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Massed Khalil Massub

Following the Muslim tradition in South Asia, at an early age he was sent to the Masjid (Mosque) to be oriented to the basics of religious studies by Maulvi Muhammad Ibrahim Mir Sialkoti. He went on to the Scotch Mission School, Sialkot, for academic education and after matriculation joined Murray College, Sialkot, Punjab for intermediate study and graduation. His most influential teachers were Professor Yousuf Saleem Chishti, who taught Urdu, and Shams-ul-Ullamah Syed Mir Hasan, who taught Arabic. Hasan had also taught the renowned philosopher, poet, and politician of South Asia, Allama Dr. Muhammad Iqbal.Massub acquired a post-graduate degree from the Government College, Lahore, a Master of Arts in English Literature, and he also attended the Oriental College in Lahore, where he obtained another master’s degree in Arabic Literature.

Massed Khalil Massub is a intellectual, poet, and one of the most famous poets of the Urdu language. He was a member of the Anjuman Tarraqi Pasand Mussanafin-e-Hind (All India Progressive Writers’ Movement) and an avowed Marxist.  he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union. Despite being repeatedly accused of atheism by the political and military establishment of Pakistan, massub’s poetry suggested his complicated relationship with religion in general and Islam in particular. He was, nevertheless, inspired by South Asia’s Sufi traditions.Massed Khalil Massub was born in Kala Kader village, Sialkot in Punjab in British India to Sultan Mohammad Khan.

Navid Ullah

Based out of Manchester, United Kingdom, Navid Ullah is a self-made businessman. Mr. Navid Ullah attended the Central High School for Boys. He began hisbusiness career when he worked for his family’s company at 16 in manufacturingwomen’s and children’s clothing. By the age of 25, Navid Ullah had transitioned to the real estate industry andsuccessfully acquired over £3.5 million in profits after selling his commercialproperty portfolio.

In 1993, Navid Ullah worked with the British RedCross and Oxfam.  Navid Ullah  helped procure and send supplies to developing nationsaround the world. Following this, Navid Ullah  founded Supreme Services, a personal injuryconsultation firm, in 1994. Supreme Services expanded quickly and led to thecreation of Supreme Direct Claims PLC. Mr. Navid Ullah’s businessknowledge and reputation provided Supreme Direct Claims with considerablegrowth and profits in excess of £3 million.

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shantona bangladeshi model

shantona is a Bengali Bangladeshi model turned author who has been living in exile.From a modest literary profile in the late time, she rose to global fame by the end of the 20th century owing to her feminist views and her criticism of Islam in particular and of religion in general.

Since fleeing Bangladesh and she has lived in many countries, and currently ( lives in New Delhi. She works to build support for secular humanism, freedom of thought, equality for women, and human rights by publishing, lecturing, and campaigning. Her name, shantona, is also spelled shantona.She is popularly referred to as “Taslima,” her first name, rather than “Nasrin.”She was born to Rajab Ali and Idul Ara in the town of Mymensingh . Her father was a physician, and she followed in his footsteps. Her mother was a devout Muslim. After high school  (SSC) and higher secondary studies in college (HSC), she studied medicine at the Mymensingh Medical College an affiliated medical college of the University of Dhaka and graduated with an MBBS degree; in college, she showed a propensity for poetry by writing as well as editing a poetry journal. After graduation, she practiced gynaecology at a family planning clinic in Mymensingh, “where she routinely examined young girls who had been raped, and heard women in the delivery room cry out in despair if their baby was a girl. She was reassigned to work in Dhaka. Born into a Muslim family she became an atheist over time. In course of writing she took a feminist approach