Shah Wali Ullah was an 18th century Islamic scholar born in 1703 in Delhi who led religious reforms among Muslims in South Asia. He established madrassas to spread Islamic teachings, translated the Quran into Persian, and worked to unite divided Muslim sects. His teachings emphasized a return to pure Islamic principles and helped revive Islam in the subcontinent during a period of political chaos and decline of the Mughal empire. He sent missionaries across regions to spread his message and wrote over 50 books explaining Islam. His emphasis on religious education and unity among Muslims inspired later reformers and contributed to the preservation of Islam in the region.

1. Topic
SHAH WALI ULLAH

2. FIZA JAVAD
ROLL# 21

3. SAJID ALI
• Roll No # 31.
Department of History & Pakistan
Studies,University of The Punjab ,Lahore.

4. LITERATURE REVIEW
• Shah Wali Allah and his times by Saiyid Athar
Abbas Razvi .
• A history of freedom movement .
• Article , waliullah of Dehli by Dr Nazeer Ahmad

5. INTRODUCTION
• History witnessed that whenever the enemies of
Islam have created problems who crush it, God
sends his pious person to defend Islam .
• Shah wali ullah is also one of these pious people who
supported Muslim and there believes in the sub-
continent in a very critical situation.
• He even stood against the corrupt Mughal
government in eighteenth century which was very
risky task.
• He not only reformed the religious ,economic
political and social condition of Muslims but also
prevented them from Maharatas

6. BIOGRAPHY
• Born on 21 Feb 1703.
• In a respectable family of Delhi .
• His complete name QUTUB-UD-DIN AHNAD. Ibn
Abdul Raheem ,but because his pious nature people
called him as Shah wali ullah .
• His father was famous for his knowledge and greater
understanding of Islam as he was a leadind Hanafi
jurist ,Islamic scholar and founder of Madrassa –e-
Raheemiya .
• He was died in 1762

7. EDUCATION
• HE RECEIVED his early education in madrassa-e-
Raheemiya .
• In his childhood ,hae memorize the Holy quran as
well as learnt Hadees and Tafseer
• .He studied Arabic and persion .
• He studied metaphysical ,juridical ,philosophical and
theological text in the age of 15th .
• He graduated and started teaching in same
Madrassa.

8. • After death of his father he became the head of that
madrassa .
•

9. PILGRIMAGE
• When to Hejaz to perform Hajj and stay there for
18th year to study Haddees and Fiqah from scholars.
• Informed about the situation prevailing in different
Muslim states .
• He saw there a dream and cane back to Delhi with
the new task.
• training of pupils to enlighten the Muslims of sub-
contient

10. CONDITION OF INDIA
• He was born 4 year before the death of Mughal
emperor Aurangzeb ,after him the mughal empire
was handed over to unable successors due to which
the Muslim community of India experienced sever
problems unislamic practices were growing quickly
.
• That spiritual conclusion created political chaos and
that later resulted in the disintegration of the Muslim
rule in India .
• As well as impacts upon the social ,economic spheres
in the reign

11. CAUSES OF MUSLIM DECLINE
• The officers and nobles of Humayun were
doing interference .
• The foreign influences on puppet govt .
• No understanding of Islam according to its
proper meaning and spirit .
• Division in class statues like feudal lords ,poor
people and nobles sank .
• Overlooking of the principles or real Khalafit
and kingship

12. • Sectarian conflicts .
• Money obtained from the exchequer by those could
not perform and corresponding duty .
• Exploitation of merchants ,farmers and workers by
heavy taxation .

13. REFORMS
• Social .
• Religious .
• Political .
• Economic

14. SOCIAL REFORMS
• SOCIAL MORALS REGENARATION .
• It was not enough to remove doctrinal differences
among the India Muslims at that time they were
experienced moral crises and adopting unislamic
practices .
• In response to Shah wali ullah presented Islamic
teachings in a rational way and inspired people to
spend their lives in accordance to teaching of
islam a

15. • When he was went to Hejaz for his higher education
and people perform hajj ,there he saw a vision in
which Holy Prophet (PBUH )blessed him with the
tidings that he would be instrumental in the
organization of the section of Muslim society.
• He decided to revive the past glory of Muslim in sub-
continent

16. POLITICAL REFORMS
• He wrote letter to Ahmad shah Abdhli ,Amirs and
chiefs for the invasion on india ,at present there is
no one more powerful and dignified king than you .
• It is your duty to make for india, so as to break the
power of Marathas and rescue the helpless muslims
held in bondage by the unbelievers .
• He requested ahmad shah Abdhli who came to
defend India and defeated Marathas at the third
battle of panipat the victory blasted the power of
Maharatas and opened new ways for the revaval of
Islam in sub-continent

