ISLAM IN A CHANGING WORLD
past who had won the land for Islam. It also meant the invalidation of the labours of Khwaja
Moin Uddin Chisti and his pure hearted disciples who had on the one hand preached the
message of love and humanity and social justice to the people and, on the other, provided
moral and spiritual guidance to rulers to run the country as conscientious, true-hearted and
God-fearing servants of the country. This was not all, for this revolution threatened to destroy
the entire educational system and intellectual fabric of the land which had been laboriously
built up by these men of God.
What happened next? A star rose not from the political or materialistic horizon but from the
celestial skyline of Faith and spirituality which always comes to the aid of falling humanity,
in the person of Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi Mujaddid Alf Thani (971-1034 AH), who was paid a
tribute by Iqbal in these words:
He was the custodian of Millat’s wealth in Ind,
Whom Allah had awakened at high time.
Before Jahangir who refused to bend his neck,
His breath was a touch to the quick.
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