Enough brain smashing over fiqh guys, what is your favourite Quran verse or your favourite thing about Islam?

I've only people smashing their heads over fiqh and political nature of Muslim countries on social media. It is time we reject the distorted image of Islam all over the media and work through the core messages of Islam. So what is your favourite thing about Islam, mine is a very absurd thing.

Whoever would love to be delivered from Hellfire and admitted into Paradise, let him meet his end with faith in Allah and the Last Day, and let him treat people as he would love to be treated.

Source: Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 1844

A simple thing as treat people as you want to be treated.

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u/Alarming_Stage5631 — 1 month ago
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The tragedy of Sylhet

According to the traditional accounts of Sylhet, Burhanuddin was a Muslim resident of Tultikar, living during the reign of Raja Gour Govinda, the ruler of the kingdom of Gour in the Sylhet region. Muslims were then a comparatively small community within the kingdom, and Burhanuddin lived there with his family. When he was blessed with the birth of a son, he determined to mark the occasion in accordance with his religious custom and gratitude to God.

For the celebration of the child's birth, Burhanuddin performed an ʿaqīqah and sacrificed a cow. The event, which began as a domestic celebration, was soon followed by an unexpected incident. According to the most widely preserved version of the tradition, a kite or crow seized a piece of the meat and carried it away. The bird subsequently dropped the piece of flesh into the house of a Brahmin. In other versions of the story, the meat fell near a temple or a place connected with the ruler's religious establishment.

The discovery immediately caused alarm and outrage. To the Brahmin, the presence of beef in such a place was regarded as a serious act of sacrilege. A complaint was therefore brought before Raja Gour Govinda. The king ordered an investigation and commanded that Burhanuddin be brought before him. When questioned, Burhanuddin admitted that a cow had indeed been sacrificed and explained that it had been done in celebration of the birth of his son.

According to the traditional narrative, Gour Govinda did not accept this explanation as a justification. He regarded the slaughter of the cow as an intolerable violation of the religious order over which he ruled. What had begun as a father's celebration of the arrival of his child was thus transformed into a matter before the royal court, with Burhanuddin and his infant son placed at the mercy of the king's judgment.

The punishment described by the Sylheti tradition was devastating. Burhanuddin's right hand was cut off by order of the ruler. His infant son, whose birth had only recently been celebrated, was also killed. The accounts therefore preserve the incident as one of extraordinary cruelty: the father was mutilated, while the child whose birth had occasioned the celebration was taken from him.

For Burhanuddin, the consequences were not merely political or religious but profoundly personal. The same event that had brought joy into his household had ended in the destruction of his family. Injured and overwhelmed by the loss of his child, he could no longer expect justice from the ruler under whose authority he lived. He therefore left Sylhet and travelled toward the Muslim territories of Bengal to seek protection and redress.

Burhanuddin eventually appealed to Sultan Shamsuddin Firuz Shah of Lakhnauti, relating the punishment that, according to tradition, had been inflicted upon him and his son. His appeal became connected with the growing conflict between the Muslim Sultanate of Bengal and the kingdom ruled by Gour Govinda. The tragedy of one Muslim family thus entered the wider political history of the region and became, in later Sylheti historical memory, the event that preceded the campaigns culminating in the conquest of Sylhet in 1303 CE.

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u/Alarming_Stage5631 — 2 months ago

What is our political ideology as a community?

What is our political ideology? Like genuinly we don't have a united political front, our parties don't have a definitive ideology. What is your personal ideology?

u/Alarming_Stage5631 — 2 months ago
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When you finally reached the new capital but the Sultan relocates it again

Muhammad bin Tughlaq was the Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate from 1325 to 1351 CE and belonged to the Tughlaq dynasty. He was highly educated and known for ambitious ideas, but several of his policies proved extremely difficult to implement.

Around 1327 CE, Muhammad bin Tughlaq decided to move the capital from Delhi to Daulatabad (Devagiri) in the Deccan. One major reason was its strategic position. Daulatabad was considerably farther south and more centrally positioned within the Sultanate’s expanding territories, particularly after Delhi’s conquest of large parts of the Deccan. It could also help the Sultan maintain stronger control over these southern regions.

The problem was that Tughlaq did not merely establish Daulatabad as another administrative centre. He ordered large numbers of people from Delhi, including nobles, officials, scholars and ordinary inhabitants, to relocate there. The journey was extremely long(1300-1500kms) and the forced movement created substantial hardship and resentment.

After several years, Tughlaq eventually returned the capital to Delhi. Daulatabad nevertheless remained an important city and administrative centre. The episode became one of the most famous examples of Tughlaq’s reign: the underlying strategic idea had some merit, but the scale and manner of its implementation caused enormous problems.

