Sir Syed's contributions for the betterment and empowerment of the Muslims are great. His greatest achievement was the Aligarh Movement which contributed a lot for the regeneration and revival of the Muslims of the Sub-Continent. Sir Syed and his colleagues by their combined efforts tried to revive the spirit of progress within the Muslim community of India. A number of Muslim Urdu prose writers of eminence, historians and essayists came to the front. Sir Syed's himself wrote a number of books like Asarus Sanadeed, Asbab-e-Baghawat-e-Hind and Tehzib-Ul-Akhlaq and succeeded in marking people realize the value of modern knowledge and gave new directions to Muslim social and political thoughts. Sir Syed's companions like Molana hali, Shibli No...