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Muslims believed that marriages solemnised before dawn --- “bhej-bhini” --- as per ancient custom, were more successful. The ceremonial wedding articles were known to both the Hindus and the Muslims as “Deva”. They had the same postwedding feast of the two families in “Satavaro”. As Tarikh-e-Tahiri moaned long ago: “Each month has several Ids for them.” Even the first Monday and the first Friday of each month were turned into festivals, complete with fairs and feasts. Normally the Sindhi Muslims did not eat beef; or the Sindhi Hindus, pork. When the Rashdi brothers of Sukkur were short of money which was very often --- they got their meals from the langar (community kitchen) of Sadhbela, the leading Hindu temple in Sindh. The menu, they write, consisted of “Daal, Poori, Halwa, Khichri, Aachar, Papad, Basar (onion) and Kanah Prasad.” Important as these external unities were, even more important was the unity of their philosophy The Hindu and the dominant Muslim views of life were the same. The Hindu saw God in everything, everywhere. And so did the great Sufi poet-saints of Sindh. They were all “Wujudis” who saw no difference between the Creator and His creation and not “Shahudis”, who distinguished between God and his creation --- and between ‘god and god’ and ‘man and man’. In the words of Annemarie Schimmel: “In Sindh, the borders between Hinduism and Islam were not hermetically closed. A classical example of this close connection is ‘Sur Ramkali’ in Shah Abdul Latif’s ‘Risalo’, a poem in which this mystic praises the wandering yogis in terms taken from Quran and Hadith. Sachal Sarmast and his followers have not hesitated to sing the essential Unity of Being that manifests itself now in Abu Hanifa, now in Hanuman, now in the Vedas, now in the Quran.” The Islamic “la ilah ilallah”, (which literally means there is no God but Allah) was re-interpreted by poet Shah Abdul Karim thus: “One who takes the seller, the buyer and the wares to be one and the same, will know its meaning.” “This world,” said Shah Latif, “is a mansion with a million doors and windows; whichever way you look, you will see God.” No wonder the Hindu-Muslim relations were not half as bad in Sindh as in many other provinces. To this day, the Sindhi Hindus remember Sindh with misty eyes -and the Sindhi Muslims remember the Sindhi Hindus in lndia with fond affection. Says Pir Husamuddin of Sukkur with anguish: “That Sukkur is gone. Those Sakhroos are gone too. Our compatriots are gone. Their place has been taken by strangers.” Says Sheikh Ayaz of Sindh: Poesy is a river On whose banks today The Sindh Story; Copyright © www.panhwar.com 129
I have seen Saraswati and Mahakali; The two together Were drinking moonlight; They have come together After long ages, No doubt today will be born A great Maha Kavi. The great poet has no doubt been born. It is the youth of Sindh. And its poetry is “Jye Sindh!” “Jai Sindhu Desh!” The Sindh Story; Copyright © www.panhwar.com 130
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Appendix: G M Syed’s Visit .. ..
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Preface to Reprint “The Sindh Sto
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My grateful thanks are due to Prof.
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information. In this connection I m
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Mr. Malkani’s book is a book of h
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--- “Employment of appropriate ph
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effort had been made to synthesise
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Long have we suffered; see how grie
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Sindhu is Divine IN THE BEGINNING w
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Interestingly enough, the Bhagvad G
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Sindhu Mata THE VEDAS and the Puran
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to Encyclopedia Britannica, “the
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no lime in the area to use as cemen
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Alexander’s Waterloo in Sindh EVE
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The philosophers in turn posed him
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Truth about Dahir Sen THE PROPHET o
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next 80 years, led by Hakam, Abdull
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army of Islam became irresolute and
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order to meet the financial deficie
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priest would not agree to Sita beco
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“Jhoolay Lal” WHEN Mahmud Ghazn
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of the Khaljis. But more revealing
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The Umar Marui is one long paean of
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OH LORD of Sindh, Jhoolay Lal, and
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Napier had written off all the pre-
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loosely knit system that could be a
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Dayaram helped set up the Nari Shal
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when Gandhiji wrote his autobiograp
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muttered “lainat! lainat!” in r
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to convert them to Christianity. An
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anybody else. Colonel Trevor, the C
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The theosophists also joined hands
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“Sangathan”, and “Sanskriti
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Freedom Movement in Sindh “NADIR
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When Tilak visited Sindh in 1920, y
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of 40 women satyagrahis. Many young
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Ahmedabad municipality and Subhas C
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“I am a Sindh” -- Gandhi “EVE
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