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Aug
12
2010

Ramzan

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Ramadan, the greatest religious observance in Islam, is an annual month of fasting. It is the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar. Muslims consider this whole month as a blessed month. They fast during the days of this month and make special prayers at night. People also give more charity and do extra righteous deeds. Also, in this Holy Month, The Prophet Muhammad (SAW) received the first revelation of Al-Qur’an (in one of the last ten odd nights of Ramzan). Ramazan/Ramadhan is the month of celebration as well as the month of discipline and self-control.

“Islam is one of those great brotherhoods, which has been given to mankind by prophet Muhammad of hallowed memory.”

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Month of Ramzan

Fasting is means of purification and developing the consciousness of our relationship with Allah. This Taqwa, is a protection against the schemes of Shaitan, and this world. Allah (SWT) has informed us that, “Whoever keeps his duty to Allah (has taqwa), He ordains a way out for him and gives him sustenance from where he imagines not. And whoever trusts in Allah, He is sufficient for him. Surely Allah attains His purpose. Allah has appointed a measure for everything.” (65:2) Ramadhan should be a time of increased activity wherein the believer, now lightened of the burdens of constant eating and drinking, should be more willing to strive and struggle for Allah (SWT).

Such was the month of Ramadhan in the time of the Prophet (pbuh). It was a time of purification, enjoining the good, forbidding evil, and striving hard with one’s life and wealth to make the word of Allah the highest and Islam the dominant Deen.

Significance of Ramzan fasting

  1. The most important consideration in undertaking a fast, as in any act of devotion, is to seek nearness to God, and seek His pleasure and Forgiveness. This itself generates a spirit of piety in man.
  2. Creating the conditions of hunger and thirst for oneself, simply in obedience to the Divine order, measures the faith of man in God and helps strengthen it by putting it to a severe test.
  3. Fasting enhances through creation of artificial non-availability, the value of the bounties of God which man often takes for granted. This inculcates in man a spirit of gratitude and consequent devotion to God. Nothing else can bring home to a man the worth of God’s bounties than a glass of water and a square meal after a day long fast. This also reminds man that the real joy in enjoying God’s bounties lies in moderation and restraint and not in over indulging.
  4. Fasting makes us deeply conscious of the pangs of hunger and discomfort suffered by the less fortunate among our brethren. They have to put up with difficult conditions all through their lives. It thus kindles in man a spirit of sacrifice leading to change towards his suffering brethren.
  5. Fasting gives man an unfailing training in endurance, a spirit of acceptance. This could well prepare him to put up with the unchangeable situations in life in the same spirit of resignation as cultivated during the fasts.
  6. Fasting develops courage, fortitude, and a fighting spirit in man to surmount the heavy odds in life with a cool and tranquil mind. It sharpens his power of concentration to overcome obstacles through a vigorous exercise all throughout the month, leading to a steeling of his will power and resolve, that could help him in challenging situations in life. It is seen than many an undesirable habit which is difficult to give up, is more easily given up during the days of fasting.
  7. Fasting teaches man reliance on God, and confidence in Him. Just as the vigorous state of fasting for a whole month is undertaken with His assistance, bitter situations in life could also be surmounted with His help.
  8. Fasting develops a spirit of patience in man, with the realization that the days of fasting, though seemingly unending, do have a successful and happy end. Thus is life. All bitter situations pass, and come to an end.
  9. Fasting is meant to conquer anger and develop self-control in man. The vigorous effort required to put up with hunger and thirst can well be extended to conquer other infirmities of human character that lead man into error and sin.
  10. 10) Fasting inculcates a spirit of tolerance in man to face unpleasant conditions and situations without making his fellow beings the victim of his wrath. Many people, when facing discomfort and deprivation, become irritable and annoyed. This anger is then vented on those around them. Fasting helps a man become more tolerant despite his own discomfort.
  11. Fasting mellows a man and enhances his character, giving a jolt to the human instincts of pride, haughtiness, jealousy and ambition. Fasting softens his character, and clears his heart and mind of many negative emotions.
  12. Fasting exposes the weakness of man in the event of his being deprived of two basic bounties of God; food and drink. It infuses into him a spirit of weakness and submission, generating humility and prayer in an otherwise arrogant being.
  13. Fasting breathes the spirit of forgiveness in man towards others, as he seeks God’s forgiveness through fasts and prayers.
  14. Fasting gives lessons in punctuality. Man has to adhere to a strict schedule of time in the observance of the fast.
  15. Ramadan dates – Peace And Happiness On Ramadan! Peace And Happiness On Ramadan! Fasting could affect the economy of the individual as he is less wasteful on food and meals.
  16. Fasting demands a rigid sense of discipline, mental, spiritual and physical. This forms characteristics which are an essential ingredient to success in life.
  17. Fasting creates spiritual reformation in man, infusing him with a spirit of enthusiasm and zest to change and become a better human being in the eyes of God. This is an excellent opportunity, given to believers each year, to change themselves and consequently their destinies.

