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Syed Ahmad had gone to England on a dual mission-to learn and to teach. His mission of learning was fulfilled as well as it might be in a year and five months. He had learned enough to understand what was there in the character, manners, moves, and institutions of the British which had made them rulers of a vast empire. His teaching mission, however, was not so successful. The British were not interested in being taught to understand and respect Islam. What if it was the best religion in the world? They had more important things to think about, such as, for example, the discoveries and inventions of science, the reform of society, and human progress. Freedom of thought, individual liberty. As for religion well, if it was necessary or useful to have a religion, Christianity was good enough for them, whether as mythology, a moral code, or a ritual system. Syed Ahmad, therefore, had to find other pupils to teach, and other congregations to preach to. These he could find only in India. So he came back home full of ambitious plans to impart to his Muslim countrymen all that he had learned in England as well as all that he had gone there to teach but had been unable to.
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Journey of Syed Ahmad in England
Syed Ahmed's mission in England included learning and teaching. He learned in England about the character of social order and the Institutions of the British. But he failed, however, to teach the British to understand Islam because they had other things to think about science, society, and human progress than religion. He, After, returned to India to teach fellow Muslims what he had learned in England and what he had failed to teach the British.
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