Commonsense About Ahmadiyyat — Page 17
The Twelfth Century. Maulana Masoom Ali Shah Meer was a sufi in Deccan, South. India, where he got into religious tussles with the priest class who contrived and convinced the King Ali Murad Khan that the sufi was a backslider and a traitor to his kingdom. The sufi was murdered, and the ears and noses of his followers were cut off, and their beards were shaved off. . Shah Wali Ullah of Delhi was the Mujaddid-Reformer of the century, who translated the Holy Quran into Persian, which was then the official language of India. This enraged the priesthood, for no Muslim had ever dared to translate the Holy Word of God from Arabic into any other language before. They plotted to kill the translator, and engaged ruffians who surrounded him as he came out of the mosque after the afternoon prayer. By some miracle the ruffians did not do anything to Shah Sahib, who came away unharmed, and the opposition to him gradually died down. . The world of Muslims reveres the venerable Shah Sahib now. . Mirza Mazhar Jan-i-Janan was a great sufi poet and a lover of literature. He was shot and killed by bullets, regarded as the work of the bigoted mullas. . Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab was a Najdi Arab and a Reformer of Islam of his time and place. He was also the. Founder of Wahabi Movement. He was declared a heretic by the. Mufti and Imam of the Holy Ka'aba Mosque in Mecca. Most of the Arabs of Saudi Arabia, including the Royal Family, are. Wahabis now. . The Thirteenth Century. Maulvi Abdullah Ghaznawi, a steadfast scholar of Islam, got into trouble with the half-educated court mullas of Afghanistan and was exiled. He was exiled in the reign of one Amir, and when he returned in the reign of the next Amir, he was humiliated and then imprisoned, where he died. . Maulana Muhammad Qasim Nanautwi was a disciple of Shah. Abdul Ghani of Delhi, the Founder of the famous Deoband 17