Biography
Purāne Chirāgh, Volume 2
The Old Lamps
Mawlānā Sayyid Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī Nadwī
Twenty-four more of the author’s contemporaries, written down as each of them died: statesmen and editors, scholars and shaykhs, and, at the end, the four he grieved for privately.
Contents
- Preface The author is glad that the opportunity has come to him of laying the second volume of his book Purāne Chirāgh before readers of discernment. The...
- Mawlānā Muḥammad ʿAlī Jawhar My awareness and reasoning begin from 1921-22, when I was barely eight or nine years old. Human awareness is not bound up with age, or with a...
- Nawāb Ṣadr Yār Jang Mawlānā Ḥabīb al-Raḥmān Khān Sherwānī In 1925, when I was ten years old, I had my first chance to attend the annual session of Nadwat al-ʿUlamāʾ, which was being held in Lucknow. The hall...
- Mawlānā Abū al-Kalām Āzād The time when my mind first woke and my reading and writing began was the time when the parrot of Mawlānā Abū al-Kalām Āzād sang all over India. This...
- Dr Zākir Ḥusayn Khān On 5, 6 and 7 November 1926 the annual session of Nadwah was held at Kanpur. I was twelve or thirteen years of age. My revered elder brother Mawlānā...
- al-Ḥājj Muftī Amīn al-Ḥusaynī When I looked upon the luminous face of Muftī Ṣāḥib, it seemed as though an angel had come down from the sky. Lovableness was packed into him to the...
- Mawlānā Masʿūd ʿAlī Nadwī My very first sight of Mawlānā Masʿūd ʿAlī Nadwī was probably in 1926-27, at the house of my teacher Mawlānā Khalīl ʿArab Ṣāḥib . Of middle height...
- Mawlānā ʿAbd al-Bārī Nadwī Some personalities are so steeped into the mind, and the meeting with them, the seeing and the hearing of them, becomes so regular a part of life...
- Mawlānā Muḥammad Salīm Ṣāḥib Kayrānwī Makkī Among the elders and the fighters in the way of Allāh (mujāhidīn) whose worth and greatness, and whose reverence and love, were planted in my heart...
- Mawlānā ʿAbd al-Mājid Daryābādī It was some month of 1924. I was ten or eleven years old. In those days, because of my father's passing, I was living with my mother in my home town...
- Professor Rashīd Aḥmad Ṣiddīqī The name of Rashīd Aḥmad Ṣāḥib had for a long while been falling upon my ears as that of a satirist (ṭanz nigār), a writer of humour (mazāḥiyah...
- Chaudhrī Ghulām Rasūl Mihr In 1925 and 1926 the Zamīndār of Lahore held sway in ardent Islamic circles. Its Sunday edition was in colour and of great style and splendour, and...
- Māhir al-Qādirī Ṣāḥib My acquaintance with Māhir al-Qādirī Ṣāḥib came about through his journal Fārān itself. I was no poet, that I should ever have been thrown together...
- Mawlānā ʿAbd al-Shakūr Ṣāḥib Fārūqī Mawlānā ʿAbd al-Shakūr Ṣāḥib Fārūqī had very deep spiritual ties with our family and with its elders. His honoured father, Mawlvī Nāẓir ʿAlī Ṣāḥib, a...
- Shaykh Muḥammad Bahjat al-Bayṭār It was the closing period of my studentship and the opening period of my teaching when the name of Shaykh Muḥammad Bahjat al-Bayṭār of Damascus (a...
- Mawlānā ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Memon So far as I remember, the name of Mawlānā ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Memon I first heard from my uncle by marriage, Mawlānā Sayyid Ṭalḥah Ṣāḥib, who served with...
- Mawlānā Muḥammad Uways Nadwī When one takes up the pen upon a companion and friend with whom a bond of fellowship of one kind or another stood for nearly forty years, the old...
- Ṣūfī ʿAbd al-Rabb Ṣāḥib, M.A. I heard Ṣūfī Ṣāḥib spoken of with honour, probably for the first time, from Mawlānā Muḥammad Manẓūr Ṣāḥib Nuʿmānī. There were several grounds and...
- Mawlānā Sayyid Abū Bakr Ghaznawī, M.A. Among the elders true in belief (ṣādiq al-ʿaqīdah) and following the Sunnah, and among the elect of God (khāṣṣān-i khudā), whose names fell upon my...
- Mawlānā ʿAbd al-Salām Qidwāʾī Nadwī What hard tasks the heart and the pen are put to in this world, so that if Allāh Himself did not give courage and strength, and there were no support...
- Mawlānā Sayyid Abū al-Aʿlā Mawdūdī The fact is that Mawlānā Mawdūdī has had a deep and a very wide influence, in mind and in learning, upon this modern educated generation. He rendered...
- Mawlānā Sayyid Abū al-Khayr Barq Mawlānā Sayyid Abū al-Khayr was my own first cousin on my mother's side, and his father, my maternal uncle, was such a man as to be as tender to me...
- My Sister Amat Allāh Tasnīm Ṣāḥibah The long and moving story of a full half century, fifty years, of the love of a brother and a sister, of living side by side, of sharing in sorrow...
- Muḥammad al-Ḥasanī (Muḥammad Miyāṅ) It was the eleventh or the twelfth of June 1979 and I was in Bombay. At night I dreamed that our old house in Muḥammad ʿAlī Lane in Lucknow was there...
- Mawlvī Isḥāq Jalīs Nadwī For a long time now our religious Arabic schools (madāris) have stood far off from every kind of tumult, holding the position of silent and separate...
- Glossary