Hafiz Munir Ahmed Khan Profile by Munium Ali Khan

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A Profile by Munium Ali Khan

Class: M.A (Previous)

Roll # 2K16-MMC-43

Semester: 2nd

Dr. Hafiz Munir Ahmed Khan

When I was nearly 15 years old and was a school student, I first time saw a startlingly good-looking person, who was standing near a beautiful mosque, smiling, embracing and meeting other people outside the mosque. I did not know you was he, but I could feel a spiritual relationship with him. I am not talking about a person who has curved lines on his face, aged between 70 or 80; of course not, I am talking about a person who has achieved many successes in his life in his very young age which is a very rare thing for other people to get.

Today, I am proudly going to introduce you Dr. Hafiz Munir Ahmed Khan. He is the grandson of Late Hazrat Dr. Gulam Mustafa (RA) who was an authentic Islamic and spiritual scholar, linguistic, educationist and the former Head of Department of Urdu at Sindh University and a companion of Allama I. I. Qazi (Founder of Sindh University).

Dr. Hafiz Munir Ahmed khan hail from a noble and honorable family, he was born in Hyderabad, Sindh in 10^th October 1972. He has a remarkable memory and ability to learn and understand things quickly since his childhood. By virtue of this he had been Hafiz –ul- Quran in his early childhood, after completing HSC he did his M.A in Islamic Culture in1992 and M.A in Arabic in 1995 from University of Sindh with 1^st classes respectively and completed his Ph.D. in Islamic Culture subsequently in 1998.  He is not only a great scholar and researcher, but is also a valuable religious mentor and teacher, he is now a chairperson of Department of Comparative Religion and Islamic Culture at Sindh University and also the Head of an authentic Islamic educational institution named Al- Mustafa Trust situated near Abdullah Sports City, Hyderabad, Sindh. He is also a member of Senate and Academic Council of Sindh University.

He has served as a Lecturer in Department of Arabic at Sindh University. He has also been lecturer in miscellaneous institutions such as, Allama Iqbal Open University, Hyderabad Campus and Institute of Information and Technology at Sindh University. He has attended many international, national and local seminars and conferences as a notable guest.

He is an unparalleled younger replica of his grandfather. I has always noticed this thing that when he meets someone and shakes hands, he always smiles which makes feel happy others. He is also a great humanitarian and philanthropist, he likes to help needy people quietly, many poor and orphan children are being taught in his own educational institute. He has also written many books and research articles on Islam like ‘Majma-ul-Bahrain’, ‘the Religious Activities of Hazrat Mujaddid Alif Sani’ and so on.

In short, I admit to have been failed to find words which can define his great personality, I just would like to say that he is worthy of great tribute for his service to humanity and education, he is one of those people who do not show who they really are, but the reality is that they are the hidden ocean of knowledge, wisdom, dignity and fortitude, lighting deviated people to right path, having the determination to serve mankind till the last breath of life.

Educational Disorders in Sindh by Munium Ali Khan

An Article by Munium Ali Khan

Class: M.A (Previous)

Roll No: 43

Educational Disorders in Sindh

Education for any nation is like a soul for a body, if the soul has been weak, fragile and ill, drilled by one’s own devilish acts, apparently his body is going down and is not supposed to be well.

As the above mentioned instance, in Pakistan, despite having 68 years of independence, we are yet being counted as a nation of the Third world, reasons and causes as apparent as the sun that our education, educational quality and educational system, generally in all over Pakistan, and especially in Sindh province, have entirely defunct and have not yet been achieved even the competition level so as to compare and compete West.

 It would probably be a joke or an unbelievable news for an ‘outsider’ from a foreign country,  if  he knows that we confront miscellaneous educational system in our country, which are officially approved by relevant authority, instead of having one distinguished and authentic educational system in spite the fact that we are supposed to be one nation.

So far as our Sindh province is concerned, regretfully, there are a pile of issues to discuss with. But no doubt these educational setbacks either belong to Sindh Government’s educational authority and the society too. Both are accountable to their deeds.

As far as the Sindh Government goes, the main problem is that the flood of corruption has not only covered other institutions of Sindh Government, but it has also filled the educational institutions up with its flooded waves of corruption and devastated merit in Sindh.

 Other serious point to be noted is that disorganized and uncomputraized attendance system is one of the foremost reasons in educational mismanagement in Sindh and because of this, many students tend to think that their attendance will be reported clear and at least with average days of attendance, so due to this reason they do not go to school and colleges on daily basis and their parents are deceived by their daily going to schools or colleges, but reality is that their beloved children wander aimlessly around the streets and in alleys with their classmates.

And what can we say about final/board exams? Students do know that there will be ‘assistance’ by their ‘supporting staff’ for promoting copy culture and in making this society ‘more honest’ with their duties than they are. There is, of course, no doubt that copy culture in Sindh has been a severe tragedy and a stigma for us not only in Sindh but all over the country too.

Lack of official check and balance, bereft of stern inspections by relevant authority are also important reasons in destroying the quality education in Sindh. Ghost schools, invisible teachers in government schools, mismanagement in conducting examinations and their results, these types of issues stem from due to lacking in strict checking and inspections. When you walk through the streets in Karachi, Hyderabad and other cities in Sindh, you will find yourself surrounded with a lot of private schools and tuition coaching centers with having different attractive names and, amazingly, they are all claimant of providing ‘quality education’ but bitter reality is that most of them even do not have qualified teaching staff because they have no fears of inspections of relevant official authority because they do know no one will come here in order to check that what is happening here and to check this thing that future of Pakistan is being ravaging here by some ‘educated people’.            

On the other hand, basically in Sindh our society is also unaware of the importance of having education. They do not recognize the value and importance of education in this modern era. In Sindh, there are two types of  people existing among us, one who even do not know and, maybe, do not want know due to their ignorance and due to the lack of awareness of having good education these days, that what is education and how an educated and learned person differ from an ignorant one, the second one belongs to those people who have this negative thinking approach which usually occupies the masses’ mindset and mentality that the education is just like a formality and a stepping stone to a job; they do not think that quality education is a basic and most indispensible right of their children and they have a great responsibility for the posterity and for the upcoming generation who will be the future and the destiny of Pakistan, they consider their children only being a part of their family, but they do not contemplate about this that their children will also be the citizens of Pakistan.

In addition, most populace of Pakistan is always willing and ready to spend their money to buy expensive clothes, mobile phones, etc. without any particular need and plausible reasons, maybe for showing off, but we will find them unwilling to spend their money on educational purposes which will bring up prosperity and integrity in their life.

To put it in a nutshell, as a nation practically we have not decided yet that what we want to be in future? An educated and civilized nation which is standing on its own and ready to compete with others in every field of this industrial and competitive world or a nation which will be counted as a part of the Third World, because one thing is clear to say that as a nation without having quality education we will remain in the Third World, and if we do not rejuvenate our entire educational system as soon as possible, we are going to be ruined and, maybe, an extinct nation.