The Position of Fiqh in the Method of Sarhandi’s tajdid system

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Al-Sarhandi, who is known as al-Imam Rabbani in Islamic World, was born in Sarhand in 971/1564. He learnt the Quran at a very early age, and studied of Hadith and Exegesis. After finishing his education, he participated in tasawwuf and he became the first sufi who explicitly opposed the pantheistic conception of Tawhid known as Wahdat-i-Wujud. Sarhandi focused on following the sunnah of Muhammad and his companions. He was mainly responsible for the reaffirmation and revival in India of Sunnite Islam as a reaction against the syncretistic religious tendencies prevalent during the reign of Mughal emperor Akbar. He faced to the challenge of Akbar’s “Deen-i-Ilahi”. Therefore he was accepted as the Renewer of the Second Millennium by his followers. In Sarhandi’s tajdid system, the idea of prophethood was located the most component for discovering the true i.e. it was impossible to gain complacency of Allah without guidance of a prophet. He begun the process of reviving the importance of the sunnah of the Prophet. He was called so on account of his unifying two branches of knowledge, i.e. Tasawwuf and Fiqh. His influence went so far as implementing jurisprudence in the Islamic world by emphasizing the Shariah and the Fiqh integrating

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• Sarhandi, Shariah, revival, fiqh, tasawwuf

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