6. To Muslims, Sir Syed Ahmad Khan was
like the eye which weeps for the
suffering of every part of the body.
7. Sir Syed was born on 17th October
1817, in Delhi.
He belonged to a religious family.
Initially, he learnt to read the holy
Quran, at home.
8.  He got his early education in Arabic
and Persian.
 He completed his formal education at
the age of 19.
9.  The supreme interest of Sir Syed’s life
was education in its widest sense.
 He wanted to create a scientific
temperament among the Muslims of
India .
10.  He established schools at Moradabad
in 1858 and Ghazipur in 1863.
 He laid the foundation of scientific
Society in 1864.
11.  He issued a bilingual journal in Urdu
and English at Scientific society.
 In 1867 its office was transferred to
Benares.
12. A Muslim school was established at
Aligarh in May 1875.
 It was turned to a college in 1877.
In 1886, Sir Syed organized the All-
India Mohammadan Educational
Conference to promote education all
over in India.
13.  After 13 years of Scientific Society, he
established the Mohammadan Anglo-
Oriental College.
 It became the key intellectual center for
Indian Muslims.
14. He said:
‘Acquisition of knowledge of science and
technology is the only solution for the
problems of Muslims.’
15. He again said:
‘Call me by whatever names you like. I
will not ask you for my salvation. But
please take pity of your children. Do
something for them lest you should have
to repent’.
18.  He did his graduation from Murray
College Sialkot.
 He got his degree of Ph.D from
Germany.
19.  He first time gave the concept of
separate state for the Muslims.
 Keeping in view the ‘Two Nation
theory’, he clearly explained the
ideology of Pakistan in his sayings and
poetry.
20.  He said:
‘India is not a country, it’s a sub-
continent of human beings belonging to
different languages and practicing
different religion. Muslim nation has its
own religious and cultural ideology.’
21.  Moreover, he said:
‘I want to see Baluchistan, Sindh and
Punjab as a separate state either under
the crown of England or out of it.’
22. All his sayings and poetry proved that he
strongly believed in establishing a
separate home land for Muslims.
25. He did his matriculation from Karachi.
He got his higher education in Law,
from England.
26.  He was the liberator of the Muslim
nation in sub-continent.
 He struggled hard for a separate state
for the Indian Muslims on the basis of
Islamic Ideology.
28.  In his address at Lahore, on 23rd
March 1940, he clearly mentioned:
‘No act or law would be acceptable which
deny the separate status of the
Muslims.’
29.  On 29th December 1940, Quaid-E-
Azam said:
‘Pakistan existed from centuries; North-
West remained a homeland of Muslims.
Thus, a separate state for the Muslims
should be established in these areas so
that they might live according to the
teachings of Islam.’
30.  After the struggle and hard work of
countless days and nights, Pakistan
came into existence as a separate state
of the Muslims on 14th August 1947.
 Quaid-E-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah
became the first governor general of
Pakistan.
31.  On 1st October 1947, while addressing
the officers of Pakistan, he clarified:
‘Our mission is the establishment of a
state where people could live free in
their own socio-cultural set up,
necessary for the promotion of social
justice and Islamic Ideology.’
32. Now it’s the duty of every Pakistani to
follow the foot steps of our great leaders
and make Pakistan a successful,
prosperous and peaceful place to live in.