By Shofi Ahmed

Friday Post 7

India saw its most prosperous era during the Muslim reigns. Mughul, Khilji, Ludhi and some other Muslim dynasties governed India for over seven hundred years. They left many legacies that still today are national treasures of India. That lures tens of thousands of tourists who come from across the globe giving a big hike in India’s treasury.

Let alone the Taj Mahal, one of the world’s greatest places of attractions. The amount of revenue it generated from the tourists is countless. More so it’s one of the rarest masterpieces on earth that’s demands to see once in a life is always on the rise. There are more Muslim relics that never stop luring in more and more eyeballs. For instance, Kutub Minar, Lal Qila people line up to see these every now and then.

Historically speaking it was the era of Emperor Aurangzeb, the son of Momtaj Mahal; indeed, rich India reached its pinnacle. India was the leading manufacturing centre and the largest economy of the world (even larger than China at the time).

Emperor Aurangzeb was an Aleem himself. He compiled the famous Fatawa ‘Alamgiri, also known as Al-Fatawa al-‘Alamgiriyya (Arabic: الفتاوى العالمكيرية) or Al-Fatawa al-Hindiyya (Arabic: الفتاوى الهندية), is a sharia based compilation on statecraft, general ethics, military strategy, economic policy, justice and punishment, that served as the law and principal regulating body of the Mughal Empire during his era.

The learned emperor Aurangzeb, a nerd in both Shariah and Marifaa, gathered some 500 experts in Islamic jurisprudence, 300 from South Asia, 100 from Iraq and 100 from the Hejaz. Their years long hard work resulted in an Islamic code of law for South Asia, in the late Mughal Era. It consists of legal code on personal, family, slaves, war, property, inter-religious relations, transaction, taxation, economic and other law for a range of possible situations and their juristic rulings by the Faqih of the time.

After his demise Mughal rule started to fall. The Aleem-Emperor shunned to take money from the treasury for his bread. He lived on earning his own money from making and selling Tupis head caps. The true guardian of great India’s death was such a massive loss. Following his death Europeans who went there to loot the biggest economy on earth at the time started to spread their wings. Leading to their big success in the end.

Europeans gathered their pace and strength getting everywhere across India. Eventually it became British India. During that time a European called upon Muslims and threw down a big challenge.

In vastly a Muslim lend he dared to proclaim that he will throw the Bible in fire; he wants the Muslims to do the same to see which one is true that won’t burn. What happened then?

Muslims flocked to their Aleem and with his genius wit they outsmarted him without going nowhere near the fire. Guess what, it was him beaten at his own game who then refused to be in the fire seeking mercy for his life. How that even unfolds gives us a fitting example we are looking for. In Shaa Allah up next.