Drawing the parallels between Syed Ahmad Bareilvi and Talibans

[marwati]

Re: Drawing the parallels between Syed Ahmad Bareilvi and Talibans

@muqawwee123

just few questions to OP?1) was Syed Ahmed the first Muslim in area of Peshawer, etc to propagate laws like Ushr? 2) Didn’t Pashtuns marry outside their community before Syed Ahmed? 3) Were these the only reasons that made local population against Syed Ahmed? If local population was that much against Syed Ahmed, how did he get reverence of locals after his death and got the title of Shaheed? What happened to the psyche of locals to accept same rules? Was that British rule that made them so Islamic even before Aghan Jihad?

1- I think syed ahmed was the first person to try enforcing sharia on pashtuns. At that time there was no deobandism and pakhtuns were not deobandi but were following light version of islam with sufi traditions. I have checked few books of british officers of 19th century era and from their accounts one can find out that there was not even such thing as burqa, pakhtun women didnt wear burqa at all !. Pashtuns were not resceptive to strict wahabi laws. Moreover by nature they are allergic to foriegn rule and authority, when syed ahmed gave them different vibe, they acted against him.2- Interestingly there were also rohilla pashtuns of U.P among syed ahmed followers, Syed ahmad himself claimed to be yousafzai of syed background, yet they were deemed hindostanis. At that times great emphasize was put on shajra-e-nasb, hasb-o-nasab among pashtuns much like arabs..even today traditional pashtuns prefer to marry among themeselves.3- We dont know who titled him shaheed, we study it in mutala-e-pakistan. Todays pakhtuns thinking is much different from his ancestors of 19th century.Its deobandi school of thought which has greatly islamized pashtuns. Specially after 1947 deobandi madrassas, tablighi jamaat, jumat e islami etc has greatly penetrated into pashtun society. When talibans movement started , they were already radicalized enough to accept it.