ENGLISH ESSAY ‘sir syed ahmad
khan’ FROM 400 TO 425 WORDS
Sir syed Ahmad Khan was born in 1817 AD in a
distinguished Muslim family of Delhi. He lost his father, Mir Muttaqi Khan
early in life so he had to struggle with various adverse circumstances at an
early stage of his life. As his financial position was not sound, he had to
join his service as Mir Munshi and in course of time he was raised to the rank
of sub-Judge, in leisure hours he used to serve his country and nation through
writings.
The political career of Syed Ahmad began after 1859.
Muslims were the chief fighters in the war of independence and had, therefore,
to bear the entire burden of the revengeful policy of the British whose
attitude towards the Muslims was by no means fair. Syed Ahmad was an eyewitness
to the events of the great national tragedy and some of the members of his
family perished in the struggle. He was greatly shocked at the destruction of
the Muslim families of Delhi, Moradabad, and Byjnor. The conditions had become
so bad that there was no need of condemning a Muslim, only being, his crime was
enough.
The Hindus had also, somehow, participated in the
war, yet they had lost nothing, moreover the English wanted to counterbalance
the power of the Muslims and, therefore, they enhanced the position of the
Hindus.
Syed Ahmad Khan realized the critical position of
the Muslims. He, therefore, declared that Hindus and Muslims were two separate
nations, and devoted himself to the cause of the Muslims.
The greatest service Syed Ahmad Khan rendered to the
Muslims was in the field of education. He had earlier realized the backwardness
of the Muslims in education. He tried to create a change in the modern education
primarily with this aim; he started the ‘Aligarh Movement’.
In order to impart English education , Syed Ahmad
Khan organized a “Society for the Educational Progress of the Indian Muslim”
which decided to establish the ‘Muhammadan
Anglo Oriental College’ at Aligarh, which soon became ‘Aligarh Muslim
University’ and the centre of their activities, within a short period, the
Muslim community was able to get over much of its educational backwardness.
Some of the leaders of the Aligarh Movement founded
the Muslim league in 1906, and it is the Muslim League which has achieved Pakistan.
So it can be said that the ‘Aligarh Movement’ indirectly laid the foundation
–stone of Pakistan.
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