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You too can Guess the NumberI By Hajira Khan & Sameen Ahmed Khan I

One is frequently curious to know what the other person may bethinking. There is of course no way of knowing what the other per-son is thinking. But one can tell with complete precision the numberthe other person has thought. This can be done by asking a series ofsimple questions to the persons who has thought of a number. Wefirst describe one such game of guessing the number.

The respondent is asked to think of any number from 1 to 31 (say adate in some month). Then he is asked if the number is present/ab-sent in the five Tables. He responds by saying yes or no in eachcase. These five answers are sufficient to determine the number therespondent had thought.

If the respondent had thought thirteen then on asking he indicatesthat it is present in Table-1, Table-3 and Table-4 and not there in theremaining two tables.

The correct answer is obtained by adding the smallest numbers (1, 4and 8) present in Table-1, Table-3 and Table-4 respectively.

The Tables have a clear pattern; the smallest numbers are 1, 2, 4, 8and 16. These are the powers of 2 (for instance the third power of 2is 8 and is obtained by multiplying 2 with 2 three times). Powers oftwo provide the binary representation (called as base-2) of the num-bers which, we are accustomed to seeing in base-10. So every num-ber in base-10 is represented as 0s and 1s in the binary. The 13 ofbase-10 is represented by 1101 in base-2. By indicating that thenumber is present or absent the respondent is unknowingly tellingthe 0s and 1s corresponding to the binary representation. And thisbinary representation of 13 is 1101. The respondent indicates the 1by yes and 0 by no. The answer is actually told by the respondentand the gamer only re-expresses the binary in the usual base-10. Infact the gamer need not even know the underlying binary used in thedesign of the five tables. If there were bigger numbers, the next ta-bles will start with the higher powers of 2 which are 32, 64, 128 andso on.

You too can Guess the Number

Hajira Khan

Indian School Salalah Salalah, Sultanate of Oman

Sameen Ahmed Khan

Engineering Department Salalah College of Technology,

Salalah, Sultanate of Oman ([email protected], http://SameenAhmedKhan.webs.com/)

One is frequently curious to know what the other person may be thinking. There is of course no way of knowing what the other person is thinking. But one can tell with complete precision the number the other person has thought. This can be done by asking a series of simple questions to the persons who has thought of a number. We first describe one such game of guessing the number. The respondent is asked to think of any number from 1 to 31 (say a date in some month). Then he is asked if the number is present/absent in the five Tables. He responds by saying yes or no in each case. These five answers are sufficient to determine the number the respondent had thought. If the respondent had thought thirteen then on asking he indicates that it is present in Table-1, Table-3 and Table-4 and not there in the remaining two tables.

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17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31

Table-5 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

The correct answer is obtained by adding the smallest numbers (1, 4 and 8) present in Table-1, Table-3 and Table-4 respectively. The Tables have a clear pattern; the smallest numbers are 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16. These are the powers of 2 (for instance the third power of 2 is 8 and is obtained by multiplying 2 with 2 three times). Powers of two provide the binary representation (called as base-2) of the numbers which, we are accustomed to seeing in base-10. So every number in base-LVUHSUHVHQWHGDVVDQGVLQWKHELQDU\7KHRIEDVH-10 is represented by 1101 in base-2. By indicating that the number is present or absent the respondent LV XQNQRZLQJO\ WHOOLQJ WKH V DQG V FRUUHVSRQGLQJ WR WKH ELQDU\representation. And this binary representation of 13 is 1101. The respondent indicates the 1 by yes and 0 by no. The answer is actually told by the respondent and the gamer only re-expresses the binary in the usual base-10. In fact the

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40% of meat consumed locally, rest all are exportedto other countries, a study by ummid.com reveals

Mumbai: In India, well on track to becomeworld's largest bovine meat exporter, Mus-lims are earning just a peanut as againstthe general perception about the trade, and it is actu-ally the government and non-Muslims who are bene-fiting the most from about 4.5 billion US dollaranimal slaughter business, it was found in a studyconducted by ummid.com.

The study also found that except for Allana Sons, a1969 company which has a major share in frozenmeat export from India, and few other smaller play-ers who are Muslims, majority of meat exporters andowners of modern abattoirs, and those associatedwith other related industries like bone, leather, horn,farmers, transporters, animal blood and other rawmaterials are mainly non-Muslims, a fact acknowl-edged by Hindutva groups and also pointed at bynone other than Prime Minister Narendra Modi inthe run up to the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

The study has thus put a big question mark over thestatement of Union Minister Maneka Gandhi, whohad alleged that revenue earned from the animalslaughter business is used for terrorism. The studyalso puts a question mark on the exact motives of theprotest against the trade by the VHP, Bajrang Daland other right wing Hindu extremist groups affili-ated to the BJP, and the consequent ban by the Ma-harashtra government on bulls, bullocks and calvesslaughter ninth state in India to do so.

Ummid.com, after talking to beef traders in variousparts of the state, organisations working for themand going through the available records and data,found that animals are purchased in over 95% casesfrom farmers, majority of them being non-Muslims.Most of the transporters who ferry animals and meatfrom one place to another before and after slaughterare also not Muslims. Except for direct consumption,where also Muslims and non-Muslims both are atpar in terms of taking benefits, in rest all associatedbusiness including meat export, bone crushing and

powder industry, leather industry, horn processingindustry, blood processing, animal fat and soap in-dustry, except for few exceptions, each one is domi-nated entirely by non-Muslims.

Some prominent names are Arabian Export ofDeepak Tijori, Al Kabeer Exports now run by AtulSubberwal, Al-Noor Export of Ajay Sud, Mahesh Ja-gadale and Co, Sujata Bones of MK Deore, Dode In-dustries, Fine Exports, SK Leather, Ramesh Juneja& Sons, Bharat Leather, Woodland, Raymonds,Datta Soap, BS International, Sixth Sense, NaturalCraft, Bounty Fashion Export, Kochhar Brothers,Ravi Exports, Kalia International, and HindustanUnilever Ltd. - all engaged in beef and the businessof associated raw materials and products.

It is also found that some of those associated withthe trade have different names and identities for dif-ferent countries and regions. Like, Al Kabeer is'Samurai' in Japan, 'Falcon Foods' in the UK, and'Tayebat Al Emarat' in the UAE. It also owns otherbrands like Tabarruk, Cascade and Coral Reef.

It is also found that when comes to taking benefitsfrom the trade the government too is not far behind.The findings showed that the state as an averagecharge Rs.120 for every animal purchased andRs.150 per animal as slaughtering fees. It is foundthat in RSS bastion Nagpur alone, roughly around1500-2000 animals were slaughtered every day be-

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fore the government ban. In other parts of Maharash-tra including Mumbai, Malegaon, Dhule, Au-rangabad, Jalgaon, Nandurbar, Sholapur over 20,000thousand animals were slaughtered every day.

The All-India Meat and Livestock Exporters Associ-ation lists 42 abattoir-cum-meat processing plants inthe country and 32 meat processing plants are regis-tered with the Agricultural and Processed Food Prod-ucts Export Development Authority (APEDA).These are over and above the municipal slaughter-houses which according to a rough estimates stand at3,600.

India became the world's biggest buffalo meat ex-porter in 2012, ahead of Brazil. A report by the USDepartment of Agriculture says buffaloes are inex-pensive to keep. This makes their meat a dollar a kgcheaper than beef. TheIndian government hasinvested heavily in abat-toirs. Recently releasedMinistry of Food Pro-cessing data showed thatIndia exported 1.89 mil-lion tonnes of beef in2012-2013, which is a 50per cent increase overfive years ago.

The total value of India'sbuffalo meat exports forthe year 2010-11 wasUSD 1.9 billion whichtouched USD 2.3 billionduring 2012-13. Exportshave nearly tripled since2009, rising to 1.65 millon tonnes in 2012, accordingto USDA figures.

According to data released by Agricultural andProcessed Food Products Export Development Au-thority (APEDA) under the Ministry of Commerce,Indian buffalo meat exports touched an all time highof Rs.13,917 crore in value terms in April-October2013, representing an increase of nearly 58% oversame period last year. In terms of quantity too, therehas been 23% rise in buffalo meat exports fromIndia.

Among Indian states, Uttar Pradesh (UP) hasemerged as the biggest exporter of buffalo meat, fol-lowed by Punjab and Maharashtra. Besides having

the country's largest buffalo population, UP also hasthe highest number of abattoirs- cum-meat process-ing export units. The state has 317 registered slaugh-terhouses and, in addition, 24 export-oriented unitsfor buffalo meat. Of the total Indian carabeef ex-ports, 67% originates from this state.

Mumbai in Maharashtra has a distinction of havingDeonar abattoir Asia's largest. It has a capacity ofabout 4000 animals and recruit over 1200 people be-sides 30 medical professionals. It is also found that Gujarat, which is projected as amodel Hindu state, the trade has flourished under thekind protection of the state. Data compiled by theFederation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and In-dustry from Gujarat's Pollution Control Board re-veals that meat production in the State, when PrimeMinister Modi was its chief minister, more than dou-

bled in 10 years. It wasthe time when Modi wastaunting the Congress-ledUPA of promoting 'PinkRevolution'.

