Beef was never on Aligarh University hostel menu, claims Urdu writer
Cow is a many desired animal in India. PHOTO: AFP
Rahat Abrar, a distinguished Urdu writer, claimed on Wednesday that Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, owner of Aligarh Muslim University, was opposite cow massacre by Muslims. He was vocalization during a recover of his latest Urdu work on Sir Syed patrician Sir Syed Aur Unke Maasreen (Sir Syed and His Contemporaries).
Abrar quoted Sir Syed’s views from an essay he had penned, “If breach of cow scapegoat can move assent and loyalty among a Hindus and a Muslims, it would be wrong on a partial of a Muslims not to relinquish this right,” reported WION.
Sir Syed felt that Muslims should give adult cow beef to say assent with Hindus, pronounced Abrar, who is executive of a Urdu Academy during AMU, while addressing a entertainment during a ongoing bicentenary birth celebrations of a AMU founder.
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Abrar pronounced there is a available occurrence where Sir Syed came to know that some students had purchased a cow to scapegoat on a arise of Eid-ul-Adha. This was during a early days of AMU when it was famous as MAO College. Cow scapegoat was afterwards prevalent all over a country.
Sir Syed, who was really dissapoint by this, rushed to a hostel where a cow was kept and prevented a animal from being sacrificed, Abrar said.
Beef was never served in any of a AMU hostels underneath Sir Syed’s watch and non-vegetarian students were served buffalo meat.
Abrar went on to observant that Sir Syed published an essay in Aligarh Institute Gazette in 1897 lauding a efforts of a Muslims of Bareilly who willingly gave adult cow massacre on a arise of Eid-ul-Adha in esteem to a sentiments of a Hindus.
Abrar pronounced that discordant to some of a critics of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, a owner of a AMU never mislaid any event to his final days in compelling India’s pluralistic ethos.
Most historians have not overwhelmed on Sir Syed’s tighten organisation with Hindu amicable reformers like Arya Samaj owner Swami Dayanand Saraswati, Raja Ram Mohan Roy who was behind a anathema on Sati, Sir Surendranath Banerjee, Lala Lajpat Rai, Raja Shiv Prasad of Banaras, Bhartendu Harishchandra and Raja Shambhu Narayan.
Abrar quoted a minute from Lala Lajpat Rai, who sensitive Sir Syed that “his father deliberate Sir Syed Ahmad Khan as a saint”.
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