'Abdul Majid Daryabadi,
an eminent scholar, commentator of the Holy Qur-an, Jouralist
and writer of Urdu with a distinctive style, was born in March 1892
and died on 6th January, 1977. He first edited the Urdu weekly "Sach"
and then "Sidq-i-Jadid" to the end of
his life and contributed literary articles to prestigious Urdu journals
like "Ma'arif" of Azamgarh.
"Al-Nazir"
and "Hamdam" of Lucknow and Hamdard of Delhi besides
many others Being one of the earliest members of the "Darul
Musannifin", (Shibli
Academy) Azamgarh, he later on
headed its Managing Comittee. He was also associated with the Royal
Asiatic Society, London Hindustani Academy, Court of the Muslim
University Aligarh, Khilafat Committee and the Nadwatul Ulama,
penned about fifty works of which the more distinguished were the Urdu
translation of the History of European Moral (in
two Volumes) and "Mukalmat-i-Barkley",
"Falsafa-i-Jazbat", "Safar-i-Hijaz".
"Hakim-ul-Ummat", Muhammad 'Ali: "Zati
Diary". "Akbar Nama", "Tasawuf-i-Islam",
"Ma'asirin and Aap Biti" but his commentaries on the
Holy Qur-an in Urdu and English mark out a place for him among
the notable scholars of the modern age |
