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Written by Syed Mahmood Shuja

Those who are aware of the luminary named above for his struggles and deeds cant describe his efficaciousness and hard work by mere smallest unit of language. Words do not hold the required parameters to give an account of his morals, which he did for the slumbering Muslims of South Asia.

Those Muslims who were forcibly made to run into abyss by the new and robust invaders of the west. Sir Syed comprehended the full impacts of the future and made Muslims realize, that if not they recall the past and make their future better, they are condemned to repeat it again and again. His objective in the first place was to awake the Muslims and to unfetter them from their sickening, absurd, incongruous and outmoded traditional credo. Realizing the gravity of the situation he pulled Muslims out from their narrow medieval grooves and vile fantasies and fanaticism. Through defatigable efforts he and his workaholic sidekicks interceded with the grim British rulers on behalf of the Indian Muslims. He clearly stated:

" Unless we become flexible to aliens, we can never iron out our problems ".

He new that even a breeze of vendetta from the side of the Muslims would force them to be up a gum tree .The only possible and plausible way to pay the English in the same coin, according to him was to get well-versed in their art, literature and modern science. Cause it has been the order of British that whenever and wherever they established their political domination, it accompanied cultural onslaught, which very soon influenced the elite classes, who adopted it to become part of the dominating exclusives. Macaulay in his famous minutes (1835) writes:

"We must at present do our best to form a class of persons Indian in blood and color, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellects".

This whole process of globalization was accurately grasped by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan.

In order to counter their effectiveness he reformed the Muslims chiefly in the four spheres of life. Education, Social, Political and Religious. Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. It has for its object the formation of character. Ironically an erudite is a lazy slug who kills time by study. Sir Syed's main intention was to convince Muslims to learn the modern sciences in order to get a better view of the world and to parallel themselves with the British .He once said:

"Though we may have a grudge against the fascist rulers, but modern education is a thing which willy nilly will force them to agree with the adequate demand of our".

The problem of education was much more acute among the Muslims than the Hindus. They educated themselves and enjoyed better status than Muslims. They then told English that Muslims were the veritable cause of hindrances in their way.

Viewing back the facts we know that state socialism was, is and will be totally alien to the British rulers. Since in this realm Muslims were socially far behind the British. To the end that carve them socially he advised the Muslims:

To develop freedom of thought and get out of the rut of customs and traditions
" So long as freedom of thought is not developed there can be no civilized life".

To get rid of stupid religious convictions which had no genuine allowances and sanctions.
To educate children, men and women on wide footings.
To construct various arts and industries.

He strictly told the Muslims to embrace what is of value in the life and culture of the foreigners and reject their bad habits.

Politics is nix more than means of rising in the world. History is based on it .In other words history is the past politics and politics, the present History. All what's needed is the political will of the nation which sets up the political action . And so our man did by bringing the Muslims on one platform and persuaded them to learn modern education in order to position themselves in the legislative council. He said that the only way to get a political access is to learn its art, to study the British constitution, to study their administrative policies and systems .In the end, to frame the home system by merging their various political moves into one and yielding a better outcome.

Religion, is the receptacle of every code of conducts of us mortals and is the basis of faith and beliefs. It insculps the entire conscious existence of a being and produce it as a model for the respective society. Sir Syed Ahmed khan was the first man who told the Muslims to analyze Islam with the aid of scientific hypothesis and practicals. He had a very bright view of our religion and he saw Islam as the fonsetorigo of scientific inventions. He explained the Muslims that they ought to see the divine injunctions in the light of science. Many of the religious radicals opposed him and declared him as an atheist. They ascribed unfounded allegations on him by saying that he talks and writes blasphemy. But this opposition, instead high-spirited Sir syed and he actively pulled Muslims out from extremism. He truly interpreted the soorats and ayahs engraved in Quran.

The inference is, these reformations collectively aided Muslims in retaining what they lost in their two hundred years of nadir.

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