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noble Shah Sahib. They actually accused him of opening a vista through which the Muslims shall go astray. They said that the laymen who read the translations of the Holy Quran will desert. Islam and declared the translation of the Shah Sahib to be an unholy innovation in the established faith. They added that no one before had dared to commit such a regrettable blunder. . Therefore, the man guilty of such a heinous crime deserved no punishment less than being beheaded. . It was only due to the personal enmity, hatred and jealousy of his opponents that gave an entirely false colouring to a service which ought to have been proclaimed from the house tops. . Instead they lost no time in trying to excite the people against the holy Sayyad and started a campaign of false propaganda in the city. They stooped down so low that once when the venerable Sayyad was coming out of the Fatehpuri Mosque at Delhi after saying the late afternoon prayers (Asr), they pointed him out to a few ruffians who were waiting outside and who surrounded him from all sides with the intention of slaying him. . But it was a miracle that he came out of them totally unhurt and even without a single scratch. But this opposition gradually died down and today every Muslim in the sub-continent feels indebted to the venerable Sayyad for his first translation of the. Holy Quran. (Deebaacha Al-Balaagh-ul-Mubeen: p. 18-19: Deoband) (3) HAZRAT MIRZA MAZHAR JAN-I-JAANAAN (born 1110, died 1195 Hijra). Mirza Mazhar Jan-i-Janaan was a famous poet and a great Sufi who had renounced the world and devoted his life to mysticism and literature. In the Urdu language he is con sidered to be a literary gem. His death and martyrdom also lies at the door of the bigoted Mulla. He died instantly after receiving the bullet wound. (Rod-i-Kauthar: p. 637) (4) HAZRAT MUHAMMAD BIN ABDUL WAHHAB (born 1115, died 1206 Hijra). Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab was a great Reformer in Islam. He was an Arab having been born in Njad in Arabia. He is the Founder of the Movement com monly called the Wahhaabi Movement. He worked most zeal ously to re-establish the Unity of God and the true traditions of 36