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http://drabutamim.blogspot.com/2011/...n-mawlana.html

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Replying to a question Maulana Rashid Gangohi once stated, "Shariat has become part of my being, The tiniest of doubts relating to any matter concerning deem has been eliminated, Neither Praise nor criticism affect me. "
A comment on the post on my blog.

[sPncEjF7]

Ok? so you are trying to show-off your block, about these people? Can you explain, so everyone understands? Who is this sindhi?

[itititit]

Ok? so you are trying to show-off your block, about these people? Can you explain, so everyone understands? Who is this sindhi?

Can you write in intelligible English, Ameer al Mu'mineen? Your post appears to be telepathic in content. What is block?

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Biography Of Mawlana Sindhi:

Early Life

Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi (10 March 1872-22 August 1944) was a noted pan-Islamic leader a political activist of the Indian independence movement.

Ubaidullah was born on March 10, 1872 to a Sikh family at Chilanwali, in the district of Sialkot (now in Pakistan). His father Ram Singh Zargar died 4 months Ubaidullah was born, and the child Unaidullah was raised for the first years of his life under the care of his grandfather.

Following the latter’s death when Ubaidullah was two years of age, he was taken by his mother to the care of his maternal grandfather’s house.

Ubaidullah, was after sometime, entrusted to the care of his uncle at Jampur when his grandfather died. It was at Jampur that young Ubaidullah received his initial secular education.

Islam and Deoband

Ubaidullah converted to Islam early in his life and later enrolled in the Darul Uloom Deoband.

When he was at school, a Hindu friend gave him a book “Tuhfatul Hind” to read. It was written by a convert scholar Maulan Ubaidullah of Malerkotla. After reading this book and others, Ubaidullah’s interest in Islam grew, leading eventually to his conversion to Islam.

In 1887, the year os his conversion, he left for Sindh where he was taken as a student by Hafiz Muhammad Siddque of Chawinda. He subsequently studied at Deen Pur under Maulana Ghulam Muhammad where he delved deeper into Islamic education and training in mystical order.

In 1888 Ubaidullah was admitted to Darul Uloom Deoband, where he studied various islamic disciplines at depth under the tutelage of noted Islamic scholars of the time, including Maulana Abu Siraj, Maulana Rasheed Gangohi and Maulana Mahmud al Hasan. He took lessons in Bukhari and Tirmidhi from Maulana Nazeer Husain Dehlvi and read Logic and Philosophy from Maulana Ahmad Hasan Cawnpuri.

In 1891, Ubaidullah graduated from the Deoband school. He left for Sukkhur, and started teaching in Amrote Shareef. He married at this time the daughter of Maulana Azeemullah Khan, a teacher at Islamiyah High School.

In 1901, Ubaidullah established the Darul Irshaad in Goth Peer Jhanda in Sindh. He worked on propagating his school for nearly seven years. In l909, requested by Mahmud al Hasan, Ubaidullah returned to Deoband. Here, he accomplished much for the student body, Jamiatul Ansaar.

Ubaidullah was at this time very active in covert anti-British propaganda activities, which led to him alieniating a large part of the Deoband leaders. Subsequently, Ubaidullah moved his work to Delhi at Hasan’s request. At Delhi, he worked with Hakeem Ajmal Khan and Dr. Ansari. In 1912, he established a madrassah, Nazzaaratul Ma’arif which achieved much in the field of propagating Islam.

Pan-Islamic Movement and the Focus on Freedom of India

Ubaidullah gradually involved himself in the pan-Islamic movement. During World War I, he was amongst the leaders of the Deoband school who, led by Maulana Mahmud al Hasan, left India to seek support of the Central Powers for a Pan-Islmaic revolution in India in what came to be known as the Silk Letter Conspiracy.

Ubaidullah reached Kabul during the war to rally the Afghan Amir Habibullah Khan, and after brief period, he offered his support to Raja Mahendra Pratap’s plans for revolution in India with German support.

He joined the Provisional Government of India formed in Kabul in December 1915, and remained in Afghanistan till the end of the war, and left for Russia. He subsequently spent two years in Turkey and, passing through many countries, eventually reached Hijaz (Saudi Arabia) where he spent about fourteen years learning and pondering over the philosophy of Islam especially in the light of Shah Waliullah’s works.

He was one of the most active and prominent members of the faction of Indian Freedom Movement led by Muslim Clergy chiefly from Islamic School of Deoband. Ubaidullah Sindhi died on August 22, 1944. (Source: Wikipedia)

Afghanistan

With the onset of the World War I, efforts emerged from the Darul Uloom Deoband to forward the cause of Pan-Islam in India with the help of the Central Powers. Led by Mahmud al Hasan, plans were chalked out for an insurrection beginning in the tribal belt of North-west India.

