Ghazi Ilm-ud-din's

In May 1924, this Urdu booklet Rangeela Rasool was published in Lahore. The booklet purportedly described Prophet Muhammad's relationship with women. The publisher, Raj Pal, was charged under 153A of the Indian Penal Code for hate speech by the Punjab government. The final disposition came in May 1927.The court declared that law does not prohibit satirical writings about the deceased and the publisher was acquitted with a warning.

On 6 April 1929, the publisher was murdered.The murderer, a Muslim youth named Ilm-ud-din.It is an interesting story how this boy  Ilm-ud-din's,son of a carpenter, took the decision to assassinate a man he did not know. He heard a cleric ranting against Rajpal near a mosque; an angry mob was baying for Rajpal''s blood: "Oh Muslims! The devil Rajpal has sought to dishonour our beloved Prophet Muhammed (S.A.W.) by his filthy book!"

Ilm-ud-Din knew nothing about Rajpal and the controversy surrounding the book he had published; and didn''t want to know anything about the issue. He just bought a dagger and stabbed Rajpal to death on September 6, 1929. 

Ilm-ud-Din was put on trial. The poet Iqbal, the spiritual founder of Pakistan, requested Jinnah, the father of Pakistan, to plead on behalf of Ilm-ud-Din, which he did. The 19-year-old Ilm-ud-Din showed no guilty for his act; he claimed to be proud of his crime instead. He was awarded the death penalty, and executed on October 31, 1929.

Iqbal was one of the carriers of the funeral bier. At that moment, Iqbal said, "Asi wekhde reh gaye, aye Tarkhaana da munda baazi le gaya" (The educated people like us just could do nothing, while this carpenter''s son scored a point). This was Pakistan''s national poet, indeed one of the greatest poets of Urdu.

Unsurprisingly, Ilm-ud-Din has been glorified in Pakistan as a great Islamic hero, a holy warrior, a ghazi, a shaheed, etc. A film was made in 1978 lionizing him.

There is a mosque commemorating his "great deed", In February 2013, the Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court heard arguments on the maintainability of a petition seeking the reopening of an 84-year-old Ilm-ud-Din case.

In October  two-day celebrations for the  annual Urs of Ghazi Ilm Din Shaheed in the Miani Sahib graveyard, thousands of devotees paid homage to Ghazi Ilm-ud-Din Shaheed.

Addressing the participants, the muslim scholars swear to resist all conspiracies being hatched to amend the blasphemy laws under pressure from Washington. They said that no blasphemer could be tolerated in the country created in the name of Islam. They said countless lovers of the Holy Prophet (SAW) like Ghazi Ilm Din Shaheed would emerge if US-slave rulers tried to protect the blasphemers