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My Dear Hamid Sahib
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Retired as professor. performed duties as:
1. chairman admission commettee
2. controller of examinations
3. head department of biology
married to Prof. Rashida Tasnim Khan, Prof. of Persian Jamia Nusrat, Rabwah
three sons:
Dr. Muhammad Zafrullah Khan, Research Associate, Drexal University, Philadelphia, USA
Muhammad Masood Khan, CA, Calgary, Canada
Dr. Muhammad Rashid Zubair Khan, D. Pharm. Philadelphia, USA
One daughter:
Rashda Saadia Ahmed, married with three children, Germany.
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I joined Talim-ul-Islam College (T.I.C.) Rabwah in 1962, received my B.Sc. in
1967, went to the University of the Punjab Lahore, received my Master’s in Mathematics
and came back to teach at T.I.C. in 1970. In 1971, I was sent to London for higher
education with a stipend from Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam. I got my doctorate in
1974 and could not go back to teach at T.I.C., a lifelong regret.
I would not go to any college at all, if it were not for the kindness and generosity of the
then principal of T.I.C. Hadhrat Mirza Nasir Ahmad (RahimahuLlah).
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Mohtaram Prof. Hamid Ahmad Chaudhry Sahib
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I was in T. I. College from 1962 to 1964, and was a member of the college Badminton team. I did M. A. in Statistics.
I have the honor of being the first principal of reputed “Nusrat High school, The Gambia, West Africa”, from 1971-76. Total years spent in teaching in Africa: 21 years. Former coordinator of ICOTS (International Conference on Teaching Statistics), Former examiner and chief examiner and item writer (Math) of WAEC (West African Examinations Council). Co-authored “Math and Statistical Tables, published jointly by Edward Arnold publishers U.K. and African University Press, Nigeria. Present job: Assistant Professor, General Education (Mathematics), at Argosy University, Twin Cities Campus, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
I am also a member of the Administrative Council of Argosy University Twin Cities Campus.
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I joined Talim-ul-Islam College Rabwah in 1967 and in 1969 I completed B.Sc.
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Assalamo Alaikum wa Rahmatullahe wa Barakatohu
Looking through your page on science society – T.I. College, Rabwah in 1963-1964, I have come to recognize many faces, but sure to like some of my friends if they read this pages are: Ahyauddin, Mehboob (my roommate at FUH); Latif Gujrati (I have read his message in your web site and am planning to contact him in the near future), Younus (also, my roommate at FUH) and Majeed and many other friends to name everyone be very difficult. So here is my brief for the last forty two years since I left TIC in 1965.
I joined Fluor Corp for ESSO Fertilizer at Daharki in late 1967 as an engineer. After the completion and start up of the plant, I was transferred to Lahore with Fluor Corp to design and built the Dawood Hercules Fertilizer plant as a chief piping engineer. I migrated to USA on December 1970. I earned my B.S. in mechanical engineering from West Coast University at Los Angeles in 1973. I have worked for Fluor and Bechtel Corp and several electric utilities as mechanical engineer, designing nuclear power plants throughout the USA from 1971 through 1987. At age of 41, I decided to go back to school (university) and earned my M.S. in aerospace and propulsion engineering in August 1987. I was offered a permanent position with the United States Army at their R&D Center as a propulsion engineer in 1988. My present position is rocket scientist. I am planning to retire from the Army within the next five years and our family will be relocating to Bodega Bay, California (we have a home on the Pacific Sonoma coast).
I just want to say hallo to all my friends at TI who remember me. I will soon provide you my old TIC picture as well as the present one. My address is 105 Overton Road, Madison, Alabama. 35758. USA. My home telephone number is 256-772-1365.
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Dear Hamid Sahib
NEXT PAGE: ALUMNI IN SWITZERLAND
Dr. Safee Chaudhry
I am certain that we all have some fond memories of our time spent there and this forum is intended to be a means by which we can all share them. We will soon be collecting the contact information from all of the alumni and past professors who currently reside in the United States and Canada. I will be serving as the Vice President of the North American chapter and will be asking for your assistance and cooperation in contacting all of these individuals. I hope that this group, which is supported by our beloved Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih, will grow by leaps and bounds in terms of both membership and activities, Inshallah.
Dr. Safee Chaudhry
Assalamo-Alaikum
Fellow Alumni
It is a great pleasure to learn that some of the alumni and former professors of Talim-ul-Islam College-Rabwah have gathered in Germany and formed an alumni association. This is admirable and encouraging news for all of the people who have had any involvement with this esteemed institution of higher learning.
