Syed Ahmad Shaheed Braelvi.ppt

Pakistan affairs, ahmed shaheed

1. Syed Ahmad
Shaheed Braelvi

2. Early Biographical
Details
Beliefs
Works
Importance

3. Early Biographical
Details
1: Birth
2: Education
3: Life after education

4. Birth
Syed Ahmad was born near
Lucknowin a small town of Rai
Bareliin 1786.
His father died when he was
young.

5. Education
In 1806, he went to Delhiand enrolled
(joined) in MadrrassaRahimiya.
For two years he studied under the sons of
Shah Wali Ullah.
He learned the HolyQuranand Hadith.

6. Life After Education
•He was the man of action then a
scholar.
•In 1810, he joined the forces
of NawabAmir Khan, a pathan military
leader.
•During this period of life he learned the
use of European weapons.

7. Life After Education
•He made himself so perfect that he
was given the command of a group of
soldiers.
•Due to his piety he was also made
responsible for leading the troops in
prayer.

8. Life After Education
•In 1817, Syed Ahmad
returned to Delhi, where his
work became important in
trying to restore Islam to its
original purity.

9. Beliefs
•(a) He believed that
freedom of Muslims could
only come as a result of
armed struggle against the
foreign and non-muslim
forces which were
oppressing them.

10. Beliefs
(b) Syed Ahmad believed
that there was need to end
the evils that had corrupted
Islamic society
consequently.

11. Works/Efforts
•In 1821 he went to Hajj, before going
he held meeting with leaders and
spread his belief
•He started Jihad Movementagainst
non-muslim oppression. He believed
that once this was done Islam could
be rejuvenated.

12. Works/Efforts
•He toured the Punjab and north
frontier to enlist the man to fight
with Sikh.
•He travelled thousands of miles to
raise the Mujahideen.
•Established headquarter near
Peshawar, send massage to
Rajeet Singh

13. Works/Efforts
•He fought many battles against
Sikhs.
•His army was defeated because of
bribery of Yar Muhammad khan
and his servant.
•In 1831 he martyred at Balakot
with six hundred Mujahideen.

14. The Mujahideen
Movement
Syed Ahmed Shaheed Brelvi
started a great movement in the
North of India; this movement is
known as “The Mujahideen
Movement” or “The Movement o
Jihad”. This movement arranged a
power for the struggle of freedom
in Muslims which produced a spirit
of survival and they started
freedom struggle.

15. The Mujahideen
Movement
Background of the Mujahideen Movement
Syed Ahmed Shaheed Brelvi selected a
particular way on the command of his
spiritual guide Shah Abdul Aziz and devoted
himself in the preparation of the holy war.
He started a national movement for this
purpose in 1818 and organized this
movement after is arrival from Hajj as the
Mujahideen Movement in 1831.

16. Objectives of
Mujahideen Movement
•He wanted to make the Muslims
as the true lover of Islam, for this
purpose he started the
Mujahideen Movement.
The main objectives of the
Mujahideen Movementwere
following;

17. Objectives of Mujahideen
Movement
•To preach unicity of Almighty Allah.
•To revive the teachings of Islam and prepare the
Muslims to pass their lives simply according to
the teachings of Islam.
•To protect the Muslims against such acts and
ideas which are contrary to Islamic values.
•To protect the Muslims from the worship of other
things except Allah.
•To preach Jihad because it was not possible to
get freedom from evil force without armed

18. Importance

The defeat of the mujahideen in the Battle of
Balakot, ‘was a serious setback for the Jihad
Movement and it struggled to survive in the
following years. The movement continued on in
the hills of the North West Frontier until 1863
when the British sent a large army to deal with the
mujahideen threat. Even then the movement
survived through the determination of its followers.
The work of Sved Ahmad had been very important
because:
It was the first example in Indian history of a
movement formed to free the Muslims from the

19. Importance
•It was not a movement in order to
place a particular leader in power but,
instead, to achieve religious and
spiritual freedom.
•The Jihad Movement was a uniting
force for Muslims, Many of Syed
Ahmad’s soldiers had been spiritual
leaders or teachers. The fact that they
were prepared to die for their cause
was an inspiration to all Muslims.

20. Importance
•The Jihad Movement is regarded by
many historians as the fore-runner of the
Pakistan Movement in India. Syed
Ahmad’s efforts were an inspiration to all
Muslims in defending their religion, their
culture and their freedoms. Those
Muslims who later campaigned for their
own homeland saw Syed Ahmad as an
example of a Muslim fighting for the
Muslim cause in much the same way,
since he too wanted to see a state which

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