High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sayed Rahmatullah Hashmi is a former envoy of the Taliban government in Afghanistan. `Sayed` is an honorific title that indicates lineage with the family of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Also known simply as Rahmatullah, he was once enrolled as a non-degree student at Yale University. In July 2006 it was announced that his application to pursue a bachelor`s degree had been rejected by Yale College via the Eli Whitney Students Program.