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"It may be instructive to recall that his father, Shaah‘Abdul Rahim, could have been his role model in the matter of writing letters to powerful princes to undertake jihad For it was the pater familias who wrote a letter to Mir Qamar al-Din Khaan Siddiqi popularly known as Aasaf Jaah (1671–1748), the pioneer of the Deccan based state whose rulers were called Nizaams, exhorting him to undertake jihad to weaken the infidels ‘Abdul Rahim begins his letter with the assertion that it has already been decided that the infidels (kuffaar) will be defeated and humiliated and if Aasaf Jaah wants to take credit for this he should defeat them He ends on the mystical note that ‘things said even with confidantes in secret are being revealed here on the tip of the pen so that no excuse should remain’"
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Tariq Rahman
