Later Mughals v1.c6.s24.1

v1.c6.s24.1

Early in his reign Bahadur Shah had directed an alteration in the public prayer for the sovereign put up every Friday in every mosque throughout the land. The word wasi or heir was to be added to the titles of Ali, Commander of the Faithful, in the recital of Muhammad's successors. This alteration raised the never ending controversy between the Sunni and the Shias as to the rightful succession to the prophet, and Indian Muham-madans being almost all Sunnis, this formal attribution of heir-ship to Ali was naturally offensive to their religious feelings. Riots had been caused at Ahmadabad and elsewhere by the attempt to recite the new form of prayer.. At Lahor, owing to the objections of the doctors of the law, no khutba had been recited for some time. [K. K. 603, 661, 681.]