Shine In His Divine Blessings

On the physical side, fasting cleanses the human system of the accumulated impurities of uninterrupted eating throughout the year. It prepares the body to face diseases or conditions of scarcity. The rigid abstinence of a fast regulates man’s health, sharpens his intellect and enhances the qualities of his heart.

Shariq Haider Naqvi

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Aug
11
2010

Happy Ramadan to all

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IN A beautiful tolerant Indian society one doesn’t need to tell what is Ramadan. In many localities, several fast-breaks are organised by non-Muslims as a gesture of goodwill, friendship and respect towards their Muslim brothers throughout Ramadan. Fasting is an exercise of discipline and an act of absolute worship; an unconditional surrender to the will of God. You can’t fast and be an unjust to a fellow human being at the same time. You can’t cheat, you can’t leer evil and you can’t talk with arrogance. You are supposed to be humble all the times and stay away from all undesirable worldly temptations. It is an exercise of self-discipline.

Fasting is meant to strengthen the mind and not a punishment. It directs and orients us towards the higher objectives. Islam says: “Oh ye who believe, fasting is prescribed to you just as it was prescribed to those before you, that ye may (learn) self-restraint. (Fasting) for a fixed number of days; but if any of you is ill, or on a journey, the prescribed number (should be made up) from days later. For those who can do it (with hardship), is a ransom, the feeding of one that is indigent. But he that will give more, of his own free will, it is better for him and it is better for you that ye fast, if ye only knew.” In Ramadan, Muslims are supposed to reflect and to question whether we Muslims are really on the true path. We should be bold enough to admit that we have created many of the problems ourselves. We are supposed to follow the life and teachings of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). The solutions of our present difficulties lie in reading, understanding and to follow the teachings of the Holy Qur’an in its proper perspective.

It is sad to see that many people view Ramadan as a time for extravagant Iftar parties, heavy dinners, sleep and laziness. No, it is not the time of flouting our talents on gluttony; it is not the times to trumpet our prosperity and it is not the time of one-up-man-ship. If someone loses his temper, we are told he is edgy because he is fasting. It negates the spirit of Ramadan. Fasting is an act of total worship. You can’t fast and at the same time cause trouble to others.

The Holy Qur’an says: “Verily never will Allah change the condition of a people until they change it themselves.”

We must realise that there is no conspiracy which is destroying us; it is we ourselves who are doing that with our sloth, lethargy and inaction. In Ramadan Muslims should leave the habit of blaming others for our shortcomings and inertia. A lot of soul-searching should be the part of our prayers.

Let us understand that faith demands that our concerns go beyond our own selves and families to our brethren in faith and brothers in humanity. We are living in a small global where thousands of people are facing horrible incurable diseases, floods, unwanted wars, discriminations, hunger, internal strife, genocides.

As Muslims we are spiritual beings. Someone has said: Spirituality is one’s character or quality that makes one transcend the barriers of worldliness, caste, creed and sensuality; and realise one’s connection with the truth and universal brotherhood is the absolute truth.

Naim Naqvi

Naim Naqvi

Did his graduation in Science discipline from AMU in 1972-73. He was Secretary of University Ali Society in 1970 and M.M. Hall Literary Society in early 70 's and member of Tayyabji Literary Society. Did his Diploma in Bakery Administration from HTT College Oxford Street London in 1987. Worked with National Herald - Delhi, Blitz - Bombay as Trainee Journalist and in Production Department with 'Naya Sansar Pictures' of Khwaja Ahmed Abbas at Bombay in early 70's. Traveled for study and training purposes to Germany, U.K., Switzerland, France, Dubai, Oman, AbuDhabi, Bahrain and Philepines.

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Jul
15
2010

The plight of a Muslim woman in Bihar

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The male dominated society has turned Hijab into a suffocating Burqa and finally into a Saudi-Talebani out-fit that makes them a moving enigma. Fatwas are issued to back Burqas which willy-nilly a helpleass woman has to don.

ISLAM AS a religion has always given a much higher status to women. According to Hadees of Prophet (PBUH), our heaven lies under the feet of out mothers. However, Muslims, as followers of Islam, have reduced the status of women to a pathetic state from where they are slowly struggling to extricate themselves.