Gujarat produced 22,000tonnes of meat in 2010-11 against 10,600 tonnesof meat in 2001-02. Dur-ing the same period,India's meat productiongrew from 18,59,430tonnes to 48,69,000tonnes, or by 163%. With39 abattoirs, whichslaughters over 1,000 ani-mals a day, Gujarat isamongst the top 10 States

in India in terms of the number of slaughterhouses.

Among the important buyers of Indian bovine andother meat are Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Aus-tralia, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. India exportsboth frozen and fresh chilled meat. China is a bigmarket for Indian meat. Currently, one third of thetotal buffalo meat is exported to Vietnam.

Records show that buffalo meat export to Vietnamhas seen a surprising growth in the recent period.Between April-October 2013, buffalo meat exportsto Vietnam rose by 229% in value terms, and morethan 100% in quantity terms over the same periodlast year. Vietnam accounts for close to 40% buffalomeat exports from India.


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It is also found that, barring some 2% that can becalled illegal, most of the slaughtering at theseplaces were done at government approved, stateowned or private, abattoirs, and in the presence ofthe government appointed qualified medical profes-sionals. Interestingly, it was found that a doctor wasappointed by the government but the payment isborne by the owners of the respective slaughterhouses.

Ummid.com also found that in state like MadyaPradesh and Gujarat where slaughter of bulls, bul-locks and calves are banned, animals are purchasedon cheap prices, and are 'smuggled' to neighbouringstates especially Maharashtra and sold on ten timesthe purchase cost. Situation in the border areas in thestates like Gujarat and Rajasthan is even strangerwhere a good number of animals are pushed towardsother side of the country.

To encourage and support the industry which earnsthe state handsome revenue, the centre provides atransport subsidy of Rs.70 a kg for buffalo meat ex-ports. It also gives grants of 50 per cent for generalareas and 75 per cent for hill areas up to Rs.15 crorefor setting up and modernising abattoirs. Between2006-07 and 2011-12, the Centre's total subsidy forsetting up abattoirs was Rs.240 crore, anotherRs.300 crore went into buffalo rearing.

In India, cow is considered as sacred and its slaugh-ter is banned since 1976. However bulls, bullocksand calves slaughter was allowed in most of the In-dian states including Maharashtra. But, Maharashtrapassed an amended legislation banning cow slaugh-ter this month banning also bulls, bullocks andcalves slaughter. Buffalo meat is treated in India asbeef, and its export is flourishing under the govern-ment patronage.

Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), one of the outfitshaving affiliation with RSS and BJP, is of the viewthat the campaign to halt all cow slaughter and limitbuffalo-meat exports is for the good of the countryand isn't targeting Muslims or Christians. It also ac-knowledges the fact that many of the main beef ex-port businesses are owned by Hindus.

Despite this reality, Muslim beef traders are targetedand harassed in most part of the country withworsening situation at the time of Eid-al-Adha theMuslim festival when the community members sac-

rifice animals.

Attacks on the country's beef industry, seizing truckswith cattle bound for abattoirs and blockading meatprocessing plants in a bid to halt the trade in theworld's second-biggest exporter by Hindu extremistgroups stepped up after BJP came to power in NewDelhi and Maharashtra.

An official at a beef transport group in Maharashtrastate said around 10 vehicles travelling to Mumbaihad been stopped, the animals taken forcefully anddrivers beaten by members of Hindu nationalistgroups despite carrying valid documents Februarylast week.

Tired of harassment and violent protests against thetrade by Hindutva organisations, beef traders in Ma-harashtra went on an indefinite strike in Februarythis year. They called off their strike after Maharash-tra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis assured themof government protection. About a week after the as-surance by none other than the chief minister of thestate, the BJP-led state came out with an amendedlaw banning along with cow, slaughter of bulls, bul-locks and calves as well.

Interestingly, in its bid to quell the beef shortage inGoa following the ban in Maharashtra, the state, alsoruled by the BJP, officially announced last week thatit is considering to selling beef on its own. LyndonMonteiro, chairman of the Goa Meat Complex, agovernment agency which runs the only legal serviceabattoir in Goa, said the government was in theprocess of "finalising modalities" for selling beef inGoa on its own, in order to come to the assistance ofthe beef-eating population.

Against this backdrop, it will be interesting to seehow the state will go ahead with the actual imple-mentation of the law as the government is not onlybeing criticised by the Muslims but also by a goodnumber of non-Muslim groups, industry giants,celebrities and individuals including farmers.Source:

http://www.ummid.com/news/2015/March/11.03.2015/animal-slaughter-in-india-key-facts.html

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Point of View

I By Hasan Ghias I

Three distinct turning points characterize thetrajectory of Indian Muslim history since thenineteenth century, one occurring in each ofthe three centuries. While we can trawl through thepages of history, and its multiple narratives, to drawour own lessons and conclusions, it is the third andmost recent event that poses complex challenges thatwe have to grapple with and find our way forwardthrough numerous snares and confounding develop-ments to discover opportunity in adversity.

The end of Mughal rule was accompanied by the cat-astrophic consequences of the sepoy mutiny of 1857.Pulverized by merciless reprisals, the Muslims ofIndia were in a state of pitiable turmoil. Emotionallycharged responses ranging from meek submission todefiant rage resulted in enormous confusion but lit-tle direction. It was against this backdrop that thegreat pragmatic visionary Sir Syed picked up thefragments of dashed hopes and a destroyed morale topiece together a cogent and reasoned response and ablueprint for revival. The Aligarh Movement wasborn and played a historic role in shaping the destinyof Muslims in the colonial state and thereafter.

The second cataclysmic event in the history of post-Mughal India, with consequences for Indian Mus-lims more abject and dire than those that followedthe mutiny, was the tragic partition of India. Con-fused, directionless, suffering from loss of self-es-teem, devastated by violence against their lives andproperty and relentless attacks on their identity, theIndian Muslim community yet again searched for di-rection. For decades, fed on deceptive promises and

imbued with false hopes, far from seeing their aspi-rations realized, they were silent witnesses to theirrelentless marginalization that pushed them down tothe bottom of the socio-economic ladder. This timeno Sir Syed appeared to provide a reasoned and co-gent response. Even the wise sage, Maulana Azad,whose predictions proved prescient and prophetic asthe nation and community hurtled down the route todisaster, found it beyond his tired capacity to weldtogether the hapless Muslims who chose to stay. Inany event, he did not live long enough to see the pa-thetic picture fully emerge.

Just as the nineteenth and twentieth centuries wit-nessed major turning points in the lives and fortunesof the Muslims of India, the twenty first century sawits own watershed event in May 2014. I am not at-tempting to equate this with the two cataclysmicevents of the past, but how far-reaching its conse-quences will be is too early to tell. In what mannerwill the future unfold will depend upon how we at-tempt to shape it. This puts a grave burden of re-sponsibility upon the community. Will we simplydrift as we have done since independence or will wefashion a reasoned, cogent and comprehensive re-sponse to the challenges that face us? Does our fore-sight reveal to us the vistas of opportunity that liebeyond the bleak landscape that we are staring at?We can surely cut out in the rough terrain our path toprogress if we have the vision, grit and perseveranceto do so. Some I know are attempting in laudableways. Many others will, hopefully, follow.

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia[Article posted to NRI Indians group]

The third climacteric


Islam

I By Franky I

Now I am a Muslim sister. My life to this dayhas been so much happier because I knowthat I have finally found the truth.I want to tell you about my reversion back to Islam. Iwill start at the beginning.

I am an American woman who has tried all differentkinds of faiths. I was a Catholic, a Methodist andmore recently a Mormon.

I have searched for many years to find the truth.In my search I have come across some teachings ofprophets, and some half mingled truths. I had joinedthe Mormon Church at the request of my husband,and I tried to go faithfully for awhile, until I learnedthat some of the people found it more important totreat me with disrespect due to my own spiritual is-sues.

I thought that if I tried hard enough that I could learnto believe in what they did, but I just couldnt graspall that they were teaching. I went to church faith-fully every Sunday, and I sat in the front row, and Iled the choir, and helped teach some classes for chil-dren.

As hard as I tried, I could never quite understandwhy I didnt feel what they all felt. For awhile Istopped going to church and I avoided these peopleas much as I could.

The hard part was that my husband was a very faith-ful Mormon, and he didnt like that I had stoppedgoing to church. I have read the Bible and found it tobe a great source of understanding, but I still alwaysfelt like something was missing.

A few weeks ago, I was online on the Internet and Imet someone called Ahmad. I was very interested inspeaking with him because he seemed to be verycentered and well balanced.

I must tell you that usually when I am online, I dontusually discuss 2 topics for fear of offending some-one: 1) Politics, and 2) Religion.

