ISLAMABAD: The Punjab government has excluded
several key subjects from the fresh 10th class Urdu text book edition
published in February 2013 which is now being marketed for new students
of matric. These subjects include ‘Islamic ideology of Pakistan’ and
‘Hazrat Umar (RA)- a Great Administrator’ besides removing persuasive
Islam-related poems of even poets like Allama Iqbal. On the poetry side,
all the Islamic poems including ‘Rabbe Kainaat’ of Maulana Altaf
Hussain Hali, ‘Mohsin-e-Insaniat (PBUH)’ (the Saviour of Humanity) by
Mahirul Qadri, ‘Tulu-e-Islam’ (the rise of Islam) of Allama Iqbal,
‘Siddiq (RA)’ on Hazrat Abu Bakar Siddiq (RA) by Allama Iqbal,
‘Shaan-e-Taqwa’ (which is against drinking) by Allama Iqbal etc have
also been removed in the new text book. While the title page of the
book contains the picture of Allama Iqbal, it does not contain any poem
of the great poet of Islam and Pakistan. The new edition of the ‘Urdu
compulsory for 10th class’ does not include the very first chapter of
the earlier edition’s prose i.e ‘Hazrat Umar Farooq (RA)- a great
administrator’ by Allama Shibli Naumani. The new text book’s first
chapter is an essay on writer ‘Mirza Muhammad Saeed’ written by Shahid
Ahmad Dehlvi. The second chapter in the old edition was on ‘Ideology
of Pakistan’ written by Dr Ghulam Mustafa Khan. This important chapter
highlighted the basis for the creation of Pakistan and endorsed that the
country was created in the name of Islam, to make it an Islamic state,
has been replaced by a new chapter on ‘Princess of Paristan’ (Paristan
ki shahzadi) written by Ashraf Saboohi. The third chapter of the old
edition of the 10th class text book was ‘Musaddas-e-Hali’ written by
Moulvi Abdul Haq. This chapter narrates how a Muslim poet in the 19th
century influenced the hearts and minds of the Muslims. It has now been
replaced by a writing of Dr Waheed Qureshi on ‘Eidul Fitr in Urdu
Literature’ (Urdu Adab main Eidul Fitr). Similarly the chapters like
‘Sacrifice’ (Eisaar) by Deputy Nazir Ahmad, which has a great lesson for
children, has been removed from the new 10th class text book. This
chapter gives the lesson of how the affluent should help the poor. The
story is about a child, who distributed his Eidi to a poor family. Another
important chapter of the old book ‘Fatima binte (daughter of) Abdullah’
written by Mirza Adeeb has also disappeared from the new Urdu
compulsory of class 10 for Punjab students. This story was about a
10-year old daughter of an Arab leader Abdullah. The story is about
Jihad and the young Muslim girl’s urge to help the Muslim Mujahideen in
Jihad against un-Islamic forces. The girl was martyred and did her
parents proud. This incident has such an importance that even Allama
Muhammad Iqbal had also written a poem on this young girl with the title
‘Fatima binte Abdullah’. Allama presented her as a role model for
Muslim youth. A chapter Nam Dev Mali was, instead, included in the
book that was about an expert Hindu gardener who was killed when
attacked and stung by honey bees. The writer of this short story Maulvi
Abdul Haq described the death of the expert Hindu gardener as ‘having
embraced Shahadat (martyrdom)’. One of the chapters in the old
edition was about ‘The deprived of inheritance’ (Mahroom-e-Virasat) by
Allama Rashidul Khairi has also been excluded. This chapter focused on
the un-Islamic tradition of depriving women of inheritance. One
chapter called ‘Travelling is the key to success’ (Safar Kamiabi ki
Kunji hay) written by Moulana Abdul Haleem Sharar, a great Urdu writer,
has also been removed. It covered the adventures, jihad, travelling etc
of the great Muslim leaders. A chapter on the ‘words of poets’ (Shaeron ki batain) in the old book has also been removed. The chapter presented different aspects particularly self respect of Muslim poets. On
the poetry side all the Islamic poems including ‘Rabe Kainaat’ of
Maulana Altaf Hussain Hali, Tulu-e-Islam of Allama Iqbal,
‘Mohsin-e-Insaniat’ of Mahirul Qadri, ‘Siddiq (RA) on Hazrat Abu Bakar
Siddiq (RA) by Allama Iqbal, ‘Shaan-e-Taqwa’ (which is against drinking)
by Allama Iqbal etc have also been removed in the new text book. Two
ghazals of Khawaja Mir Dard on Islamic Sufism and two ghazals of Mirza
Ghalib have also been removed from the new text. Poetry of a Indian poet
Firaq Gorakhpuri has been included in the text book and the poet is
presented as a hero awarded by the Indian and Russian governments. While
the title page of the book contains the picture of Allama Iqbal, it
does not contain any poem of the great poet of Islam and Pakistan.
Excluding extremely impressive Islamic poetry, the new text book,
however starts with a Hamd (praise of Almighty Allah) and Naat (praise
of Hazrat Muhammad — PBUH). |
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