17. RELIGIOUS REFORMS
• The translation of holy Quran into Persian with brief
commentary notes.
• He has guidance from Quran for all reforms .
• Before migration he established government in Mecca
,he says the power of Islam was increasing day by day in
Arabia ,and the enemies territory continued diminishing
gradually ,as many Arab tribes that time . This show the
Islamic government in Mecca .
• The Muslim government at that time neglected religion
also

18. •
a) Translation of the Holy Quran
Shah Wali Ullah was the first in the subcontinent who
translated the Holy Quran into Persian language for better
understanding of the holy book.
b) Explanation of Muatta
• The life and traditions of prophets were the second
source of Islamic teachings.
• He established schools for the study of Hadith.
• He selected “Imam Maliki's Muatta” as the most
authentic collection of the Hadith.
c) Synthesis of different schools of thought

19. • He wrote “Al-Insaf-fi-Bayan Sahab al Ikhtalaf,” in order
to create a balance between the four schools of
thought.
His object was to alleviate the deteriorating condition
of the Muslim society and to defend it from external
threats.
d) Emphasis on Ijtehad
Shah Wali Ullah was the first person to emphasize the
importance of Ijtehad for the solution of intricate
problems in every day life.
e) Efforts for the Revival of Islam
He was against the limited universality of the
applications of the injunctions of the Quran. He tried to
resolve the controversies among various schools of
thoughts and gave a new life to the spirit of Islam.

20. Promotion of Madarras Rahimiy
He rendered great services to Islam by the
promotion of Madarrasah Rahimiya.
• he immediately set himself the separate task of
spiritual consolidation of Muslim society.
• He prepare the few students and gave them
knowledge and different branches 0f Islamic
learning.
• And persuaded the Muslim to striticly fallow in the
foot steps of the HOLY PAROPHET (PBUH).
• Lead a simple life and avoided involvement in
luxuries of world .
•

21. • Jihad and pan-Islamism .
• It is the duty of Muslims states to the revive the
spirit of Jihad and always ready for sacrifice .
• The idea of pan-Islamism conceived by shah wali
ullah appeare to difficult to materials these days,
as nationalism is dominating religion ,but to
aspire and work for the establishment of Islam as
the greatest international force the power is
indeed one of the principle

22. CRUSEDE AGAINST SECTARIANISM
• SIHA AND SUNNIS
• The entire Muslim community was disintedagrat and
noilis had been grouped into two parties in turani
and srani which were affecting the innocent
people .
• Shah wali Ullah opines that an unhealthy condition
wich had impacts in Muslim believes ,thoughts
,practices , morality, cultural and social ,political
,administrative the in two things .

23. • The transfer of political authority from the
caliph to absolute ,monarch and second the
irrational following of Islam in the absence
of Ijitihad .
• in such critical situation Shah waliullah tried
to wips out different based on religiopus
conviction .he wrote izalat-ul-khifa and
Rhilafat-e- khulafat to remove
misunderstanding between shiha and sunnis

24. TASAWWUF
• He urged reforms and discipline of Tasawwuf but
did not oppose it.
• Infect he was deeply interested in the subject and
wrote a numbers of books outlining the practices of
various sufi orders and analyzing sufi mysteries .
• A typical composition is a short pamphlet and titled
,Wahdat-ul-wujud and wahdat-ul-shuhud,in which
he tried to reconcile with the views of Inb-ur-Arabi
THE Mujaddid theory of Wahadat-ul-shuhud .

25. • he tried to unite all of them into a single community.
He did so by firstly making and finding bridges between
the different beliefs of Muslims and then secondly by
uniting them into a single army to defend the
subcontinent. defeat the Marathas in the battle of
Panipat in 1761. A. This sign of unity inspired many
future reformers to revive Islam.
• . If Shah Wali Ullah hadn’t united the Muslims, Pakistan
probably wouldn’t have been made, and as such
Muslims would be more spread out and different from
each other then ever before

26. • He remove the distaste which the ullamah had
felt of Sufism and the Sufis .
• His point of view that in the great religious
seminary of Deoband ,where the principle
laid down by Shah waliullah have been
fallowed ,there is the considerable and
emphasis on the spiritual discipline of the
advanced students

27. IMPORTANCE OF HIS WORK IN THE
RIVAVAL OF ISLAM
• Shah Wali Ullah was one of the most influential people in
the subcontinent during the time at which Hindu-Muslim
conflicts were at it’s peak..
• The work of Shah Wali Ullah (1703 – 1762) was very
important in the revival of Islam in the subcontinent during
the eighteenth century.
• The most important work of Shah Wali Ullah was the
teaching and preaching of the basic, pure and true
meanings of Islam in ‘Madarsa’ who continued his work
through several generations. He sent several missionaries
to different countries, and even in parts of the
subcontinent since, you know, it was so freaking huge.