At most times I have been successful, but as I lis-tened to Ahmad speak, I could feel something warmand nice with his words. I couldnt help but wonderwhat his beliefs were and why he was so confident,yet centered.

When he told me he was from Gaza, I was so im-pressed. I had never before spoken to anyone thatwas so far away, and who was so fun to just sit andtalk. When he told me that he was a Muslim, andproceeded to explain some of his beliefs to me, atfirst I must admit, I was scared to even consider re-version. There were so many things that I didnt un-derstand, and yet I felt like I needed to know more.We continued to speak for quite some time. Every-day, in fact, (even now). Ahmad sent me a lot of arti-cles to read to learn more about Islam. Which I mustadmit that I had only heard the term "Muslim" onceas a child, and never really knew it actually existed.I was greeted by a man we call Uncle FareedIn 2 days, I had read everything he had sent me. Icouldnt sleep because I was so involved with allthat I was reading. I always asked him to send memore and more to read because I needed to learneverything. I couldnt get enough of it. I suddenlyfound myself searching the internet for other Mus-lims so that I could learn even more.

At first it seemed like there was no other place Icould go to get information, and after 2 days of try-ing to get into a chat room to speak with these peo-ple, I received a letter from a group that hadaccepted me into their room.

At first when I went in, I was shy and didnt want tosay anything, I just wanted to sit back and watch.That however, proved to be impossible. As soon as Ientered the room I was greeted by men and womenwhose lives were filled with so much love. They im-mediately called me their sister, and asked me a lotof questions. I was a little intimidated at first, but itwasnt long before I had relaxed enough to start ask-ing questions.

I was greeted by a man we call Uncle Fareed. Heasked me if there was anything special I wanted toknow about, and at first I was mostly concerned

JOURNEY TO ISLAM: I Finally Have a Place where I Belong


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about the way the women are to dress. I could neverunderstand why the women had to be so covered. Hewas very polite and explained at length that the rea-son was because it was improper for a woman toshow her figure to anyone except the man withwhom she is married.

We spoke for several minutes, and then some othermembers came in and they also greeted me as theirsister. One woman and one man in particular werevery interested in my feelings towards Islam.Stacey and Ehsan spoke to me online for severalhours, and taught me what I wanted to know about.Soon Stacey and I were speaking alone. She ex-plained to me that she had reverted herself only 3years prior.

Before I took the Shahadah, my hands were shakingand my heart was racing.

We talked more about the different things that I wasto learn, and as I spoke to her, I started feeling likethis woman had so much love and respect and Iwanted to be a part of that. I told her at that momentthat I wanted to revert. She said she was proud of mydecision, and to give her a few minutes to call some-one to help me take theShahadah.

A few moments later I was on the phone with Staceyand Ehsan. She was calling me from Massachusetts,and him from the United Kingdom. We spoke for al-most 3 hours and I could feel how much these peo-ple believed in what they were saying and I knewthen that I had to be a part of it. I told them that Iwanted to take theShahadah, and Ehsan guided methrough it.

Before I took the Shahadah, my hands were shakingand my heart was racing because I was so nervous.When I had finished saying the words, (in Arabiceven), my hands stopped shaking and I finally felt atpeace. I began to cry for the joy that was in myheart. I had never before in my life had a feeling likethis, and I was so happy.

Now I am a Muslim sister. My life to this day hasbeen so much happier because I know that I have fi-nally found the truth. I no longer speak to many ofmy old friends for they say that I was a fool to revertto this beautiful religion. The thing that I havelearned the best, is that being a Muslim is not justwords. It is an ACTION.I finally feel like I have a place where I belong, and I

wouldnt change that for anything. Allah be praisedthat I have finally found the true path....Ameenhttp://www.onislam.net/english/reading-islam/my-journey-to-islam/contemporary-stories/416031-chat-ting-islam.html

The Tea BoyI By MdShadabAkram I

I had just reached the railway station and waswaiting for my train to arrive as I had to travel toJaipur in a family function of my friend. When Iasked the Train Enquiry Department, they told methat the train will arrive at 9.00 pm, which meant Ihad to wait for an extra hour. So I tried to pass mytime by having a look at the station and the thingshappening there. Since it was a small station, therewere very few passengers. I saw a group of boysplaying with the pebbles. The boys were all dressedup quite pathetically as their clothes were very dirtyand torn. But still they were quite happy with thepebbles and were enjoying to the fullest. Suddenly Ideveloped an urge to drink tea as it was a coldevening,but to my misfortune, I couldn't find any teavendors on the very station. The only tea vendor wassitting outside the station and I couldn't take the riskof leaving all my luggage on the station just to drinkthe tea. I called one of the boys from the guys andasked him to bring me a cup of tea by handing him acoin of 5 rupees. He agreed and went to bring me thetea.Time passed and after half an hour,I heard the an-nouncement which said that my train would be ar-riving in a couple of minutes. Now I was sure thatthe childran away with the money and cursed myselffor trusting a ROADSIDE Boy. I stood up to pickmy luggage as the train arrived. I was just about toenter the coach when I heard a voice which said'Babuji, Apki chai' (translates to 'Sir, your tea')Surprised with the voice, I looked back and askedhim,Why did he bring the tea so late ?He told me, he lost the 5 rupees coin and so he hadto clean the utensils of the tea vendor, to bring me acup of tea!!

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Beyond Education

I By Nissar Nadiadwala I

Among the motivating verses from the Qur'anthat charge up a weak faith are the verses ofSurah Furqan from 63 to 74. It presents thequalities of the worshippers of Ar Rahman-The MostGracious. Read them again and spot which qualitiesdo you miss. Among them, the one which fascinatedme: And those who pray "Our Lord! Grant unto usWives and offspring who will the comfort of oureyes and make us the leaders of The Righteous."

Ibn Katheer quotes Ibn Abbas regarding this verse:This means, offspring who will work hard to obeyAllah and bring the parents joy in this world and theHereafter (at-Tabari 19:318).

Why is it essential to have wives who can give com-fort to our eyes? Refer to 21 verse of Surah ar Room:And among His signs, He created mates for youfrom among yourselves, IN THEM YOU FINDSOLACE. One of the purposes of having wives is tofind solace. Many a time a person returns home tofind his wife ready with volumes of complains.Among the qualities of a good wife is that wheneverher husband sees her he finds peace and happiness.What are the qualities that make a wife the comfortof a husband's eyes?

Refer to Surah anNisa'a, verse 34: fas-salihati, Qani-taati, HafizatililGhaibibima hafiz Allahu. Three mostdesired qualities of a good wife: Salihati, a Right-eous woman; a Regular worshipper and a devoutlyobedient woman as well as the one who guards inthe husband's absence what Allah wants her to guard(her modesty and chastity).

The second testimony of a good couple is mentionedin SuraToubah Chapter 9, verse 71: Believing menand believing women are auliya (protectors, well-wishers and helpers) of each other, they commandthat which is good and forbid that which is evil. Hus-band and wives know of each other's weaknessesmore than other people so they are called hunnal-ibasalkumwaantumlibaasahunna, you are their gar-ments and they are your garments. The duty of agarment is to cover your body and make you lookappear able and so are the husbands and wives toeach other. They should cover each other's faults and

make them appear able through good deeds.

Who are good offsprings? Children and grandchil-dren who would follow the guidance learnt fromtheir parents and pass it on to the next generationwhile teaching and implementing it. That is what wesay Sawab-e-Jaariyah, a continuous reward, evenafter the death of the parents.

Ibn Abbas, Al Hasan Basri and others said: Leaderswho would be taken as examples in good (at Tabari19:319).

Even Ibrahim (a.s.), when Allah offered to make himthe Imamun Naas, the leader of mankind, he imme-diately invoked, "and my offsprings too". Refer toverse 214 of Surah Baqarah. The Arabic word for'offspring' in the above verse and the verse of SurahBakarah is "zurriyati". Zurriyati does not only coverour children, but also grandchildren and great grand-children. Man should be constantly worried abouthis children's wellbeing from the perspective ofHereafter. Prophet Ibrahim (a.s.) also prayed: MyLord make me regular in salah and my offspringstoo.

So we pray to Allah that not only He gives us goodspouses but also makes us a good partner for ourspouses as well and gives us Offsprings that are de-light for our eyes.Ameen.

Good Wives and Husbands


Opinion

I By Mohammad Ashraf Ali I

According to the Census Report 2001 Mus-lims in Jharkhand constitute 13.85%(i.e.37,31,308) of the total population in theJharkhand (Muslim males 19,24,723, Females18,06,585), so far religion based population report of2011 Census has not been published but based uponsame growth rate it could be said that percentage re-mains almost same.

If we analyze economic condition of Muslim popula-tion in Jharkhand we can categorize them into ruraland urban population as there are only few cities inthe state.

