (Ibid.).
6. Brahmastpuri (Chidambaram): �Here he (Malik Kafur) heard that in Bramastpuri there was a golden idol� He then determined on razing the temple to the ground� It was the holy place of the Hindus which the Malik dug up from its foundations with the greatest care, and the heads of brahmans and idolaters danced from their necks and fell to the ground at their feet, and blood flowed in torrents. The stone idols called Ling Mahadeo, which had been established a long time at the place and on which the women of the infidels rubbed their vaginas for (sexual) satisfaction, these, up to this time, the kick of the horse of Islam had not attempted to break. The Musulmans destroyed in the lings and Deo Narain fell down, and other gods who had fixed their seats there raised feet and jumped so high that at one leap they reached the fort of Lanka, and in that affright the lings themselves would have fled had they had any legs to stand on� (Ibid).
7. Madura: �They found the city empty for the Rai had fled with the Ranis, but had left two or three hundred elephants in the temple of Jagnar (Jagannatha). The elephants were captured and the temple burnt� (Ibid.).
8. Fatan: (Pattan): �There was another rai in these parts �a Brahmin named Pandya Guru� his capital was Fatan, where there was a temple with an idol in it laden with jewels. The rai fled when the army of the Sultan arrived at Fatan� They then struck the idol with an iron hatchet, and opened its head. Although it was the very Qibla of the accursed infidels, it kissed the earth and filled the holy treasury� (Ashiqa).
9. Ma�bar: (Parts of South India): �On the right hand and on the left hand the army has conquered from sea to sea, and several capitals of the gods of the Hindus, in which Satanism has prevailed since the time of the Jinns, have been demolished. All these impurities of infidelity have been cleansed by the Sultan�s destruction of idol-temples, beginning with his first holy expedition to Deogir, so that the flames of the light of the Law (of Islam) illumine all these unholy countries, and places for the criers of prayers are exalted on high, and prayers are read in mosques. Allah be praised!� (Tarikh-i-Alai).
http://voi.org/books/htemples1/ch2.htm<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->