After the service of Darul Uloom (1909–1914),Chalilakath Kunahmed Hai went to
Chalilakath Valapattanam as per the invitation of Sayyid Imbicha Koya. During his
stay at Nalllath, the educational revolution erupted in every parts of Kerala and
he felt the need of Arabic- Malayalam reformation to ease the
difficulties of students to read books. He began to reform of Arabic–Malayalam
script in order to ease the difficulties of his student to read the contemporary
subject and to edit some mistakes
committed by Sayyid Sanaulla Makti Thangal, who also ventured to such a
reform. There were so many people who came forward to reform the
Arabic-Malayalam script like Sayyid Sanaulla Makti Thangal (1847–1932),
Suleiman Musliyar of Alapuza, Abdul Khader Musliyar of Vakkam (1973-1932). But the most considerable and famous reformation in this field
belongs to Chalilakath kuunahmed Haji, because all keralites themselves chased
and recognized the Chalilakath’s reformation and he was called as reformer of
Arabic-Malayalam script. Muhammad Abdul Kareem says that “on [[Hijri
year|Hijra]] 1137, Chalilakath aimed to reform the latter. He wrote it in book
and named it as Thasheel Ul Furooq. This was printed in Malharul Muhimmath on
1312h.
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Debate of Inul Qibla
Debate of Inul Qibla is the main incident in [[Kerala]]
[[Muslim]] history in which Chalilakath exuded his stance bravely . After his
service in Mayyazi, he was drawn to
Pulikkal by inspiration of Koyakutti Sahib, a pious and mystic scholar of
[[Islam]] and also his dominant disciple. During his stay at Pullika he
examined the direction of Qibla based on Risalathul Marideen, the work done by
Ahmed Aleef, his instructor. After the skill full probe, he concluded that the
foundation of Masjid was not laid on the exact direction of Qibla and he appointed
some of his student to examine the status of other Masjid also. The appointed
student also reached to the same conclusion after the thorough investigation.
This incident caused to get a flying start in classifying [[Muslim]] scholars
into two categories.
# The first group scholar argued that there is no compulsory
to direct to the exact direction of Qibla, but to direct to its part (west part
for Keralite ) is enough.
#Another team including Chalilakath Haji insists that from Calicut,
people should turn their face to south northern part at 22o correctly,
otherwise the Namaz became in veil.
In the wake of these problems, a famous debate between such
a two separate categories of Ulama was held at Pulikkal on September 1908 and
it became ever mentioned incident in the history of Kerala Muslims. Koyakutti Sahib
who invited Chalilakath to Pulikkal turned against him and pious leaders like
Kolloly Ahmed Kutti Musliyar, Yusuf Musliyar, and Kutti Yammu of Thittnkara
also did so. But then Qazi of [[Kasaragod]], Abdulla Moulavi and Hajji’s other
disciples backed up him to strengthen this ideas and this unforgettable
incident later called as debate or disput of Inul Qibla. To prove his idea, he
wrote a holy book known as Al Dahava Inul Qibla and Thufathul Akhatab.
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