Ghulam Mustafa Khan

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Prof. Dr. Ghulam Mustafa Khan was a Renowned researcher, critic, linguist, author, scholar of Urdu literature & linguistics, educationist and religious & spiritual leader of Pakistan.

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He was born in the Jabalpur city of India on September 23, 1912, and died at Hyderabad, Pakistan on September 25, 2005. He received his education at the Aligarh Muslim University. He held a M.A. in Urdu literature and completed his Ph.D on Syed Hassan Ghaznavi from Nagpur University. During his Service life he was appointed as a lecturer at the King Edward College, Amrawati and after migration to Pakistan from India he was appointed in Urdu College, Karachi. Later in his life he also performed the duties of head of the department of Urdu in Sindh University. For his academic services he was honoured with various level of awards. Like wise Presidential award Sitar-i-Imtiaz, Naqoosh award, Iqbal award and Nishan-i-Sipas.

He was author of several number of books in Urdu and English and one of his written work Hali Ka Zahni Irteqa was made part of university level curriculum.

Dr Ghulam Mustafa was also a famous religious and spiritual leader.

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DAWN-Leading Pakistan English Newspaper. Article Issue dated:September 26, 2005.

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[Al Mustafa Trust]

Al-Mustafa Trust has been established under the patronage of Professor Dr. Ghulam Mustafa Khan, a great scholar, educationist and spiritual leader of Sindh and Pakistan, with the sole objective to impart a true and complete education of mind and soul to our young generation, starting initially from the primary to the higher secondary level.

The challenge of the 21st century is to produce a complete human being, or in other works a true Muslim. It is proposed to achieve this noble objective by integrating the two systems and add the element of proper training of self purification, which is totally missing.

Need Of Al Mustafa Trust

Since the 19th century, there have been two educational streams parallel to each other yet almost in conflict. They were first started by Sir Syed at Aligarh and by Maulana Qasim Nanotvi at Deoband. The Muslim University at Aligarh imparted Western education (of course, in a Muslim environment) to produce administrators, scientists, educationists, engineers, doctors, economists etc. these graduates joined the then British Administration in India, a field which otherwise was open only to their Hindu adversaries. But for this great service rendered by Sir Syed, the Hindus who were already dominating in almost all walks of life would have totally eliminated the Muslims from all fields, to the satisfaction of their enemies.

The second grand educational effort was the Madarssah at Deoband by Hazrat Qasim Nanotvi. It produced great ‘Ulemas’ in Tafseer, Hadith, Fiqah and Islamic learning. However, they were not trained and prepared to take up the so called worldly jobs in the areas of administration, economy, finance, banking, medicine and engineering.

These two systems continue to flow in separate streams even today. The result is that though the end product of both are Muslims, yet they are strangers to each other.

Furthermore, due to the total lack of the purification of self, the graduates of the universities, taking up to the worldly jobs, have failed to come to the required level of honesty and devotion.

Today, Pakistan lags behind in quality education, training of self and teaching of self-discipline. There is a great and urgent need to develop quality educational facilities and overcome spiritual deficiencies, which can best be accomplished in rural setting, with complete boarding facilities for students and staff.