Mahmud al Hasan, left India to seek the help of Galib Pasha, the Turkish governor of Hijaz, while at Hasan’s directions Ubaidullah Sindhi proceeded to Kabul to seek the Emir Habibullah’s support. The initial plans were to raise an Islamic army (Hizb Allah) headquartered at Medina, with an Indian contingent at Kabul. Maulana Hasan was to be the General-in-chief of this army.

Ubaidullah himself was preceded to Kabul by some of his students. While at Kabul, Ubaid Ullah came to the conclusion that focussing on the Indian Freedom Movement would best serve the pan-Islamic cause. Ubaidullah’s proposed to the Afghan Emir that he declare war against Britain.

Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi and Mahmud al Hasan (principle of the Darul Uloom Deoband) had proceeded to Kabul in October 1915 with plans to initiate a Muslim insurrection in the tribal belt of India. For this purpose, Ubaidallah was to propose that the Amir of Afghanistan declares war against Britain while Mahmud al Hasan sought German and Turkish help. Hasan proceeded to Hijaz.

In late 1915, Sindhi was met in Kabul by the Niedermayer-Hentig Expedition sent by the Indian independence committee in Berlin and the German war ministry. Nominally led by the exiled Indian prince Raja Mahendra Pratap, it had among its members the Islamic scholar Maulavi Barkatullah, the German officers Werner Otto von Hentig and Oskar Niedermayer, as well as a number of other notable individuals. The expedition tried to rally Emir Habibullah to the Central powers and through him begin a campaign into India, which it was hoped would initiate a rebellion in India.

On December 1, 1915, the Provisional Government of India was founded at Habibullah’s Bagh-e-Babur palace in the presence of the Indian, German and Turkish members of the expedition and friends. It was declared a revolutionary government-in-exile which was to take charge of independent India when British authority had been overthrown. Mahendra Pratap was proclaimed President, Barkatullah the Prime minister, Ubaidullah Sindhi the Minister for India, another Deobandi leader Maulavi Bashir its war Minister, and Champakaran Pillai the Foreign Minister. It obtained support from Galib Pasha and proclaimed Jihad against Britain. Recognition was sought from Tsarist Russia, Republican China and Japan.The Government would later attempt to obtain support from Soviet leadership. After the February Revolution in Russia in 1917, Pratap’s government corresponded with the nascent Soviet government. In 1918, Mahendra Pratap met Trotsky in Petrograd before meeting the Kaiser in Berlin, urging both to mobilise against British India.

However, these plans faltered, Habibullah remained steadfastly neutral while he awaited a concrete indication where the war headed, even as his advisory council and family members indicated their support against Britain. The Germans withdrew in 1917, but the Indian government stayed behind at Kabul. In 1919, the government was ultimately dissolved under British diplomatic pressure to Afghanistan.

Ubaidullah stayed in Kabul for nearly seven years. He encouraged young King Amanullah Khan, who took power after Habibullah’s assassination, in the Third Anglo-Afghan War. The conclusion of the war, ultimately, forced him to leave as Amanullah came under pressure from Britain.

Russia and Turkey

Ubaidullah proceeded to Soviet Russia, where he spent seven months at the invitation of the Soviet leadership, and was afforded official treatment as a guest of the state. During this period, he studied the ideology of socialism. He was however, unable to meet Lenin because he (Lenin) was severely ill at the time. It is thought that Sindhi was impressed by Communist ideals during his stay in Russia.

In 1923, Ubaidullah left Russian for Turkey, where he initiated the third phase of the Waliullah Movement in 1924. He issued the Charter for the Independence of India from Istanbul. Ubaidullah left for Mecca in 1927 and remained there until 1929. During this period, he brought the message of the rights of Muslims and other important Deeni issues to the masses.

DeathIn 1936, the Indian National Congress requested his return to India and subsequently permitted to return. He remained at Delhi, where he began a programme teaching Shah Waliullah’s Hujjatullahil Baalighah to Maulana Akbarabadi, who would then write an exegesis in his own words. Ubaidullah left for Lahore to visit his daughter in 1944. At Lahore, he was taken seriously ill and died on 22 August 1944 at Deen Pur (location: Khanpur,Near Rahim Yar Khan, District Bahawalpur).

