A Review of the Major Journeys of Allama Syed Jamaluddin Afghani

Abstract

Looking at the travels of Allama Syed Jamaluddin Afghan, it can be said
with certainty that this political movement was started with good intentions
for the progress and development of Afghanistan and the Muslims of the
world. Every member of this movement had a commitment to serve the holy
religion of Islam and his country.
Professor Abdul Hai Habibi quotes Mahmud Tarzi as follows: Allama Syed
Jamaluddin was a source of mysticism, my seven months of residence with
Allama Syed Jamaluddin Afghan is equivalent to seventy years of travel.
Syed Jamaluddin Afghan is considered a famous scholar, social educator and
builder of Afghanistan and the Islamic world. Afghan had traveled to many
countries and could speak many languages. His life was full of wanderings
and wanderings, he traveled a lot, some of which were by his own will and
some due to political compulsions. Advising Afghan Muslims to unite and
seeing with their hearts the evil hands of discord that had been extended to the
Islamic world by the forces of division, he fought to stop them.
In addition to studying during all his travels, Afghan deeply studied the
political, social and economic conditions of the surrounding areas. So, he
thought of how to free his country, all Islamic countries and the rest of the
world from the colonial yoke, Influence and influence of the British.
Sayyid Jamaluddin Afghan made efforts in many countries of the world to
awaken the Islamic Ummah. Wherever he went, he brought about such an
intellectual, reformist and scientific revolution that its fire did not die down
for years and centuries and illuminated many dark places with his foresight.
Allama Syed Jamaluddin Afghan also learned from these travels and kept a
part of his thoughts occupied with the political and social situation of the local
countries. The Afghan Syed tried to create political consciousness in the souls
of the Bedouin people and to create an intellectual and reform movement in
the solid masses of humanity.
Allama Syed Jamaluddin Afghan lived in Egypt for ten years, trained his
enlightened students, wrote books, pamphlets and articles. Syed Jamaluddin
Afghan spent five years in India, until the colonialists forced him to leave
India. He spent three years in France. He had achievements from his many
travels, but still the people of the time who loved the tyranny of the colonialists
and feared the unity and progress of Islamic countries made various
accusations against him, to the extent that he was accused of atheism and was
exiled from living in that country.