Dr. Mohammad Muslehuddin: we are sorry!

In response to our earlier post about the IIUI PhD scholarships (Muslehuddin Trust Fund, the Rector Scholarship and now IIUI Scholarships: A continuation of same sorry tale?) we have received following comment from a reader:

"Well said!! By the way, I was wondering who was Professor Muslehuddin? No one knows, I presume. This is how people like him are remembered!!! Professor Dr Hamidullah has been honoured by IIUI by naming Islamic Research Institute (IRI) library after him and one of the reasons for this was that he donated his award of 1 million rupees to IRI. I am not sure how much Professor Muslehuddin donated for the Trust. I remember one of the faculty members at IIU saying that the amount donated by Professor Muslehuddin was five times the amount donated by Dr Hamidullah. This is by no way to measure the calibre of two great scholars in terms of money. This is rather to propose that IIUI should honour Professor Muslehuddin by naming one of the buildings at the new campus after his name. That would be a belated tribute to one of great scholars who donated all he had to IIUI towards the end of his life. May he live in eternal peace in his heavenly abode!! Amen"

Isn’t it quite pertinent? We have been unsuccessfully trying to search about Dr. Muslehuddin, his life, work & achievements and more specifically some details about the Trust Fund which he has created and which was shamefully robbed and badly mismanaged at IIUI. We could only find few references about his work on different topics of Islamic law and economics and there is a reference of his book published by IIUI based Dr. Muslehuddin Islamic Trust. (Muslehuddin, Mohammad, Judicial System of Islam, Its Origin and Development, Dr. Muslehuddin Islamic Trust, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan, 1988.)

We don’t get any information about the nature of trust which he has created, the amount of trust fund, its beneficiaries, disbursement of money & allocations etc. There is complete mystery about the management of the trust. Who were its trustees and what changes has occurred over the years? Are there any annual reports of the trust and if so, how the same can be accessed? Whether the trust is still functional or it is dead and if so what happened precisely which lead towards such a dismal state of the affairs? All these and many more questions are yet to be answered and we don’t know who has to face them. It would be great if anyone from our readers can indicate and suggest some names that can help us with this. And a last word with the beneficiaries of Dr. Muslehuddin Islamic Trust as all of them should be doing very well that Dr. Muslehuddin at least deserves a decent biography detailing his life sketch and work! Please consider it though some of you are quite busy now! To IIUI we have already suggested that all those who are responsible for this mismanagement and unjust enrichment must be categorically named and shamed.