The male dominated society has turned Hijab into a suffocating Burqa and finally into a Saudi-Talebani out-fit that makes them a moving enigma. Fatwas are issued to back Burqas which willy-nilly a helpleass woman has to don.

Fatwa – that should have been used to improve the status of Muslim has became a weapon for orthodox clergy to suppress every intellectual honest descent and to allow the despotic males to continue their dominance over the fair sex. Fatwas have become synonymous to the erratic dictates of Mullas, who are bereft of any knowledge of the rapidly changing world.

These so-called scholars are ignorant of history, philosophy, contemporary politics, socio-cultural problems and everyday realities of the common man. These vigilantees keep their mind and eyes shut to the pathos of an ordinary Muslim and want to brutally implement an out-dated and irrelevant interpretation of Islam that suits to their fancy.

Not long ago, it was not very different in other societies also.
In Athens, Athenian women were always minors, subject to some male – to their father, to their brother, or to some of their male kin. Her consent in marriage was not generally thought to be necessary and “she was obliged to submit to the wishes of her parents, and receive from them her husband and her lord, even though he were stranger to her.”

A Roman wife was described by an historian as: “a babe, a minor, a ward, a person incapable of doing or acting anything according to her own individual taste, a person continually under the tutelage and guardianship of her husband.”

In the Encyclopedia Britannica, we find a summary of the legal status of women in the Roman civilization:

In Roman Law a woman was even in historic times completely dependent. If married she and her property passed into the power of her husband . . . the wife was the purchased property of her husband, and like a slave acquired only for his benefit. A woman could not exercise any civil or public office . could not be a witness, surety, tutor, or curator; she could not adopt or be adopted, or make will or contract. Among the Scandinavian races women were under perpetual tutelage, whether married or unmarried. As late as the Code of Christian V, at the end of the 17th Century, it was enacted that if a woman married without the consent of her tutor he might have, if he wished, administration and usufruct of her goods during her life.

According to the English Common Law:
…all real property which a wife held at the time of a marriage became a possession of her husband. He was entitled to the rent from the land and to any profit which might be made from operating the estate during the joint life of the spouses. As time passed, the English courts devised means to forbid a husband’s transferring real property without the consent of his wife, but he still retained the right to manage it and to receive the money which it produced. As to a wife’s personal property, the husband’s power was complete. He had the right to spend it as he saw fit.
In Indian society we had Sati pratha and all those practices that hardly enhanced the status of women.

No matter what the enemies of Islam say, I believe even today a Muslim women feel more protected despite the permission of 4 marriages to man. I have hardly met only two or three Muslims in my life who have been keeping more than one wife in their life at the same time. So, are the followers of other faiths openly or clandestinely.

Apart from Fatwas I was pleased to find the near absence of KHAP PANCHAYATS among Muslim Society. Alas, I was living in the ivory towers or fools paradise. Read the following news from the Bihar the Muslims often refer as Bihar Shareef (the noble Bihar)

A 35-year-old woman was allegedly stripped and whipped after she defied the diktats of a kangaroo court in Bihar’s Katihar district to remarry her second husband. The illegal court at the Gwaltoli-Kalyannagar village summoned the woman on July 8 and directed her to to remarry her second husband from whom she had divorced earlier, the superintendent of police, P. Kanan said on Tuesday, quoting the FIR lodged by her.

Kanan said the woman’s first husband died four years after the marriage and after some time she married a man named Mohammad Islam of the same village and the couple had a son. But, the marriage did not work and the couple divorced. Subsequently, when her five year-old son was down with fever, she had to call her divorced husband as she was living in penury, the SP said. After the son recovered Islam left.

He said that Islam and his brother Samsuddin later connived in summoning the kangaroo court which was headed by a former mukhiya, Akalu.

The kangaroo court first asked her to pay money equivalent to that required for construction of a house, besides wheat and rice to the former mukhiya. As she refused she was dragged to a mango grove on the outskirts of the village stripped and whipped. The SP said the woman lodged an FIR on July 11 after which Akalu and Samsuddin were arrested. She alleged that a former mukhiya of the panchayat, Akalu, ordered the woman to be stripped and beaten up, he said.

Let us see when the latest Fatwa from Deoband makes a smooth landing in this regard.

Naim Naqvi

Naim Naqvi

Did his graduation in Science discipline from AMU in 1972-73. He was Secretary of University Ali Society in 1970 and M.M. Hall Literary Society in early 70 's and member of Tayyabji Literary Society. Did his Diploma in Bakery Administration from HTT College Oxford Street London in 1987. Worked with National Herald - Delhi, Blitz - Bombay as Trainee Journalist and in Production Department with 'Naya Sansar Pictures' of Khwaja Ahmed Abbas at Bombay in early 70's. Traveled for study and training purposes to Germany, U.K., Switzerland, France, Dubai, Oman, AbuDhabi, Bahrain and Philepines.

