Shah Waliulla

    

                                                       Shah Waliulla....

Shah Wali Allah, born 1702/03 in Delhi, India, died Eyewitness 1762 in Delhi, an Islamic theologian and promoter of modern Islamic thought-who hitherto undertook the first attempts at reassessing Islamic theology on the basis of modern changes

He received a classical Islamic education from his father and was reported to have memorized the Qurʾan while he was still seven. In 1732 he went for pilgrimage to Mecca, thereupon residing in the Hijaz for the purpose of religious studies with some eminent theologians. He came of age during a period of disenchantment following the demise of Aurangzeb, the last Mughal emperor of India, in 1707. Due to the loss of extensive territories of the empire to Hindu and Sikh rulers of the Deccan and the Punjab, the Indian Muslims had to accept the rule of non-Muslims. This was the challenge that occupied Wali Allah in his adult life

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Wala Allah surmised that the Muslim polity could rejuvenate in all its splendour with a policy of reform that would conciliate the religious ideals of Islam with the changing social and economic conditions of India. For him, the ideals were universal and perpetual; their application, however, was subject to change according to the circumstance. The main weapon through which he pursued his policy was called taṭbiq: according to this doctrine, the principles of Islam were reconstructed and reapplied in accordance with the Qurʾan and the Hadith (the tradition of Muhammad). This opened the way for the practice of ijtihad (independent reasoning by theologians for the sake of choosing rulings and laws in Islam); something that had previously been considerably muted. Thus, he promulgated a reinterpretation of taqdir in practical terms, condemning fatalistic qismat, narrow-fatalist, or absolute-predetermination. Wali Allah, according to him, had held that man achieved the greatest potential through his by his own volition in a world regarded as set by God's course. He opposed the legitimate theological worship of saints because it violated strict monotheism. He was jurisprudentially eclectic, allowing any Muslim to follow any of the four schools on any given issue of doctrine or practice. 

The most reputed of Wali Allah's voluminous prose would be Asrar al-din. His Persian translation of the Qur'an, along with its annotations, is popular in India and Pakistan.

The most widely known of Wali Allah's many writings was Asrar al-din, meaning "The Secrets of Belief." His annotated Persian translation of the Qur'an is still popular in India and Pakistan.Sufism, lightly Islamic belief and practice, in which Muslims strive to discover the truth of divine love and knowledge through intimate personal experience with God. It consists of different mystical avenues that can effectively establish what is truly the nature of humanity and that of God and ease the presence of divine love and wisdom in the soul of our world.