Lets start with rural Muslim population. In a statesuch as Jharkhand, most of the population lives inrural areas where main source of income is farmingor farming based unskilled jobs, generally dailywages. As per geographical condition, Jharkhand is aplateau where all land is not fertile for cultivation;even if land is fertile it yields only one batch ofgrains as irrigation other than seasonal rains is out ofreach for most of the farmers. In this scenario mostof the farmers end up with just enough grains whichcan be sufficient for their family consumption; sur-plus productions are rare in most of the cases.

Now lets talk about urban population (Ranchi,Jamshedpur, Bokaro, Dhanbad etc), most of the peo-ple live in densely populated Muslim areas known asTola or Mohalla where some of them having small ormedium size business related to cloth selling/tailor-

ing, auto related goods/repair shop, driving transportvehicles, grocery shop etc. Very few are part ofskilled jobs such as IT/IT related, coaching center re-lated, banking and even fewer in Govt jobs. So liv-ing in such cities with high expenditures and fewearning members - most of the family has only oneor two earning members - the income remains justenough for daily survival, they just find it difficult tocater to other essential necessities of life.

Based upon above analysis we can conclude thatMuslim population is poor in general, or relativelypoor in comparison with other communities of theregion.

So, what are the reasons?

There are several odds, like less support from gov-ernment or public bodies, but should we not takecare of ourselves?

Poverty today may often mean illiteracy. Again, illit-eracy in twenty first century means so many disad-vantages which did not depend upon illiteracy acouple of centuries ago. But it will be very difficultfor an illiterate to find his way through the newstreets of the fast developing global village.

This topic is very vast and cannot be discussed in asmall post like this but we have to agree that wehave to work towards promotion of education withall available means currently at our disposal and wehave to work on it together.Wassalam

Economic and Educational condi-tion of Muslims in Jharkhand.


Sadbhavna Mission

I By Ram PuniyaniI

Can the dietary practices, the animal which isworshipped as a mother by section of popu-lation, be brought in on the political arena?While all this sounds surreal, its true as far as therole of cow is there in Indian political firmament.Recently Maharashtra Government got the Presi-dents assent to the bill Maharashtra Animal Preser-vation (Amendment) Bill 1995 which will now banthe slaughter of bulls and bullocks as well. The de-faulters will face a prison term of five years and afine of Rs. 10000. When I first read Animal Preser-vation part of the title of the bill, I thought this issome bill related to all the animals which are usedfor human consumption or deals with the use of ani-mals for different purposes by the society. Contraryto that it turned out that this applies only to Cow andits progeny. A decade ago I was shocked to read thatone of the outstanding scholars of ancient IndianHistory Professor DwijendraNathJha received regu-lar threats on phone telling him not to publish hisbook, Holy Cow Beef in Indian Dietary tradition.This scholarly work traces the place of beef in Indiandiet from centuries.

The idea is to target the minorities for beef eating,and cow slaughter. One recalls that one of the slo-gans which rent the air in the run up the 2014 Gen-eral elections was "Modikomatdan, gaikojeevadan[Vote for Modi, give life to the cow], BJP kasandesh,

bachegigai, bachegadesh [BJPs message, the cowwill be saved, the country will be saved]". This slo-gan was propped up Cow Development Cell ofBJP.

As such emotive-identity issues are the hall mark ofthe politics in the name of religion. BJP built itselfup on another identity issue, that of Ram Temple.The cow has always been accompanying and a paral-lel issue for political mobilization by RSS-BJP. Ithas also been the point of triggering violence inmany cases all through. With the formation of VHPby RSS in 1964, cow issue has been systematicallypropped up time and over again. Many a misconcep-tions about cow, beef eating have been constructed.Building of misconceptions has also been extendedto the dietary habits of the Muslim community inparticular. The profession of section of Muslims,Kasai (butcher), those in the trade of beef selling hasbeen brought in to the Hate other, social commonsense in particular. The result being that it is per-ceived at broad layers of society as if beef eating iscompulsory for Muslims. The notion which has beenpopularized is that Cow is Holy for Hindus: Muslimskill her! The perception is that the Muslim invadersbrought beef eating into India. These misconceptionsare by now the part of social common sense of thelarge number of people in the society.

All the components of this are myths and stereotypeshave been constructed over a period of time. Time

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and over again one hears about some small commu-nal violence, killing of dalits and traders of cowsleading to communal polarization. Many a dalitsdealing with cow hide have been killed in places likeGohana in Hariyana and the VHP leaders had justi-fied such acts.

Contrary to this the beef eating and sacrifice of cowswas prevalent here from Vedic period. The sacrificeof cows in the Yagnas (ritual around fire) is exten-sively mentioned in the scriptures. There is mentionabout beef eating in various books. There is a phrasein Taitreya Brahmin which states Atho Annam Via-Gau (Cow is in veritably food) Different gods arementioned to be having their choices for particulartype of cow flesh. Prof D. N. Jha quotes innumerableexamples of this in his mas-terpiece.

The preaching of non vio-lence in India came with therise of agricultural society.Jainism called for total nonviolence, while Buddhismtalked non-violence; pre-venting of wasteful animalsacrifice in particular. It wasmuch later that Brahmanismpicked up cow as a symbolfor Brahmanism in responseand as a reaction to non-vio-lence of these religions.Since Brahmanism has as-serted itself to be the Hin-duism it projects as if Cowis holy for Hindus overall.The matter of fact is thatmany sections of society,more particularly Dalits andTribal have been eating beefall through. It is anothermatter that lately with therising assertion of Hindutva, many a communitieswhich are dependent on beef as a rich and cheapsource of protein are gradually being forced to eithergive it up or do a rethink on that.

In contrast to what is being asserted by BJP andcompany, Swami Vivekanand had a different take onthe issue. He points out speaking to a large gatheringin USA said: You will be astonished if I tell youthat, according to old ceremonials, he is not a goodHindu who does not eat beef. On certain occasions

he must sacrifice a bull and eat it.[Vivekananda speaking at the Shakespeare Club,Pasadena, California, USA (2 February 1900) on thetheme of Buddhistic India, cited in SwamiVivekananda, The Complete Works of SwamiVivekananda, Vol 3 (Calcutta: Advaita Ashram,1997), p. 536.]

This is corroborated by other research works spon-sored by the Ramakrishna Mission established bySwami Vivekananda himself. One of these reads:The Vedic Aryans, including the Brahmanas, atefish, meat and even beef. A distinguished guest washonoured with beef served at a meal. Although theVedic Aryans ate beef, milch cows were not killed.One of the words that designated cow was aghnya

(what shall not be killed).But a guest was a goghna(one for whom a cow iskilled). It is only bulls, bar-ren cows and calves thatwere killed.[C. KunhanRaja, Vedic Culture, citedin the series, Suniti KumarChatterji and others (eds.),The Cultural Heritage ofIndia, Vol 1 (Calcutta: TheRamakrishna Mission,1993), 217.]

In response to this billthousands of workers ofDevnar abattoir (Mumbai),who will be losing theirjobs came on the streets toprotest against this moveof the government (March11). Many traders, fromdifferent religion also cameto Azad Maidan in Mum-bai to protest this commu-nal act of the Maharashtra

Government. In a PIL filed in the Bombay HighCourt the petitioner argues that this ban on beef in-fringes on the fundamental right of citizens tochoose meat of their choice is fundamental. Thehope is that the society overcomes such abuse ofidentity issues for political goals and lets the peo-ple have their own choices in matters of food habits,and let those who are making their living from thistrade do so peacefully.--www.pluralindia.com

You will be aston-ished if I tell youthat, according toold ceremonials, heis not a good Hinduwho does not eatbeef. On certain occasions he mustsacrifice a bull and

eat it.


Point of View

I By Mumtaz Alam I

New Delhi, 19 March 2015: When Ma-hatma Gandhi launched Quit India Move-ment in 1942 which culminated in TheEnd of British Raj he was 73 years old. Ironi-cally, now when his historic movement is turning73, Gandhi himself is being pushed out of India bybranding him as an agent of the British Raj.

Gandhi was born in 1869 and he was assassinatedby a Hindu extremist Nathuram Godse in 1948.Soon after his murder, Rashtriya SwayamsewakSangh (RSS), the parent organization of the rulingBharatiya Janata Party of Prime Minister NarendraModi was banned by the government as the assas-sin Godse was said to be associated with theHindu right organization. Godse was later hangedfor the killing.

While officially RSS has dissociated itself fromGodse and his act, its several outfits and leadershave always seen Godse with respect. In the recenttimes, particularly after BJP came to power at thecentre and Narendra Modi became Prime Ministerin May 2014, a surge has been observed in makingGodse a hero. There were attempts to set up a tem-ple in his name and install his bust in different

parts of the country. However, both central andstate governments discouraged the moves.

But yesterday, a leader of Vishwa Hindu Parishad,a sister organization of RSS, called MahatmaGandhi British agent. Sadhvi Prachi said Gandhiwas a British agent and his contribution towardsindependence of the country was negligible.

