Great very very great presentation Sir. This is the first time that I am hearing about this great Scholar /Saviour of Muslims in India. He translated the Holy Quran into easy reader friendly Persian language. At Delhi I have visited his grave and graves of his family.
Shaykh Shah Waliullah r.a is in my Naqshbandi silsila. His "Book of Knowledge" is the most densely packed and hard to digest book I've ever read. الله يرحمه
Shaikh plz do a series on hujjatullhi baligah for us lay muslims and expand on how shah waliullah tries to reconcile between the different strands of islam. Would be very beneficial in bringinh tolerance amongst muslims esp in the subcontinent. JzkAllah
I try not to miss any of his talk. It just doesn't matter what topic. MashaAllah, very informative, factual , spiritual and captivating. Alhhadulillah.
You are the greatest Aalim of my time❤you do the research and all the work to make it easy to learn😢May Allah make everything easy for you and your family here and after❤Ameen
Masha'Allah brilliant lecture, so informative. Jazak'Allahu-khair for sharing, we need more of these! - In-sha'Allah with more accessible knowledge they'll be less criticism.
Subhanallah shaikh Very informative and for common wemens like me too India is the land of all jamat All jamat rise in india So dawah rise from indian land
After studying much of the Hadith literature, I came to the conclusion that Imam Malik's Muwatta is the most authentic book of Hadith. It is also the oldest. I am glad to hear that Shah Waliullah also found it to be superior.
@@Faz527 I didn't say all. I said "much." More importantly, I studied how and when these other books of Hadith were written. Content wise too, Muwatta is very good. It's a no nonsense book, and it doesn't have some of the Hadiths that you find in other collections which leave you wondering if Prophet Muhammad ( s.a.w) indeed said those things. Many of the Hadiths that you find in Bukhari and Muslim were actually copied from Muwatta. Bukhari and Muslim simply added Isnad. So if you just take Muwatta, and borrow Isnad from other collections, that would be the most authentic book anyway.
@@QabilAGhor I agree...Muwatta was before Kutub Sitta and the four Imams and other scholars knew way more Hadith than there are in Kutub Sitta. But that should not undermine Sahih Bukhari or Sahih Muslim
Not completely true. Two new Empires(Maratha & Afhgan)were expanding rapidly after Persian Nadir Shah(shia) invaded plundered Delhi & actually ended Mughal Empire(what remained was weak city state). ShahWaliullah hated Nadir Shah and Shuja-ud-Daula(Shia)(the new immediate regional power who was also allied to Marathas). Marathas were already in Punjab, they remote controlled Delhi, their next natural expansion was into Ahmed Shah's empire(Peshawar & beyond). So Ahmed Shah had to attack or be ready to face one in future. ShahWaliullah writes to Ahmed Shah, but he is not some mureed of devout sunn, he cuts a deal and manages to switch Shuja-ud-Daula(hated by ShahWaliullah)
Shah Wali Ullah rahmatullaah alayh is easily the greatest scholar of hadeeth in India, if not the greatest scholar. I hope I get to sit at his feet and study in jannah. He is a truly unique mind and reminds me of Ibn Taymiyyah.
Small corrections: First, the name of his father’s madrasa is madrasa Raheemiyah not Rahmaniya. Secondly, Maulana Ahmed Rida Khan was born around 1855 while Shah Ishaq Dehlvi passed away in 1846. So he’s not a student of his. Maulana Ahmed Ali Saharanpuri and Maulana Shah Abdul Ghani Naqshbandi were students of Shah Ishaq and the former were teachers of the founders of Deoband Madrasah.
@@ARmirzaful Barakallahu feek. Ranjhit singh and his dynasty was seen as a bigger threat as they were more overtly anti islam than the british (banning azan, making bashahi mosque stables, enslaving muslim women etc). Shah ismail shahid and syed Ahmed Barelvi aimed to set up a force with the pashtuns and attack Lahore. But their stronger stance on what they deemed bidah, alienated some of their support base
@@musti12312 I did notice that a lot of these splinter religious leaders that formed. They were a bit tough in their opposition to the British. But as far as I know, I do agree with you. Ranjit Singh sounds tough. He reminds me of Kamaal Ataturk a bit.
