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Interesting discussion guys. I'll watch from the sidelines for the time being as haven't read kashaf ul mehboob, will read the book before offering my input.
Re: Sindh Through Centuries!
Interesting discussion guys. I'll watch from the sidelines for the time being as haven't read kashaf ul mehboob, will read the book before offering my input.
Somewhere I read that the character of Owais Qarni (RA) came from Kashaf ul Mehjoob and its very much unpopular among Devbandi / Wahabi people, as it surrounded so much myths. But if we exclude myths from religion, I don't know what will be remaining attraction for its followers :)
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maybe yes. People who visit data darbar are ignorant. and same is true for sufis sitting around that grave.
Another case is Ahmad sirhindi when he supported wahdatul shahud against wahdat ul wajood, people opposed him as he is preaching wahabism. then with the passage of time people forgot what he said, and now you can see mujadadi sufis associating themselves with Ahmad sirhind (mjaddadd alf sani) opposing wahdat ul shahud and preaching wadat ul wajood.
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Somewhere I read that the character of Owais Qarni (RA) came from Kashaf ul Mehjoob and its very much unpopular among Devbandi / Wahabi people, as it surrounded so much myths. But if we exclude myths from religion, I don't know what will be remaining attraction for its followers :)
Well, i wont say Ali hajvery was wahabi, but he was not like sufis we see from popular sufi silsilas
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Well, i wont say Ali hajvery was wahabi, but he was not like sufis we see from popular sufi silsilas
You might be right about the current status of sufism. In its current shape its worst form of exploitation in most cases. Even during English period, these Sufis were a big support to their colonial power and therefore we hardly know any sufi resistance against British except Hurs (not sure whether they were sufis or not).
Otherwise, Sufis of Sindh are still a symbol of struggle against the cruel rulers be it Makhdoom Bilawal or Sufi Shah Inayat of Jhok Sharif.
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and what about patriotism? the definition you give for religion is actually what we call patriotism. you know what american liberals are doing in the name of patriotism?
Sense of belonging to home taken to the extreme is called patriotism
Religion and patriotism are too different thing IMHO, Religion is personal identification with god, religious congregation with political and social structure is community and community with shared belief (often imposed by constitution) is called Nation and feeling of belonging to Nation taken to extreme is patriotism
while we are it, why natives of America were called Red-Indians. Were they really Indian? If yes, which area they belonged and when why and how they migrated there?
Indigenous people=Indians. They are as indigenous to America as Indians are to Sub-continent :)
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Indigenous people=Indians. They are as indigenous to America as Indians are to Sub-continent :)
who gave them title of Red-Indians. Isn't there is a version that Columbus was going to discover India and then discovered America and therefore called natives as Red Indians?
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Socialist Sufi of Sindh.
Inayat, a spiritual disciple of Hazrat Shah Abdul Malik of Bijapur, India, is regarded as the first socialist Sufi of Sindh – a title given to him by a historian of socialist philosophy and author of the book ‘From Moses to Karl Marx’, the late Sibte Hassan.
Inayat was born in 1655 AD in Miranpur village – now renamed Jhoke Sharif. After being labelled as a rebel and infidel for his socialist struggles, he was killed in 1718 AD by the local rulers of Sindh. Mian Muhammad Khan Kalhoro, the then ruler of Sindh, and Inayat had reached a ceasefire to end the four-month-long siege of Mianpur, but Kalhoro and his supporters betrayed Inayat and captured him. They cut off his head later as punishment for his rebellion.
You have released me from the chains of existence, May Allah bless you now and hereafter were his last words.
Despite his contributions to the evolving socialist thought, less is sung about Inayat who preceded the French revolution and the Marxist ideology in time and led an armed struggle against the prevailing feudal and capitalist system.
**“His philosophy was to serve the humanity and to consider all humans as equals,” said Syed Attaullah Sattari, the gadi nasheen [caretaker] of the shrine. “He strived for the poor and the oppressed, and the strata of society that suffered from social injustices.”
Perhaps that explains why a majority of his disciples and followers are Hindus on both sides of the border. “A great majority of Hindus admire Sufi Inayat Shaheed because he stood against their suppression by a tyrant theocratic regime led by Aurangzeb in Delhi,” said Mahesh Deewan, who came with his family from Mirpurkhas to pay respects at the shrine. Even Sattari, who is the 13th gadi nashin of the family ageed that, “He is discrete from his peers in that he led an armed fight against an autocratic and extremist regime for the rights of the common people.”
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**Urs inauguration
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Unlike other shrines in Sindh, where government dignitaries commence the urs celebrations, the tomb of Inayat follows a different tradition. The descendents of Inayat have prevented the shrine from going under the government’s control through the Auqaf department. “We don’t expect the rulers to protect and spread his ideology,” Sattari told Sindh Express.