SUKKUR: Speakers on Sunday paid glowing tributes to the founder vice-chancellor of Sindh University (SU), the late Allama I.I. Kazi, for his invaluable services in the field of education and its promotion. They urged the university students to play their vital role for the promotion of education for this was the best way to pay homage to the founder of Sindh University, Allama I. I. Kazi. They said this while addressing the ceremony held at the mausoleum of Allama I.I. Kazi, organised by the Sindh University administration to mark his 49th death anniversary.
SU Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr Fateh Muhammad Burfat said that Allama I.I. Kazi was a great exponent of modern Sindhi education and a real scholar who led his entire life for the development and progress of Sindh University, Sindh and Pakistan by imparting quality education.
He said that Allama I.I. Kazi was not only the founder and vice chancellor of the university, but also the promoter of modern Sindhi language. He announced that seminars and conferences would be organised and relevant chairs would be established in order to provide cutting-edge knowledge to the new generation about the academic efforts of Allama I. I. Kazi.
Dr Burfat said that Allama I. I. Kazi was an original genius of apex standard; hence, he said there was no any other intellectual like him in this contemporary world. “He was one of the most innovative and influential scholars and jurists of his time who gave Sindh both great scholars and jurists, such as the late G M Sayed, the late A K Brohi and many such others,” he maintained.
Registrar Dr Muhammad Saleem Chandio paid rich tribute to the great scholar and termed him a lover of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai. “Loved by students, respected by scholars as well as readers, and indelibly remembered by those who were fortunate enough to know him, Allama I.I. Kazi has bestowed an immense legacy on all who care about literature, culture, and humanistic thought,” Dr Chandio said.
He pointed out that in an effort to earn his livelihood or rizq-e-halaal, Allama I. I. Kazi experimented with a poultry farm and a dairy farm but both failed. “The British government meanwhile entrusted to his care wards from jagirdar or major land-owning families such as Nawab Akbar Bugti and Mir Sunder Khan Sunderani who had the good fortune of receiving schooling and training directly from Allama I.I. Kazi”, he maintained.
Dean Faculty of Pharmacy Dr Abdullah Dayo talked about the profile and contribution of late Imam Ali Imdad Ali Kazi (Allama I. I. Kazi) in detail. “In respect, the people of Sindh call his German wife Elsa Kazi as ‘Mother Elsa’, who pioneered the University of Sindh to educate and enlighten the children of downtrodden people”, he said.
While pointing out that Allama I. I. Kazi had devoted every minute of his life to study and research, Muhammad Mashooque Siddiqui said the late VC had organised ‘All Pakistan Philosophical Congress’ between March 15 to 18 in 1958 as it was his conviction that Bhittai’s poetry was enormously rich in ideas to benefit and enlighten people. “He always stood for human principles. Allama I. I. Kazi was the only thinker of the Islamic world who spoke about eastern and western philosophies”, he said.
Dr Azhar Ali Shah eulogized Allama’s services as an educationist and a philosopher who devoted his whole life to this great cause. Engr Sajjad Shah said that Allama Sahab used to be worried about development and progress of education and knowledge, adding that the great philosopher had always struggled to change the conditions of muslims because he was an enlightened muslim.