Walaikumusalaam Wa rahmatullahi Wa barakahatuhu Barak Allahu Feekum, Aameen Thank you for mentioning that this scholar promoted that all Muslims should strive to read, understand, and gain guidance from the teachings of the Qur’an along with the knowledge gained from scholars in order create a positive change in communities. Greatly appreciate that you discussed that he aimed for unity between the different schools of thought to find the truth rather than instigate animosity between them. Jazakum Allahu khairun As salaam u alaikum Wa rahmatullahi Wa barakahatuhu
I disagree that Persian was the language of every Muslim at the time. It was the language of the scholarly class regardless of religion, government and official documents.
@@QabilAGhor it would have been a class thing. Persian would have been spoken by the ruling elite both Hindu and Muslim and the rural poor both Hindu and Muslims would have spoken local languages such as Awadhi.
@@IbnSaifi I don't know about Kerala and Tamil Nadu but up till my parents generation, it was mandatory for children to learn Farsi and sometimes Arabic as well. My mother learned Farsi as a child and my father Arabic. You are correct that they may not have spoken it at home but it was part of curriculum.
@@IbnSaifi A lot of Muslim immigrants came to India came from Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran. They were all Farsi speaking. Hyderabad Deccan had many Yemeni immigrants, and there is still a sizable Yemeni community there.
Wahdat ul Wujud doesn't mean that we are a part of Allah. Nor did The Shah ever view it as such. It is meant to differ between Allah's existence and creation.
Stop fooling us. We know the game of words "Me YOU, YOU Me," played by Bayazid Bustami to even Tablighi thinker Rashid Ahmad Gangoi(as narrated by Moulana Zakariya in Nisaab), May Allah guide sufis.
Sorry, He is not from the Ulema of Deoband, he pre dates deoband foundation( He is not even their amongst elders of thought-that is Sufi like Hajis Imdadullah, Moulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi). 2 Big contributions of Shah Waliullah were: 1. Translation of Quran(so that more people could read) 2. Giving importance to study of Hadith. Deobandi & Tablighis might claim heavens, but they were&are not for common people read translation of Quran. Proof: Go in jamaat 40days or 4months or 4 years your are never going to learn/teach read to Quran with Translation(or even hadith books[Sahih Bukhari/Muslim]). You get to read Fazil-e-amal type books i.e. explain some hadith and far fewer Quranic verse from the lens of Deobandi-sufi scholars along with often odd stories(even karamath) of people who are not even Subahi or Tabaiyee.. stories of people reading 3,5to 8 Quran a day but without understanding i.e. Translation
I don’t understand his comments about Hadith being studied in India only. The collections of ahadith had been around since 1200 years. Surely all the Arabic centres of learning would have been teaching the sciences of ahadith.
He is actually correct. The Arabs took Hadith books (which were mostly written by Persians, anyway) with a grain of salt, with the exception of Imam Malik who had always lived in Medina. Even now, I don't hear too many Arab Islamic scholars talking as much about Hadiths as people in India and Pakistan. I have visited many Arab homes and never saw a single book of Hadith on their book shelf. It's only recently that Arabs have started taking an interest in Hadith books.
@@QabilAGhor I’m not really sure. I know Ibn Khathir was a Hadith scholar, so was Imam Hanbali, Imam Nawawi. Also the schools of fiqh would have sifted through ahadith material in the first 200 years. Ibn Hazm, when he wrote al muhalla would have discussed ahadith.
@@sparephone8228 That is correct. Certainly, there were scholars in the Arab world who studied Hadith books. My point was that even so, it doesn't seem that the general Arab population gave much weight to these books of Hadith, except perhaps for the Maliki school which favored Imam Malik's Muwatta. I have been to many Arab homes and never saw a book of Hadith. Even in Arab book stores, there was hardly any book of Hadith. That might be different in Egypt and Lebanon, where there are major publishers of Islamic books. I have not visited those countries so cannot say.
@@sparephone8228 It is a historical fact that Muslims of pre-Partition India collected rare ancient Islamic books and brought them to India, not only to preserve them but to have them translated. For example, Nawab Siddiq Hasan Khan of Bhopal ( also known as al-Qanauji) sent his agents to all over the Middle East to find these rare books. In his biography he has written that some Arab book or manuscript dealers charged enormous amounts of money, knowing that he would pay any amount for them. So many of these books were preserved, thanks to the effort of such Indian Muslims who themsekves became some of the leading scholars of Islam. Nawab Siddiq Hasan Khan himself ended up writing almost 300 books or booklets, most of them in Arabic and Farsi. Besides, Shah Waliullah, he is considered the founder of the Ahl-e-Hadith movement in the Subcontinent.
@@QabilAGhor I think you miss the point. In the video, the Sheikh claims studies of ahadith only occurred in India. Studies is different from the general population having copies of ahadith books. I just cannot believe none of the Arab centres of learning since the time of the Prophet[saw] have not been teaching and studying ahadith.
