EDUCATION OPINION

AMU: List of Elected Members of the

AMU Court, 31 March, 1996

Learned Professions, Industry and Commerce:

Prof. Zahoor Qasim, New Delhi

Ms. Justice Fatima Beevi (Retd)., New Delhi.

Professor Ram Sharan Sharma, Patna.

Mr. Zafar Alam, Aligarh.

Mr. Khalilur Rab, Allahabad.

Mr. Saifuddin Soz, New Delhi.

Mr. Z.K. Faizan, Delhi.

Dr. S. Farooq, Dehradun.

Mr. Ishtiaq Husain Qureshi, Lucknow

Mr. Rashid Jilani, New Delhi.

Oriental Learning:

Maul. Mohd. Salim Qasmi, Saharanpur.

Maul. Mujahidul Islam Qasmi, Patna.

Maul. Nizamuddin Islahi, Azamgarh.

Maul. Syed Kalbe Sadiq, Lucknow.

Maul. Muqtadar Azhari, Varanasi.

Maul. Ziauddin Islahi, Azamgarh

Waqf:

Dr. Farooq Abdullah, Srinagar.

Maul. Nizamuddin, Bhopal

Mr. Nascem Zaidi, Lucknow

Mr. Niyaz Ahmad, Lucknow,

Urdu:

Prof. Aley Ahmad Suroor, Aligarh

Prof. Zaheer Ahmad Siddiqui, Aligarh

Muslim Scholars Outside UP:

Dr. Maqbool Ahmad, Calcutta.

Maul. Abdul Karim Parikh, Nagpur.

Mr. Ahmad Rashid Sherwani, New Delhi.

Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer, Bombay.

Misappreciation of Islam by Non-Muslim

Leaders: Ambedkar's Statement

"The riots are a sufficient indication that gangsterism has become a settled part of their (Muslims) strategy in politics. They seem to be consciously and deliberately imitating the Sudetan Germans in the means employed by them against Czechs. The question, however, is: Is the Congress way the right way? The first thing which the Congress has failed to realise is that there is a difference between appeasement and settlement. Appeasement means buying off the aggressor by conniving at his acts of murder, rape, arson and loot against innocent persons. On the other hand, settlement means laying down the bounds which neither party to it can transgress. Appeasement sets no limits to demands and aspirations of he aggressors. Settlement does".

"The second thing the Congress has failed to realize is that policy of concession has increased Muslim aggressiveness, and what is worse. Muslims interpret these concessions as a sign of defeatism on the part of the Hindus and the absence of their will to resist" (Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, Partition of India, p.269)

"Among the tenets one that calls for notice is the tenet of Islam which says that in a country which is not under Muslim rule wherever there is conflict between Muslim law and the law of the land, the former must prevail over the latter and a Muslim will be justified in obeying the Muslim law and defying the law of the land" (Partition of India, p.292).

"There is another injunction of Muslim Cannon Law", says Dr. Ambedkar, "called jihad (crusade) by which it becomes incumbent on a Muslim ruler to extend the rule of Islam until the whole world shall have been brought under its sway. The world being divided into two Harab (abode of war), all countries come under one camp, Darl-ul-Islam (abode of Islam) and Darul-ul- country or the other. Technically, it is the duty of the Muslim ruler, who is capable of doing so, to transform Dar-ul-Harb into Dal-ul-Islam" (ibid p. 295).

"Another illustration of this spirit of exploitation is furnished by the Muslim insistence upon cow-slaughter and the stoppage of music before mosques. Islamic law does not insist upon the slaughter of cow for sacrificial purposes and no Musalman, when he goes to Haj. sacrifices the cow in Mecca or Madina. But in India they will not be content with the sacrifice of any other animal: Music may be played before a mosque in all Muslim countries without objection. Even in Afghanistan, which is not a secularised country, no objection is taken to music before a mosque. But in India the Musalmans must insist upon its stoppage for no other reason except that the Hindus claim á right to". (ibid p. 269).