WRT: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mukto-mona/message/46674
Sir Hannan,
Salam. I didn't get reply of my simple question- or may be I missed. Anyway, you reply has many aspects to be discussed, I will address one here. You said:- "Mughol rule had Shariah as their basis".
Here is why the fact is just opposite and how people fall victim of propaganda of power politics and patriarchy in the name of Islam.
Please post in other groups in which the thread was posted and which I am not member of.
1. Dr. Richard Eaton is one of the top Islamic scholars on Islam in India, specially in the Deccan and Bengal. He writes in his "The Rise of Islam and The Bengal Frontier" that Bengal-Mughals maintained (1) Deep touch with Chistee tarika, (2) Separation of religion and State and (C) Indifference to converting non-Muslims to Islam. 2. There were many Rajput (Hindu) wives of in Mughal kings. That is anti-Islamic for a Muslim. 3. Mughal emperors used to celebrate Hindu and even Farsi events like Holi and Nawroj (Tagore has a poem on the Pathan king in Mughal era Kedar Khan and Rajput queen - Hasan) - that is not allowed in Islam. 4. Dr. Teslim Chowdhury, Chair of History department of Ram Mohan Roy College in his "Modhyojuger Bharot" different pages of Vol 1 and 2 concludes that Mughal rule could never be religion-based, there is no similarity of Mughal rule with theocratic Sate- Aurungzeb imposed Jijiya tax on non-Muslims after long 21 years of his becoming the Emperor and stopped after 10 years (it is for his decades long war in the South India when he needed money and Bengal spplied most of it, so he declared Bengal as "Jannatul Belayed - heaven on earth - Hasan), Shahjahan had 110 and Aurangzeb had 105 non-Muslim Monsobders, Jahangeer had 51 and Aurangzeb had 160 Hindu beurocrats (Siraj in Bengal had Manik Chand, UmiChand, Ray Durlav, Raj Ballav, Kishna Ballav, Nanda Kumar, Jogot Sheth, Meer Madan, Mohon Lal etc crowding his Darbar - Hasan), they were used to liquor and women. 5. That having non-Muslim employees is not allowed in Islamic State is increasingly clear in Middle Eastern, Iran;s and Pakistan's examples, specially with most senior Justice Bhagaban Das who was constitutionally supposed to be the chief justice but jamatis banned him. Note, before Pakistan was infected by jamatis Justice Octavian Cornelius, a Catholic Christian, served as the Chief Justice for long 8 years (1960 - 1968) after Chief Justice Munir retired. 6. Why I am stressing on highly placed non-Muslim in Islamic State? Employing high rangking non-Muslim is against Islamic rule. Mawlana Muhiuddin records it in Islamic State in his Quran's translation page 198 - someone proposed Hj. Omar (RA) a non-muslim (who was expert in writing( to employ as his personal scriber. But Hj. Omar (RA) denied and said it would be against the Quran. History of Islamic Khelafat generally proves this. 7. Even Mawlana Mawdudi accepted the fact that Mughal rule was not Islamic. He grieved about it in his lecture in Pathancot (19, 20 & 21 April 1945) that (in his words) India would have been different if the Muslims who came from outside (as preachers and invaders like Mughals would present and establish Sharia-Islam in India. 8. Mughals ruled vast area but we don't see a single record of stoning to death of adulterers or amputing hands of thieves. It is not possible that those crimes were not committed or the criminals were never caught fo such long time in such vast area. The only one, questionably Sharia-related, death-sentence we get was of a Portugese. He converted to and then reconverted from Islam; he was killed by Aurungzeb not for apostasy but for spying on Mughals. 9. Our preachers in Bengal and India never imposed a single law as we see in past and present Sharia books. Indeed we see the family law all over Muslim word because men could beat wives, could marry at will, divorce at will, give half-inheritance, deprive their eye-witness in Sharia-courts, deprive their right to divorce on their own accord etc. These are documents - not my personal opinions. Mughal Rule (and Pre-Mughal Sultanate rule in India) was not even close to Islamic State. It is upto the readers to realize why it is claimed so and who claims it.
Regards.
Hasan Mahmud
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