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Sunday, 12 February 2017

Thoughts and powers. This revolution was to nullify the efforts of all those conquerors of the
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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A New Challenge to ISLAM?

Islam has experienced many an apostatic upsurge during the course of its history. The most
powerful of them was the one that manifested itself among the Arab tribes soon after the
Prophet’s death. By this we mean the mightily rebellious movement that was nipped in the
bud by Caliph Abu Bakr through his matchless courage and strength of will. The then, again,
the second great onslaught of apostasy within Islam was the widespread swing towards
Christianity with the expulsion of the Muslims from Spain. This stole into other countries too
that were then under the demonation of the Western Christian powers, and was actively
supported and encouraged by Christian missionaries. Apart from these well-known episodes,
there are also some stray instances such as that of a few faint-hearted Muslims going over to
some other faith in India. But such cases have been very rare, and the fact is that with the
exception of the large-scale conversion of Muslims to Christianity in Spain, if it can be
described as an apostatic movement, the general opinion of Islamic historians is that the
Muslim millat has never seriously had to encounter a general threat of apostasy