This is why Muhammad bin Tughlaq is often portrayed as a ruler who had very ambitious ideas but struggled to translate them into workable policies. His capital experiment was not simply a random decision; it was an attempt to solve genuine strategic and administrative problems, but it was executed in an extremely disruptive way.

u/Alarming_Stage5631 — 2 months ago
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When the Mongols fought Indian Muslims

Alauddin Khalji was the second ruler of the Khalji dynasty and one of the most formidable sultans of the Delhi Sultanate. Ascending the throne in 1296, he transformed the Sultanate into a powerful military state through sweeping reforms, including maintaining a large standing army, strengthening frontier fortifications, improving intelligence networks, and introducing market regulations to ensure the army could be supplied efficiently. His reign was marked by successful campaigns across the Indian subcontinent and, above all, by his steadfast defense of Hindustan against repeated Mongol invasions.

The Mongols launched a series of invasions into the Delhi Sultanate during Alauddin Khalji's reign, hoping to add Hindustan to their vast empire after conquering much of Asia. One of the largest invasions came in 1299 under Qutlugh Khwaja, who advanced deep into northern India with a formidable force. Rather than surrender or retreat, Alauddin mobilized his army under the command of the renowned general Zafar Khan. At the Battle of Kili, the Delhi Sultanate stood its ground against one of the most feared military powers of the medieval world. Although Zafar Khan was killed after charging ahead of the main force, the Mongols suffered heavy losses and ultimately withdrew without achieving their objective.

The invasions did not stop there, but neither did Alauddin's determination. Over the following years, he strengthened Delhi's defenses, expanded his standing army, and fortified the northwestern frontier. Major Mongol offensives, including the Siege of Delhi in 1303 and the invasion of 1305, were eventually repelled. At the Battle of Amroha, the Sultanate decisively defeated the invading Mongol army, capturing thousands of prisoners and ending the era of repeated large-scale Mongol incursions into India. Alauddin Khalji's military reforms and successful defense of the Delhi Sultanate ensured that, unlike many other kingdoms across Eurasia, Hindustan remained beyond the reach of Mongol conquest.

u/Alarming_Stage5631 — 3 months ago
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When the British fought Indian Muslims.

When the British East India Company attempted to establish complete control over southern India, they faced one of the most determined and innovative rulers of the eighteenth century, Tipu Sultan of Mysore. Refusing to surrender his kingdom or its independence, Tipu invested heavily in modernizing his army through disciplined infantry, advanced artillery, and domestic weapons production. His state operated foundries that manufactured large numbers of bronze and iron cannons, mortars, and ammunition, allowing Mysore to sustain long military campaigns without relying heavily on foreign suppliers. The most remarkable feature of his military, however, was its use of iron cased rockets, which were far more powerful and accurate than the rockets commonly used elsewhere at the time. These rockets could travel great distances, burst into enemy formations with tremendous force, and create confusion among British infantry and cavalry alike. During the Battle of Pollilur in 1780, Tipu Sultan and his father Hyder Ali used artillery and rocket fire with devastating effect, inflicting one of the greatest defeats ever suffered by the East India Company in India. Throughout the Anglo Mysore Wars, Tipu continued to strengthen his artillery corps, improve his fortifications, and adopt new military techniques while maintaining diplomatic ties with France and the Ottoman Empire in search of technological and strategic cooperation. British officers came to respect the effectiveness of Mysore's artillery and recognized that they were fighting an army that matched European standards in organization and innovation. Although Tipu Sultan ultimately fell while defending Seringapatam in 1799, his military achievements had a lasting impact. The British collected many of his iron rockets after the war, studied their design, and used them as the foundation for the Congreve rocket, which later saw service in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. Tipu Sultan's artillery and rocketry therefore stand as enduring symbols of Mysore's resistance against colonial expansion and represent one of the most significant military innovations to emerge from eighteenth century India.

u/Alarming_Stage5631 — 3 months ago
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Which Indian Muslim conquest of a city was equivalently significant to that of Istanbul?

Do not include The Conquest of Sindh, please try including conquests that originated within the Indian Subcontinent

u/Alarming_Stage5631 — 4 months ago
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Has anyone else noticed this?

The people who manage the Waqf board, the Muslim politicians who take votes from us for eg in bengal and in Kondhwa,Pune ,Old city Hyderabad and the head of Muslim organisations in India are rich.... too rich in comparison to the average Muslim in India and yet the Waqf board is doing below the bare minimum for Muslims the areas in which these politicians get elected are a shitshow facilities are deterioating slowly and the zakat and saqda which was supposed to be redistributed to our people is also non-visual I mean come on even if 15 M Muslims give bare minimum zakat the change should be enormous.

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u/Alarming_Stage5631 — 4 months ago
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Which Indian Muslim Empires do you think are top 3 and which Indian Muslims Emperors do you think are top 5?

List top 3 Indian Muslim Empires and Top 5 Indian Muslim Emperors and state why?

u/Alarming_Stage5631 — 5 months ago