It was only due to sole effort of Bhagat Singh,Chandra Shekhar Azad, Ram Prashad Bismil andSubhash Chandra Bose that India was freed fromthe clutches of Britishers, she was quoted as say-ing on the occasion of Hindu Dharam Sammelanin Ghaziabad near the National Capital of Delhi.She further said: Gandhian ways of protests andhunger strikes were worthless in achieving free-dom.

Sadly, a week ago, former Supreme Court judgeMarkandey Katju had also written in his blog thatMahatma Gandhi, Father of the Nation, was aBritish agent. Katju was strongly condemned bythe people of the country and even Rajya Sabha,the Upper House of Indian Parliament passed aresolution against his statement. ---Follow the writer on Twitter @MumtazAlam1978

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Islam

How Islam Changed Mathew's LifeBy Reading Islam Staff

Matthieu CioccociniAssalamu`Alaikum. My name is Mathew.I'm from France, I'm 22 years old.I was born in the North East of France, close to Bel-gium. From the age of 13, I moved to the SouthWestern Coast. And now I'm studying at university,4th year. I'm doing a masters of business administra-tion. I'm currently involved in studies at the VictoriaUniversity of Wellington thanks to an agreement be-tween my university and this university in NewZealand.

I'm going on my study here of the masters of busi-ness administration, and I would like in the future tobe involved in international business. My dad doesn't believe in God, and my mom is aCatholic but she doesn't go everyday to the church.So I didn't receive any teachings about religion at thebeginning.

How I Knew About IslamThe first teachings about religion was about Islamthanks to my friends and my family and then all theMuslim guys I know from Morocco, Turkey, Algeriaand Tunisia. Fortunately, I was living in a placewhere so many immigrants were living... They wereall my friends and I was the only French in thegroup. We were doing some sport together.

This day when I started knowing more about Islam,we were playing football, and afisabil Allah (mem-ber of a Muslim dawah group) came in the field. Andwe stopped playing and they started speaking aboutIslam... It was like that...

At the beginning I was outside the group when theyspoke about Islam. Then the fi sabil Allah guy toldme to come. And then he invited me to come to themosque to discover a little about religion, and I cameand I started being interested like that. Then I de-cided to come back and to pray, to ask lot of peopleabout Islam and I was more involved in this religion.I would say that I was very interested because I did-n't know anything. It was surprising to see people for

example fasting and not to eat anything (during theday) for one month. I was wondering how they areable to do that. And for example in Ramadan andeven different manifestations about Islam after Ra-madan, such as Eid and everything like that, it wasamazing. Finally I decided to learn about this reli-gion.

Family & FriendsI was very young and they were surprised that myparents agreed to my conversion to Islam. They con-sidered me as their child because they wanted to helpme a lot and they didn't want to let me down. Theyconsidered me as part of their family. So it was veryinteresting.Fortunately with my parents, if I compare to otherguys who are trying to convert to Islam, they had alot of problems with their family, but fortunately myparents were not very hard-going. They let mechoose what I wanted to do. At the same time, theywanted me to stay in a safe place and the mosque forthem was a safe place because I wasn't in the streetinsulting people, stealing or fighting with someguys. So they preferred me to stay in the mosquethan being in the street.

What Islam Can OfferI think that Islam was a very good thing for me. Ittaught me a lot about respecting people, my way ofthinking and acting in life in general, because Islamas well encourages studying and gaining knowledge.Unfortunately for a few of my friends, they didn't tryto be interested or to be involved in Islam, and theyfinally started to be drug addicted, or started drink-ing alcohol, ... relationships before getting married,... And fortunately I managed to find Islam and ithelps me a lot in my every day life.

I think that Islam is kind of a cure for needy people.For example, people in prison who try to discoverIslam and they manage to be very good persons. An-other example is people who were addicted to drugsor to alcohol, they don't manage to find anything tohelp them, and when they discover Islam they be-come very pure. That's a very good cure and Allah isthe most wonderful doctor you can find to look afteryou. If you managed to find Him, He will help you a

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lot.

I would say that given that I became Muslim a fewyears ago, I never had any problem about beingFrench and a Muslim. But it's true that in Europe atthe moment people start frightening about the factthat Islam arrives very quickly to Europe, and that alot of Europeans try to convert to Islam. In Francefor example, business, religions and business of thestate are separated, so it is very difficult for examplefor girls they can't wear their headscarf at school it'sforbidden, except if you go to university then it is al-lowed, but before no, it's forbidden.

Islam & the MediaFrench people in general often believe what themedia says about Islam, and that Muslims are ter-rorists and polygamists and women are secondary,and that is not the case at all. So the French justbelieve what they hear as they don't try to find thetruth by themselves. They don't try to open thebooks and they just believe what they hear.

Fortunately, people around me started understand-ing that Islam is not as bad as they believe, be-cause they know in my way of behaving with themand my way of being like the fact of being a goodstudent, and that Islam is not as bad as they used tobelieve.

And for my parents, it was the same thing becauseI spoke with them a few months ago and we had avery interesting discussion together. They told mefinally that to have found Islam was a good thingfor me and that I was very lucky to find Islam,even if they were not Muslims at all. So I had thechance to find Islam and I'm very happy at the mo-ment and I hope everything will be OK for me, forthe education of my children, and my wife andeverything.I would like to say to people just try to know aboutIslam yourself. Just open the book. It's not verydifficult to read and to learn. You go to the Internetor youtube or something and you find somethingabout Islam and in-sha-'Allah (God willing) it willbe helpful for you.

To conclude, I would like just to thank God...http://www.onislam.net/english/reading-islam/my-journey-to-islam/contemporary-stories/454344-i-found-islam-in-a-football-match-.html

Far-right French PoliticianReverts to Islam

OnIslam& Newspapers

"I'm ready to explain to them that Islam has a mis-sion to unite all men and women," Buttey said.

CAIRO In a shocking decision to Marine LePen's party, a French far-right councilor hasreverted to Islam, sending a video message toofficials of the anti-immigration party to praise theMuslims holy book, the Quran, and asking them tojoin him.

"Both are demonized and very far from the imageportrayed in the media," MaxenceButtey, a councilorin the eastern Paris suburb of Noisy-le-Grand, toldLe Parisien newspaper, drawing up similarities be-tween the Front National party and Islam, The Tele-graph reported.

"Like Islam, the FN defends the weakest. The partydenounces exorbitant interest rates charged on thedebt of our country, and Islam is against the practiceof usury."

Buttey, 22, reverted to Islam recently.Yet, his decision became known after he send offi-cials of the anti-immigration FN party a video inwhich he praised the "visionary" virtues of theQuran and urged them to become Muslims.The video was a shock to many members of theparty, which announced suspending Buttey from aregional FN committee.

"Religion is a private choice which I respect but itmust not enter into the sphere of our political activi-ties," Jordan Bardella, a local party secretary, said.The proselytizing video which Maxence sent out isunacceptable.

France is home to a Muslim community of nearly6.5 million, the largest in Europe. Le Pans party hasbeen adopting anti-Islam agenda for years. She tookover the National Front from her father, partyfounder Jean-Marie Le Pen, who has several convic-tions for racism and anti-Semitism.

Le Pen has objected to schools serving Halal meatfor Muslim pupils, a controversial issue in France,which has banned the wearing of the full-face veil in


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public and headscarves in state schools.She also compared Muslim street prayers to Nazioccupation in a speech given during a rally in2010.Doubts

Buttey, who remains a party member and a coun-cilor, said he found Islam after finding it difficultto believe the official version of 9/11 attacks.Moreover, he had doubts about the "Merah affair",referring to the al-Qaeda inspired French gunman,Mohammed Merah, who killed seven people in thesouth of France in 2012.

"Some of my voters will be disappointed by mychoice," Buttey admitted. "But I'm ready to ex-plain to them that Islam has a mission to unite allmen and women." The new Muslim reverts de-fended Islam against false campaigns propagatedabout it.

"I am against the niqab [full-face veil]," he said,adding that Islam did not call for believers "to cutoff heads as the Islamic State group does."

Buttey said he had decided to revert after lengthydiscussions with the local imam, whom he metwhile campaigning for election earlier this year."I was Catholic but when I reread the Bible I no-ticed all its inconsistencies," he said.

"When I read the Quran thoroughly, I understoodthat this religion is more open."Buttey is not the first far-right politician who findsIslam after long study.

In 2013, Arnoud Van Doorn, a former member ofthe far-right Freedom Party (PVV), embracedIslam after an extensive study into the religion.He was among party leaders who helped producean offensive film titled Fitna in 2008 that linkedIslam and the Quran to violence.

But after Muslim outcry at the movie, Doornbegan to read more about Islam and ProphetMuhammad (peace and blessing be upon him),leading him to embrace Islam in 2013.

http://www.onislam.net/english/news/europe/478959-far-right-french-politician-reverts-to-islam.html

The Wonderful PresentsI By Hajira Khan I

One day the twins John and Jane were goingto the toy shop to spend their pocket money.John wanted to buy a set of trains and somesoldiers. Jane wanted a furnished doll house andsome dolls that would fit in the doll house. Unfortu-nately, when they went to the toy shop it was closed!They saw the toys displayed in the window and theywere very expensive! So, poor john and Jane wentsadly to their home and told their mother what hadhappened.