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Jul
02
2010

Holy Shrine and the dance of death

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Two alleged suicide bombers blew themselves up at the Data Ganj Bakhsh shrine on Thursday night at Lahore, killing at least 41 people and injuring 170 others.

THERE IS no end in sight to the game of religious delinquency and degeneration. Two alleged suicide bombers blew themselves up at the Data Ganj Bakhsh shrine on Thursday night at Lahore, killing at least 41 people and injuring 170 others. The first explosion took place in the basement reserved for ablution and the second in front of the shrine’s main building where a large number of people from across the province gather for worship on Thursdays.

Here you face Extremism with a strategy and with hi-fi precision. Surveillance cameras, walk through gates and metal detectors were rendered ineffective in advance. According to the Senior Superintendent of Police Chaudhry Shafiq two suicide attacks had been carried out and investigators had found the bombers’ skulls and limbs. He said ball-bearings and other material used in the blasts had also been collected. Lahore Commissioner Khusro Pervaiz Bakhtiar told journalists at the spot that the bombers had blown themselves up during a large congregation.

And to cap the story – the Pakistani Taliban denied any involvement in the attack.
The civilized society of the world in general and Muslims around the world in particular are no longer shocked when they witness the misdeeds of these religious fanatics in different places.

Irrespective of what Talibans, their Wahabbi guides and admirers say, rest of the world knows well that they have hijacked the agenda of True Islam with the clandestine support of Wahabbi regimes of Middle East, Pakistan Military, Intelligence and the chieftains of tribal belts of Afghanistan. These brutalities can be traced back to the time by Syrians Rulers a few decades after the death of Prophet Mohd (PBUH). They had massacred the entire family of Prophet (PBUH). The martyrdom of Imam Hussain, the grandson of Prophet (PBUH) is remembered by Muslims in the Islamic month of Moharram every year to remind that crooked, inhuman and heinous past.

A few centuries ago, the world witnessed the revival of the same cruel streaks in Najd Province (in Arab Peninsula that time and now in Saudi Arabia ) where these marauders played the game of death and destruction in pursuance of their newly invented Wahabi doctrine.

In 1802, and army led by the sons of Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab (the founder of Wahhabism) and Muhammad ibn Saud occupied Taif and began a bloody massacre. A year later, the forces occupied the holy city of Mecca. They executed a campaign of destruction in many sacred places and leveled all the existing domes, even those built over the well of Zamzam. Wahhabis to re-occupied Mecca in 1805.

In 1806, the Wahhabi army occupied Medina. They did not leave any religious building, including mosques, without demolishing it, whether inside or outside the Baqi’ (graveyard). They razed to ground the tombs of the Hazrat Fatima, the daughter of Prophet (PBUH) and all his grandsons, relatives, companions and highly revered personalities buried in different graveyards. They intended to demolish the grave of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), but would repeatedly change their minds. At this time, non-Wahhabi Muslims were prevented from performing the Hajj (pilgrimage). In 1805, Iraqi and Iranian Muslims were refused permission to perform Hajj, as were the Syrians in 1806 and Egyptians the following year. The Saudi leader at the time wanted the pilgrims to embrace his Wahhabi beliefs and accept his Wahhabi mission.

So, there is nothing new in the recurring incidents of madness as long as we have the people who preach and pratice Wahabiyat.

These Sufis are usually Syeds, the progeny of Prophet (PBUH) and their shrines in the Indian sub-continent symbolize love and amity amongst all religions. These are the epitomes of humanity, friendship, kindness, tolerance, universal brotherhood and all that is sublime in human life. These crazy killers, who call themselves the soldiers of Islam can’t see peace and brotherhood in any form.
For them the name of the game is the dream of Beautiful Virgin Girls in Heaven as a reward for their inhuman deeds in this world. They are ready to commit any act to reach them !

Naim Naqvi

Naim Naqvi

Did his graduation in Science discipline from AMU in 1972-73. He was Secretary of University Ali Society in 1970 and M.M. Hall Literary Society in early 70 's and member of Tayyabji Literary Society. Did his Diploma in Bakery Administration from HTT College Oxford Street London in 1987. Worked with National Herald - Delhi, Blitz - Bombay as Trainee Journalist and in Production Department with 'Naya Sansar Pictures' of Khwaja Ahmed Abbas at Bombay in early 70's. Traveled for study and training purposes to Germany, U.K., Switzerland, France, Dubai, Oman, AbuDhabi, Bahrain and Philepines.

