36 Facts About Ubaidullah Sindhi

Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi was a political activist of the Indian independence movement and one of its vigorous leaders.

Ubaidullah Sindhi was Home Minister of first Provisional Government of India established in Afghanistan in 1915.

Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi was the Life Member of Jamia Millia Islamia, A Central University in New Delhi, India.

Ubaidullah Sindhi served the Jamia Millia Islamia for a long period of time on a very low salary.

Ubaidullah Sindhi's father died four months before Ubaidullah was born, and the child was raised for two years by his paternal grandfather.

Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi returned to the Darul Uloom Deoband in 1909, and gradually involved himself in the Pan-Islamic movement.

Ubaidullah Sindhi had reached Kabul during the war to rally the Afghan Amir Habibullah Khan, and after a brief period there, he offered his support to Raja Mahendra Pratap's plans for revolution in British India with German support.

Ubaidullah Sindhi joined the Provisional Government of India formed in Kabul in December 1915, and remained in Afghanistan until the end of World War I, and then left for Russia.

Ubaidullah Sindhi subsequently spent two years in Turkey and, passing through many countries, eventually reached Hijaz where he spent about 14 years learning and pondering over the philosophy of Islam especially in the light of Shah Waliullah Dehlawi's works.

In 1888, Ubaidullah Sindhi was admitted to Darul Uloom Deoband, where he studied various Islamic disciplines in depth under the tutelage of noted Islamic scholars of the time including Maulana Abu Siraj, Maulana Rasheed Ahmad Gangohi and Maulana Mahmud al Hasan.

Ubaidullah Sindhi took lessons in Sahih al-Bukhari and Tirmidhi from Maulana Nazeer Husain Dehalvi and read logic and philosophy with Maulana Ahmad Hasan Cawnpuri.

Ubaidullah Sindhi married the daughter of Maulana Azeemullah Khan, a teacher at Islamiyah High School, at that time.

In 1901, Ubaidullah Sindhi established the Darul Irshaad in Goth Pir Jhando village in Sindh as he was a follower of Pir of Pir Jhando Sayyid Rushdullah Shah Rashdi thats where he established.

Ubaidullah Sindhi worked on propagating his school for nearly seven years.

Ubaidullah Sindhi was now very active in covert anti-British propaganda activities, which led to him alienating a large number of the Deoband School leaders.

Subsequently, Ubaidullah Sindhi moved his work to Delhi at Mahmud al Hasan's request.

Mahmud al Hasan, left India to seek the help of Galib Pasha, the Turkish governor of Hijaz, while at Hasan's directions, Ubaidullah Sindhi proceeded to Kabul to seek Emir Habibullah's support there.

Some of Ubaidullah Sindhi's students went to Kabul to explore things before Ubaidullah Sindhi arrived there.

Ubaidullah Sindhi had proposed to the Afghan Emir that he declare war against British India.

In late 1915, Ubaidullah Sindhi was met in Kabul by the 'Niedermayer-Hentig Expedition' sent by the Indian Independence Committee in Berlin and the German war ministry.

Ubaidullah Sindhi even encouraged the young King Amanullah Khan, who took power in Afghanistan after Habibullah's assassination, in the Third Anglo-Afghan War.

The conclusion of the war, ultimately, forced Ubaidullah Sindhi to leave Afghanistan as King Amanullah came under pressure from Britain.

Ubaidullah Sindhi then proceeded from Afghanistan to Russia, where he spent seven months at the invitation of the Soviet leadership, and was officially treated as a guest of the state.

Some people, at that time, thought that Ubaidullah Sindhi was impressed by Communist ideals during his stay in Russia, however that is not true at all.

In 1923, Ubaidullah Sindhi left Russia for Turkey where he initiated the third phase of the 'Shah Waliullah Movement' in 1924.

Ubaidullah Sindhi issued the 'Charter for the Independence of India' from Istanbul.

Ubaidullah Sindhi then left for Mecca, Arabia in 1927 and remained there until 1929.

Ubaidullah Sindhi attempted to convince them in a very systematic and logical manner.

Ubaidullah Sindhi was of the view that the Quran uses Arabic words to make clear what God considers right and wrong.

Ubaidullah Sindhi realized non-religious people existed in this world.

Ubaidullah Sindhi wanted India to be ruled by the Indians.

Ubaidullah Sindhi landed at the port of Karachi from Saudi Arabia in 1938.

Ubaidullah Sindhi then went to Delhi, where he began a programme teaching Shah Waliullah's Hujjatullahil Baalighah book to Maulana Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi, who would then write an exegesis in his own words.

Ubaidullah Sindhi was opposed to the Pakistan plan of Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Muslim League.

Ubaidullah Sindhi left for Rahim Yar Khan to visit his daughter in 1944.

Ubaidullah Sindhi was buried in the graveyard adjacent to the grave of his mentors.