Oh dear what a bad thing to happen. Well no prob-lem, next week is your birthday and all your aunts,uncles, cousins and friends are coming to your birth-day party. So cheer up. They will bring presents foryou both. So, John and Jane cheered up.

So, they started preparing for their birthday party. Atlast the day came when it was their birthday party.They were thrilled and very excited while waitingfor their guests. First Uncle Harry came with abirthday cake. Then came Aunt Mary with presentsfor John and Jane. Then came John and Janescousin Julian. He also had two presents. Then cameJanes best friend Darrell with a present for Jane.And then many other guests came with presents forJohn and Jane. Then it was time to cut the cakewhich Uncle Harry had brought. Then they all hadfun and games. The dinner was very tasty. Aftersome time the party was over. Everyone went awaywith a word of thanks for inviting them to the party.

When everyone had gone John and Jane opened theirnicely wrapped presents. First they opened theSams present. They gave a scream of excitementbecause John had received a set of trains which hehad seen in the toy shop, while Jane had got a dollshouse. And then they opened Aunt Marys present.John had got the soldiers he wanted , while Jane gota big white teddy bear in its neck was pink bow.Then Jane opened Darrells present and in weresome dolls that would be perfect to fit n the dollhouse!! John and Jane were very happy now andsaid that to their mother that there was no need to goto the toy shop, they can easily spend their money onsweets. Indian School Salalah Salalah, Sultanate of Oman

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Science

I By Sameen Ahmed Khan I

The number pi is a mathematical constant: theratio of a circles circumference to its diame-ter. This ratio is fixed irrespective of the sizeof the circle. Its value to twelve decimal places is3.141592653589 and may be approximated as a ratioof two natural numbers: 22/7 or 333/106 or 355/113,etc, in simple calculations. It is represented by , thesixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet (Greek has 24letters). The number occurs in a variety of calcula-tions involving perimeters or lengths of curves, areasand volumes. Pi is very special in many ways. Itarises in very diverse situations. Moreover, it cannotbe represented exactly as a ratio of two natural num-bers (a property of the irrational numbers) or a solu-tion of an algebraic equation (a property of thetranscendental numbers). A dozen decimal placessuffice for engineering calculation, but pi has beencalculated to over thirteen trillion decimal places andthe digits are found to be very random.

The number pi was known to the ancient mathemati-cians: Egypt (2500BC); India (600BC); Greece(250BC); and China (100CE). The Persian as-tronomer Jamshd al-Ksh computed the pi to 16decimal places in the year 1424, using a polygontechnique. In this technique one fits a polygon withmany sides in the circle and computes the area orcircumference, which gives the value of pi. Kshscalculation remained a record for a period of 180years. A more efficient computation of pi is doneusing infinite series. A better value of pi is obtainedby adding more and more terms. The Indian mathe-matician, Madhava (1350-1420) had obtained a se-ries representation of pi which was obtained later byGregory (1638-1675) using calculus! So, it can beconcluded without doubt that calculus was known toIndians much before Europeans. The series methodis hindered by slow convergence: many terms maybe required to produce a single decimal. The Indianmathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan published a re-markable set of series in 1914. A single term ofthese series gives twelve additional digits of pi.These and related series are at the core of the currentalgorithms used for computing pi to trillions of deci-mal places.

A celebration is done every year on 14 March, underthe title Pi Day, highlighting the role of mathemat-ics in our lives. This celebration originated in USA,

where the widely used convention for expressing adate is month/day/year and the 14 March corre-sponds to 3/14 or 3.14 the value of pi to two decimalplaces. The fifteenth year of the century becomesstill more special as 3/14/15 or 3.1415 is pi to fourdecimal places. One can incorporate the time9:26:53 (both AM and PM) to get additional fivedecimal places! Those of us who use the conventionday/month/year are cautioned that 31/4/15 does notexist as April has thirty days! One can use the exist-ing method or some other method to fix a Pi Day ora Mathematics Day. We need one such day tohighlight the importance of mathematics in our lives.Based on our current understanding of nature,mathematics is the language of nature.

Learning and teaching of mathematics has been amajor intellectual challenge across the globe. Nosystem of education can boast that all its pupils arewell trained in mathematics. The Math Day can beused to address these challenges being faced by boththe students and the teachers. Such celebrations arealso an occasion to recognize the mathematiciansfrom the past to the present.

Bibliography

1.T. Padmanabhan, Dawn of Science: Calculus is de-veloped in Kerala, Resonance, Vol. 17, Issue 2, pp.106-15 (February 2012). Published by the IndianAcademy of Sciences.

2.Sameen Ahmed Khan, 2015 the International Yearof Light and Light-based Technologies, RadianceViewsweekly, Vol. LI, No. 40, pp. 21-22 (5-11 Janu-ary 2014).

3.Sameen Ahmed Khan, Medieval Islamic Achieve-ments in Optics, Il Nuovo Saggiatore, 31 (1-2), pp.36-45 (January-February 2015). (Publication of SIF:Societ Italiana di Fisica, the Italian Physical Soci-ety).

([email protected], http://SameenAhmed-Khan.webs.com/)

Engineering Department,Salalah College of Technology (SCT)Salalah, Sultanate of Oman

The Pi Day and the Mathematics Day


Spirituality

From Productivemuslim.com

Akey part of being productive, is about focus-ing yourmind on whats beneficial and de-cluttering it fromunproductive thoughts.Ifwe can record our inner thoughts and replay themtoourselves each day, well be shocked at how muchjunkthere is and how much brain power we waste onfutilethings that neither benefit or harm us. Thesethoughtscan be in the form of replaying oldmovies in our headsof things that happened to usin our past or (going tosome extreme) future dreamsthat are never attainablenor part of reality, or keepingthoughts which were nothappy to reveal to anyone,even having doubtsback-biting about people whichwe neednt have... allthese thoughts need to purgedif we want to relieveourselves and de-clutter ourminds.

How do you know if you have so much clutter? No-ticeyour actions and speech. If you recognise them tobevery focused, very productive, very thoughtful,andcontaining less gossip, then your mind is proba-bly morede-cluttered than others! If not, and you seeyourself allover the place and your tongue out ofcontrol, then yourmind surely needs a cleanup exer-cise.

Unfortunately, we pay little attention to our thoughtsandwhat goes on inside our mind, even though itscrucial toour well-being, productivity and ultimatelyhow webehave as Muslims. Ibn Al-Qayyim has aprofoundlypowerful statement in his book Al-Fawaid, referring tonegative and sinful thoughts, hesaid:You should repulse a thought. If you do not doso, it willdevelop into a desire. You should thereforewage waragainst it. If you do not do so, it will be-come a resolutionand firm intention. If you do notrepulse this, it willdevelop into a deed. If you do notmake up for it by doingthe opposite thereof [the op-posite of that evil deed], itwill become a habit. It willthen be very difficult for you togive it upYoushould know that the initial stage of everyknowledgethat is within your choice is your thoughts andno-tions. These thoughts and notions lead you intofan-tasies. These fantasies lead towards the willanddesire to carry out [those fantasies]. These willsanddesires demand the act should be committed.Repeatedly committing these acts cause them tobe-come a habit. So the goodness of these stages lies

inthe goodness of thoughts and notions, andthewickedness of these thoughts lies in the wicked-ness ofthoughts and notions. [Al Fawaid, IbnQayyim]

May Allah be pleased with him! A deep insight into-something so subtle. We should all memorize these-words and use it whenever we feel unable to controlthetsunami of negative thoughts that overtake ourminds.

Theres a verse in the Quran that should send shud-dersthrough any Muslims spine, in which Allah(SubahanahuWaTaala) speaks of taking into accountour innerthoughts, He says:

To Allah belongeth all that is in the heavens andonearth. Whether ye show what is in your minds or-conceal it, Allah Calleth you to account for it. Hefor-giveth whom He pleaseth, and punisheth whomHepleaseth, for Allah hath power over allthings.(Surat Al-Baqarah, verse no. 284).

In an age, where people are fighting for privacy,somepeople might find the above verse intrusive!But whoare we to judge what Allah does?! WereHis slaves andHes our Master! He can do what Hewills. The reason I'msaying this, is because believe itor not, the Companionsof the Prophet, also found theabove verse difficult tograsp (but in their case, theyunderstood the implication,though we unfortunately,rebel due to arrogance). So theywent to the Prophetwith a heavy heart regarding thisverse, but theProphet told them Say, we Listen and weObey. Assoon as they said that, Allah revealed 2 of thegreatestverses in the Quran:

"The Messenger believeth in what hath been re-vealedto him from his Lord, as do the men of faith.Each one(of them) believeth in Allah, His angels,

De-Clutter Your Mind


Spirituality

His books,and His apostles. "We make no distinction(they say)between one and another of His apostles."And theysay: "We hear, and we obey: (We seek) Thy-forgiveness, our Lord, and to Thee is the end ofalljourneys."