Dr. Mohammad Sharif Khan
Autobiography
Dr. M. Sharif Khan
The year 1946 is the year when I entered in the realm of knowledge, as a student of “Kachhi” (prep) class of Talimul Islam Primary School, Qadian. My class was a “Tat” (sitting on mats) class, venue was under the shade of a large mango tree, one in the tree-line that marked the boundaries between Talimul Islam High School and Talimul Islam College. I tapped door of world of knowledge with words “Alif, Ba, Ta, Sa”, which were forced into my memory by the painful strokes of “miswak” on my fingers by our master Muhammad Baskh Solanghi sahib (marhoom).
After partition my family moved to our native village Chaksan, District Gujranwala in Pakistan, then to Ghakkhar Mandi, where I did my matriculation in 1956. When I was in 8th class I offered myself for “waqf-a-zindgi” (devotee), which was accepted by Hadhrat Khalifa tul Messih the II (rz) (Alhamdolliah). I was advised to get admission in Talimul Islam College, Rabwah, and after doing master I was to report in the Nazarat-a-Talim. In Talimul Islam College I studied as a F. Sc. Premedical student. Then I left Talimul Islam College, because I was interested in Biological subjects, not offered there at that time. I did B. Sc from Islamia College, civil lines Lahore in 1961, M.Sc. Zoology from University of the Punjab, in 1963, standing first in order of merit, and was awarded Sir William Roberts Gold Medal, and Roll of Honor (Alhamdolliah).
I was advised by Nazarat-a-Talim to report to the Principal Talimul Islam College, where I joined the staff as lecturer in Zoology, in September, 1963.
My first research paper was published in 1965. The calm and serene environments in Talimul Islam College provided me the impetuous to carry on my research there. I still remember very vividly, the college biological laboratory, its spacious demonstration tables and high stools, where I worked after college time. Often I use to gaze at the nearby hilly rampart across the lab windows, how majestically it stood there! It provided strength to my determination. As I sit all alone, Shadi’s oft and on shouts making his presence announced to the trespassers, were my only companion. For several of my subsequent published papers I owe support and determination to the tables and that hills, that still stand there!
I completed my doctoral experimental work in the same laboratory, on the same tables, sitting at the same high stools in the Biological Laboratory, where I fist got instructions as an F. Sc. Student back in 1956. I received my Ph.D. degree from University of the Punjab, Lahore, in 1991.
I taught subjects of Biology and Zoology to F.Sc and B. Sc classes from 1963-1999, retiring in September of that year.
During my F.Sc I stayed in Fazal-a-Omar hostel. In college my English teachers were Ch Abul Latif (marhoom), M. H. Zaidi and Kanwar Indrees sahib; Biology: Dr Naseer A. Bashir (marhoom); Physcis: Masood Ahmed Atif (marhoom); Chemistry: Prof. Mubark Ahmed Sahib Ansari; Deeniat: Milk Muhammad Abdullah (marhoom). Later Atif sahib, Ansari sahib and Malik sahib were my colleagues.
My research interest has been Herpetology (study of amphibians and reptiles). Very little was known about Pakistani species of these animals. I toured different remote parts of the country, studying these animals in their natural environments and collecting them for my research. Several M.Sc students from Qaid-a-Azam University, Islamabad; Government College, Lahore; Punjab University and Government college, Lahore and Faisalabad completed their research paper under my supervision.
At the time of immigration to U. S. A. I donated my large collection of specimens to Zoological Museum Government College, Lahore; and collection scientific books to Khalafat Library, Rabwah.
Alhamdolliah, I am still working on my data that I brought from Pakistan, and getting it published in different international scientific journals. I have gotten published over 300 research papers, have described several new species and discovering new records for Pakistan. I have published two books in Urdu, two in English, one in German (published in Germany and USA).
I was recognized as “Zoologist of the year 2002” and awarded a certificate and a shield by the Zoological Society of Pakistan.
When I look at myself, I am still a child, and remember and feel the pain I felt by the “miswak” strokes by my teacher of “Kachhi” class, who knows how sincerely that pious man was praying for his pupils at that time? May his soul rests in peace in heaven, Amen!
wassalam alaikum
Muhammad Sharif Khan, Ph.D.
D-206 Landsdowns Towers Apartments
776 Providence Road,
ALDAN, PA 19018, USA
Ph # 610-572-1357
Dr.Mohammad Zafrullah
Dr. Mohammad Zafrullah
A friend of my
family wrote to him saying good things about me and mentioning the possibility that I
might not get higher education due to poverty. Hadhrat Saheb (rh) promptly wrote back
something like: Send him over we will give him admission. That is what brought me toT.I.C. with Rs. 145 in my pocket. With the low fees and very low hostel charges, I was
always able to live off the regular scholarship money.
