@ArshadMadani007 ملک کی آزادی میں علماء کا کردار. مولانا سید ارشد مدنی صاحب مدظلہ صدر المدرسین و استاذ حدیث دارالعلوم دیوبند و صدر جمعیۃ علماء ہند.. The Darul Uloom Deoband was to remain free of political entanglements, and on the outbreak of WWI issued a fatwa declairing its loyalty to the British. However, this didn’t stop some its ulema from engaging in political activism. Moulana Mahmudul Hassan, Deoband’s first and most famous student, was a passionate activist and was conferred the title Shaikhul Hind as a result in 1920 In 1915 he sent his deputy, Moulana Ubaidullah Sindhi to Kabul to set up a government in exile. In the same year Shaikhul Hind went to Makkah to petition the Turkish governor to the Hijaz, Ghalib Pasha, for Ottoman support for his anti-British activities. Information about who made up this government in exile in Afghanistan and future plans were written on three silken cloths, written by Moulana Ubaidullah and Maulana Mohammad Mian Mansoor Ansari, the grandson of Moulana Qasim Nanotwi. The letters were intercepted by the British and Shaikhul Hind was arrested in Makkah in 1917, and imprisoned in Malta for three years. Among the 200 or so other ulema the British arrested, was Moulana Hussain Ahmad Madani, who has written about the arrest, deportation to Malta via Cairo and subsequent imprisonment in a book called Safar Nama Aseer-e-Malta. Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind WWI had ended, but the British were in control of the Hijaz and the Ottoman Caliphate under threat from Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. The Khilafat Movement was launched as a result, and at the same time Gandhi started his Non-cooperation Movement against the British. Seeing the need for a coordinated response, the ulema of India founded the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind. However, given Deoband’s official position of not engaging in politics, the ulema in general were reluctant to support the Khilafat movement. Shaikhul Hind, on the other hand, was freed from imprisonment in 1920 and despite being told by the British to stay away from politics, issued a fatwa signed by 925 eminent ulema and threw his support behind non-violent non-cooperation. The Jamiat continued to support Congress through the 1930s Civil Disobedience campaigns, opposed conscription for the Second World War and adopted non-cooperation for the war efforts.. 👇 www.arshadmadani.com #independence #ArshadMadani #Jamiat_ulama_I_Hind #DarulUloomDeoband #Madni #15august #IndependenceDay2025