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Jun
07
2010

Barbaric Action – In the name of Islam

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TO A question – “Is Akbar an ideal for you in any way ?“ in an interview with Professor Gauri Viswanathan of Columbia University the acclaimed novelist Salman Rushdie replied, “No, I worry about the idealism of Akbar, because a lot of that is backwards projection. We want to have a liberal, tolerant, almost democratic man in the 16 th century. But Akbar was a despot. He was a man jealous of his power, and exercised it. So I think what interested me was to write about that conflict in him: between the self that was disputatious and open-minded and the other self that did not anyone to argue with him. Of course he tried so hard to break down the barriers created between the people of India – the barriers created by their different systems. Well, he’s attractive because he has open-mindedness on the subject. He tried to invent a religion that expresses that idea.

Clearly what happened in the case of ‘The Satanic Verses’ is that there was an assumption that I was on one side rather than another, and that therefore my meaning should be found in hostility, rather than in the defense. I think, on the whole, it ought to be possible in any open society to discuss openly how things happen.” Neither I’m an admirer of Salman as a novelist nor I’m impressed by his contorted interpretations of history. However, I believe that freedom of expression in a civilized form is our birth right and I’m perfectly entitled to accept or reject the doctrine I disagree with.What happened in Kerala the other day in broad light has put the Muslims in the darkest corner and put on defensive to those who practice and support secular-democratic cause of the country. The chopping off the hand of college professor was barbaric, anti-human and anti-Islam. Religious tolerance and Sufism go hand in hand.

These saints of Islam had created a culture of Universal Brotherhood based on love, mutual respect, tolerance and open-mindedness. As the creeping annexation of Islamic tolerance taking place under the veiled mask of Wahabiyat we are witnessing the sign of mindless violence around the world. This new doctrine of Wahabism, in the name of purifying the adulteration in Islam, is showing its iron fist in the velvet glove. They are killing in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Pakistan and around the world. The menace is slowly spreading in India in different garb as Tableeghi Jamat, Salafism and Talebinization. Many of the Muslim youth who have been brain washed in the Wahabbi ideology in Saudi Arabia and other middle eastern states, on return from there, become more Islamophobic and intolerant. They forget that Ganga-Jamuni culture of India is the best way to live in a civilized society. The government and people of the country must guard against these growing fanatic ideologies.

Muslims of India have a special responsibility to arrest these nefarious currents of putrid thoughts that create a wedge between religions and inspire hatred.
Islam allows the difference of opinion and teaches us to respect and respond to all criticism through proper channels. You can’t chop hands and violate the law of the motherland!

Naim Naqvi

Naim Naqvi

Did his graduation in Science discipline from AMU in 1972-73. He was Secretary of University Ali Society in 1970 and M.M. Hall Literary Society in early 70 's and member of Tayyabji Literary Society. Did his Diploma in Bakery Administration from HTT College Oxford Street London in 1987. Worked with National Herald - Delhi, Blitz - Bombay as Trainee Journalist and in Production Department with 'Naya Sansar Pictures' of Khwaja Ahmed Abbas at Bombay in early 70's. Traveled for study and training purposes to Germany, U.K., Switzerland, France, Dubai, Oman, AbuDhabi, Bahrain and Philepines.

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Apr
07
2010

Give us back our pleasant ‘Khuda Hafiz’

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As this scribe has earlier mentioned, there is no problem in using both the words. But the problem lies the hidden intentions behind the effort to change.

ON SPETEMBER 19, 2009 in these columns of “merinews” this humble scribe had written an article : “Khuda Hafiz” against “Allah Hafiz.” Several comments in response were symptomatic of the roots of fundamentalism, obscurantism and fanaticism that has been the hallmark of Talebani Islam. I will give some excerpts of that article to relate it to the latest development taking place in enlightened circles of Muslim Society.

Let me remind the readers that the term Allah Hafiz or Khuda Hafiz are never used in Arab peninsula. It is a pure Moghul – Indian creation. Most of the readers would recollect the famous old song – “Guzra Hua Zamana aata naheen dubarah…Hafiz Khuda tumhara.” These were the most emotional parting words that were common since time immemorial in Urdu-Hindi speaking regions.

The first time Allah Hafiz was used in public was in 1985 by a famous TV host on PTV during the Zia era.

The Wahabbi schools took up the cudgels for the concept as Khuda is more a Persian word and could have some affinity to Iran. Allah Hafiz words have its roots in Pakistan as General Zia-ul Haq, a Wahabbi dictator, with the help of Gulf and American money started setting up mosque-schools in an attempt to pick the kids and softer brains and brain wash them with the heinous Takfiri ideology which approves the killing of innocents in the name of Jihad. This ideology, though originated in Saudi Arabia got easy disciple in poor Islamic countries.

