Hazrat Sheikh Noor-ud-din Noorani, commonly known as Sheikh-ul Aalam, is an icon figure of Kashmir, acclaimed as much today as he was six centuries ago.
Hazrat Sheikh-ul-Aalam also called Noor-ud-din and Nund Rishi is remarkable Kashmiri saint who belonged to the Rishi order. He was one of those famous personalities of the medieval times who had also special concern with religious education of Islam. Hazrat Sheikh-ul Aalam used his poetry and discourses as tool to spread the true knowledge of Islam. So in order to impart religious education in the contemporary times in Kashmir we can use poetry as a tool to make it easily understandable to mass as it is in the native language of the people and is also known as the Kashur Quran. Most of the poetry is value based and provides the basics of the ethical society. Hazrat Sheikh Noor-ud-din Noorani is the most revered saint of Kashmir and a living symbol of the Kashmir culture. His immense popularity among the Kashmir masses in general, and the Kashmir Muslims in particular, as well as the impact of his teachings upon the religious attitude of Kashmir’s can hardly be underestimated. Hazrat Sheikh Noor-ud-din Noorani, commonly known as Sheikh-ul Aalam, is an icon figure of Kashmir, acclaimed as much today as he was six centuries ago. What places him over and above all other religious saints of the valley is the impact of his teachings on the collective Kashmir consciousness, enshrined in Kashmir verses known as Shrukhs which still resound in every household of the valley history has proved that Hazrat Sheikh-ul -Aalam’s significance has an abiding and universal value which transcends the boundaries of time and space. Religious education for the Hazrat Sheikh-ul-Aalam is of paramount importance and has been much praised by the commentators of his poetry. However, the highest education for him is the religious education, which is against the backdrop of his commitment to Islam.
“Hazrat Sheikh Noor-ud-din developed and propagated a sect of Islam called Sufi Sect with the fundamental principles of Non-violence and common good. He was the poet of this religious group of Islam and uses his religious code of conduct to preach the morality in the same manner in which Milton uses Christian religious moral code or Tagore conveys his ideas through Hindu mythology or Iqbal uses Muslim political thought to carry his message, He has Consciously made the commitment with the nature and protection of natural surroundings as an inalienable part of Muslim moral Code”.
Hazrat Sheikh-ul Aalam believed that the esoteric and exoteric elements of Islam can be comprehended fully by a man who understands the Quran because it is the surest means of approach to Allah, and the only way that can bring emotional equilibrium and intellectual upliftment, and also unite the creator and the created. Without making it sound too doctrinal and Metaphysical the Hazrat Sheikh-Ul-Aalam explains the three basic conceptual terms of the: Belief in Allah, Belief in Prophethood, and belief in life after death. Hazrat Sheikh-ul-Aalam very rightly believed that the message of Prophet was not meant for any particular group of people living at a particular group of people living at a particular period or place but for the entire humanity. Hazrat Sheikh Noor-ud-din developed and propagated a sect of Islam called Sufi Sect with the fundamental principles of Non-violence and common good. He was the poet of this religious group of Islam and uses his religious code of conduct to preach the morality in the same manner in which Milton uses Christian religious moral code or Tagore conveys his ideas through Hindu mythology or Iqbal uses Muslim political thought to carry his message, He has Consciously made the commitment with the nature and protection of natural surroundings as an inalienable part of Muslim moral Code.
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