National Education Day: Why it is celebrated on Maulana Abul Kalam Azad’s birth anniversary

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10.1 هزار بار بازدید - 4 سال پیش - When he started writing poetry,
When he started writing poetry, Sayyid Ghulam Muhiyuddin Ahmed bin Khairuddin Al Hussaini adopted the pen name 'Azad' which means freedom. Little did he know that his chosen name would become an integral part of his identity during India’s united struggle for independence from the British Raj.
Maulana Azad, through his publication of newspapers - which were subsequently banned by the British - invoked the Muslim population of India to join the struggle to free their homeland of foreign rule. During his tour to Iraq, Egypt, Syria and Turkey, Azad was touched by the Islamic struggle for freedom and democracy. On his return, he started the newspaper Al-Hilal and subsequently Al-Balagh which introduced political writing of a kind that was never engineered before. Through his journals, Azad actively cheered the causes of Indian education, secularism and Hindu-Muslim unity against the British rule.

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4 سال پیش در تاریخ 1399/08/21 منتشر شده است.
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