On no soul doth Allah Place a burden greater than itcanbear. It gets every good that it earns, and it suf-fers everyill that it earns. (Pray:) "Our Lord! Con-demn us not if weforget or fall into error; our Lord!Lay not on us aburden Like that which Thou didstlay on those beforeus; Our Lord! Lay not on us aburden greater than wehave strength to bear. Blot outour sins, and grant usforgiveness. Have mercy on us.Thou art our Protector;Help us against those whostand against faith."(Surah Al-Baqarah, verses no.285-286)So, listen and obey and work out how tocontrol yourthoughts and Allah will not overburdenyou.

Here are some simple steps you can follow to de-clutteryour mind and control thoughts, but they needto beconstantly followed in order to develop a disci-plinedmind:

Dua - First and foremost, ask Allah for help andguid-ance on this issue. Remember "You Alone we Wor-ship, and You alone we seek help from".Practice focusing your mind - especially duringSalat- so that you at least de-clutter your mind,even tem-porarily.

Listen into your thoughts and dont let them just-wave by unnoticed. A strong Muslim is the onewhocan control his inner self as well as his limbs.When a bad thought comes, fight it! And whenagood thought comes, act upon it or at least write it-down!

Be constantly watchful of your mind, like apredator,always ready to pounce on anyunwanted thoughtsand cutting evil from its roots.

May Allah (SubahanahuWaTaala) help us de-clutterourminds and make our thoughts, actions andwordssincerely for Him. Ameen.

Repeatedly committing these acts causethem tobecome a habit. So the goodnessof these stageslies in the goodness ofthoughts and notions, andthewickedness of these thoughts lies in thewicked-ness of thoughts and notions.[Al Fawaid, IbnQayyim]

Birthday Party with a SurpriseI By Hajira Khan I

Iwoke up one morning. I was very happy andexcited. Cause it was the day I had to go to abirthday party at my best friends. All my bestfriends were coming to the party. The party wasfrom 5PM to 10PM. It was a surprise birthdayparty for my friend. We had planned that we willrefuse to come to the party when she invited us,saying that we are busy. Only I had to agree tocome to the party. Since, no one was coming wedecided to go shopping. While the others wentinto the house, start decorating and get the cakeready. When it was 3 Oclock, I and my bestfriend Delia went out shopping. Delia told me thatshe was a bit hurt because everyone had refused tocome to the party. I smiled a secret smile to my-self. How happy Delia was going to feel. On theother hand everything was going fine at Deliashouse. Ms. Lacy Delias mother was very muchastonished to hear that Delia was to have a sur-prise birthday party. She did allow them to deco-rate and order the cake at once. Then she startedto make sandwiches and all other foods that arethere in a birthday party. When it was 5 Oclockeverything was ready. Everyone hid behind thecouches and under the table. They also switchedoff lights. When it was 5:15 the bell rang. Therewas a pin drop silence in the house. Ms. Lacyopened the door while Delia and I entered thehouse. Delia was a bit surprised to see that thelights in the hall were switched off. She asked hermother it. Ms. Lacy said she was having an after-noon nap, which is why lights were switched off.When Delia switched on the lights, everyone cameout of their hiding places and shouted SUR-PRISE!!, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DELIA!!!!! What asight there was. There were balloons hanging andbanners on the walls. Delia was so happy that shecould not help smiling. And what a time we had!!We played games and had the most delicious din-ner. When it was ten Oclock, Delia thanked us forthe gifts and the surprise birthday arty. While wewaved goodbye and went to our homes, what aday we had had, I exclaimed to myself!!!

Indian School SalalahSalalah, Sultanate of Oman


NEWS

I By Mumtaz Alam I

New Delhi, 01 March 2015: The new Land Acqui-sition Bill, introduced in the form of ordinanceby the BJP government in December last year,seems to have put farm on fire in the country, pushingthousands of farmers from across the country to the na-tional capital last week to press the government to with-draw the bill.

Many of them had gathered at Jantar Mantar near Parlia-ment House here under the banner of social activist AnnaHazare and many others were brought by the Congress.Many were angry at the new law and expressed appre-hension the government wanted to acquire their land forcorporate projects.

If we dont have land then how will we produce grains?How will we feed our children? Modi ji had said his gov-ernment would implement Swaminathan report on farm-ers. Where is the report now? asked Master RamveerSingh, a farmer. But he also criticized Congress for tak-ing the issue now.

Where was the Congress for the last 67 years over landacquisition? When the government has planned to destroyfarmland and agriculture labourers we along with AnnaHazare have come out on the street to protect ourselves,said Singh.

If farm land is gone then will cows, buffaloes andcalves. Only if they are safe our country will be safe,

said another farmer.

One farmer sounded very angry at the bill and the BJPgovernment not fulfilling the promises.

Modi had made false promises. He had promised tobring back black money but hasnt yet. Instead, the gov-ernment is looting farmers. It is usurping farmers land.We have come here to protest against the new law and toprotect our rights, said he.

Chaudhary Murari Lal, also a farmer said farmers shouldalways remain owner of their land. Farmer is and shouldbe owner of his land. In Modis regime, farmers have soldrice to pay interest. The Land Acquisition Bill should beclean and in favour of farmers. Farmers should be ownerof his land.

However, Gopal Singh, another farmer, said farm landcan be given only for peoples interests like hospital androads, but not for hotels and business corridors.

If through the Land Acquisition Bill, they want to ac-quire some land for public interest like road, hospital orrail tracks we can give it. But if they want to sell our landfor industrialisation or to erect five star hotels and busi-ness corridors we will not accept it. They will have tochange the law. We will oppose it to the last, said Singh.

Following the massive protests in last one week, the BJPgovernment has indicated flexibility to amend the law.---

Farm Rage: Farmer is and should remain owner of his land

women farmers protesting against land acquisition bill at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi


Islam

I By Shakeel Ashraf I

During a friendly discussion, a person working in anIslamic Bank was asked, How much Islamic is yourBank? The reply was, as much as are we Mus-lim. (Conversation was in Urdu: Jitne hummusalmanhainutnahamara bank Islamihai.)

AMuslim is the one who has surrendered toinjunctions of Allah and one of His injunc-tions is to abstain from riba. Verse 279 ofSuraBaqra declares war by Allah and His messengeragainst riba takers. After revelation of the versemoney lending on riba became criminal offence inan Islamic society.

(http://www.tafheem.net/tafheem.html). Today onecan argue that he is not living in a society where ribacan be a criminal offence. Well, there is a hadith towarn him that the sin of riba is 70 times the sin of in-cest with ones mother (Ibnmaja,Baiaqi,http://tanzeem.org/books/books/BU_4_01_Islam_ka_Maashi_Nizam.pdf, page#22). Anyone hav-ing some moral sense can conclude, on the basis ofthis prophetic saying, that there is nothing more im-moral than taking riba. Why such stern warningsagainst riba? Because Allah, the All-Knower knowsthat man has limitless lust to wealth. And you lovethe wealth with all your hearts (al-Fajr 89:20).Money is such a weak point for mankind that thegeneral tendency is, to take the Divine restrictions ina light way? The warning on riba is not only to thelenders but includes all who are involved. The Apos-tle of Allah (pbuh) cursed the one who acceptedusury, the one who paid it, the witness to it, and theone who recorded it. (SunanAbudawud Book #22,Hadith #3327). In a capitalistic economic system,one is free to enter race of money making withoutany ethical limitation but Islam cuts the root of sucha system.

In olden time when riba was charged by individuallenders it was easy to perceive the sufferings. Inmodern time the financial institutions dual role oflending and borrowing appear quite innocent in spiteof its destructive fallouts. Banks take deposits fromtheir customers at a certain rate of interest and lendto other customers at a higher rate, the difference istheir earning. Interest is the modern term for usuryor riba. Lending on riba by financial institutions putsan extra liability on the economic system. To under-

stand this let us assume that a country starts its fi-nancial system from scratch, with issue of first lot offiat currency of amount (x) by its central bank. Thebank lends the first lot of currency to the entrepre-neurs on interest after taking substantial collateraland expects return of (x+y) amount. The interestamount (y) is an extra liability created by bank,which doesnt exist in the economy. Entrepreneursinvest their borrowed money in the market and atrade battle starts as everyone tries to increase hismoney. The gain of one is the result of loss of an-other because sum total of currency has to be sameas (x) issued by the bank. At the end of the term thegainers repay the principal and interest while the los-ers default and their collateral are forfeited by bank.The vicious cycle continues and the banks assetgrows at the cost of borrowers valuables. The de-structive mechanism is further augmented by anotherdevils tool called fractional reserve banking, whichallows banks to multiply the deposited amount andcreate virtual money, which causes inflation in theeconomy.