(Adapted from Wikipedia)

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Comments by Maulana Saeed Ahmed AkbarabadiMaulana Saeed Ahmed Akbarabadi describes the return of Maulana Ubaidullah to Delhi after his exile thus:

“All the people proceeded to the Delhi station to await his arrival. I had conjured up an image of Maulana by looking at the present leaders. I expected him to have a turban on his head and to be wearing a juba (robe). He would be a passenger of the first class, he would at least have one servant with him, at least 2-3 heavy suitcases, a heavy bedding, 2-3 flasks, 3 -4 heavy receptacles of food and majesty and grandeur apparent on his countenance. However, when the train reached, all these thoughts were left stagnant. The people frantically began searching the first and second -class coaches. Meanwhile, a man with nothing on his head, wearing a kurta of coarse cotton cloth with a coarse sheet around his neck emerged from the third class. Those who recognised him immediately ran towards him. This was Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi. The hair of his beard and head was completely white. He was about 65 years old. People began searching for his goods, but where did he have any luggage? Whatever was on his body was all that he owned. I have not seen a person and probably will not see in future one who has renounced material pleasures so totally”.

Once Maulana came from Okla to Delhi (a distance of approximately 8 miles) on foot during a hot day. He returned on foot as well because he did not have sufficient money to board the bus. Maulana Saeed Akbarabadi comments that he (Maulana Ubaidullah) did not mention this to anyone nor could they realize this from his countenance. Someone who came by bus saw him walking and when Maulana was asked if he had indeed come walking, he admitted doing so. In addition, because of having to travel on foot he had to leave very early that day. As the food was not yet ready when he departed, he had to forgo the meal, which he only had after Asar in Delhi. This is the mettle, which he was made of. He made a programme of teaching Shah Waliullah’s Hujjatullahil Baalighah to Maulana Akbarabadi who would then write an exegesis in his own words. Thereafter he had to leave for Lahore to visit his daughter. Here he fell seriously ill and died on 22 August 1944.

[sPncEjF7]

I mean ur blog.

But I don't understand ur point in this topic? Please explain it in ur first post next time you start a topic.

So can you answer me what is your point in this pakistani man?

[AngelinaTheElf]

A pakistani man?.Pakistan was not even created then.!
Ubaidullah sindhi ra was a rare genius of his time.His search for truth led him from sikh religion to Islam.He was an origional thinker,a great scholar,a soldier against imperialism,a social reformer,a political activist with wisdom and fresh ideas,a sufi,an authority on the works of shah waliullah ra.....and Allah knows what more!
Such people are a treasure for every nation and every umma and a source of inspiration for generations to come!
His greatest achievement was presenting the thoughts of shah waliullah ra in an easy to understand,modern perspective.Shah sahib ra had his own ideas ,,based on quran and sunna,about the political and social uplift of Muslims,spread through out his books.Ubaidullah sindhi did the much needed work of compiling them together and then
presenting them to muslim masses.Similarly Shah sahib had his own views ragarding
fiqh,phiosophy,social justice (irtifaqat) and politics,mawlana sindhi took it upon himself to
present them to the world.Even if we forget his relentless struggle against British
imperialism,we will ever be indepted to him for his scholistic achievements.

[carletoxtrs]

I mean ur blog.

But I don't understand ur point in this topic? Please explain it in ur first post next time you start a topic.

So can you answer me what is your point in this pakistani man?

He is showing off the right things that need to be showed of. He is showing of some aspects and words from the lives of some of the biggest awliya born on the face of subcontinent. The only person who would get agitated or disturbed upon the names of these wali can either be an ignorant full of tassub or a kattar Bidati.

And why do you say Pakistani man in such a way ,do you have a problem with Pakistan?

[itititit]

I mean ur blog.

But I don't understand ur point in this topic? Please explain it in ur first post next time you start a topic.

So can you answer me what is your point in this pakistani man?

Sorry. I don't think that I will be able to answer any of your questions. Its just how it is.

[dubGucKcolo]

His greatest achievement was presenting the thoughts of shah waliullah ra in an easy to understand,modern perspective.Shah sahib ra had his own ideas ,,based on quran and sunna,about the political and social uplift of Muslims,spread through out his books.Ubaidullah sindhi did the much needed work of compiling them together and then
presenting them to muslim masses.Similarly Shah sahib had his own views ragarding
fiqh,phiosophy,social justice (irtifaqat) and politics,mawlana sindhi took it upon himself to
present them to the world.Even if we forget his relentless struggle against British
imperialism,we will ever be indepted to him for his scholistic achievements.

Fighting against British imperialism ? I have read somewhere that when a nation becomes corrupt , they get oppressed by an oppressive ruler as a divine punishment. No matter how much you try to rescue them from the oppression , you will fail.

I am wondering why those great Deobandi scholars have tried so hard to kick out British imperialism
from India. Why fight for a corrupted nation which does not deserve freedom ?