Low fees etc. do not make a college good, teachers do. T.I.C. did indeed have a
good bunch of teachers. I studied from some of them such as: Professors Aftab Ahmad,
Habibullah Khan (Marhoum), Ibrahim Nasir (Marhoum), Chaudhury Hameedullah,
Rashid Ghani (Marhoum), Mubarak Ansari, Pervez Parwazi, Masoud Atif (Marhoum),
Mirza Khurshid Ahmad, and Chaudury Sharif Khalid. These gentlemen gave me a good
run for my 145 rupees during my formative years. Somewhere during my studies, at
T.I.C., I got the lust for “what is new” and “what more can be said”, and got the notion of
playing around with the problem and giving a Mathematical/logical proof. Blended with
my independent nature these gifts still serve me well. Of course I also learned to say what
I thought was right, without any qualms about me being the small man. The deeply
religious atmosphere also helped shape my thinking.
I benefited from personal acquaintance with some of my teachers. Professor
Chaudhury Muhammad Ali was the Warden of Fazle-Omer Hostel and in more than one
ways my mentor. Instead of saying “do this, don’t do that” he would come up with an
example or an anecdote. Professor Qazi Muhammad Aslam, who became the principal of
T.I.C. after Hadhrat Mirza Nasir Ahmad (rh) was elected Khalifatul-Masih, indirectly
trained me on analyzing statements. And Professor Mirza Anas Ahmad gave me the lust
for logic. Let me put it this way, with these three around, my questions would get
answered amply and I had plenty of questions. I was an unruly boy who would rather
read from the books than come to class and Professor Rashid Ghani (Marhoum) would
have me brought from my room if there was something important happening in the class
or at the college. Professor Chaudhury Hameed Ahmad (Hameedi Saheb, we called him
then) mentored me well when I was one of the editors of the English section of Al-
Manar. I am sure that most of my English contributions to Al-Manar were corrected or
commented on by him. Right after my M. Sc. I taught Physics under the direction of
Professor Naseer Ahmad Khan. I had a fresh Masters in Pure Mathematics. So, I had to
work very hard to keep my head above water. Professor Naseer Khan was a source of
help. His energy and his zeal for the task at hand have always served as beacons of light
for me. In addition I had my guardian angel Hadhrat Mirza Nasir Ahmad, who seemed to
have a high opinion of me for some reason. His prayers seem to be with me even now.
Indeed there were others who taught and trained me, such as Professor Abdul Majeed of
the University of the Punjab, Professor Lal Muhammad Chawla (Marhoum) of Govt.
College Lahore and Professor Paul Cohn of the University of London. They built upon what I had from T.I.C. After completing my education I have taught at more universities
than my fair share but I never found the atmosphere like T.I.C.
Finally, the college has made me and thousands more like me who we are. Based
on what I know now, learning is a form of worship. It is learning that in the end leads one
to say: Lord Thou hast not created this universe in vain (from verse192 of Al-Imran).
Colleges like T.I.C. of my time, if there are any, are more than just seats of learning.
They are places of worship that also produce worshippers who think and reach the
conclusions mentioned in the Quran. We ought to show as much zeal in building and
maintaining such colleges as we do in building mosques.
Muhammad Zafrullah,
57 Colgate Street, Pocatello,
ID 83201, USA.
Phone: 208-478-2759
e-mail: mzafrullah@usa.net
URL: www.lohar.com
Message from Safirul Haq Rammah
Hamid and Safir Rammah - U.S.A.
Hamid & Safir Rammah
Assalam-o-Alaikum Wa Rehmatullahe Wabarakatohoo
It was only a few days ago that I learned about the establishment of T.I.
College Rabwah Old Student’s Association and its web site from an e-mail
sent to me by Mahmood Mirza sahib from Germany. I congratulate you and the
rest of your team for taking the lead for this important initiative that I
am sure will be greatly appreciated by everyone who had been associated with
this unique institution.
Looking at the pictures and reading various
messages and articles on T.I. College website was an emotional and moving
trip down the memory lane.Besides being a student, I also got the
opportunity to teach there for a couple of years as an ad-hoc lecturer that
deepened my association and appreciation for the College.
Establishing the Old Students Association and its web site is a wonderful idea. It provides
us with an opportunity to solute the selfless dedication, hard work and love
of our teachers at the College who had taken the task of educating us in a
missionary spirit and had made an invaluable and priceless contribution in
grooming the minds and characters of many generations of students.
