Proposed Human Society

Hadrat Sultan Bahooرح (May Allah Bless his Soul) fought against social and ethical evils and challenges of his era with his pen by writing about 140 books. In today’s society when the world has been transformed into a global village, humanity still faces similar kind of issues. In this paper, it is argued that guiding principles of Hadrat Sultan Bahooرح’s philosophy for human society stand on purification and reformation of individual on which the society of peace and love for humanity can be built. Union with Almighty by adopting Sufism, with the true spirit of the Holy Quran and Sunnah, and negating the desires of base self is the foundation for the purity of the individual. In current time, human savagery has reached alarming levels and intolerance has shaken very foundations of our social and religious values. In such circumstances, purity of heart and tolerance are the main cure by rejecting extreme rigidity of sectarian, ethnic, linguistic or other such divisions.

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 Discrimination among humans is the biggest obstacle for a just and peaceful society and according to the law of Allah (God), no one can discriminate anyone, which is the principle of Faqr (spiritual excellence) adopted by Faqir. Human society has to follow divine values otherwise, in the words of Bahooرح, we will lose not only this world but the next world too. Tolerance, basic rights of human society, justice and equality were outlined by our Holy Prophet (Blessings and Salutations Be Upon Him) in the first place. Hadrat Sultan Bahoo has emphasized to have practical life instead of monasticism. The Muslim Ummah needs unity of hearts and belief rather than that of race or territory. All human beings are taken as equal members of the world/society. The Muslims have been instructed to act justly for every creature of the world what to speak of humanity alone.

Sultan-ul-Arifeen Hadrat Sakhi Sultan Bahooرح (May Allah Bless his Soul) belonged to the age of seventeenth-century when social & ethical evils were prevailing and the condition of society then and now have disturbing similarities. In the Muslim world, communities and society both were in distress. In the global village perspective, the whole world has transformed into one Society (McLuhan, 1962). The term ‘Ummah’/millah, is interpreted as “Muslim Community”, living all over the world, without distinction, not confined to any particular region or nationalism. In the Holy Qurãn ‘Ummah’ is repeated 64 times for a people to whom a Prophet was bestowed by Allah (SWT). Hadrat Bahooرح (May Allah Bless his Soul) fought against the societal ills with his pen. He thus raised slogans of following the teaching of Muhammad (صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم Blessings and Salutations Be Upon Him), rejecting extreme rigidity of sectarianism as practiced by so-called theologians and misguided mystics (Sufis).

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 He was even not pleased with what the followers of ‘Imams’ said and did, as he has tested them on the touchstone of the Qurãn and the Hadith, constituting the basic principles of Islamic Society. A close study of the authorship of the Great Wali-Allah, Hadrat Sultan-ul-Arefeenرح (May Allah Bless his Soul) addresses the well-being of all mankind fully believing in Allah (SWT) as رب العالمین “Lord of the Worlds”. The Holy Qurãn nowhere particularizes Allah (SWT) with Muslims only, so is the case with the last and the  Holy  Chief  of  Prophets,  Syed-ul-Ambiya  Mohammad-e-Mustafa (صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم Blessings and Salutations Be Upon Him)  sent   to   humanity   as   defined   in   the  Holy  Qurãn وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَاكَ إِلَّا رَحْمَةً لِّلْعَالَمِينَ ("And We (Allah) have not sent thee (Muhammad) but as a mercy for  both the worlds.", (Al-Quran 21:107)  and therefore the love and teachings of Holiest Prophet (صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم Blessings and Salutations Be Upon Him) is the fundamental principle of a just Islamic Society embedded in وحدانیت (Unity of Allah) and omnipotence of Allah (SWT) culminating into love for humanity irrespective of caste, creed, and religion. Hadrat Sultan Bahooرح (May Allah Bless his soul) has a strong belief that by recognizing self, human recognizes Allah (God) من عرف نفسہٗ فقدعرف ربہٗ and individuals

in his proposed human society must have the following human values inculcated:

Hundred thousand sacrifice upon those Sufis who don’t utter awful thing Hoo.1 (Bahoo, 2010, p. 48)

