According to Zafarullah Khan, the importance of an Islamic student body was being realized through all over the subcontinent before Partition. In 1945 ,he himself organized fifty students ,literate them by making them study Islamic books and made them work under the banner of student body named “Majlis-e- Tameer-e-Afkaar-e-Islami” In May,1947 the students from all over the subcontinent (Indo-Pak) gathered in Darusalam , Pathankot and after discussion , and was decided that in the vacation of August , an All India convention of Islamic minded students would be arranged in Delhi and a new organization would be formed but on 3 rd June, 1947 Partition plan was announced and it was not possible to organize such organization in such circumstances.

The first Convention continued till three days (21 st December to 23 rd December). In this convention, the participants told their past performance as they were already working in their colleges for Islamic cause. They told each other that how they were working and after long discussions, the future program was decided.

In this convention, Maulana Syed Abu-al-Aala Maududi, Naeem Siddique, Abdul Majeed Qureshi addressed to participants and explained them the various aspects of Islam and also the role of the students for Islamic cause. On the last day of the convention, the formation of new student organization named Islami Jamiat Talaba was announced.

On the last day of founding convention, the last speaker was Maulana Syed Abul Ala Maududi. Before his address, the topic of discussion was the “Name” of future organization. The question was asked before Maulana Maududi and his reply was that the name may be “Anjuman –e- Naujawanan-e-Islam”. But the participants did not accept this proposal and discussion about the name proceed. During this discussion, Maulana Nasrullah Khan Aziz (Late) asked about the problem. Participants told him about the problem and said that the name should be such that in it “talaba(student)”, “Ijtimayat(organization)” and Islam, all three must appear. He replied that then the name should be “Islami Jamiat Talaba” and all the participants accepted it with joy and then it was decided that all the participants of the convention would be the members of newly born organization.

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