T.I.
College provided first-rate learning opportunities to many who could
otherwise neither afford it nor even dream to get such excellent formal
education. I certainly hope that besides bringing the old students in touch
with each other, the Old Student Association will help in keeping alive the
spirit of Ilm-o-Amal. We should remember how T.I College that was kept
running in some very difficult times, and the personal sacrifices made by
its teachers, not only gave us the advantage that helped us succeed in our
personal lives but also made us the best educated community in Pakistan. Now
that many of us are spread all over the world and are raising our children
in some of the most modern countries, we should continue to strive for our
next generations to excel in every field. I wish you success in your goals
and will be available for any help I can provide.
Safir Rammah (USA)
rammah@apnaorg.com
Nasim Ahmad Gujrati
Nasim Gujrati
P.O.Box 14492, St. Paul, Minnesota, MN 55106, USA
Raja Nasir Ahmad
Raja Nasir Ahmad
During this period the activities of the college were on its peak. Basket Ball tournaments and Inter Collegiate debates had spread the fame of college in the whole country. The distinction, which college gained in 1954 was being well maintained. In 1968 the classes for M.Sc. Physics were started. It was for the first time that Masters Degree in Physics was possible out side a University.
I was Chief Proctor of the College and Editor of Al-Minar Urdu section in 1969.
After acquiring Masters Degree in Physics, I joined Pakistan Railways through Civil Services of Pakistan. I represented Pakistan in the study groups and delegations to England, Belgium and People’s Republic of China. I got retired in 2005, as Joint Director in the Ministry of Pakistan Railways.
Allah has bestowed me with two sons and three daughters. T I College Alumni USA is my passion and I wish I could serve its objectives in true sense.
Letter from Mohammad Ashraf Malik, Alabama, USA
Muhammad Ashraf Malik, Alabama, USA
I graduated in 1967 with BSc degree. I have so many memories at TIC and it will not be fair to mentions my principal Hazart Mirza Nasir Ahmad and favorite professor and they are: Prof. Mian Ata-UR-Rahman, Prof. Habibullah Khan, Dr. S.M. Shahid, Ch. Hameedullah and yourself (Professor Ch. Hamid Ahmad).
Muhammad Ashraf Malik
I was glad to discover the website for TICOSA. First of all congratulation to the successful launching of the website for TIC old student association. It is an excellent website with so many memories of our young days. It is wonderful idea to keep the torch of TI keep alive for our future generation to come. TIC was not just a college, but a peaceful home to us for higher learning. I am also one of TI old student. Hi my name is Muhammad Ashraf Malik, aka Ash Malik. I was at TIC for two years 1963-1965. I was a science student and completed my FSc in 1965. I was also resident student at Fazal-Umar Hostel (FUH) in 1964-1965. I joined Government College Sargodha after leaving TIC due to my family circumstances (close to my parents) and it was very difficult emotionally to leave TIC and leave behind good friends and wonderful professors.
Letter of Dr. Saeed A. Bashir, USA
Dr. Saeed A. Bashir / USA
I am also thankful to have teachers like Parwazi sahib and Dr. Sharif Khan sahib amongst others. I have seen very few teachers as dedicated as them .
Our college was like a mother to every one, regardless of ones religious belief. I live and practice Vet. Med in the USA and travel to Chiniot every year . I fondly drive by the college every year, but am heart broken at the sad demise of one of the most wonderful educational institutions of the subcontinent. It feels like my mother is dying and it calls me to help.I hope Govt. of Pakistan will soon do the right thing and return this great institution to its sincere and dedicated previous operators.
Saeed A. Bashir
Assalam-o-Alaikam
I was at the T.I College from 1964 to 1966. I was a student from Chiniot and attended your English classes as part of pre-med F.SC. I am writing to you to express my deepest gratitude and love for the College. I belong to the 45% of the "non Ahmadi" students that this great institution kindly nurtured. I was given a special attention by Mirza Nasir Ahmad Sahib, as he was always kind enough to call me by my name and talk to me whie traveling between his office and home, while we waited in the "Zoology" corridor for classes to begin. The Ahmadi students were always amazed at this as they asked me as to how did I know Mian Sahib and why is he so kind to me ?? I told them that Mian Sahib has adopted me, ever since he interviewed me for admission and I feel him close to my heart.
Thanks for the web page.
God bless all of the Alumni, teachers and all others involved.
Saeed A. Bashir,DVM
drbashir@comcast.net
954-854-7978
Dr.Zaheeruddin Mansoor Ahmad
Dr. Zaheeruddin Mansoor Ahmad