Badee-ud-Deen Shah as-Sindhee (Sindhi)علامه سيد بديعُ الدين شاه راشدي ;(full name Sayyid Badee-ud-Deen Shah Ibn Ehsaanullaah Ibn Rashidullaah Shah Ibn Rasheed-ud-Deen Shah Ibn Muhammad Yaseen Shah Ibn Muhammad Raashid Shah ar-Raashidee al-Hussainee, b. 10 July 1925 in Gowt Fadlullaah Shah [present-day Gowt Old Peer Jhandah], Pakistan) was a noted imam.
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The Shaykh memorised the Qur’an in three months and the whole of Soorah Noor on a camel journey.
He studied:
In Fiqh he studied up to Hidaayah and in the Usool of Fiqh up to Talweeh, up to Sharh Jaami in Nahw and a small part of Abdul Ghafoor. In Sarf he studied all the books.
Some of his teachers were:
Due to the oppression by the people he was forced to move to a village called New Sa’eedabaad. Here the Shaykh established Madrassah al-Muhammadiyyah, and began to teach Saheeh al-Bukhaaree and Tafseer Ibn Katheer. During his life he destroyed a number of graves and had numerous discussions with the people of innovation.
Once the Shaykh was invited to a village to deliver some lectures. The Shaykh, as usual, would deliver his lecture on Tawheed and adherence to the Sunnah and refutation of the evidences of the people who are engaged in shirk. The Shaykh, due to his powers of persuasion, convinced and influenced many people, some of whom were from adjoining villages.
One adjoining village had a grave where the people, especially the women, used to go for worship and other acts of shirk. So some of the people of this village, influenced by the Shaykh, invited him to their village to deliver some lectures. The caretakers of the grave and other village dwellers, engrossed in grave worship, threatened the Shaykh with death threats and attempted to hurt him. Nevertheless the Shaykh continued. When the people realised he would not leave, they all sat down behind a wall and listened attentively to every word of the Shaykh and the Shaykh enlightened the people of the reality of shirk and its consequences and the benefits and the importance of Tawheed. After the Shaykh left, all the village dwellers said everything Badee-ud-Deen has said is correct.
There was another village in which a man claimed visions of a famous saint, so he made a false grave and started worshipping it. Eventually a weekly gathering was established. As news of the grave spread, people from far and wide would come for worship and offerings. So one day the Shaykh went and advised the person but he would not listen, so the Shaykh recited the verse,
“And look at your ilaah (god), to which you have been devoted. We will certainly burn it, and scatter its particles in the sea. Your Ilaah (God) is only Allah, the One (Laa ilaaha illa Huwa) (none has the right to be worshipped but He). He has full knowledge of all things.” [Soorah Taahaa (20):97-98] So the Shaykh, himself, and his companions demolished the grave to the ground. So the people of innovation lodged a complaint with the government, but their case did not succeed as the grave worshippers could not prove the existence of a real grave at that place. Many similar incidences of this nature occurred with the Shaykh during his life.
Then, upon the request of Daar al-Hadeeth Makkah he taught there for one year. Then upon the request of Shaykh Abdullah Ibn Humaid Raaes Majlis al-Qadhaa al-A’la he taught in the Haram for a number of years.
During his stay there he was asked on numerous occasions to deliver lectures and sermons against the people of innovation, who were spreading their innovations in Makkah. One such incident was during the days of Muharram. The Shi'ites from Iran, Pakistan and India would set up stalls in the names of their Imams. The Shaykh delivered extensive lectures for two full days in refutation of them after which a single stall was not set up.
The Shaykh also delivered lectures in the Prophet's Mosque which were full of the radiant light of the Qur’an and the Sunnah on issues of Tawheed, Sunnah, Shirk, Innovations, Customs and Practices. However this hurt some of the people of desires who complained to the government that he (Badee-ud-Deen) was misguiding the people and hence he should be prohibited from delivering lectures. So the government sent some representatives to listen to the lectures of Shaykh Badee-ud-Deen. When they returned they said to those people of desires, “Whatever he says is with evidence from the Book and the Sunnah, so we cannot restrict him.”
In the same year the Shaykh would deliver lectures after the Asr prayer, on the loudspeaker, in the Prophet's Mosque. Then he moved to Makkah and resided there. As usual, he would deliver lessons on Sunan Abu Daawood, Usool al-Hadeeth and Asmaa ar-Rijaal after Fajr every day in Masjid al-Haram. After the Maghrib prayer he would teach Saheeh al-Bukhaaree and Tafseer Ibn Katheer.
During his life the Shaykh was invited to many countries to propagate the Deen of Islaam. He travelled to the State of Amman, U.A.E., Kuwait, England, the U.S.A and other countries.
His students number many, especially in Pakistan. Some of the more well known are:
Also his three sons:
The Shaykh was a master in language and a prolific writer. He wrote a book in Arabic called Wasool al-Alhaam Lasool al-Islaam without a single full stop.
His works number over two hundred and fifty, written in Arabic, Urdu and Sindhi. Some of them are:
The imam died in January 1996.
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