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country, and if you do not give us freedom in India, you will have to give me a grave here (England)”. These were the words of Maulana Muhammad Au johar uttered on 9tt NOVULTIher 1930, in London, while addressing the First Round Table Conference. Educationist, freedom fighter, journalist politician and poet Maulana Muhammad All Johar was born in Rampur state (India) on 10 December, 1S78. He founded a weekly newspaper Comrade in English (191I and Hamd.ard in Urdu (1913). He took part in Khilafat Movement (1915-7921). He breathed his last on January 4, 1931 and on the request of the Grand Mufti of Palestine, Syed Amiri al-Hussayni was buried in Jerusalem. He wrote an autobiography: My Life: A Fragment. “Muhammad All had the pen of a Macaulay, the tongue of a Burke; and the heart of a Napoleon”. (H.G.Wells).

Allama Iqbal (R.A)

(1877-1938 AD)

Great philosopher-poet of the East, theologian, jurist and politician Sir (knighted in 1922) Allarna Muhammad Iqhal Sb Noor Muhammad Shaikh was horn in Sialkot on 9” November, 1877 and died and buried in Lahore on 21’ April. 1938. He is known for his influential efforts to direct Indian Muslims towards the establishment of a separate Muslim state, an aspiration that eventually realized Pakistan into being- The salient features of lqbal’s thought are: ‘11w

concept of Self (Khudi) which is central to his thought 118 hat is the strong condemnation of the self-negating

quietism, self-reliance, self-confidence which did much to revitalize the intellectual life of Muslims of Indo-Pak sub-continent, the marriage of intellect and love in transforming humans to a higher being. His major works-are: (1) The development of Metaphysics in Persian (Ph.D Thesis) (2) Bang-c-Darn (“The Call of the Bell”) (3) Asrar-e-Khudi (“The Secrets of the Self”)

(4) Rinnuz-e-Bekhudi (“Mysteries of Selflessness”) (5) Pnyani-e-Mashriq (“Message of the East”) (6) Zabz,r-eAjani (‘Persian Psalms”) (7) Jnz’id-iranuih (“The song of Eternity”) (8) Bal-i-Jthril (“Gabriel’s Wing”) (9) Zarb-eKahat (“The Blow of Moses”) 00) Ar;iiaglzan-e-Hijaz (“ Gift of the Hijaz”) (11) The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, a volume based on six lectures delivered at Madras, Hyderahad Deccan and Aligaih in 1928-29.

Sayyid All al-Khamenei

(Born in 1939)

Supreme Spiritual leader of Iran (l989-),president of Iran (19811989), and Ayatollah (“gift of God,” a religious title of honor), Khamenei was born in Mashhad (Meshed), into a family of Islamic clerics. Khamenei was a close ally of Khomeini, joining it-i Khomeini’s movement against Pahlavi as early as 1962. Khamenei was one of the founders of the Islamic Republican Party, which dominated the Majlis (the national legislature) after the 1979 revolution. In 1981 and 1985, Khamenei was elected president. As required by the constitution, he resigned the presidency in 1989. Following Khomeinis death

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1989, Khamenei assumed the role of supreme spiritual lea der.

Muhammad Ali (Boxer)

(1942)

American boxer, Au was born in Louisville) Kentucky. His birth name was Cassius Marcellus Clay. In 1964, Clay converted to Islam, and assumed the name Muhammad Au. He once described his skills by saying that he could “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” Muhammad Au first won the world heavyweight championship title in 1964 but was stripped off it three years later. Au regained the title in 1974 and in 1978, making him the first boxer to become world heavyweight champion three times.

Maulana Ashraf Au Thanvi (R.A)

(1863-1943 AD)

Scholar of high repute in all fields of islamic sciences, philosopher, saint, mufassir, muhaditj-i,

jurist, theologian, moralist, logist, orator, critic, poet and a man of many folds Maulana Muhanunad Ashraf Au Thanavi S/C Haji Abdul Haq, known as Hakeem ul Ummmat (Doctor of the Nation), was born on 5i, of Rabi-al-Thani 1280 AH/19 September, 1863

AD at Thana Bhavan, a small place in district Muzafar Nagar, Uttar Pradesh (India). He became disciple of

120 aji lmdadullah Muhajir Makki (R.A). His major

works are fi) Tarjzeinan al-Qitrn’an (“Commentary of the Holy Qura’an)Translation(2) Al-Ta kashshuf tinMulcuntr(—Tas-art’a’nf (“ The Exposition of the Problems of Mysticism”) (3) Jarbiqat al-Sri/k Wi- Taiijth ni-Hidik (“Training of the Seekers and Preventing of the Wrong-doers”) (4) Bih,shti Zeuir (Heaven])’ Ornaments)(5) Ki.iIid-i-Matbnavi (“Key to Mathnavi of Maulana Rumi”). He died in 1362 Al-I/July 4°, 1943 AD.