The Saifi are a Muslim community found in North India, Pakistan. They are now considered as forming a community within the Shaikh caste. They are also known as Muslim BadhaiLohar Kalayi gar.

The Saifi are a community associated with the occupation of Blacksmith (Lohargiri). Their name comes from the Arabic word saif ("sword"). Like many other artisan communities in North India, they claim descent from Arab, Central Asian and Persian immigrants to India, but according to other traditions they are Non Muslim converts from the Barhai caste.^{[citation needed]} Many saifi work as engineers in the fields of Brass, wood, Aluminium and Iron in India and Pakistan.

Later, the name Saifi was elaborated in English as Super Artisan Industrialist Federation of India.

So keeping all these things in mind, this community had decided to use the surname Saifi, which the blacksmith and carpentry community adopted.

They are involved with wood carving and wood engravings. Many have also taking to the modern occupation of being mechanics, and selling furniture, working in sawmills and workshops with lathe machines for the manufacture of spare parts. They are now considered as forming a community within the Shaikh caste. The Saifi are now one of the more successful Muslim community in North India, and include a number of professionals in their ranks.

Dr. Prof. Noor Muhammad (April 15, 1951 - April 12, 2004), was a notable Pakistani mathematician and mathematics writer who made an original contribution to the fields of C*-algebra, symmetric topology and pure mathematics. He was the chairman of Department of Mathematics, in which he assumed this position in 2000 until 2002. He was a distinguished student of Russian mathematician dr. Grigory Barenblatt, and made significant efforts to the fields of topological algebras.

He was the co-author of Symmetric Topological Algebras and Applications which was published at Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, and since then, dr. Noor Muhammad has produced 20 M.Phil. students at the Quaid-i-Azam University since his PhD in 1983. His death is a loss to the mathematical community in Pakistan^{[citation needed]}.

Muhammad was born in Abbottabad, Haripur District where he completed his high school from there. In 1971, Muhammad gained his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from University of Peshawar, followed by his Master of Science in Mathematics in 1973 from Quaid-i-Azam University. With a scholarship awarded by the Quaid-i-Azam University, Muhammad traveled to Soviet Union in 1979, and completed his thesis in 1983 under the direction of dr. Grigory Barenblatt from Moscow State University. His doctoral thesis covered the functional analysis, namely C*-algebras. He taught mathematics at the Moscow State University until 1984 and subsequently moved to Trieste, Italy the same year.

Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.; January 17, 1942) is an American former professional boxer, philanthropist and social activist. Considered a cultural icon, Ali was both idolized and vilified.

Originally known as Cassius Clay, Ali changed his name after joining the Nation of Islam in 1964, subsequently converting to Sunni Islam in 1975, and more recently practicing Sufism.^{[clarification needed]} In 1967, three years after Ali had won the World Heavyweight Championship, he was publicly vilified for his refusal to be conscripted into the U.S. military, based on his religious beliefs and opposition to the Vietnam War. Ali stated, "I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong... No Viet Cong ever called me nigger" – one of the more telling remarks of the era.

Widespread protests against the Vietnam War had not yet begun, but with that one phrase, Ali articulated the reason to oppose the war for a generation of young Americans, and his words served as a touchstone for the racial and antiwar upheavals that would rock the 1960s. Ali's example inspired Martin Luther King Jr. – who had been reluctant to alienate the Johnson Administration and its support of the civil rights agenda – to voice his own opposition to the war for the first time.