History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c13.100

c13.100

The charge of heterodoxy, then, is preposterous. That the Sultan was in enlightenment and knowledge far ahead of the self-seeking and bigoted ecclesiastics of his day admits of no doubt. That his actions fell short of their expectations does not by itself constitute an offence, but in an age when liberalism was almost unknown, nothing but militant propaganda would have approbation of divines. Muhammad's Egyptian ‘ered on the Nāsir, though a man of tolerant nature, was forced gious belief. opinion to adopt a policy of repression in dealing with Christians. But Muhammad battled against orthodoxy to the end of his life. His rationalism in religious matters and his tolerant attitude towards the Hindus and his unwillingness to degrade and abase them alienated the sympathies of the ‘Ulama with the result that they conspired against him and misrepresented his motives and actions.