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{{Infobox person
| name = Mian Shah Din
| image = Justice_Mian_Shah_Din.jpg
| alt =
| caption = c. 1907
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1868|04|02|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Lahore]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]], [[British Raj|British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1918|07|02|1868|04|02|df=y}}
| death_place = Lahore, Punjab, British India
| nationality =
| other_names =
| occupation = [[Barrister]] and [[judge]]
| years_active =
| known_for =
| alma_mater = [[Government College, Lahore]]<br>[[Middle Temple]]
| notable_works =
}}

'''Mian Shah Din''' (2 April 1868 - 2 July 1918) was a [[Punjabi people|Punjabi]] [[lawyer]] and [[politician]] in [[British Raj|British India]]. In October, 1908. He was the first Muslim appointed as a [[judge]] of the Chief Court of the Punjab, now known as the [[Lahore High Court]].<ref name=TNI>{{cite web|url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/212386-justice-shah-din---life-&-writings |date=20 December 2009|author=Mazhar Abbas|publisher=The News International (newspaper)|title=Justice Shah Din - Life & Writings|accessdate=17 January 2019}}</ref><ref name=Dawn>[https://www.dawn.com/news/607461 Charing Cross (Lahore) is where the elite dwelled] Dawn (newspaper), Published 20 February 2011, Retrieved 18 January 2019</ref>

==Biography==
===Early life===
Mian Shah Din was born at [[Lahore]] to the well-known [[Arain]] [[Mian family of Baghbanpura]], [[Lahore]].<ref>[https://www.dawn.com/news/154904/road-in-capital-being-named-after-justice-sir-abdul-rashid Road in capital being named after Justice Sir Abdul Rashid (includes info on Mian Shah Din)] Dawn (newspaper), Published 2 September 2005, Retrieved 18 January 2019</ref> He was educated at [[Government College, Lahore]] and in 1887 left for [[London]] to study law. He was [[Call to the bar|called to the bar]] at [[Middle Temple]] in 1889. While in [[England]], he joined judge [[Abdur Rahim (judge)|Abdul Rahim]] and others in the foundation of the London branch of the [[Anjuman-i-Himayat-i-Islam|Anjuman-i-Islamiya]], which was established on 10 November 1889. This was the first Muslim organisation in the [[United Kingdom]] and Shah Din was elected its Vice-President.<ref>S.M. Ikram, Indian Muslims and Partition of India, Atlantic Publishers & Dist, 1995 p.216</ref>

===Career===
He returned to Lahore in September 1890, and enrolled as an advocate at the Punjab Chief Court in January 1891. That same year he established the Young Men Mohammedan Association at Lahore. Two years later, he read out at the [[All India Muhammadan Educational Conference]], a learned and thoughtful paper on “The Education of Musalmans in the Punjab”. This paper impressed [[Syed Ahmad Khan]] so much that Shah Din was chosen, at the early age of twenty-six, to preside over the next session of the All-India Mohammedan Educational Conference in 1894.<ref>Book Title: Justice Shah Din, by Bashir Ahmad (1962).</ref> The following year he was made a fellow of the [[University of the Punjab]] and in 1896, he began working as a Trustee of [[Aligarh Muslim University|Aligarh College]]<ref>Book Title: Modern Muslim India and the Birth of Pakistan, Lahore, 1997 (7th edition), by S.M. Ikram.</ref>

Mian Shah Din was one of the members of the Simla Deputation in 1906. After the [[All-India Muslim League]] was established, an active provincial branch was organised in the Punjab in November 1907 and Shah Din was elected its president.<ref>Book Title: The Punjab in 1920s (A Case Study of Muslims) Karachi, 1997, by Zarina Salamat.</ref><ref name=TNI/>

In October 1908, he was appointed as the first Muslim Judge of the Chief Court of the Punjab, and was at that particular time the only sitting Muslim judge in any of the High Courts across British India.<ref name=TNI/>

Under the [[Indian Councils Act 1909|Minto-Morley Reforms]], he was appointed along with [[Mian Mohammad Shafi]], [[Malik Umar Hayat Khan|Umar Hayat Tiwana]] and [[Shahab-ud-Din Virk|Chaudhary Shahab-ud-din]] to the Punjab Council.<ref name=TNI/> These western educated leaders, drawn from the Muslim middle and upper classes, were marked by their progressive and liberal views. His appointment as a judge would however curtail his political ambitions and he resigned as president of the Punjabi branch of the All-India Muslim League. He nonetheless retained his passion for educational work and in 1913 he presided over the All India Muhammadan Educational Conference for a second time.<ref>S.M. Ikram, Indian Muslims and Partition of India, Atlantic Publishers & Dist, 1995 p.217</ref>

===Death===
Mian Shah Din died in 1918 at the age of fifty, and was eulogised by [[Muhammad Iqbal]].<ref name=Dawn/>

==Humayun==
His son also launched ''Humayun'', a monthly magazine in which Iqbal wrote the poem, “Humayun”.<ref name=TNI/>

==References==
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== Further reading==
* Justice Shah Din, by Bashir Ahmad (1962).
* Modern Muslim India and the Birth of Pakistan, Lahore, 1997 (7th edition), by [[S. M. Ikram]].
* The Punjab in 1920s (A Case Study of Muslims) Karachi, 1997, by Zarina Salamat.

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