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Ulema ready to lead AMU movement
THE ULEMA are ready to lead a movement for restoration of the Aligarh Muslim University?s minority character if they are called upon to do so. Prominent Islamic scholars, representing different schools of thought, expressed this view at an all-India seminar on ?The minority character of the AMU and the educational future of Indian Muslims?.
THE ULEMA are ready to lead a movement for restoration of the Aligarh Muslim University’s minority character if they are called upon to do so. Prominent Islamic scholars, representing different schools of thought, expressed this view at an all-India seminar on ‘The minority character of the AMU and the educational future of Indian Muslims’.
They participated in the seminar in the Kennedy Hall of the AMU on the invitation of the students’ union.
Maula Mufi Rashid of Darul Uloom Deoband assured the AMU fraternity of cooperation and support of his madarsa to the struggle.
He said whenever the AMU fraternity gave the call to take to the streets, the ulema would lead the struggle.
All India Muslim Personal Law Board member Maulana Khalid Rashid Firangi Mahali of Lucknow said 52,000 clerics had sacrificed their lives for the nation’s Independence, but the community was being neglected.
He assured the help of the Muslim Personal Law Board in this struggle for restoration of the AMU’s status.
Maulana Hayatullah Nazim of the Madarsa Noorul-Ulloom Bahraich said the AMU was considered the educational centre for Muslims of India. Maulana Mufi Mohammad Ahsan of Darul-Uloom Deoband said his institution would support the AMU’s cause.
The ulema of different Islamic schools of thought shared the dais and showed their solidarity to the cause. This indicated that the entire community of ulema and millat had come together, he said, adding that for the survival of democracy, restoration of the AMU’s minority character was essential.
Maulana Shabuddin Rizvi of Bareilly observed that followers of the Bareilly school of Islamic thought would join the movement.
He said Bareilly bandh would be observed on February 2 to put pressure on the Government to bring a constitutional
amendment in Parliament.
Maulana Mubarak Hussain of Jamia Asharfia Mubarkapur said the AMU was the biggest university of the country where a vast majority of Muslims got education.
The AMU fraternity should take to the streets on the issue, he added.
