Sunday, November 29, 2009

Principles of Tawahid-i-Ilahi or Din-i-Ilahi

Principles of Tawahid-i-Ilahi or Din-i-Ilahi Aimed at achieving a synthesis of all religions, Akbar's Din-i-llahi's major principles include:
(i) God is great (Allah-o-Akbar)
(ii) Initiations would be performed on Sunday.
(iii) The novice would place his head at the emperor's feat. The emperor would raise him up and give him the formula (Shast).
(iv) The initiates would abstain from meat as far as possible and give a sumptuous feast and alms on their birthday.
(v) There would be no sacred scriptures, place of worship or rituals (except initiation).
(vi) Every adherent should take oath of doing good to everybody. .
(vii) Followers should show respect to all religions.

Akbar's efforts at social reform are also noteworthy. He riage and raised the age of marriage. He even tried to makl education broad-based and secular.
Jahangir and Shah Jahan pursued the same toleran policy though at times there were aberrations. Aurangze1 was a staunch Sunni but he was intolerant of other faith! He reversed the policy of Akbar, and this partly led to th decline of Mughal power after his death.

4 comments:

  1. Whatever the great Akbar did was only for political gains.These were not for his belief in Islam.It appears to me he was far far away from Islam.He had been evaluated and is being evaluated by Allah Himself.I should say a lot about him but being a Muslim , I am not criticizing any dead person.It is against the teaching of Islam.Thanks

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  2. There is nothing wrong to take good from all possible resources without being confined to single belief system irrespective of any one religion. Generally any individual do not accept or believe one religion after thoroughly going though the different religions.Even though AKBAR was an illiterate he had tried to accept the good from all possible resources at his time.

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  3. Akbar was a man who could surpass these
    mundane man made believe about god and could able to really understand humanity....

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  4. Akbar was a man who could surpass these
    mundane man made believe about god and could able to really understand humanity....

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