Mrs. Elsa Kazi

Sayyid utub Shaheed

His passionate writings contain powerful images of the maladies of contemporary Islamic societies and an idealization of the faith through the words of the sacred texts. In his overall standing as an Islamic thinker and activist, he may he compared with Turkey’s Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (18734960), Pakistan’s Sayyid Ahul A’la Mawdudi (1903-1979), Iran’s Ali Shar’ati (19334977), and Ayaftillah Ruhullah al-Mausavi Khomeni (1902-1989). Sayyid Qutub Shaheed wrote many books amongst (1) ‘In the Shad of the Quran’ (Fi Zilalul Quran) being his major work; the larger part of this was written when he was in jail in the period 1954-64. This was a period of complete solitude, when writing was the main preoccupation of the author and during which he lived totally “in the shade of the Quran”. Iran’s Supreme Leader Sayyid Ali al-Khameinaj translated into Persian parts of Quftib’s Quranic commentary (2) AI-Mahasjnul Fanni Pd Quran (The Quranic Art of Picture Drawing) (3) Islam wa Jahiliyat-i.Jaclidah (Islam and Modem Ignorance) (4) Islam wal Adl-iIjtemaiyyah (Islam and Social Justice).

Mrs. Elsa Kazi

(1884-1967 AD)

German poetess, painter and story-writer Elsa Gertrude Loesch D/O Eldermn who was called by all as Mother Elsa was born in Rudel Stadt, a small village in Germany on 3i October, 1884 AD. She met Allarna 1.1. Kazi in London and they married in

126 ermany in 1910 AD and settled in London. Mother

Elsa Kazi breathed her last on 28 May, 1967. She wrote

(1) as co-author of Allama I.I.Kazi a novel Au

Adventures of Brown Girl in Her Search for Go.I (2)

Flower Fairy Stories (for children) (3) Risalo of Shah

Abdul Latif (Selections) translated in verse. ‘Story of

civilization as described by Transmigratiiig Beard, (4)

A collection of poems in German language.

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He died on September 22, 1979, at the age of seventy-six at Buffalo New York where he was hospitalised.

In 1979 AD, just before he died, he was the first one to he the recipieht of the King Faisal Award in recognition of his scholarship and.his contributions to Islam.

He was the most influential of his contemporary Islamic revivalist thinkers. His views have influenced revivalism from Moracco to Malaysia, leaving their mark on thinkers such as Sayyid Qutub Shaheed and on events such as the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979, and have influenced the spread of Islamic revivalism in Central Asia, North Africa, and Southest Asia.

Ibn-e-Insha

(1927-1978)

Urdu poet, traveller, humourist, translator, and

journalist Sher Muhammad Khan, who wrote under pen-

name lbn-i-Insha, was born in a village of Eastern Funjab

Phalore of District Jalandher, India on 12 January, 1927.

He died on 12 January 1978. His famous works are: (1)

Chand Nagar, (2) Chalte Ho To Cheen Ko Chaliye, (3)

Ibn-e-Batoota Ke Ta’Qub Mein, (4) Dunya Gol Hai, (5)

Kissa Ek Kanware Ka (6) Urdu Ki Aakhree Kitab (7) Cheeni Nazmein (Translation)

A.K. Brohi

(19154987 AD)

A legal eagle, an eminent scholar and philosopher, Allah Bukhsh 5/0 Karim Bux Brohi generally known as AK. Brohi was born on 24th December, 1915 AD, at Garhi Yasin, District Sukkur, Sind. Rejoined the Bar in 1941 AD; remained General Secretary of Karachi Bar Council in 1948-49; was appointed as Advocate General Sindh in 1951 AD; appointed as Chief Prosecutor and put incharge of a State Trial: ‘Rawalpind Conspiracy Case’. He was appointed Pakistan’s Federal Minister in 1951; was Member of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan; was Minister incharge of Law, Constitutional & Parliamentary Legislation and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting; resigned from Office on 23rd of October, 1954 AD; rejoined the Bar as practising lawyer. General Ayub appointed him as Pakistan’s High Commissioner (Ambassador) to India in 1960-61 AD. F-fe remained President of Pakistan Bar Association in 1964-65 AD. He was appointed as Founder/First Rector International Islamic University, Islamabad from 1979 to 1982 AD; worked as Chairman, National Hijra Committee Pakistan from 1979 to 1987 and Ambassador-at-large of Government of Pakistan.

Mr. Brohi died on 13th September, 1987 AD, in a hospital in London, and was buried at Army Cementry, in Karachi on 14th September 1987 AD.

A.K. Brohi wrote a number of books, Ifs major

works being (1) An Adventure in Self-Expression

(1954) (2) Fundamental Law of Pakistan (1956) (3)

Islam in the Modem World (1969) (4) Testament of

Faith (1973) (4) Strategy of Human Action in History. 131

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