Ubaidullah Sindhi
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Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi (Urdu: مولانا عبیداللہ سندھی) was a noted religious leader and political activist. Born in Sikh family of Sialkot and converted to Islam. He got educated in Sindh. Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi pan-Islamic thinker and a member of the freedom movement. He died on August 22, 1944.
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[edit] Conversion to Islam and Education
When he was at school, a hindu friend gave him a book "Tufatul hind" to read. It was written by a convert scholar Maulan Ubaidullah of Maleer Kotla. After reading this book and ohers like Taqwiyatul Eeman and Ahwaal ul Aakhira, he was inclined towards Islam. This eventually led to him convertion to Islam. In 1887, he left for Sindh and became a student of Hafiz Muhammad Siddque of Chawinda. Then he went to Maulana Ghulam Muhammad of Deen pur for further education. In 1888 he was admitted to Darul Uloom Deoband and he was instructed in various islamic disciplines by Maulana Abu Siraj, Maulana Rasheed Gangohi and Maulana Mahmoodul Hasan, Sheikhul Hind. He read Bukhari and Tirmidhi from Maulana Nazeer Husain Dehlvi and read Logic and Philosophy from Maulana Ahmad Hasan Cawnpuri. He graduated in 1891 and started taching in Amrote Shareef. He got married during this time and in 1901 stared his own Madrissah in Goth Peer Jhanda in Sindh.
[edit] Politics, Career and Death
He was very active in underground anti British activities during this time. This led to his alienization by Deoband leaders. In 1912 he moved to Delhi and started another institution by the name of Nazaaratul Ma'aarif. . In 1915 he left for Kabul from where he started the "Silk handkerchief" movement. This was a landmark movement in the process of Indian independence. He travelled to Moscow and later Turkey and eventually came home after living in Mecca for 13 years. It is thought that Maulana was impressed by Communist ideals during his stay in Russia.
He came home from Mecca in 1939 and passed away in 1944 in Deen pur.
[edit] Ahmadiyya claim of Maulana Sindhi's connection with Ahmadiyya Muslim community and a note
Maulana Sindhi has been recorded in books as being a great admirer of Hakeem Noor ud Deen, The first Successor of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian. He often used to visit Qadian to see him. He states (Irshaadaat by Hadhrat Maulana Obaidullah Sindhi, p. 400):
Maulvi Noor-ud-Deen is an unmatched scholar and has a commanding personality. He has the deepest attachment to the Holy Qur'an. He was ever thinking how best the message of the Holy Qur'an could be taken and how best the people could be familiarized with the beauties and the excellences of the Holy Qur'an. He was also thinking of how to invite people to the Holy Qur'an and how their lives could be moulded in the ideal mould of the Holy Book.
[edit] Note
Maulana Sindhi's movement against the British rule was a revolutionary one, and Ahmad was a supporter of British rule. Anti Ahmadiyya historians do not acknowledge Sindhi's link with the Ahmadiyya.
[edit] References
- Mawlānā Ubayd Allāh Sindhī : ālāt-i zandagī, talīmāt awr siyāsī afkār by Muammad Sarwar. Publisher: Lahore, [1976]
- Khutbāt o maqālāt-i Maulānā Ubaidullāh Sindhī. murattib Muammad Sarvar. by Ubaidullāh Sindhī; Muhammad Sarwar Publisher: Lāhaur, Sindh Sāgar Ikādamī [1970]
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