Commonsense About Ahmadiyyat — Page 16
Sayyed Muhammad of Jaunpur (India), Founder of Mahdvia. Order of Mysticism, was branded an infidel, because he claimed to be the Mahdi of his time. . Sheikh Alaee was the leader of the Mahdi Movement in Bengal. . The ulemas declared that the Sheikh should be chastised and then beheaded. . The Tenth Century. Maulana Ahmad Bihari (India), a venerable sage, was martyred in Delhi for his supposed blasphemous writings. . Sufi Bayazeed Sarhadi went to Peshawar to preach his views and was declared a renegade and a backslider. . The Eleventh Century. Sage Ali Thani was the Mujaddid or Reformer of his century. . Naturally his business was to straighten the crookedness that had crept into the religion in the course of a century. This led to his struggles with the priesthood, who accused him of heresy at the. Imperial court of Delhi. He escaped punishment, but was kept in prison. . Sufi Sarmad, an Armenian, turned Muslim and came to India. . His strange behaviour got him into trouble with the ulemas and mullas and he was sentenced to be beheaded. As the executioner with sword in hand advanced towards him in front of the Juma. Mosque, Delhi, he recited these verses of his: On account of an uproar we were awakened from the sleep of non-existence and opened our eyes. We saw that the night of tribulation had not ended yet, so we went to sleep again. . Muhammad Bin Ibrahim was a Persian exegete, whose writings were clear and easily understood by all, while the mullas and ulemas believed that religious expositions should be foggy. This difference of opinion led to his being declared an infidel. 16