This strain of faith, in a subtler form, is now becoming popular in Indian Muslims; and ‘Tableeghee Jamaat’ has emerged as an equal and opposite reaction to the ideologies propagated by RSS and other similar fanatical outfits. This Jamaat has played the leading in giving currency to this new Pakistan originated “Allah Hafiz” address.

They believed that once they had convinced Muslims to follow the faith by adorning a long beard and hijab, the words Khuda Hafiz would not seem appropriate coming out from the mouths of such Islamic-looking folks. They believed that Khuda can mean any God, whereas the Muslims’ God was Allah.

Some observers suggest that since many non-Muslims also use Khuda Hafiz so it is a cultural pollution. Much water has flown under the bridges of Chenab, Jhelum and Euphrates since then.

As this scribe has earlier mentioned, there is no problem in using both the words. But the problem lies the hidden intentions behind the effort to change. Fanaticism is known for its shrewd clandestine strategies and these appear in the subtlest forms.

Naim Naqvi

Naim Naqvi

Did his graduation in Science discipline from AMU in 1972-73. He was Secretary of University Ali Society in 1970 and M.M. Hall Literary Society in early 70 's and member of Tayyabji Literary Society. Did his Diploma in Bakery Administration from HTT College Oxford Street London in 1987. Worked with National Herald - Delhi, Blitz - Bombay as Trainee Journalist and in Production Department with 'Naya Sansar Pictures' of Khwaja Ahmed Abbas at Bombay in early 70's. Traveled for study and training purposes to Germany, U.K., Switzerland, France, Dubai, Oman, AbuDhabi, Bahrain and Philepines.

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Mar
11
2010

Holy Message Of Holi

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(S.Kaleem Sibtain Naqvi)

The Almighty God sent His apostles everywhere to guide the people about divine mission and to make them able to understand real and unreal, to avoid the path of sins and to follow the truth.

In Quran, sura-e-Al-anbiya He say-
“Innakum wa ma tabedoona min doonil lah-e hasabo jahannama antom laha waridoon”[97]
“You and all those that you worship besides the Almighty God shall be the fuel of Hell”

In the same sura-e-Al-anbiya it is said that the believers and followers of Almighty God do not get afraid of any horrible terror and His angels bring divine blessings for them .

now we come to self willed haughty King Harna Kashyap who once upon a time ruled over a big empire from Mool Isthan which is now called Multan(Pakistan). He was a hard-hearted and hard-headed man full of proud of power and wealth. He denied the existence of lone supreme power which is foremost and forever. He declared him the God, nobody could dare to rise against him sinful declaration due to his overcasting terror. But see the miracle of Almighty God that a divine believer of God- Prahlad was born as son of the King. Prahlad bloomed as lotus of truth over the surface of foul stinking marsh of sins.

As log as Prahlad had been growing up the King father was confused by his mysterious attitude. Harna Kashyap insisted him to accept him as God but even being a young boy he refused to accept it. Harna Kashyap punished him and tortured him repeatedly for the acceptance of his Godship. After all efforts Harna Kashyap decided to get him killed at all cost.

Harna Kashyap ordered to throw Prahlad from the peak of the mountain but supercilious King was at a loss looking him alive. He got Prahlad brutaly tortured but always ended in fiasco. Harna Kashyap discussed the matter with his sister Holika who had a satanic gift that fire would not burn her so she thought a trick to express false affection to Prahlad keeping him in her lap, meanwhile Harna Kashyap got prepared a pyre around Holika and ignited it. So the horrible fire flame were all around Holika and Prahlad. The Kind was happy that encompassing fire flames would have turned Prahlad into ashes and then he could establish Godship easily but again the result was opposite. Holika was finished and Prahlad pleasantly praying and praising the glory of One Existence having no second. Prahlad had no fear of any real unreality and its sinful phenomenal acts of falsehood. The burning of Holika became saturnalia for the people. So they celebrated it on the next day with colours as starting of the cheerful period with the victory of truth.

How could Harna Kashyap tolerate it. He was going mad of anger. He decided to kill Prahlad by his own. He was having the satanic boon that he could not be killed by any human being or animal by any weapon in neither night nor day and even inside or outside the palace. He thought him immortal God. He was gradually increasing his torments for Prahlad but again and again remained unsuccessful to defeat the truth. He was furious to kill his son Prahlad. He got him fastened with iron pillar of the exterior arch of the gate of the palace.

