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ence has lasted 800 years down to the present day. He was denounced as a heretic and an apostate by a divine called Allama. Abul Farah Abdul Rahman Jauzi, with two hundred supporters backing him in his nefarious activities. . Allama Ibn-i-Rushd (Averroes of European fame) was Qadhi of Seville and Cordova (Spain), philosopher, physician, mathematician, author of the famous commentaries on Aristotle, and many other books on other subjects. He is one of the five greatest. Arabs of the book, The Arabs in History, by Professor Philip. Hitti. The ulemas of the time successfully denounced him as a heretic, renegade and dismissed him from his high position, and exiled him and burned his books, but did not kill him, because he observed the Shariah laws properly all his life. Later he was recalled and partly reinstated. . The great Andalusian Sufi, Muhiyyud-Din Ibn' Arabi, used to say a prayer which began: Enter me, O Lord, into the deep of the. Ocean of Thine Infinite Oneness. . . That is the first sentence of the book, What is Sufism?, by Martin Lings, written nearly at the end of the fourteenth century Hijra (1975) about someone who lived in the sixth century Hijra. This was the man and sufi whom the ulemas of the time declared an infidel and backslider and. Apostate the Great!. Another great sufi of this century was Sheikh-ul-Ashraq. Shahab-ud-Deen Suhrawardi who was imprisoned and was then strangled to death. . There were two more famous sufis the heresy-hunting ulemas and mullas plagued in that century: Fareed-ud-Deen Attar and. Shuaib Bin Hasan Al-Maghrabi. . The Seventh Century. Sheikh Abul Hasan Shazli and Sheikh Aziz Bin Abdus Salam were both notable sufi saints and authors, yet they were declared heretics. . Nizam-ud-Din Aulia, the sultan of saints of Indian fame, buried in Delhi, was denounced for listening to music. In his trial 14