10:05 No, this is wrong, Wahdat ul wajood means the only existence or real existence is Allah and the creation is merely appearance that doesn't exist at all. for example we have a glass that is made of atoms and if we keep going we will reach to the conclusion that it's merely packet of energies that are combined in a form of atoms and so on glass.
Yes & No. Yes born into Sufi, clearly denounced many of their views & practices. Like borderline shirk concepts like "Wahdat al Wujud", most sufi Berelvi & Deoband scholars & their pre-dating elders from Bayazid Bastami to even Rashid Ahmed Gangoi had.
You missed one of the biggest work of Shah Waliullah.. He was the one who called Ahmed Shah Abdali to fight Marathas. Knowing the Mughals didn't had the power to fight them. And the 3rd battle of Panipat took place. Alhamdulillah Muslims won. Had Shah Waliullah not done that Marathas would have conquered Delhi and most of India.
Not completely true. Two new Empires(Maratha & Afhgan)were expanding rapidly after Persian Nadir Shah(shia) invaded & plundered Delhi. This is actually what perhaps ended Mughal Empire(what remained was weak city state). ShahWaliullah hated Nadir Shah(for what he did to Delhi). Then new immediate regional power was Shuja-ud-Daula(Shia who was also allied to Marathas). Marathas(new regional super power-empire) were already in Punjab, they remote controlled Delhi, their next natural expansion was into Ahmed Shah's empire(Peshawar & beyond, which Sikhs-Rajith Singh did later). So, Ahmed Shah had to attack or be ready to face one in future. ShahWaliullah writes to Ahmed Shah, but he is not some mureed of devout sunni-sufi he cuts a deal and manages to switch Shuja-ud-Daula(disliked by ShahWaliullah)
@@simple-eastner Firstly Daula was not Shia. Yes the traitor Mir Jaffer was Shia. Secondly the Battle of Palasi (1757) in which Daula lost and later died had already taken place 4 to 5 years before the 3rd battle of Panipat in which Abdali came on Shahwaliullah request. Thirdly Abdali went back after victory and did not conquered India after his victory, further strengthens the point that he only came on Shah Sb request and without looting went back.
@@talhanaeem4364 Then why did not Afdali stay, Marathas later reinstated everything back. Please dear, Emperors don't take such decision & move their massive army, get into war which might end their empire based on letter from scholar or baba. Like some baba now in modern times can get someone MP ticket or top job, but not make the PM attack China. So please.
@@simple-eastner Well there is no point discussing this issue with you. Because the kind of language you are using for Shahwaliullah (RA), I know from where it's coming. So even if I give you 100 reasons you will never accept and be able to comprehend why did Abdali came and left again just because of a letter from the great man.
@@talhanaeem4364 What wrong in my language for Shahwaliullah? I respect Shahwaliullah and his contribution as reformist & translator of Quran in Farsi and his son was first Translator to Urdu. Now about logically argument I made(Emperors don't risk huge armies & empire itself based on letters from a Scholar from another land), you might surely not accept it.
And this pinched me alot when according to you shah wali ul lah said the dividing moon by the finger pointing of Rasool ul lah sal lal laaho alaih wasallam in to two equal halfs was an illusion for that time Arabs! Now where we put the relevence of a definite phenomenon of miracles rendered and performed by the prophets and the last prophet beloved hazrat Muhammad peace be upon him and rest of the all prophets through the will and permission of Allmighty Allah! If this has been the case may Allah forgive him on his this misinterpreting due to his misunderstanding or mistake! Aameen!
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A commentary on Hujjatullah al-baligha is now available in English too. The commentary is done by the former Grand Mufti and Muhaddith of Deoband Allama Mufti Sa‘id Ahmed Palanpuri Rahimahullah.
Is it permissable to pick and consume small fruits that have fallen to the ground outside someone's house on the road.if not eaten end up walked on or cars drive on them.They usually fall after fajr when I go for a walk.there is no fence or wall around it.
You know what happened with Imam Abu Hanifa, right? He was made to marry the daughter of the owner of an apple tree after he ate an apple from the tree. It’s an incredible story!
