Syed Quddus

Syed Abdul Quddus is a national figure of international stature. He is among the foremost thinkers of Pakistan and his writings are regarded of immense value even by the foreign critics. Being the author of several internationally recognized books, he has leadership all over the world. He is not only a researcher and scholar of Islam but a philosopher and political scientist in his own right. According to Professor Giuseppe Buricchi of Rome, he is among the great philosophers of the present day world and may be compared not only with Giamnni Gentile of Italy but with Bertrand Russell of England and Jean-Paul Sartre of France.

He is an intellectual, author, bureaucrat and humanist (such an impossible combination). Born and brought up on one of the fashionable quarters of an alien land, Quddus has lived more in the tribal society of Baluchistan than in his own. But as a restless person, he roamed from place to place enjoining peace of soul and acquiescence of mind. Being professor emeritus, he travelled far and wide with a mission to preach and teach. In 1987, he participated in an International Didactic Course in the University of Rome. During the same year he had a study tour of Italy, Switzerland, France and Britain.

He joined the Federal Government of Pakistan through the Central Superior Services in the year 1961, and held various positions of responsibility in public service. He is married in one of the renowned and foremost tribes of Baluchistan.