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| | =Sons of Panipat= | | =Sons of Panipat= |
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| − | ''India Harmony '' VOLUME - 1 : ISSUE - 5 JULY-AUGUST, 2012
| + | [[K. G. Saiyadain]] |
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| − | '' Late Dr. K. G. Saiyadain was the grandson of Maulana Hali.
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| − | Educated at AMU, he was an outstanding scholar and writer.
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| − | He rose to the position of Secretary, Ministry of Education and
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| − | acquitted himself with great honour. ''
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| − | ==K. G. Saiyadain==
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| − | First, I shall just mention the three most
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| − | outstanding contributions of Khwaja Ghulam-us-
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| − | Saiyidain (KGS) to India and the world in the
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| − | field of Education. I shall then try to describe the
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| − | roots of the environment of the city where KGS
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| − | was born and where his forefathers had lived for
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| − | more than six hundred years and contributed to
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| − | the sprouting the those roots. What possible
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| − | influence these roots may have exerted to shape
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| − | the personality and achievements of KGS, I would
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| − | leave to the judgement of my readers.
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| − | KGS was first and foremost, an educationist. He
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| − | was a valiant crusader for the spread of
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| − | knowledge. Not only that, he held that an
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| − | educated person should be a person of character
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| − | and integrity.
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| − | Integrity is a quality that can only emanate from
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| − | having some kind of a coherent philosophy of life
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| − | – you may call it a well-rounded worldwide or
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| − | weltanschauung. On the other hand, character is
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| − | founded upon the courage of conviction of one's
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| − | belief's and philosophy of life, one's capability to
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| − | act upon one's beliefs in the face of difficulties.
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| − | Khwaja Ghulam-us-saiyidain and his grand father,
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| − | the famous poet and reformer Altaf
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| − | Hussain Hali are among the descendents of
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| − | the latter.
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| − | The town retained its status as a place for
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| − | religious learning for hundreds of years.
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| − | Kings and ministers, the rich and poor alike
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| − | came to the town to pay tribute to the sufi
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| − | saints.
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| − | The traditional languages of education in
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| − | Panipat were Persian and Arabic.
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| − | However the leading families of Panipat
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| − | embarked upon the study of English as
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| − | soon as the opportunity came their way after
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| − | 1857. More than a decade before Sir Syed Ahmad
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| − | Khan established the MAO College, the boys
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| − | from at least two leading families of Panipat were
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| − | preparing themselves to study English, Medicine
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| − | and Engineering. Altaf Hussain Hali's son Khwaja
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| − | Sajjad Hussain was among the first graduating
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| − | class of the MAO College. Hakim Haider Hasan's
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| − | sons Sharif Hasan and Latif Hasan, only a few
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| − | years younger than Sajjad Hussain, went to
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| − | Lahore and Roorkee respectively, to study
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| − | Medicine and Engineering. The eighteen sixties
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| − | saw Panipat turning a new leaf in its long tradition
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| − | of learning. Its face partially turned towards the
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| − | west.
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| − | Zeal for education flowed in the blood of
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| − | Panipatis. Originally it was education restricted to
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| − | the field of religion and its related disciplines like
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| − | logic, history, medicine etc. Then times changed.
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| − | Sajjad Hussain, perhaps the first role model of
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| − | KGS, adopted modern Education as his career. In
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| − | his own way he was advancing the reforms that
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| − | his father the great Altaf Hussain Hali was
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| − | advocating as a colleague of Sir Syed. In the next
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| − | generation, it seemed natural for KGS to don the
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| − | mantle of his illustrious elders.
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| − | [[File: K.G. Saiyadain with Dr. Zakir Hussain.png| K.G. Saiyadain with Dr. Zakir Hussain|frame|500px]]
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| − | For KGS new vistas emerged from the contours of
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| − | peace and non-violence, the values sought for
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| − | hundreds of years by the people of his town. Also,
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| − | if they were to be effective in amending or
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| − | replacing well established constructs, they had to
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| − | be a part of the emerging paradigm of religion and
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| − | philosophy. Further, in the formulation and
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| − | advocacy of new directions, the individual human
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| − | being had to have the central role, in
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| − | consonance with the teachings of Bu-Ali Shah
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| − | Qalandar, the patron saint of Panipat. In short,
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| − | there had to be a reinterpretation of the Islamic
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| − | faith.
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| − | [[File: K.G. Saiyadain at Unesco Conference.png| K.G. Saiyadain at Unesco Conference|frame|500px]]
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| − | KGS accepted the thesis proposed by Iqbal in
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| − | his famous lectures Reconstruction of Religious
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| − | Thought in Islam that apart from the Deduction
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| − | and Induction there was also a third source of
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| − | knowledge. Transcendental Knowledge. This
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| − | knowledge was accessible only to those saintly
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| − | persons who have passed through certain stages of
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| − | their journey towards the Infinite, in short the
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| − | knowledge of the Sufis and Saints.
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| − | That the searching intellect of KGS should turn
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| − | towards M. K. Gandhi, an apostle of peace and
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| − | non-violence was only natural. The rest is history.
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