REFLECTIONS OF ALLAH’S LOVE pdf

Reflections Of Allah’s Love, A Portrait of His Eminence, IMAM AHMAD RAZA KHAN AL QADIRI, A Towering Figure in The Annals of Religious Revival by Maryam Qadri

REFLECTIONS OF ALLAH’S LOVE

Reflections of Allah’s Love These outstanding scholar-saints reawakened the Sunni masses and gave them hope in the face of fear.

 The fountainhead of this altogether preeminent family was Mawlana Raza ‘Afi Khan an-Naqshbandi & (d. 1282/1866), a student of ‘Allama Khalilrur Rahman Rampuri. He was educated at Tonk, the only Muslim state in central India, and returned home to Bareilly at the age of twenty- three.’

He was a sagacious Gnostic (‘Arif), who engaged in the greater jihad by restraining his lower self (Nafs) from sins, dubious matters, and excess in permissible pleasures. Mawlana Raza ‘Ali Khan was also a valiant freedom fighter, who served under the command of General Bakht Khan and fought the lesser jiad against the British.

 He resigned from soldiering to fully dedicate his life to attaining the highest form of knowledge (Ma‘vifa),? and waging the most perfect form of struggle (Jihād al-Akbar).

After the Revolt of 1857 ended in defeat, the “British Raj” consolidated its authority over the vast tracks of India.