Do not accompany treacherously and with slandering everyone you do not treat Hoo. (Bahoo, 2010, p. 71)

Your life is a few days establish worshiping or you will be regretful but Hoo.  (Bahoo, 2010, p. 63)

The true path is of Mohammed ‘Bahoo’ upon which God is to achieve Hoo. (Bahoo, 2010, p. 16)

The article is based on these guiding values of Hadrat Sultan Bahooرح (May Allah Bless his Soul) for his proposed human society. “A society is a kind of community (or a part of the community) whose members have become socially conscious of their mode of life, and are united by a common set of aims and values” (Ottaway, 1970, p. 3). Hadrat Sultan Bahooرح (May Allah Bless his Soul) as author has stressed that members of a society should never disparate or  should not make ill-mannered people as their friends which destroys the prestige of the whole family and advised to recoil the society on  basis of universal dignity, equality and equity, security, and justice on Earth according to the will of Allah (SWT), encompassing all human regardless of their ethnic origin assuring unity of the human family, fostering acquaintance among people, and activating the divine values. Being a man of exceptional intellect and values embedded in Islamic society, a pluralistic one Hadrat Sultan Bahooرح, fought with his pen for an ideal society, as he was born to pious parents and linage.

Ancestors of Hadrat Sultan Bahooرح (May Allah Bless his Soul) migrated to this part of the world (Soon Valley) from Arabia after the death of Hadrat Imam Hassan and Hadrat Imam Hussain (May Allah Bless their Souls). Having fought and defeated the Hindus of Pind Dadan Khan and the districts around them, preached them to enter Islam by their virtues. The father of Hadrat Bahooرح [Bazidرح (ascendant of Prophet Mohammad (صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ و سلم Blessings and Salutations Be Upon Him) belonged to the Awan tribe], was a Hafiz-ul-Qurãn and a distinguished scholar of his time, migrated to Jhang district. He was a person of quiet disposition and so was his spouse, the mother of Hadrat Bahooرح (Hadrat Bibi Rasti R.A). His family was held in great regard by the Emperor Shah Jahan who conferred on his father, Sultan Bazidرح, Kahar Janan in jagir. Hadrat Sultan Bahooرح (May Allah Bless his soul) was born in 1629 AD (1039 Hijri). Legends relating to his childhood are numerous and of a varied nature. One of them is so interesting that we cannot help relating it here. It runs thus: When Hadrat Bahooرح was a boy, he was such a devout Mussulman that a sort of radiance spread around his face, and whenever a Hindu witnessed it, he was so impressed by it, that forgetting all, he renounced his religion and became a Mussulman. This miracle wrought exclusively by his radiance frightened the Hindus, who sent a delegation to wait upon his father and request him to keep his son Bahooرح indoors, except certain hours. Thus request was complied with, and the young boy thereafter had to remain indoors (Krishna, 1938, p. 49). Witnessing that Heرح was a kind of force, which changes the minds of humanity to the righteousness, brotherhood, tranquility, peace, and course of history and society. To these causes, he contributed 140 books in Persian and Punjabi, which for the most part have been out of the reach of the general public and humanity. Acknowledging efforts of (besides many others), to the International Tanzeem-ul-Arifeen and its founder Hadrat Sultan Muhammad Asghar Ali Sarwari Qadriرح (may Allah bless his soul) who took the initiative to get the books collected and print them with translation for the Urdu knowing people. However, in English, there were not many translations. Praise to the ‘Sahibzadagan’ of Hadrat Sultan Muhammad Asghar Aliرح (14.8.1947 - 26.12.2003) namely; Hadrat Sultan Mohammad Ali, Sultan Ahmad Ali and Sultan Bahdar Aziz, who despite many difficulties continued the efforts of their great father and ancestors and along with maintaining the International Tanzeem-ul-Arifeen established an Institute ‘Mission of Unity, Stability and Leadership In Muslims (MUSLIM)’ with the aim to promote research and dialogue in Muslim World for addressing its concerns and finding practical solutions to the problems. One may further extend that it would rather address the concern of humanity at large, according to the following message of Allah (SWT).