Death of Maulana Wahiduddin Khan and reaction from some religious people مولانا وحیدالدین کا انتقال

Who was the Mulana Waheed ud Din Khan
90 Years of Peace Building - The Life of Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
This coming week at the 2nd annual Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies in Abu Dhabi, H.E. Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah will present Maulana Wahiduddin Khan with the ‘Sayyidina Imam Al Hassan Ibn Ali Award’ for his life long contributions to promoting peace. Maulana Wahiduddin Khan on accepting his participation remarked that he shares the same dream as Shaykh Abdallah Bin Bayyah and looked forward to his trip to address over 350 Scholars and faith leaders on the topic of how we can bring peace to the turmoil we find ourselves in.
Excerpt from Searching for a King: Muslim Nonviolence and the Future of Islam by Jeffry R. Halverson
Chapter 8 - Maulana Wahiduddin Khan: The Ascetic
The Qur’an does not condone monasticism. It relates that Allah never asked people to undertake such extreme forms of piety, stating, “But monasticism, which they invented, We [i.e., Allah] did not prescribe it for them” (57: 27). Instead, the Qur’an and sunna of the Prophet Muhammad counsel Muslims to adhere to a form of moderate asceticism described in Islamic tradition as the “middle path.” India, home to one of the largest Muslim populations in the world, has a long-standing tradition of asceticism and monasticism, evident in the South Asian traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. The moderate asceticism advocated by Islam is certainly less withdrawn from the world than the asceticism found in these indigenous Indian traditions, which Muslims personally encountered when they arrived in the early eighth century. Nevertheless, the otherworldly piety of Muslim holy men and women, most notably among the Sufis, was something readily understood in the religious climate of the region.
The Muslim scholar, preacher of nonviolence, and vegetarian Wahiduddin Khan is a modern example of India’s Muslim holy men who embody the “middle path ” of Islam. Often seen dressed in a simple white robe, accented by his shaggy yet flowing grey beard and a large pair of black-rimmed glasses, Maulana (meaning “respected scholar,” or literally “our master”) Wahiduddin Khan visibly reflects the message that he teaches to his followers. A popular writer, speaker, and recipient of numerous humanitarian awards in India and abroad, he is a vocal champion of spiritual reform and nonviolence in Islam, actively engaged in what he calls the “true jihad.”
The Early Years
Wahiduddin Khan was born in the village of Badharia near Azamgarh in northern India in January 1925, when the British Empire still ruled the subcontinent. The northern regions of India have always been the stronghold of Indian Islam, centered around the city of Delhi, which was once the capital of numerous Muslim Sultanates on the subcontinent. Muslims of every sect and sort settled among India’s seemingly infinite variety of religionists, including legalistic Sunnis, Ismailis, Ahmadiyyas, Twelver Shi‘ites, and enraptured Sufi mystics. As a boy, Wahiduddin lost his father in 1929, leaving him to be raised by his mother and his uncle, who guided Wahiduddin’s education in his stead. His family was deeply involved in the Indian nationalist movement associated with the Indian National Congress seeking freedom and independence from British rule. Influenced by these nationalist circles, his brother and cousins were educated in modern, Western-style schools. Wahiduddin, however, received an Islamic education and enrolled as a student at the Madrasatul Islah in 1938, an institution (founded in 1908) near Azamgarh that was devoted to the reform and revival of Islam. Wahiduddin studied at the reformist madrassa for six years, focusing on the study of the Qur’an and its conception of nature, before graduating in 1944.
Although respected in religious circles, his Islamic education left him unprepared to deal with colleagues and critics who had received Western-style secular educations, including his own family members, which troubled him and shook his belief in Islam. But never one to back down from a challenge, Wahiduddin committed himself to the study of Arabic to examine Islamic sources in the original and English to study modern science and philosophy, including the writings of figures such as Karl Marx and Bertrand Russell, spending long hours in a library. This rigorous personal study ultimately renewed his faith in Islam and equipped him for the challenges that lay ahead.
Sunye kya kehte hen Maulana Manzoor Mengal DB Wahiduddin Khan Sab ke bare mein
maulana wahiduddin khan ki gumrahian | khan sahib par deoband ka sakht fatwa
Mufti Tariq Ka Molana Waheed Ud Deen ko jawab
Wahiduddin Khan Accepts Ahmadiyya Viewpoint: ہندوستانی عالم کا جماعت احمدیہ کے عقائد کو تسلیم کرنا
Mawlana Waheed ud din Khan Thoughts and Views II Waheed ud din Khan Afkar wa Nazriyyat

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