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Nawab Viqar – Ul – Mulk
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Isam Hanif Majeed
Nawab Viqar ul Mulk was born in 1841 in Moradabad. His real name was Mushtaq Hussain Zuberi. In 1861, Nawab Viqar ul Mulk was a social welfare worker and got good recognition for his work. At the age of twenty-five, he later started his political career as a worker in the Aligarh movement in 1866. He greatly admired Sir Syed Ahmed and was an active worker in his camp. He joined Sir Syed’s MAO College in Aligarh, where he later became the honorary secretary.
Nawab Viqar ul Mulk served under the British rule for seventeen years, and it was the British Government of India who gave him the title of ‘Nawab’. The Nizam of Hyderabad gave him the name of Wiqar ul Mulk.
He was amongst the Muslims, who agreed with the ideas of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan that Muslims and Hindus should have two separate nations. Muslims of India needed to form a political party and he was amongst the few to realize this.
In 1906, the All India Muslim League was formed. It is said that Nawab Viqar ul Mulk was the founding father of the political party and later on was designated to be the General Secretary.
It was the annulment of the partition of Bengal that led to his disillusionment with the British and he wrote his famous article “Musalmano ka Ayendah Laiha-i-Amal”. This article was published in the Aligarh Institute Gazette as a public expression of his anti-British stance.
On January 27, 1917, Nawab Viqar ul Mulk passed away after a prolonged illness.
“God has given us a grand opportunity to show our worth as architects of a new state; let it not be said that we did not prove equal to the task.”
(Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s vision for every Pakistani)
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