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Maulana Husain Ahmad Madani was one of top freedom fighters who not just fought against British occupation, but also fought against idea of 2 nation theory. He was a top Islamic scholar of his time and taught for more than a decade in Grand Mosques of Mecca & Medina
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Later he became a close comrade of Shaykhul Hind Mahmood Hasan. There is near unanimity that Shaykhul Hind was the architect of the Indian freedom movement, Reshmi Roomal Tehrik and the founder of India’s government in exile in Kabul.

Madani was a poor man and often suffered economic hardships, sometimes to the extent of starvation. But he had full faith in Allah. He refused the proposal of his father to go back to India, mainly because he wanted to help Mehmood-ul Hasan in his struggle against the British.

Though he had become popular following his imprisonment in Malta, his participation in the Dastarbandi programme of Dar-ul- uloom for which he undertook a tedious journey from Mecca to India, throws light on his love for the motherland and his revolutionary spirit.

After his participation in the Convocation Ceremony, Madani frequented Mecca, between 1913 and 1916. During this period, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was in the forefront of Indian politics attacking the British policy through his journal Al-Hilal.

He said "I have been associated with India's freedom struggle since 1914. It is a religious duty of every Muslim to oppose British. I was in an extremist party Shaikh-ul-Hind, Maulana Mehmood-ul-Hasan was our leader when the incident of Asirane Malta had happened."

He was a disciple of the Shaykhul Hind and did everything to show his love and respect for the great cleric. He went to Malta prison when Mahmud Hasan was condemned with a 3 year long prison term there.

After being released from Malta he joined the political mainstream. Following Mahmud Hasan’s appeal to Muslims to support Mahatma Gandhi he too became close with the Congress and formed Jamiat Ulama along with top Muslim leaders of the time.

Barbara Metcalf says, “Maulana Husain Ahmad intended to accompany Maulana Mahmudul Hasan back to India. But it was not at all clear whether he would stay in India or return to his shattered family in Medina.

This indecision may seem astonishing given the role that Husain Ahmad was to play in the nationalist movement virtually from the moment he stepped ashore. But while his political education in Malta had intensified his anti-colonialism, that was a cause he could pursue in Medina

... or elsewhere and whatever he did politically, in any case, was always understood by him to be above all in the service of Islamic learning and Islamic practice”.

In his Muttahida Qaumiyyat Aur Islam, Maulana Husain Ahmad Madani proves on theological level too that Muslims and Hindus were one nation and that there was no point in insisting on a Muslim homeland, as was being demanded by the Muslim League.

He says now when Muslims have been decimated in Africa, Europe n Asia, we are being told that Islam demands the unity of Muslims and that Muslims cannot align with non Muslim organization nor can form composite nationalism in association with any non-Muslim community

He fought at every level for a united India and was sorely disappointed when it was decided to divide the country. He became the President of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, a post he held until his death in 1957.