Muhammad Ramzan (preacher)


Shah Muhammad Ramzan, Molvi Muhammad Ramzan was a preacher and crusading tablighi in Haryana. He expressed by his preachings that the converted Rajputs, Meo and Jats were in no way different from their Hindu counterparts in culture, customs and celebrations of religious festivals. He also defined by his preachings that they were not only pir-parast and grave worshiping ; they were also idol-worshippers. They celebrated Holi, Diwali and other Hindu festivals with zeal and dressed in the Hindu fashion.

Works as a reformer

"Hadi e Haryana" Shah Muhammad Ramzan Shaheed Mehami was the prominent reformer of Haryana who typified this Da'wa. He made the Rajput Muslim conscious of their separate identity from Hindus.
Shah Muhammad Ramzan used to sojourn in areas inhabited by such converted Rajputs, dissuade them from practising Hindu rites and persuade them to marry their cousins. They equally detested eating cow's flesh. To induce them to eat beef, he introduced new festivals like Mariyam ka Roza and Rot-bot. Ramzan also encouraged such people to build mosques in large numbers, and to establish the wearing of Muslim dress and the observance of Islamic obligation. Waa'z were employed as method of Da'wa. Hindus also revered Shah Muhammad Ramzan and in several Hindu villages there were "Shah Ramzan ke Chabutre". Such endeavours have ruled out the possibility of reconversion and have helped in the Islamization of neo-Muslims.

Early life and death

He was born in Meham District Rohtak Punjab in 1769. His father Shah Abdul Azeem
was Majzoob Sufi. His grand father Shah Abdul Hakeem was a notable Urdu writer of his time.

Shah Muhammad Ramzan was dissatisfied with the Sufi religious system under his father Shah Abdul Azeem whose Rajput devotees present him with a tithe from every thing taken in their raids. Therefore, at the age of fourteen he left his family to study with Shah Abdul Qadir and Shah Abdul Aziz Delhivi the sons of Shah Waliullah. There he studied for fourteen years. He has worked as a preacher and tablighi throughout his life.
Shah Muhammad Ramzan was killed by his co-religionist Bohras at Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh
when he was returned from "Hajj" on 18 January 1825.

Scholarly work

He wrote in local language and dialects, sometime in the form of poems that could be recited and held debates with the scholars of other religious.
His famous books "AQAID E AZEEM","BULBUL BAGH E NABI" And"AKHIR GUTT" are available on" Haryanvi Siddiqui" page Facebook.