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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