Mohammad Yousuf Azraq

Mohammad Yousuf Azraq was born on the 5^th October 1937 in Logar region of Afghanistan and he died on the 27^th June, 1992 in Kabul. He was a historian of the country and a writer that wrote about the history of his country and also the cultural and theological background of the Southern Asian and the Middle Asia.

Life

Azraq was born into a peasant family in the Logar region of Afghanistan. His father was a farmer and he lost his mother at the age of 10. Azraq had a passionate for education and knowledge and so his maternal uncle made sure that he got the best education he can. Azraq was made to enroll at the military cadet school of Kabul in the year 1950 and he graduated from the Aeiral University with a good result and for that was given honorary scholarship to continue his education in the Soviet Union. At his arrival back to his country, he joined the Air Force of the country as a navigator; meanwhile, his major interest was writing as he never got tired of writing. During his days on earth, he manufactured a good number of books and several scholarly papers starting from cultural, historical, religious, political and social activities of Afghanistan to poetic and literary works. The unscheduled and tragic death of Azraq came to be when a rocket hit close to his office in the civil war of the early part of the 1990s.

Politics and Works

Azraq was an opinionated criticizer of hegemonic rules and commiserated with leftist vision in the fight against the outcropping of the hegemonic and imperialist forces. He ensured the success of the people of his country in dropping the false and fairy-tale realization of their ethnic contextual and buttressed the concept of a cooperative belonging of the country not minding the racial or ethnic divides. He never supported the changing and swashbuckler political stance of the politics of his country and firmly stood up against the inconsistent form. He energetically and meticulously wrote about the qualities and goodness of Islam that he thought was so important in the unification of his country. He saw religion to be a general identity that was important and indispensible at the same time in uniting the country, creating brotherhood, human rights as well as cooperation in the social relations in the country. Azraq studied and investigated the lives of great philosophers, poets and political activists from his country. His latest work was about the non-Montheistic religions of the universe; tactlessly, his death did not give him the enthusiasm and joy to print the collection and the masterpiece. Attempts have been made to publish the book during the reign of the Taliban, but the drastic movement of the Taliban reign opposed the publishing of the book.

Publications

The publications that were successfully finished by Azraq include;

• History of Afghan Independence (1990)
• Non-Monotheistic Religions
• Islamic Cultural and Academic Institutions of Afghanistan (1990)
• Acquaintance with the Holy Quran (1992)