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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Mail refers to ‘Mujahids’, scholars say it’s an insult, Islamic Ideology, NewAgeIslam.com

Islamic Ideology
Mail refers to ‘Mujahids’, scholars say it’s an insult
By KRISHNADAS RAJAGOPAL

“We have carried out this attack in the memory of two most eminent Mujahids of India—Sayeed Ahmed Shaheed and Shah Ismail Shaheed—who raised the glorious banner of jihad against the disbelievers in this very city of Delhi,” reads the email transcript. But Mushirul Hasan, an Islamic historian and faculty with Jamia Milia Islamia University, does not agree. “This is an insult to the memory of two leading scholars of the 19th century. Shah Ismail was a freedom fighter who fought against the British rule.” Hasan says the “jihad” fought by the two was the war against the British Government. “They were men with perspective. Their jihad was a response to the British governance. Ismail was called Shaheed because he was a martyr in the cause of freedom struggle.” One of the great works of Shah Ismail is the ‘ Mansab-i-Imamat’, says Hasan, who terms Ismail as a critic of the “despotic rule of Sultans of Delhi”.

S Z H Jafri, the Head of History Department in Delhi University and an Islamic scholar, said the mentioning of the names of these two personalities were “totally unjustified”.

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