Question

describe the religious policy of Akbar​

Answer 1

Answer:

Akbar is known for his liberal ideas and liberal religious policy

Answer 2

Answer:

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Explanation:

Akbar’s Religious Policy:

Akbar is known for his liberal ideas and liberal religious policy. He adopted a policy of mutual understanding and reconciliation among followers of different faiths and equality of all religions. He tried to harmonize the relations. He founded a new religion known as ‘Din-i-Ilahi’ based on the common points of all religions. Of course, in this endeavor he was not successful.

Akbar followed the policy of religious toleration on account of the following major considerations:

1. Influence of the age over Akbar:

In the words of Dr. H.N. Sinha: “The sixteenth century is a century of religious revival in the history of the world. The grand currents of the reformation compare favourably with the staging up of a new life in India. India experienced an awakening that quickened her progress and virtualized her national life.

The dominant note of this awakening was love and liberalism—love that united man to God and therefore to his brother man and liberalism, born of this love that levelled down the barrier of caste and creed, and took its stand on the bed­rock of human existence and essence of all religions—Universal Brotherhood. With glorious ideals it inspired the Hindus and Muslim alike, and they forgot for a time the trivialities of their creed. To the Muslim as to the Hindu, it heralded the dawn of a new era, to the Muslim with the birth of the promised Mahdi, to the Hindu with the realization of the all-absorbing love of God.” The Bhakti cult and the Sufis preached religious toleration.