After a day or two when it was dawning he came to Prahlad quivering horrible sward and asked the same question “Am I not your God?” Prahlad replied- “Of course not, the Parmatma who created the Earth, Heavens, all in between them and you and me, He is the Almighty God of you, me and all. Harna Kashyap’s anger was beyond his control and he gave a powerful stroke of sword to cut off his head from the body but simultaneously the pillar smashed up with a dreadful sound a and creature having the human body but lion’s face and claws appeared who tore off the body of Harna Kashyap and the child was again safe and sound praising the glory of The God. That was the same day when one year earlier people celebrated the victory of divine truth with colors after conversion of Holika into ashes by fire in her pyre.

So it is the festival of victory of righteousness and divine truth over evils of phenomenal world of satanic deeds but now practically this message is being separated by super imposition of unworthy,mean and sometimes shameful malpractices in the name of Holi. Eve-teasing, alcoholism, vandalism and such other activities made us ashamed. We should not draw even a little ugly spot on the pious canvas of Holi and it should really become our spiritual, social and cultural Holi panorama of all.

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Mar
03
2010

MOHAMMAD-THE GREATEST REFORMER

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(S.Kaleem Sibtain Naqvi)

WO APNE FAN KI BULANDI SE KAAM LE LE GA

USE MOQAM NA DO WO KHuD MOQAM LE LE GA

There are three invisible features of the spirit of bringing about the reformation in the human beings -Love, Truth and righteousness which induce the enthusiasm for free exploration in the theme of the aim life to make a healthy society of the peoples.

The Al mighty God, Paramatma or Allah when created the universe there was no man ,no community, no religion and no language but was a divine mission around which He wanted the entire creation moves. So all of the visible and invisible perafernelia was created for the sake of foremost event of the creation of the unity of entire divine energies (noor) even before the creation of any matter. Then after Almighty God created the universe, man & communities and the languages came in existence.

The single mission behind the creation of foremost event was to let the people understand and respect the relation between the Creator and created which was called by different names in different languages in different groups of people in different eras while the lone theme of this relation was everlasting humanity for which the Creator send 1,24,000 divine messengers in all parts of the worlds leaving no space without His preachers.

Up to 7th century A.D. Arabia, the largest peninsula of the world was specially a dreadful arid desert- flotsam of most uncivilized homeless, variant idolatrous tribes as it was before the construction of Kaaba by Abraham and Ismaeel who gave the lessons of the same humanity to the people as the earlier messengers of Almighty God gave but Arabs ever discarded the Almighty God and His messengers. In the absolute darkness of illiteracy, hypocrisy & barbarism. The satanic evil spirits had pushed them into the valley of sins. Their superstition was not ready to say goodbye to their hostile and inhumane lifestyle and to accept the divine philosophy of humanity.

After a series of divine messengers, the Creator of the universe sent His foremost unity of entire divine energies in the form of Mohammad, the ultimate source of humanity and the excellent preacher of divine mission explaining the honor and glory of the relationship between Creator and created.

Hz Mohommad did know that the umbrella was of no avail anoints the thunderstorm of Arabian horrid fauxpas but he promised to make a society having high moral and spiritual values following the ideology of humanity by leaving no stone unturned for all-round upliftment of the people.

He was the son of Abdullah and Aamina bint-e-wahab and grand son of Abdul Muttalib.

He was born on 20th April 569 A.D. (17th Rabi-ul-avval) in Mecca (province Hijaz) sometime after the death of his father Abdullah.

Lady Halima Sadia requested his grand father and mother to give her the honors to look after him at her poor but disciplined rural residence to provide him healthy environment where day by day he grew up faster then others and when he was of 5 years Lady Halima brought him back to his mother as promised while he was more than her own son and daughter Sheema who immensely loved him. He married with Lady Kadija of 40 years when he was 25. On Khadija’s proposal who was a widow of a famous businessman and the daughter of a Christian learned couple. She was an excellent amalgamation of beauty and moral. Hz Mohammad died on 11th June 632 A.D. (28th Safar 11th Hijri) due to slow poison given by some enemy after the death of his wife and Uncle Abu Talib who was his guardian. There were 9 uncles of Hz. Mohammad in which Hz Abu Talib and Hz. Hamza were quite decent persons while Abu Leheb and Abu Jehel were most turbulent and hostile satanic figures who wanted to kill HZ. Mohommad.

Hazrat Mohammad was the central pivot of the mission of Almighty Creator. He was His last messenger and the greatest reformer of the worst barbarian Arabs.

Hz. Mohammad practically inculvated the theme of the aim of life and religion of humanity not only in the hearts of most uncivilized uncultured and untutored sinful Arabs but inspired whole world nearly after 600 years of Jesus Crist.