[Juersdodfs]

Brother Caliph,
Suppose I give you a manual for supercomputer then you'll legitimately complain about the absence of a working model.
To live our life according to purpose set forth by our Lord Most High He gave us the master manual-the Holy Qur'an.
The perfect model is our beloved Rasoolallah (PBUH).
We also need immediate models whom we can see and touch and talk to.
These are our Elders. They implemented and are still implementing Islam in their life in changed circumstances.
To implement Islam in our life we need these beacons of light.
So we talk about them-to learn the actual implementation of Islam, to get inspired, to remember Allah (SWT).
That is the way adopted by the Elders of Deoband.
You might find it strange (or may be irritating-that is what I used to feel many years back ). May be it is boring to you. But once you get into it you'll start enjoying it. And after that you'll start finding other things boring-novels, movies, worldly affairs, sports madness and all that.
So, I'll say, keep tugging along.
Wassalam
Wassalam

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Brother Caliph,
Suppose I give you a manual for supercomputer then you'll legitimately complain about the absence of a working model.
To live our life according to purpose set forth by our Lord Most High He gave us the master manual-the Holy Qur'an.
The perfect model is our beloved Rasoolallah (PBUH).
We also need immediate models whom we can see and touch and talk to.
These are our Elders. They implemented and are still implementing Islam in their life in changed circumstances.
To implement Islam in our life we need these beacons of light.
So we talk about them-to learn the actual implementation of Islam, to get inspired, to remember Allah (SWT).
That is the way adopted by the Elders of Deoband.
You might find it strange (or may be irritating-that is what I used to feel many years back ). May be it is boring to you. But once you get into it you'll start enjoying it. And after that you'll start finding other things boring-novels, movies, worldly affairs, sports madness and all that.
So, I'll say, keep tugging along.
Wassalam
Wassalam

Great advice, hadrat. You are a doctor of the heart.

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Sheikh-ul-Hind, Maulana Mahmood Hassan Deobandi was a class unto himself. An eminent theologian and freedom fighter who laid the foundation stone of Jamia Millia Islamia at Aligarh in Northern India in 1920, Maulana Mahmud Hasan, popularly known as Shaikhul Hind (leader of India), was born in 1851 at Bareily where his father, Maulana Zulfeqar Ali, also a well known scholar of Arabic, was employed in the Department of Education.

He was the first student of Darul Uloom, Deoband, the world renowned institution of Islamic Sciences and one of the most distinguished disciples of the founder of this institution, Maulana Mohammad Qasim Nanotvi. After his graduation from Darul Uloom in 1873, he served the same institution as a teacher from 1874 till his appointment as Principal in 1890.

Unlike the ulema of that time and his preoccupation with teaching and administrative works in Darul Uloom notwithstanding, he kept himself fully informed about the political developments in the country.

The second decade of the twentieth century was a period of great restlessness and anxiety for the Islamic world as a result of a secret pact among the Western powers to overthrown the Turkish Empire which was looked upon with respect and reverence by the Indian Muslims.

During this time, Shaikhul Hind prepared a plan to start an armed revolution against the British rule for which he launched a programme to train volunteers from among his disciples in India and abroad who joined this movement in a large number. The most eminent among them were Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi and Maulana Mohd. Mian Mansoor Ansari.

There was a general belief that war of liberation cannot be launched without arms and ammunition. Therefore, it was necessary to secure support from outside India. While Shaikhul Hind sent Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi to Kabul with a special mission and Maulana Mohd. Mian Mansoor Ansari to the independent tribes of the Frontier area to mobilize them for a war against the British rule, he himself traveled to Hijaz in 1915 to secure the Turkish support for his plan. In Hijaz, he met the Turkish Governor, Ghalib Pasha and obtained his signature on a war declaration. From Hijaz he wanted to come to the Frontier area via Baghdad and Baluchistan, but his plan was leaked and he was arrested at Mecca and imprisoned at Malta where he remained for over three years till his release in 1920.

Since the letters exchanged between Shaikhul Hind and his colleagues containing the outlines of the plan to recruit the volunteers for the liberation army and to establish a national government were written on silk, the movement launched by him is known as 'Reshmi Rumal ki Tahrik' (Movement of Silken Kerchief).

After returning to India Shaikhul Hind joined the Khilafat Movement and issued his famous Fatwa of non-cooperation against the British rule.In the same year (1920) in October he laid the foundation stone of Jamia Millia Islamia at Aligarh.

A torchbearer and a leader of politics simultaneously, he was very much aggrieved over the oppressions against Muslims in Balkan and Trabulus.

After being released in 1920, he returned to Hindustan. Once speaking at a big gathering of `Ulama, he said, We learnt two lessons from our life in Malta. These words made the whole audience attentive, as they wanted to know what the 80-year-old sage was going to say. In the loneliness of jail in Malta, I pondered over the causes of Muslims ruination both religiously and temporally, I found out two causes: One, forsaking the Quran. Two, internal differences and discords. From the jail, I have come with a resolve that I would spend the rest of my live in promoting the Quran and its meaning.