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Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam played a inspiring role in the united fight for India's freedom.

  Affan Nomani, Writer Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam ( Assembly for freedom of Islam) commonly known as Ahrars was one of the prominent mass-based Muslim organization which stood for United India and opposed two Nation theory propagated by the Muslim league fervently. It was established in 1929. Habeebur Rahman Ludhianvi ( 1892-1956), one of the founders and most prominent ideologue of the organization, represented a group of Muslim scholars known as 'Ludhianvi Ulema'. He hailed from a family of Muslim scholars who played a leading role in the 1857 Rebellion. Moulana Abdul Qadir, the great grandfather of Moulana Habeebur Rahman, was the cleric who delivered a fatwa against the British in 1857 and led a parallel rebel government for few days in Ludhiana.   The above words of Moulana Habeebur Rahman were amazingly similar to the words of Bhagat Singh. One salient feature of Ahrars mobilization against the scheme of Pakistan was that it took the fight to the streets by holding meetings i