Born in 1915 in Dehli, Shamsi started his business from a clothes shop in 1940 and successfully developed it into a factory in 1943. After Partition, he came to Pakistan and established Shamsi Cloth Mills, Jamiat Punjabi Saudagaran and the Delhi Mercantile Society Ltd. He also had the honour of becoming the secretary of this society. Shamsi also worked as the editor of monthly Saudagar.
After resigning from Jamiat Punjabi Saudagaran and Delhi Mercantile Society Ltd in 1961, Shamsi founded the Jamiat Taleemul Quran. He started the madrassa with a single school in Karachi but the institution now has more than 2,000 madrassas operating across Pakistan.
The trust also established madrassas in jails in all large cities of the country. These madrassas not only offer Islamic education but also offer free-of-cost technical education and vocational training to prisoners.
During an interview once, he said, “One should work with humility. One should not have desire for fame or personal objectives”.
Shamsi is survived by five sons, a daughter and more than 100,000 students throughout Pakistan.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 2nd, 2010.
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