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THE MESSAGE OF SOCIAL REFORMATION IN THE POETRY OF SHEIKH-UL- AALAM

    1 Author(s):  SHUJA ASSAD

Vol -  8, Issue- 9 ,         Page(s) : 23 - 27  (2017 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/CASIRJ

Abstract

At every crucial time many prophetic personalities arise for the upliftment of society, who can relieve the society from all damages and frustrations. Many Movements arise, like as Bhakti Movement of India, which produced devotional luminaries like Guru Nanak, Kabir, Meera Bai, Baba Bulleh Shah, Namdev etc. Similarly in Kashmir the Rishi Movement started for the betterment of society, Sheikh ul Alam laid its foundation, who first practiced himself then he preached. He made poetry as a means of propagation of his thought/preaching. His poetry belongs to classical Indian Literature and penetrated in our collective psyche and his verses have become proverbs of common folk. Rishi Movement in the traditional Kashmiri society that several of its unique social and religious characteristics were not regarded as an alien. The strength of its social authority not only lay in its denunciation of the Brahmanic notions of caste but, also, in the satisfaction that it gave to the spiritual instincts of the people in the Hindu-Buddhist environment of the valley. It is pertinent to say that Rishism had struck strong holds in Kashmir prior to the advent of Islam in the region. The anti-caste crusade was most forcefully articulated by the founder of the Muslim Rishi order, Shaikh Noor -ud -Din locally known as Alamdaar-i-Kashmir and Shaikh-ul-Aalam

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