The day of Thursday, 15th Muharram, A.H. 1283 (May 30, 1866), was that blessed and auspicious day in the Islamic history of India when the foundation stone for the renaissance of Islamic sciences was laid in the land of Deoband. Seeing the simple and ordinary manner in which it had been started, it was difficult to visualize and decide that a Madrasah beginning so humbly, with utter lack of equipment's, was destined to become the center, within a couple of years, of the Islamic sciences in Asia.Accordingly, before long, students desirous of studying the Holy Book and the Sunnah, the Shari'ah and the Tariqah (the spiritual path), began to flock here in droves from this sub continent as well as from neighboring and distant countries like Afghanistan, Iran, Bukhara and Samarqand, Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and the far off regions of the continent of Africa, and within a short-time the radiant rays of knowledge and wisdom illumined the heart and mind of the Muslims of the continent of Asia with the light of faith (Iman) and Islamic culture.

• Born in Kashmir on 27th of Shawwal 1292 A.H. (November 25, 1875)

• Died in Deoband on 3rd Safar 1352 A.H. (May 27, 1933)

 

"The Past five hundred years of Islamic history can not produce the like of Maulana Kashmiri" (Dr. Allamah Muhammad Iqbal)

Who could have explained the excellence of Maulana Anwar Shah Kashmiri better than the poet of the East, Dr. Muhammad Iqbal? Maulana Kashmiri was the teacher of the teachers and was the personification of Islamic knowledge. The universal message of Islam has always produced individuals that are totally devoted to the Islamic cause and spend their entire lives serving Allah’s mission on Earth. The renowned Muslim scholars have used different methods to convey the message of Islam and fight evil, disbelief, hypocrisy and oppression throughout history. The Ulama of Deoband can truly be credited with preserving the true teachings of Islam, as taught by the Quran and Hadith, and fighting evil and oppression by means of knowledge.

Dette temaet er svært yndet av visse propagandamaskiner, og historien med all dens intrikate detaljer er noe de allerede får opplæring av i en tidlig alder. De føler ingen skam i å utnytte Fadak som en arena for å skape fitnah og gjenopplive uenigheter som ble begravd for flere århundrer siden. Ahl ul-Sunnah wal-Jama’ah gir derimot ikke like stor oppmerksomhet til hendelsene rundt Fadak, nemlig for å forhindre unødig fitnah og ut av respekt for Abu Bakr  رضِىَ اللّه عنه og Fatimahرضّى الله عنها, to av de større personlighetene i Islam.

Vi skal nå se på noen Sunni ahaadith som tar for seg profeters arveregler. Profeten Muhammad صلّى الله عليه وآله وسلّم sa:

"Vi etterlater ikke arv. Det vi forlater [av verdslig gods] er veldedighet". [Sahih Muslim, Kitab al-Jihad was-Siyar, nr. 49]

"Vi profeter etterlater ikke arv". [Musnad Ahmad, volum 2, side 462]

Dette blir også bekreftet i Shi’a ahaadith. La oss se på hadith fra al-Kafi, den mest troverdige boken blant de fire bøkene av hadith hos Shi’a, som tar for seg det samme emnet:

"Profetene etterlot ikke dinarer eller dirham som arv, men de etterlot kunnskap". [al-Kafi, volum 1, side 42]

The Danish government’s attitude toward the blasphemous caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) published by a newspaper in the country should not be dismissed lightly as it is typical of the manner in which Western governments and intellectuals treat topics related to Islam. The lethargic reaction of the Muslim governments to the European newspaper’s outrageous treatment of the Prophet too deserves censure.

It was on Sept.30 last year that a popular Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published 12 caricatures of the Prophet. Matters were further exacerbated by the chief editor of the newspaper who in a comment expressed his “abhorrence” at the veneration of their Prophet by Muslims.

The drawings were more than a shock to the 180,000-strong Muslim community who represent three percent of Denmark’s population. The Muslim diplomats in Copenhagen felt outraged. Eleven of them held a meeting and demanded an immediate apology from the newspaper.