Published: 27 April 2021
Last updated: 4 March 2024
AN INFLUENTIAL ISLAMIC MYSTIC has revealed that he was inspired by an uncle who lived in Golders Green to publish the first Urdu websites to educate about the Holocaust and the state of Israel.
Shaheen Chishti, who was born in Ajmer, in the Indian state of Rajasthan, is revered by millions on the subcontinent as a direct descendant of the revered Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti.
Now, in a project directed at 600 million Urdu-speaking Muslims in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and elsewhere, Chishti is aiming through his website to alter opinion about both the Holocaust and about Israel among those who follow his thinking.
“I was inspired by my uncle, my father’s brother who lived a lot of his life in Golders Green,” he tells Jewish News. “He lived his life alongside Jewish people, from 1951 up until 1985.
“I learned a lot from him about the Jewish faith. What he emphasised to me was that belief in God. The central tree for both Muslims and for Jews is this same belief. The Jewish people were persecuted for thousands of years for this belief in one God.”
Chishti, who moved to London at the age of 15, completing a degree before training as an accountant, speaks with great enthusiasm about his Urdu website projects on the Shoah and on Israel.
FULL STORY Meet the Muslim activist who educates about the Shoah and Israel in Urdu (Times of Israel)
Photo: Shaheen Chishti (supplied)
