Shah Waliullah belonged to a religious family and got his early education from Madrassa Rahimiyya. He was also one of the contributors in the framing of Fatwa-e-Alamgiri, which was the famous Islamic legal text that was compiled during the time of Aurangzeb. Nevertheless Shah Waliullah refrained from the prospect of having a close association with the court. The contribution of Shah Waliullah in the establishment of Islam in the subcontinent lies in the fact that he translated the Holy Quran into Persian, which was the language of the educated Muslims in the subcontinent back in those times. Later on, his sons even translated the Holy Quran into Urdu, which was the language of the common Muslims in South East Asia. Moreover Shah Waliullah strongly discouraged the Muslims to get involved in sectarianism and instead united on a single platform. Furthermore, he contributed literary works in the religious light that discussed Islamic principles and essentials from an elementary standpoint – the most famous of his works were Hujjatullah-ul-Balighah and Izlat-ul-Akhfa.