28. • He wrote fifty freaking one books in order to
explain the proper teachings of Islam. The books
presented the correct concept and beliefs
of Islam in a very simple form
• . he wrote other stuff too. Like translating
the entire Holy Quran into Persian. Later, his sons
translated the Holy Quran into Urdu.
• T Through his teaching he also brought different
sects of Muslims, especially the Shias and Sunnis,
close and emphasized the need of unity among
the Muslims.

29. Contribution to the study of
HADIS
• His main work in the field was the training of
Ullamah ,who could carry on the teaching of HAIDS .
• He established school for study of HADIS .
• He wrote a number of books on subjects some of
them were short pamphlets meant for the
enlighment of the Beginners like Chihi Hadis
,(frothy traditions) and Nawadirmi-al-Dadis ( the
unique amongst tradition).
• his more serious work related to study of the earlist
collection of tradition entitled Muwatta .

30. • He wrote a couple of Pamphlets on more
generals aspects of Islamic jurisprudence and
here also his contributions and approach are
characterist of the man ,one of this entitled
,Insaf-fi-payan-i-sabab-al-ikhtalaf,.
• He wrote a pamphlet on the principle of Ijtihad
and Taqlid .
• He wrote in iqd-ul-jid that the HOLY PROPHET
(PBUH) ‘s practices was that he perfered those
interpretations which were the convenient to his
followers

31. HUS CONTRIBUTIONS
• His approach marked humanism ,so rare amongst the
theologians of Islam ,but he also took a practical and
rationalistic views abut of religion .
• He held that religious injunction were to be observed , not
because they were ordered by a higher authority, but because
they were calculated to confer individual a social benefits .
• in Hujjat-ullah-il-Balighah,
• Injunction of Islamic law ,commandment of Islamic law , he
strongly condemn custom of Hindu is that when husband
due the widow is not allow to re-merry.He condemn the
wasteful expenditure at the time of betrothal, marriage
,funeral the ceremonies of the fortieh day and six monthly.

32. HIS BOOKS
• Hajjatullah-il-Baligha.
• Shah wali ullah Mahdi propagation.
• Shaykh shah walliullah Dehli .
• Fuyooz ul Harmai.
• Hazrat shah waliullah .
• political and economical principle of S.W.U.
• All qual jameel Urdu by S.W.U.
• Tazkira S.W.U.
• S.w.u. Mahdi propagation…Al fawzul kabeer b

33. SOCIALISM
• He considered as forerunner socialist leader Karl Marx
as he propagated equal distribution of money on
socialistic bases .
• In Hujallat –ullah-il-Baaligah he critices as it explored
the poor people and therefore is the main causes of the
downfall of the sassanid and Roman empire .
• He was the opinion that capitalism has caused different
revolutions the past which suffered the world and
created unrest in the society .
• He favored intellectual revolution and wanted to bring
peaceful changing to the society.

34. DESCENDANTS OF S.W.U
• He married twice .
• From his first wife he have one son ,Sheikh
Muhammad ,and daughter ,Ammatul Azieez.
• The second wife, she had four son when S.W.U died,
his son Shah Abdul azeez has taken responsibilities
and cared for his sister and brothers .
• every descendants of S.W.U. contributed to the
Islamic Academia after him .

35. LEGACY
• When he return Delhi from Hejaz 1732,he
wrote many books and produced various
pervious works until his death in 1763.his
most important work is hujjat allah al baligha.
• In this book he presented the Islamic teaching
in the light of scientific objectivities .
• He also work on the theology ,meta
physics,poltics,economy,social and religious.

36. • Aspect of life.
• His interest and understanding of Islamic
learning made him to contribute a lot and only
within a short period of 30 years he produce
more than 50 works of extremely good
quality into famous language like Arabic and
Persian.

37. CONCLUSION
• He was great Islamic
• reformers of the 18th century had their vision
directed inward, and were focused more on internal
• reform than external threat. The task of placing Islam
in the context of a world domineering Western .
• civilization was left to scholars of a later age. Shah
Waliullah offered
• no fresh guidance as to how to live.
• His dynamic personality presented him as a good
writer ,brave soldiers and warrior
,Mujahid,mujtahid ,reformers ,scholar economist
,socialist and a great leader of Indian Muslim.

38. • Through his writing ,he presented comprehensive
effects and contributed by training Muslims to
found the school of thoughts and later completed
his mission .He lighted the candle of Islamic
revivalism which was kept aloft by his son and
worthy successor.
• His outstanding characteristics made Allams
Muhammad Iqbal remrkes that “he was the first
Muslim to feel the urge for rethinking the whole
system of Islam without any war breaking away from
its past