DIN-I-Ilâhî

DIN-I-Ilâhî (Arab: rear RTL دينِاللهِ (A) llāhi, the worship of God ) is a religious company, often presented like a new religion, initiated by the Indian Empereur moghol Akbar.

Born from a mother Shiite and a father Sunnite under the roof of a Râja Rajput, Akbar seemed predestined to have a spirit of tolerance and harmony in a India where the religious fact is of a complexity which is opposed to simplicity Islam. While growing, it understands that the sultans of Delhi had little success to spread Islam in India beyond the communities of Intouchable S and low the Caste S which thought of finding there a dignity new. Eager to sit the capacity moghol, he seeks a way to unify India and at least has a true desire to have an authentic knowledge of all the times, those present on the ground of his empire.

Thus as of 1562, it prohibits the conversions forced and the Circoncision before twelve years and without assent. It removes also the Jizya, founded by the Sultanat of Delhi, a tax which strikes the not-Moslems. In 1572, Akbar makes a sermon in Arab Hindî and in Jâma-Masjid, the mosque of Fatehpur Sikri, its new capital, a sermon which recommends a spirit of tolerance and a syncretism indo-Moslem. Abû' L Fadl, becomes its private secretary in 1574 and persuades it that he is the spiritual leader of his people. In 1575, Akbar builds Ibadat Khana - or house of worship - in Fatehpur Sikri where each Thursday meets an assembly made up of Moslems, Hindus, of Jaïn S, of mazdéens and finally, with the insistence of the emperor, of Jésuite S with which the reports/ratios were difficult because they were there only for the conversion of the emperor, an assembly which discusses the religious questions.

The first result of these meetings is the Mahzar , a declaration signed in 1579 by the Uléma S and which affirms the spiritual supremacy of Akbar with regard to the interpretation of the Coran on all the Moslem institutions and which authorizes it to publish edicts in opposition with Coran in the public interest. Follows finally, in 1582, the promulgation of the religious company, the Tauhîd-i Ilâhî , the divine Monothéisme that certain Moslems name DIN-I-Ilâhî , meaning by-there Akbar is apostate, which was probably never its desire. DIN-I-Ilâhî is not a religion with itself, but rather a brotherhood of an inspiration been enough directly inspired by the Suhl-i Kûl , the universal Tolérance . Abû' L Fadl, itself wire of a Moslem monk, Mubârak Shaikh, becomes the religious leader about it.

DIN-I-Ilâhî , strongly structured around Shiite Islam, borrowed from the jainism the respect of any animal life. The world, like creation of God, is a single and unified place which reflects the singularity and the unit of its creator. It prohibited the practice of the Satî, authorized the remarriage of the widows and recommended the Monogamie. It comprised also a solar form worship, perhaps inspired by the Zoroastrisme, but also a return towards an old rite of its wandering ancestors of the steppe, attested as of the 8th century. It put also definitely ahead a worship of the emperor, incarnation of the perfect man of the Soufisme, which will last until the end of the empire, a long time after the abandonment of DIN-I-Ilâhî . The ulémas were strongly opposed to the worships solar and imperial, which they regarded as pagan.

This religious company never comprised a great number of members, one advances the number of thirty-five, whose Jahângîr, according to certain authors, and almost did not survive its initiator.

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