Muslims:Away from education.

The imperial gigantic buildings of Muslim emperor make me extremely exasperate when I want to know about their brief history and comparison with the contemporary buildings. The Muslim rulers, Mughal emperors in particular, were so affluent that they were unable to utilize the accumulated money. These fat-cats didn’t think of educational, social, cultural and economic future of Muslims of Sub-continent. Whenever I compare Europeans with these kings, I find huge gap between the thinking levels of both. Mughals concentrated on constructing useless lofty buildings which don’t impart any facilitation to the people; on the other hand Europeans built Universities.

Consider the era of 1570 AD when Mughal emperor Akbar was busy in construction of the tomb of his father Hamayun while on the other Harrow school was founded by John Lyon by the permission of Elizabeth I in London. It has an estimated enrollment of 800 boys. Interestingly, its alumni include Jawahar Lal Nehru as well.

Now come to the magnificent Taj Mahal. In 1653 AD Shah the great was wasting his time on the construction on Taj Mahal in Agra, and everyone knows well about TM. At the same time in Spain University named: Del Rosario University was found by a Fray. Basically it was a Columbian university and nowadays this institute is very famous in Columbian culture and considered a secular university and more surprisingly, approximately 25 of the presidents of Colombia remained students of this institute.

There are other buildings which were constructed in 1800’s AD which comprises of Hira Mahal and Zafar mahal in Delhi, and some extravagantly constructed building in Lahore as well. This was all we received in legacy from Muslim emperors which didn’t contribute in improving our lives. While on the other side, the rapid development of European countries in medicine and technology depicts the hard work of their ancestors. We don’t want to repeat the same thing now and we should build education like Europeans have done in 1500 AD and 1600 AD.