A report on the activities of Anjuman at Patna
A meeting was held at Br. Shoib Khan’s residence to finalize registration of Rahbar, Patna and its office bearers. This issue of registration of Rahbar Patna is under discussion. One view is that Patna Chapter could work as a part of Rahbar Delhi, which obviously is the most convenient way of doing things. The other view is that Patna should have its own registered body in Bihar for proper accountability and interaction with local official, non-official agencies; and all activities of Bihar Anjuman in Bihar should be under supervision of this registered body’s Governing Body. A meeting in continuation was held at Br. Manzurul Haque’s residence to discuss, how to make Patna Chapter more effective. It was discussed that we may run a sort of an office with a young paid employee for Patna Chapter to do sundry jobs of Anjuman.
BAJEE Site Visit: Due to continuous rain some of the BAJEE centers were closed. However, a visit was possible at Samanpura where classes were going on smoothly. Al Hira Public School Sharif Colony was further selected by BAJEE representatives for the training of young girls in computers. Classes will start from 1st August 2008. BA will provide a teacher.
Imarat Sharia : A healthy discussion was held in Imarat Sharia about Rahbar Job Information Center and its performance and improvement. We suggested placing the names of students on web site with their year of completion so that they could be selected one year before completion of their courses. BA will try to send the names of students to different companies overseas, inviting them to select the boys in their campus
Al Khair Charitable Trust: A win - win meeting was held at Al Khair Trust office. The discussion was on how BA can participate with them to lend a helping them in their cause.
At Jn. Enam Khan’s Residence: In one meeting the teachers of Mongyr, namely (1)Shah Azizurrahman (2) Zaffar Chowdhry were invited to discuss the development of National Girls School with Jn Enam Khan sb. It was shocking to learn that one of the teachers namely Ghazala had been sacked by the school management two months back without informing the BA . A strong notice was taken of the matter. Another meeting was held with Janab Hazrat Maulana Qasim sb in connection with the Sabalpur Madarsa. We reiterated before him the aims and objects of the project Subsequently Dr.Moiz Shams sb, Jn. Hassan Arshad sb, Jn. Seraj Alam sb and Jn. Enam khan sb visited the Sabalpur Madarsa to have a first hand view of things. Due to very heavy rains however Maulana Jn Qasim sb could not come out of his residence at the appointed time and apologized over telephone.
A Patna Chapter Report.
Bihar Anjuman sponsored Md.Zulfikar, a student of MACET Patna, to pursue a course in C-DAC, at Bangalore last year. He required a sum of 40K as loan for his studies and that was miraculously arranged in a week’s time (Allah is bountiful). Mr. Zulfikar has completed his course and has got placement in the NextGen company (An MNC) in Bangalore.
Syed Md Raghib
Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi (1914 - 31 December, 1999) was an exemplar personality of the Muslim world, an exponent of Islam and a powerful defender of Islamic identity. His concerns covered the entire spectrum of the collective existence of the Muslim Indians as a living community in the national and international context. He was accepted by the non-Muslims, at large, as the legitimate spokesperson for the Muslim community.
His exposition of Islam was marked by moderation. He was not a fanatic in any sense of the term but he believed in Islam as a blessing for mankind and as a positive and creative factor in human history. In a sense Islam was perceived by him as a civilization-al force which retained its relevance in the modern ages, a viable counterpoint to all the excesses of the Western civilization. The Maulana’s forte was his extraordinary grasp of the Islamic history. It is this historic sense of the rise and fall of Islam in different ages and regions, which prompted him ever to take a long-term rather than a short-term, a broad rather than a narrow, view of the problems of the contemporary society.
The Maulana was the very anti-thesis of the today’s media image of the fire-eating, narrow-minded Mullah. Orthodox as he was, he was far from being conservative in his approach. Umma- conscious as he was, his love for the motherland knew no bounds. He stood for mutual respect, for peaceful coexistence, for human values, for establishing a social ambience based on tolerance and harmony in India and in the world at large.
Syed Abu lHasan Ali was born in 1333 A.H. (1914 A.D.). Having lost his father at the age of nine, he was brought up by his elder brother, He specialized in Arabic literature at Nadwatul Ulema, Lucknow, studied Hadith under Sheikh Husain Ahmed Madani at Darul Uloom,Deoband and Tafsir under Maulana Ahmad Ali of Lahore where he came in touch with Iqbal whose poetry left an abiding impression on him.
A prolific writer his works have been prescribed in the courses of study in a number of Arab Universities. His notable Arabic work ‘Maza Khasera al-Alamb inhitat- il-Muslimeen’ was not only widely acclaimed but also carved out a place for him in the literary circles of the Arab world. Several of his works have since been translated into Arabic, English, Turkish, Persian, Tamil and some other languages
The Maulana valued the Indian Constitution and the secular order as a guarantor of the Islamic identity of the Muslim community and of non-discrimination against them in various spheres of life. He saw clearly that the destiny of Muslim Indians was intertwined with that of the Indian people as a whole and that it was possible for the Muslim Indians to lead an Islamic life and at the same time participate in managing the affairs of the country and contribute to its progress and development. This was the basis of his efforts to try to reduce the distance between the Muslims and the Hindus, to demolish the wall of distrust between them and to create bonds of understanding and cooperation in rebuilding relations on the terms of common moral values of the society which he saw as being engulfed by dark forces of hatred and violence.
His demise on the 31st of December, 1999 marked an end of an era in the history of the Muslim India and has created a void that appears difficult to fill in the foreseeable future.
Syed Md Raghib, is a scholar at JNU (raghib_p@rediffmail.com)