مشتعل نہ ہوانے کا کرشمہ

پروفیسر آرنلڈ نے اس واقعہ کو اپنی کتاب میں ان الفاظ میں نقل کیا ہے : Tūqluq Timūr Khān (1347–1363), is said to have owed his conversion to a holy man from Bukhārā, by the name Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn. This Shaykh, in company with a number of travellers, had unwittingly trespassed on the game-preserves of the prince, who ordered them to be bound hand and foot and brought before him. In reply to his angry question, how they had dared interfere with his hunting, the Shaykh pleaded that they were strangers and were quite unaware that they were trespassing on forbidden ground. Learning that they were Persians, the prince said that a dog was worth more than a Persian. “Yes,” replied the Shaykh, “if we had not the true faith, we should indeed be worse than the dogs.” Struck with his reply, the Khan ordered this bold Persian to be brought before him on his return from hunting, and taking him aside asked him to explain what he meant by these words and what was “faith”. The Shaykh then set before him the doctrines of Islam with such fervour and zeal that the heart of the Khān that before had been hard as a stone was melted like wax, and so terrible a picture did the holy man draw of the state of unbelief, that the prince was convinced of the blindness of his own errors, but said, “Were I now to make profession of the faith of Islam, I should not be able to lead my subjects into the true path. But bear with me a little and when I have entered into the possession of the kingdom of my forefathers, come to me again.” (London, 1913, p. 235)

شیخ جمال الدین سے ملاقات کے بعد کچھ اور واقعات پیش آئے یہاں تک کہ تغلق تیمور خاں نے اسلام قبول کر لیا۔ اس کے بعد اس نے حکمت کے ساتھ لوگوں کو اسلام کے بارے میں بتایا۔ یہاں تک کہ تاتاریوں کی اکثریت اسلام میں داخل ہوگئی۔ شیخ جمال الدین کا مشتعل جواب تاریخ کو دوسرا رخ دے دیتا۔ لیکن ان کے معتدل جواب نے تاریخ کو صحیح رخ پر ڈال دیا۔