It’s good to see so many Pakistani and Indian Muslims now saying ‘Allah-Hafiz’ instead of ‘Khuda-Hafiz.’ Many liberals claim that the practice of saying Allah-Hafiz was invented in the 1980s during Ziaul Haq’s regime and then gained momentum in the 1990s. Yes, many hard-working and pious scholars, reformers, Islamic evangelists and your reborn posh aunt did a wonderful job campaigning for the eradication of the adulterated quasi-Muslim greeting of Khuda Hafiz – but the truth is, it was the greatest Mughal king, Aurangzeb Alamgir, who was the first Muslim to start saying Allah-Hafiz instead of Khuda Hafiz. After defeating his brothers (all of whom were Khuda-Hafizians in the mould of the communist Mughal king, Akbar), Aurangzeb got down to correcting the wrongs done to Islam and the subcontinent’s Muslims by Akbar and other such royal wine drinkers. ‘I will crush Khuda Hafizism!’ Aurangzeb is reported to have said (in Arabic). ‘But first, I need to go to the washroom,’ he added (in Persian). During Aurangzeb’s reign, any Muslim saying Khuda Hafiz was beheaded, and any Hindu saying Allah Hafiz was asked to behead his cow. -- Nadeem F. Paracha
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