But Sheikh , it is very sad to say the ground reality is although all these groups claim to follow Shah Waliullah Dehlawi , in Jumuah khutbahs , they accuse other group to be a planted agent of British East India Company
Some corrections It’s Madrassa Raheemiya, Secondly the deobandis claim the legacy of Shah Ishaq RA, the Brelvis claim the legacy of khairabadis and Abdul Haq Dehlavi RA and Shah Ismail fought the Sikhs in balakot not the British
@@QamruddinKhan-hf4dn by brelvis we mean Ahmad Raza Khan RA and his students only, just to add, Ahmad Raza Khan RA also holds Isnaad tracing back to the Delhi school too. There are others called brelvi but claim the Delhi legacy just as the deobandis do.
Did Shah Waliullah Al-Dehlawi not study under the same sheikh with Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab when they were together in Madinah? Heard a podcast lecture once mentioning this.
Sorry, He is not even from the Ulema of Deoband, he pre dates deoband foundation( He is not even their amongst elders of thought-that is Sufi like Hajis Imdadullah, Moulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi). And Taligh Jamaat was founded only ~100yr back by Moulana Ilyas(based on his Dreams). 2 Big contributions of Shah Waliullah were:1. Translation of Quran(so that more people could read) 2. Study of Hadith(Giving importance) Deobandi & Tablighis might claim heavens, but they were&are not for common people read translation of Quran. Proof: Go in jamaat 40days or 4months or 4 years your are never going to learn/teach read to Quran with Translation(or even hadith books[Sahih Bukhari/Muslim]). You get to read Fazil-e-amal type books i.e. explain some hadith and far fewer Quranic verse from the lens of Deobandi-sufi scholars along with often odd stories(even karamath) of people who are not even Subahi or Tabaiyee.. stories of people reading 3,5to 8 Quran a day but without understanding i.e. no Translation. Worse Rashid Ahmed Gangoi sufi teacher of Moulana Ilyas was for Wahdut-ul-Wajud which Shah Walliullah was against.
@simple-eastner got it....I want to explain something in those periods... situations...in all over the world...mainly among the umma of our beloved prophet... they divided in groups.... ulamas were arguing among themselves, There are many sectors fighting each other....thareekas claims they were in the straight path...lowest people...they were practising other cultures...without zero ilm of our religion... So I'll ask you who was given the ability to gather all deviations into under one roof for the benifition this umma... Thableeg gained this task with the rahmath and help from almighty.... All over the world, millions of Muslims understand and gather to this one ummath ...slogan... This is not maulana illyas dream... This is his broad minded deep sorrow of this umma.... Nowadays, every one can explain what is islam buy nobody don't know how to get this umma under one roof...because they don't understood the prophetic sunna way of mechanism...that all the companions did... Maulana illyas was the turning point... That's why people don't understand the depth of "ummath wasathan"
Muhammad Iqbal definitely had Noor in his heart , he is a terrific poet ,but he made his own set of blunders Sir Syed Ahmed Khan suffered from inferiority complex of taking certificate from a white man and believed in western sciences to Muslims
Dr yasir qadhi showing the deviations of other scholars so people will be more accepting of his own deviations. Comeon ustad. So obvious. Talking about shah waliullahs offsprings creating new sects in Islam as a good thing, as something praise worthy to him. If he's a real mujadid he would only view his offspring as failures..a reformer brings Muslims together and his offspring clearly created division. Be careful ya ustad.
Just like Shayk Qadhi thinks the Sunni branch is the only correct interpretation of Islam, the branches that stemmed from Shawaliullah's followers think they're the correct branch. But our Shayk has a problem with that and he says such divisions are wrong and short-sited. But he says you can't go beyond Sunni Islam and have the opinion that Shiite branch or other branches are not correct paths. There broadening your view is incorrect. So this Shayk draws the line for you. Because, he's the knower and seer?
Please either use "Indian Subcontinent" or "Mughal India" or, the best term in current times, "South Asia". Using the word India causes confusion, and conflates it, with the "Republic of India".
After return,he understood the basics of Islam, pure 👌 wisdom of Qura'an al Kareem and Hadees Mubarak. Destroyed earlier concept of DeoBund and established Hadees Mubarak in Daral uloom Deo Bund.
INDEED HE WAS A GREAT RELIGIOUS SCHOLAR BUT HOW DO YOU CALL HIM GREATEST SCHOLAR OF ISLAM? DO YOU THINK THAT THERE WERE NO OTHER RELIGIOUS SCHOLARS BIGGER THAN HIM. MOREOVER YOU SHOULD PREFIX RELIGIOUS WITH SCHOLAR....RELIGIOUS SCHOLAR. BECAUSE SCHOLARS ARE ALSO FROM SCIENCE, MEDICINES AND OTHER SUBJECTS