![]() ![]() ![]() Cumulatively, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was a visionary politician, a major journalist, a remarkable prose stylist, and a notable commentator on the Holy Quran.University Grants Commission and other technical, research, and cultural institutions stand as the testimony of his vision in the domains of liberal and technical education and culture. After India’s independence, Maula Azad served as Education Minister and contributed significantly to policy formation and the establishment of the education system in the country.Maulana Azad was very active on the political front and took part in the Non-Cooperation movement, Quit India Movement, and Khilafat Movement.He also remained associated with other publications like Wakeel and Amritsar. He also took to publishing other journals and newspapers like Paigham and Lisan-us-Sidq.While Azad had a clear stance against the British, he also projected a nationalist and patriotic stance and worked towards the cause of Hindu-Muslim unity.He wrote Ghubaar-e-Khatir during the days of his imprisonment at Ahmednagar fort. His major works include Ghubaar-e-Khatir, Tazkira, and Tarjuman-ul-Quran.Following this, he launched another publication called Al-Balagh which also reiterated Azad’s anti-British stance. Finding it objectionable for themselves, the British banned its publication in 1914. Its impressive print run of fifty-two thousand copies spoke volumes of its relevance and appeal.Here, he started the first illustrated weekly called Al-Hilal in 1912 which projected a highly critical stance against the British government. When he migrated from Arab to India, he chose Calcutta as his center of journalistic, scholastic, and political activities.No one tells me where my journey will end: I have traversed wilderness after wilderness, and there is yet more wilderness to be crossed. ![]() This stage will also pass in the twinkling of an eye, and what the future holds I do not know:.Now that the year1335 A.H.(1916) is drawing to a close, the fleeting procession of my years has reached the stage of the thirties.I was born and spent my childhood in the Barren Valley, near the KA'ABA in the Holy City MECCA, in the part known as Qidwah, near the Bab-e-Salam. ![]()
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