The page on wikipedia about Sayyid Ali Hamadani tells us that:
He is said to have converted nearly 37,000 persons during his stay in Kashmir and Ladakh,through his peaceful means and miracles.
Peaceful means.
Hmmm.
The very fact that it has to be written that he used 'peaceful means and miracles' should be an indication.
Indication to what ?
Well. Indication that some liar is at work. And he wants us not to look at the real face.
Surely, Sayyid Ali Hamdani was a Sufi. He came from Hamdan in fourteenth century. Like all other Sufis, his duty was propagation of his creed, i.e. Islam. And like all others of his ilk, he did a pretty good job.
More information from wikipedia:
He was a social reformer besides being a preacher...The Zakhirat-ul-Maluk is a renowned book written by him in which he postulates the treatment of Muslims and Kafirs by the king in the ninth chapter
Just wonderful. So, we have a sufi, who is a social reformer and so thoughtful that he instructs the king about the ways in which Muslims and Kafirs are to be treated. Let us look at these instructions by the 'saint'.
- Hindus will not build any new idol temples.
- They will not rebuild any existing temple which may have fallen into disrepair.
- Muslim travellers will not be prevented from staying in the temples.
- Muslim travellers will be provided hospitality by Zimmis in their own houses for three days.
- Zimmis will neither act as spies nor give spies shelter in their houses.
- If any zimmi is inclined towards Islam, he should not be prevented from doing so.
- Zimmis will respect Muslims.
- Zimmis will courteously receive a Muslim wishing to attend their meeting.
- Zimmis will not dress like Muslims.
- Zimmis will not take Muslim names.
- Zimmis must not ride horses with saddle and bridle.
- Zimmis should not have swords, bows or arrows.
- Zimmis should not wear signet rings.
- Zimmis should not openly sell or drink liquor.
- Hindus should not abandon their traditional dress, which is a sign of their ignorance, so that they can be distinguished from Muslims.
- Zimmis should not openly practice traditional Hindu or Vedic customs amongst Muslims.
- HIndus will not build their houses in the neighbourhood of Muslims.
- Hindus should not bury or carry their dead near Muslim grave-yards.
- Hindus will not mourn their dead loudly.
- They will not buy Muslim slaves.
Now, those of you, who do not know the meaning of 'Zimmi', it means a person who has to pay a tax to survive in an Islamic state. The tax is known as Jizya. The 'holy' Quran, which is the source of this 'saintly' tax, throws light for us:
Fight against the People given the Book(s) who do not accept faith in Allah and the Last Day, and who do not treat as forbidden what is forbidden by Allah and by His Noble Messenger, and who do not follow the true religion, until they pay the tariff with their own hands with humiliation.
Quran Chapter 9, verse 29 (translation by Ahmed Reza Khan)
For a better idea about Jizya, read the story of another such scumbag (sickulars will hate me for this) called Amir Khusro.
The Muslims that we see in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh are the off springs of those Hindu forefathers, who were forcibly converted to Islam by such monsters, nowadays marketed as 'sufis'. The
day they will be brave enough to accept that it was a cruel quirk of
fate that forced them to be born as Muslims, they will feel liberated.
The mindset of these monsters was same as that of Taliban today but the evil nexus of Islamists, Evangelists, Communists and Nehruvites marketed them successfully. In fact, so successfully that one finds intellectually lazy Hindus proclaiming them to be at par with genuine saints like Guru Nanak, Guru Namdev, Kabir etc. The bogey of Bhakti movement was shrewdly used to club monsters alongwith saints.
Remember the Bamiyan Buddhas destroyed by the Taliban a few years back ?
Oooops. I agains talked about Taliban instead of our sufi 'saint'. That is because the site where we have a Khanqah of this 'faqir', used to be Kalishwari temple, a temple dedicated to 'Kali devi' which the 'sufi saint' helped in demolishing.
Historian S.A.A. Rizvi, 'A history of sufism in India', pp 295-96 (vol. 1)
Now you must have got a fair idea of the 'peaceful means and miracles' of 'Islamic saint' a.l.a. Taliban.
One more thing. The same wikipedia link further tells us:
Later on his son,who preached in Kashmir for 18 years, during the reign of Sultan Sikander, completed his job. Some of his descendants still live in Kashmir.
Completed his job !
Are you getting the drift ?
This Sultan Sikandar is also known as 'Sikandar Butshikan', which literally means 'Sikandar the Idol breaker'.
That will put the euphemism 'completed his job' in perspective. Hamdani was as full of bigotry as the rest of sufis. He had migrated with 700 Sayyids like him and all of them spread to different parts of Kashmir. That was when Kashmir turned from a peaceful Hindu region to an Islamic one.
So, next time you plan to visit the grave of a monster, or appreciate some musical notes to be 'sufiana', think about the ideology you are unsuspectingly promoting.
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