Instead Of Scriptural Mumbo-Jumbo, Muslims Must Read Musaddas-e-Haali
By
Sumit Paul, New Age Islam
22 March
2023
"When Muslims Are In The Midst Of An
Existential Crisis, Should We Be Entertaining Ourselves With Futile Attempts To
Find Modern Science In The Quran Or Making Senseless Points Such As The
Superiority Of The Quran Over Science? Do We Need New Insights Into Whether
Souls Exist Or Not Or How Exactly
Resurrection Will Be Effectuated When These Are Just Myths Indulged In By Idle
Fabulists? Should We Give Any Credence To Outlandish Assertions That Man Is Not
Capable Of Developing Moral Principles? "
"Ek
Woh Hain Ke Jinhein Chaand-Sitaron Ka Tajassus/ Ek Hum Hain Ke Un Ki Zulfon
Mein Kham Dhoondh Rahe Hain " (There're people who're exploring new heights/ And here, we're still
stuck in the tresses of our beloved)."
Musaddas e Haali
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Muslims may
take umbrage but this is the truth. Instead of addressing a plethora of urgent
issues that have plagued the community and mankind at large, there're people,
particularly interpreters, who're still unnecessarily trying to explain
eschatological and esoteric beliefs that are absolutely useless to Muslims and
humanity in general. They must learn a lesson from history.
How learned
Hindus of ancient India did the same stupidity and was enslaved for nearly 1200
years. When Adi Shankar and Mandan Mishra were engaged in futile religious
discourse regarding the (perceived) nature of Brahma in Saharsa (Bihar), early
Muslim invaders were spreading their tentacles in the sub-continent.
Mandan
Mishra's erudite student Vachaspati Mishra wrote recondite treatise after
treatise on the essence of divinity and Brahman. Did those scholarly works help
India or humanity? Did they provide even a morsel to one hungry soul? The great
Panini, world's first linguist and the author of Ashtadhyayi, couldn't
stop the forced and violent conversions of his descendants who're now called
Panini Muslims.
Instead of
reading and wasting time on whether or not soul exists, what happens on the Day
of Judgement and all that utter Quranic nonsense, Muslims must read Altaf
Hussain Hali Panipati's ' Musaddas-e-Hali ' that examines the state of
social and moral degradation prevalent in the contemporary Muslim society. It's
said that this book was read every day in every Muslim`s house of the country.
For, it contained the mistakes and the reasons that caused the downfall of
Muslim empire in India. This book was used for boosting the dwindling morale of
Muslims. Art for Hali was a handmaid to life. Hali harnessed his poetic
abilities to the higher aims of social and moral edification. Muslim exegetes
of today must follow Altaf Hussain Hali's example. They (Muslims) should also
read Dr Iqbal's Madras lectures (between December 1928 to January 1929)
compiled as " The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam."
Remember,
religious and scriptural mumbo-jumbo will not take Muslims anywhere. Sorry, if
I sound too pontificating in my article.
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A regular columnist for New Age Islam, Sumit Paul
is a researcher in comparative religions, with special reference to Islam. He
has contributed articles to the world's premier publications in several
languages including Persian.
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