Indian Muslims: Who Are They c9.s2.4

c9.s2.4

Still there is good deal of circumstantial evidence to show that their reform movement did help check Muslim proselytizing activity. It. is significant that the socio-religious reformers associated with the Bhakti movement of the fifteenth century were all Hindus. There is some doubt about Kabirs parentage, but then, the whole background of Kabirs thought is Hindu.⁷ Indeed Kamal, the son of Kabir, who probably had greater leaning towards Islamic ways of thinking, is remembered in the *Adigrantha* by the disparaging line: the family of Kabir foundered when Kamal the son was born.⁸