The correct option is 2 only
Explanation
The Khojahs are a community of Nizari Ismaili Muslims in South Asia. Their religious tradition is characterized by the Ginans, a corpus of devotional literature that synthesizes Islamic beliefs with indigenous Indic spiritual concepts. These texts played a crucial role in the dissemination of Ismaili doctrines in the local vernacular context.
Statement 1 is Incorrect:
The Khojah community used a specific script known as Khojaki to record their devotional poems, the Ginans. While the community spoke various vernacular languages (such as Sindhi, Gujarati, and Kachchi), the Khojaki script served as a liturgical script exclusively used for preserving their religious manuscripts and hymns.
Statement 2 is Correct:
The Khojaki script was not derived from the Arabic script. It belongs to the Landa family of scripts, which are mercantile scripts indigenous to the Punjab and Sindh regions. It is a Brahmic script, closely related to Gurmukhi and Mahajani, rather than the Perso-Arabic script used by many other Muslim communities in India for Urdu or Persian.
Key Takeaway:
The Khojaki script is a Landa-based (Brahmic) script used by the Ismaili Khojah community to record Ginans (devotional hymns), distinct from the Arabic or Persian scripts typically associated with Islamic literature in medieval India.