How did the Maldives dwellers convert to Islam in 02 months?

 

The Maldives dwellers had left Buddhism in just 2 months, the whole country became Muslim!

But how?

 Here’s the story ……

The Maldives is a tourist country located in the Indian Ocean, the country consists of 1192 small islands, of which only 200 islands are inhabited. 100% of the population of the Maldives is Muslim, and it is necessary to be a Muslim to get citizenship.

The strange thing is that the Maldives was a country of Buddhists. Within just 2 months, the king, and the people of this country all entered the realm of Islam.

But when and how did this miracle happen?

This incident was written by the famous traveler Ibn Battuta in his book after his tour of the Maldives. Ibn Battuta also worked as a judge in the Maldives for a long time.

He writes in his book 'Tahfah al-Nazar fi Gharib al-Amsar wa Ajaib al-Amsar' that the people of Maldives were Buddhists and superstitious too, because of this superstition, a monster (Jin) was imposed on them, that monster appeared from the sea in the glow of lights and candles on the last day of every month and People used to decorate a girl in an idol house built on the sea bank, that monster would spend the night in this idol house and in the morning that girl would be found dead and people would burn her body.

The maiden for the monster used to be chosen by the lucky draw, this time the name of an old widow’s daughter came out in the lucky draw and the widow was left crying too. When the traveler went to the window’s house, on his inquiry he was told everything about how much the atrocities of the monster had increased.

The traveler comforted the widow and expressed a strange wish that I should be seated in the idol house tonight instead of your daughter. They agreed, the traveler performed ablution and entered the idol house, and started reciting the Holy Quran.

The monster came and went away and promised never to return. People gathered outside the idol house in the morning to cremate the body, but seeing the traveler alive, they became astonished and came back to their homes.

Who was that traveler?

That traveler was the famous Muslim preacher and traveler Sheikh Abu Barakat Barbari. The news of Abu Barakat's arrival and his defeat to the monster spread like wildfire. The king invited the Sheikh to his court with royal honor. Sheikh invited the king to accept Islam. The king accepted Islam and within just 2 months all the people of Maldives had converted from Buddhism and became Muslims.

It was in 1314 AD that this preacher made the Maldives his abode, taught people the Qur'an and Hadith, built thousands of mosques, and died in the Maldives and was buried on the same soil.

It can be said that Abul Barakat Barbari did the work of the whole Ummah alone, even today he must be getting an equal reward.