He was very simple embodiment of all perfections. He was the ultimate source of knowledge whom the Almighty Creator feeded the entire information of the universe. Whatsoever Hz. Mohammad taught to reform the turbulent people was word to word Devin revelation having authoritative proclamation. His reforming ideology to uncivilized vagrant and hostile people is a series of admonitions, instructions, and agreements and divine revelations that he addressed again and again in uncultured gatherings and assemblies. his unique reforming capacity to inculcate equality & respect, love & truth, simplicity & honest, wisdom & righteousness first inspired the transformation of few desert tribes, Mecca then all the three provinces of Arabia and even far and wide places of the world due to high morality, spirituality and socio-economical philosophy of humanity educating for the best possible uplifted of uncivilized barbarians to transform into a Nation having intellectually, spiritually and socio-economically healthy people following the ultimate simple and most easy religion of humanity.

His enemies tortured him beyond the limits but he never loss his courage to carry out the divine mission of humanity and he died in harness on Monday 11th June 632 A.D. leaving being a value oriented society (inna lillahe wo inna ilaihe rajioon).

Kaleem Sibtain

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Mar
03
2010

THE RELIGION

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The religion is that divine lights which engulfs all the darkness of minds and hearts if is adopted not superficially but followed by our inner souls with full of its gravity.

English poet Drydon says-

Errors, like straw, upon the surface flow

He that would search for pearls must dive below

Everything and everyone deserves respect because they are the product of Almighty God’s creation that is so infinitely complex that our minds can comprehend and not duplicate, and the religion is the divine code of mission of the creator for the people to decode by accepting and following the commanding authority of the creator which is merely not the methodological performance of the of the formalities to achieve the materialistic merits but in the divine grace of the Creator.

The religion is the state of equilibrium between our mental, physical and social interactions in the form of humanity. it is the connection between us, our inner souls and our creator. wen have no merits but it is his grace that we are in our existence.

There is a lone religion for the entire creation of the universe commanded by he creator whom we call by different synonyms as God, Parmatma, Khuda, Om or Allah. The creator constituted a mission or religion that can create the balance of emotions to search the foremost and ultimate truth, and the truth of life and death which is phenomenologically called as religion. The phenotype of the traits of religion is humanity.

So if our aim of life is one, our religion is also one. No matter if the ways of approaching the same target are different. Different routes for single destination keep away the problems of space to move for huge crowd of people. No matter if some roots are rough and tough and some are smooth, no mater if phonetics of expressing the feelings is different in different groups of people but the matter is the heartiest acception gravity of the connection between the creator and created which is universal religion of all the human beings and is called humanity. A hindi poet Vayom says-

“dharm toh aachran hai, nahin aavrun

Aachran ki kami reh gai hai aamrun

Aachran ki kami dur jo kar sake

is zamane ko woh aadmi chahiye

Hai andhera bahut roshini chahiye”

So infect the humanity is the universal religion given us as the mission of God which connects us with the God, Parmatma or Allah and all the superficial terms as Hinduism, Christianity’s, Mohammad’s, jews or Sikh are the only exponent of the single religion of humanity which has its spiritual ideology to fulfill the aim of life.

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Feb
10
2010

WHY DID HZ. MOHAMMAD LIKE THE CAVE OF MOUNT HIRA?

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Jashn e Eid Miladun Nabi

Jashn e Eid Miladun Nabi

Hazrat. Mohammad Ibn-e-abdullah was born in an absolutely illiterate, turbulent, ineivilized and most hostile Arabian tribe, the ill assort bunch of all the satanic deeds that always shocked the divine sentiments of Hazrat Mohammad(SAW) from his early childhood.

He had been always in search of the ways to bring about the drastic cultural, social and moral change. His living style was quite different from all the other children of Quraish Tribe. All his fellow quraish children insulted him for his dissimilarities of his behaviour.

As long as he had been growing up his worries about his tribal reformation were increased, so he searched a peaceful secret place to concentrate and to focus on his mission of moral and social improvement of the people. This place was a cave three miles away from Mecca in the bed of mount Hira. It was quit peaceful to meditate, worship and pray the Almighty God to reveal the best possible way for salvation of turbulent quarish people sinking in the sea of sins. He liked this cave of Mount. Hira which he always used for his peaceful worship and progress to Almighty God. This was a place where angel Gabriel came to him and told the Mohammad about the declaration of his Prophet hood by Almighty God. There after the series of final divine commandments instructions, agreements and informations discreetly revealed by Almighty God to Hz. Mohammad were communicated through angel Gabriel for ultimate reformation of uncivilized people of dreadfully horrid desert tribes of largest peninsula of the world.

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