Against his wishes, the Muslims lodged an appeal which was rejected. The Sessions Court awarded Ilm Din the death penalty. This case was the only one that Jinnah had ever lost. Ghazi had instead insisted he was proud of his actions. Salman Taseer was shot 28 times in Islamabad’s Kohsar Market on Januby a bodyguard, Mumtaz Qadri, whose own funeral in Rawalpindi - after his execution on court orders - too was attended by hundreds of thousands of people.Īs stated above, after Ghazi’s case had gone to the court where Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah was his defence lawyer, Ilm Din had refused to enter a not guilty plea and said that he had acted due to extreme provocation. MD Taseer had provided the death-bed to Ghazi Ilm Din Shaheed. Some insist, the crowd number was over half a million!Ĭelebrated journalist Maulana Zafar Ali Khan and Dr Muhammad Din Taseer (the first Muslim PhD in the Subcontinent and late Punjab Governor Salman Taseer’s father) had also attended the funeral. However, as Allama Iqbal was placing Ghazi’s body inside the grave with tears oozing out of his eyes, he had reportedly remarked: "We only kept talking, the carpenter's son surpassed us in upholding the glory of the religion.”Īccording to some archival accounts, around 200,000 Muslims had attended the funeral prayers which were led by Imam Masjid Wazeer Khan, Imam Muhammad Shamsuddin. Ilm Din’s father had requested Allama Muhammad Iqbal to lead the funeral prayers, who replied that since he was a sinful person, he was not competent enough to do the job of leading the funeral prayers of such a matchless warrior. Muslims from the whole city and millions from adjoining areas attended his funeral.
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This occurred on Novema full 15 days after the hanging.Īfter a two-day journey, the body arrived in Lahore. When the body of Ilm Din was exhumed from its grave, it was found to be intact without any change whatsoever. Only after Allama Iqbal gave his assurance to the British that no riots would erupt, the permission was granted by the British Raj. Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah had consented to be Ghazi Ilm Din’s defence lawyer on a special request from Allama Iqbal, who had campaigned to have the body of Ilm Din returned to Lahore for funeral as Ilmud Din had been buried by the jail authorities in Mianwali without any funeral prayers. It was held in Lahore on November 14, 1929, though he was hanged at Central Jail Mianwali on October 31, 1929. Most Pakistani historians, especially those keeping an eye on the affairs and history of Lahore, would agree that the largest-ever funeral seen or witnessed in the City during the last 100 years was that of Ghazi Ilm Din Shaheed (1908-29), who had murdered an affluent Hindu book publisher named Mahashe Rajpal at Ganpat Road, next to the Urdu Bazar, for publishing a blasphemous book. Khadim Hussain Rizvi’s funeral was a public affair as a large number of people had poured on to the already-busy roads leading to the Minar-i-Pakistan despite COVID-19 warnings and SOPs in place.īy the way, three of these largest funerals in Lahore (Ghazi Ilm Din Shaheed, Maulana Wahab, Emir of Raiwind Tableeghi Jamaat and now religious cleric Khadim Rizvi) have incidentally been witnessed during the month of November, and in all these instances, local administration of the time had to be involved along with the respective bereaved families to keep the traffic running and maintain law and order in some cases.