Muhammad Ramzan (preacher)

Shah Muhammad Ramzan Mehami
Born 1769
Meham District Rohtak, Haryana,Punjab
Died 1825
Madhya Pradesh
Occupation preacher, tablighi

Shah Muhammad Ramzan, Molvi Muhammad Ramzan (Urdu: شاہ محمد رمضان‎) was a preacher and crusading tablighi in Haryana. He expressed by his preachings that the converted Rajputs, Meo and Jats (Muslim Rajputs) were in no way different from their Hindu counterparts in culture, customs and celebrations of religious festivals. He also defined by his preachings that they were not only pir-parast (Guru-worshippers) and grave worshiping (Qabr-parast); they were also idol-worshippers. They celebrated Holi, Diwali and other Hindu festivals with zeal and dressed in the Hindu fashion.[1][2][3][4]

Works as a reformer

"Hadi e Haryana" Hazrat Shah Muhammad Ramzan Shaheed Mehami was the prominent reformer of Haryana who typified this Da'wa. He made the Rajput Muslim conscious of their separate identity from Hindus. Shah Muhammad Ramzan used to sojourn in areas inhabited by such converted Rajputs, dissuade them from practising Hindu rites and persuade them to marry their cousins (real uncle’s daughters which converts persistently refused to do). They equally detested eating cow’s flesh. To induce them to eat beef, he introduced new festivals like Mariyam ka Roza and Rot-bot (on this eves, people observed on 17 Rajjab, a pao of roasted beef placed on a fried bread, was distributed amongst relatives and near and dear ones). Ramzan also encouraged such people to build mosques in large numbers, and to establish the wearing of Muslim dress and the observance of Islamic obligation. Waa'z (sermons) were employed as method of Da'wa. Hindus also revered Hazrat Shah Muhammad Ramzan and in several Hindu villages there were "Shah Ramzan ke Chabutre" (raised platforms for Shah Ramzan). Such endeavours have ruled out the possibility of reconversion and have helped in the Islamization of neo-Muslims.[2][5][6][7][8][9]

Early life and death

He was born in Meham District Rohtak (Haryana) Punjab in 1769. His father Shah Abdul Azeem ( d 1828 Meham ) was Majzoob ( مجذوب )Sufi. His grand father Shah Abdul Hakeem (1709- 1773) was a notable Urdu writer of his time.[10][11]
Shah Muhammad Ramzan was dissatisfied with the Sufi religious system under his father Shah Abdul Azeem whose Rajput devotees present him with a tithe from every thing taken in their raids. Therefore at the age of fourteen he left his family to study with Hazrat Shah Abdul Qadir and Hazrat Shah Abdul Aziz Delhivi the sons of Hazrat Shah Waliullah. There he studied for fourteen years (1783-1796). He has worked as a preacher and tablighi throughout his life.[2][6]

Shah Muhammad Ramzan was killed by his co-religionist Bohras at Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh when he was returned from "Hajj" on 18 January 1825.[2][7][12]

Scholarly work

He wrote in local language and dialects, sometime in the form of poems that could be recited and held debates with the scholars of other religious.[5]

His famous books "AQAID E AZEEM","BULBUL BAGH E NABI" And"AKHIR GUTT" are available on" Haryanvi Siddiqui" page Facebook.

References

  1. ↑ https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22HAZRAT%20SHAH%20MUHAMMAD%20RAMZAN%20MEHAMI%22
  2. 1 2 3 4 https://archive.org/details/MATARALAJDAD
  3. ↑ http://voiceofdharma.org/books/tlmr/ch8.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.bharatvani.org/books/tfst/appi1.htm
  5. 1 2 Travellers in Faith: Studies of the Tablīghī Jamāʻat as a Transnational Islamic Movement for Faith Renewal
  6. 1 2 https://archive.org/details/HADIEHARYANA
  7. 1 2 https://archive.org/details/TazkiraEUlamayeHind
  8. ↑ https://archive.org/details/TazkiraESufiyaEMewat
  9. ↑ https://archive.org/details/FATAWAEAZIZI
  10. ↑ https://archive.org/details/UrduKiShakhHaryanviZubanMainTalifat
  11. ↑ https://archive.org/details/PunjabMeinUrduHafizMehmoodKhanShirani
  12. ↑ The Tabligh Movement or Millions of Bearded Militants on the March.

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