Which of the following statements is/are correct?
1. The Sufi saints denounced the authority of the ulemas.
2. The Suhrawardi Silsila did not indulge in political matters.
3. Faizi is accredited with the creation of a new style for Hindi called, Sabaq-i-Hindi.
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• The Sufi movement encouraged equality and brotherhood. In fact, the Islamic emphasis upon equality was respected far more by the Sufis than by the ulema. The doctrines of the Sufis were attacked by the orthodoxy. The Sufis also denounced the ulema. They believed that the ulema had succumbed to world by temptations and were moving away from the original democratic and egalitarian principles of the Quran.
• Unlike the Chishti saints, the Suhrawardis maintained close contacts with the state. They accepted gifts, jagirs and even government posts in the ecclesiastical department.
• Amir Khusrau (l252-1325) was a notable writer. He took pride in being an Indian, and looked at the history and culture of Hindustan as a part of his own tradition. He wrote verses in Hindi (Hindawi) and employed the Persian metre in Hindi. He created a new style, called Sabaq-i-Hindi. By the fifteenth century, Hindi had begun to assume a definite shape and Bhakti saints, such as Kabir, used it extensively.
• Faizi was a Yemenite Arab poet and scholar of late medieval India. In 1588, he became the Malik-ush-Shu'ara of Akbar's court. He was the elder brother of Akbar's historian Abul Fazl.
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