Banking takes working class to a deceitful world ofenticements. The moment a professional joins hisfirst job, bank offers all the comfort and lavishnessof life to his doorstep a new model car, a furnishednew flat in an apartment and a credit card for shop-ping. Who can resist the temptations of this dajjaliccivilization? Only those who possess firm belief inthe life hereafter.

Islamic banks claim that their transactions are free ofriba. How true is their claim? Islamic banks havetheir paid sharia board, which issues compliance cer-tificates to their products. Is that enough for an edu-cated Muslim who is bound to not cross the limitsset by his Lord? If it is an affair of worldly benefithe will delegate all his knowledge and wisdom tofind out the pros and cons. On the other hand in reli-gious matters any favorable edict is adopted blindly

Muslims and their (Islamic) Banking (July 2012)


without bother to check its authenticity and applica-bility. Here is an example, which I have witnessed.One of my friends took a cash loan from an Islamicbank to spend in marriage and education of his chil-dren. I asked him, under which contract did thebank give you cash loan? He replied, Bai-al-Salam.

I said Bai-al-Salam is an advance payment againstfuture delivery of a sale, so what did you sell to thebank? I did not dare to point out the mistake on hispart; I just told him that this is a gross violation bybank. He uttered an edict; yes, the weakest point ofIslamic banks is that they indulge in paper transac-tions (without any physical exchange of goods) tosatisfy the sharia council. What about his ownweakness? I know he is well educated and there is noreason to think of his ignorance.

I borrow money from a bank and return a higheramount. What else could it be if not riba? If my deal-ing with an institution is in clear violation of Divinelaw, which I am aware of, will the Islamic tag of theinstitution save me from the wrath of my Lord?Imran Ahsan Neyazi in his book The Prohibition ofRiba Elaborated writes on page # 129(http://www.nyazee.org/islbanks/riba/riba-elabo-rated.pdf):

If Islamic banking has to become Islamic the idea ofcash loans has to go. In other words, the concept ofcredit has to be altered radically and the creation offake money by the banks has to come to an end. Tillthis is done, it will be difficult to call these banks Is-lamic. The obvious question that will be raised is:Will such banking be banking? Maybe not, and inour view this is not important as long as a system thatis truly Islamic is put into place. We feel that eventhough the banking industry in Muslim countries isdominated and remotely controlled by Westernbanks, it is possible to have truly Islamic banks or in-stitutions that perform similar services.Many Muslims, though aware of the prohibitions infinancial dealings in Islam, argue that such dealingsare unavoidable in this age. Well, prohibited is per-mitted sometime, but when? Only when one is forcedby absolute necessity (muztar), there is no intentionof willful disobedience (ghair-a-baghin) and does nottake more than what is absolutely indispensable (wala aadin). Do they really meet these conditions set bytheir Lord (al-Baqra, 2:173) or just indulge freelywithout any remorse in pretence of necessity?

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13 Sholapur Muslims ac-quitted from terror

charges after 12 years

By MM Special Correspondent.Sholapur: There is an old adage, Justice delayed,Justice denied. It can be amply employed on thosepersons who have been implicated in terror cases andlet off by courts but after spending their precious lifein jail. Latest victims of this sordid saga are the 13youths from the textile town of Maharashtra whohave been now exonerated all terror charges by ses-sion court here on Tuesday. They were booked underthe various sections of Prevention of Terrorism Act(POTA) in a 2003 terror case. However, it is anirony that they were absolved of all charges after un-dergoing 11 long years ordeal.

Sholapur Session Court Judge N N Dhend acquittedall the 13 accused for want of evidence as they werearrested by Maharashtra police on August 8, 2003 onthe charges of plotting to make crude bombs for ex-plosion. Police had allegedly recovered a smallamount of explosive material from some of the ac-cused. Soon after their arrest, police had invoked sec-tions of POTA in the case. All the accused werereleased on bail after spending six months behindbars. Police produced 62 witnesses in the case butprosecution examined only 14 of them. However, allthe witnesses were declared hostile by the court.It is to mention here that the previous UPA govern-ment had scrapped dreaded law POTA in 2004 butnot with retrospective effect. Because of this, manyinnocents have been languishing in jails.Those, who got absolved of all charges, are FarooqTabeeb, Imaan Nadaf, Hamid Mulla, MahboobDaula, Anwar Shaikh, Mansoor Shaikh, GhulamShaikh, Mudassir Shaikh, Ibrahim Momin, MubinShaikh, Yaqub Saudagar, Jabbar Shaikh, and RahmanShaikh.http://muslimmirror.com/eng/13-sholapur-muslims-acquitted-from-terror-charges-after-12-years/


News

I By M Naushad AnsariI

Patna: The 66th award ceremony of Rahbar Coach-ing Centre, Patna was held on 28th Febuary 2015 atMillat Urdu Girls High School, KhanqahMohallah,Phulwari Sharif Patna.

Among the guests present were Mr. Abdul Wahidfrom Nehru Yuva Kendra, Mr. ShabbirBarvi, Seniorjournalist and social activist, Mr. Abdul Rafe, Educa-tionist, Mufti Abdul Basith of Al-Mahad, Phul-wariSahrif, Mr. Naushad Ansari, President, Peacefoundation and Mr. Mehtab Khan, Manager, BiharAnjuman.

The Chief guest was Mr. Buddha Sharan Hans(I.A.S. Retd). Special invitees were Mr. MoosaKazi(Joint Commissioner of Commercial TaxRretd) andMr. ShoaibKhan(I.P.S. Retd).The Award Ceremony started with recital of the HolyQuran by Nazish Sadaf of class IX. Mr. NaushadAnsari introduced the guests and, while addressingthe students, said that only sincere and hard labourwill assure success. As the final examinations are athand, they need to focus totally on revision and solv-ing old question papers.There is no short cut to suc-cess, he emphasized.

Mr. Mehtab Khan briefed on the activities of BiharAnjuman (www.biharanjuman.org) and also in-formed the achievements of Rahbar Coaching Cen-tres run by the anjuman. He informed that presentlyaround one thousand three hundered students arestudying in 19 Rahbar Coaching Centres in differentdistricts of Bihar and Jharkhand. All the students arevery poor and downtrodden coming from the goven-rnments schools. Till now thirty-six students havecleared diploma engineering and many of them havejoined good companies as engineers. Presently onehundered students are pursuing their diploma engi-neering. The object of the Centre is to convert non-meritorious poor students to meritorious,he stated.Poverty is not at all a hurdle in studying, said Mr.MoosaQuazi. What required is hardlabour, willpower and dedication, he advised. Mr. Shoib Khanexplained the question patterns of Board Examina-tion and made periodic table easily understandablefor the students.

Mr. ShabbirBarwi explained the examination tipsand advised the students not to be panicwhile writing examinations. Mr. Abdul Rafe reiter-ated that positive thinking is the key to successMufti Abdul Basith elaborated the importances ofsixth sense. One should always remember AllahS.W.T. for His bounties on the humankind andshould never skip any namaz, he emphasised. Mr.abdul Wahid praised the effort of Bihar Anjumanwhich has provided a ray of hope to the have-nots ofthe society.

Mr. BudhaSharan Hans (IAS retd) informed themiseries he faced during his student life, which wasmuch deplorable than what the students of the gov-ernment schools are facing today. He advised thestudents to become master in English Language, for,English is the medium of higher and modern studies.One should also learn Computer. Never believe insuperstitions and always apply logic in day to daylife, he said.The ceremony concluded with Dua.The contributor is President, Peace Foundation,Patna([email protected])

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News

Mumbai: Accusing Maharashtra Chief MinisterDevendra Fadnavis of humiliation, a delega-tion of Mumbai Muslims Thursday walkedout of his chamber in the state secretariat without at-tending a scheduled meeting called to discuss the own-ership dispute over the Ismail Yusuf College land.

According to Yusuf Abrahani of SEWA, the delegationincluding members of SEWA, Ismail Yusuf Collegeand Campus BachaoSangharshSamiti and othersreached the VidhanBhavan well before the appointedtime. But, in spite of the prior appointment, the delega-tion was kept waiting at the VidhanBhavan Gate formore than one hour.

This led to the delegation feeling that it was insultedand humiliated.

"This is not the way to treat a delegation that wascalled for the meeting on an issue of serious concernfor the Muslim Community. The delegation thereforedecided to return without meeting the chief minister",Abrahani said.

"We condemn the casual attitude of the government ofMaharashtra on the serious issue. It shows that thechief minister and government of Maharashtra don'tunderstand the seriousness of this issue", he added.

Abrahani said that after the announcement made bySEWA, an NGO working in the field of education, an-nounced the protest march at Ismail Yusuf College, hewas called by the police commissioner to call off hisproposed march promising him a meeting with thechief minister to discuss the issue.The police commissioner also said that he was workingas per the message received from the chief minister'soffice, Abrahanai said.

"We were promised that a 10 member delegation canmeet the chief minister at 12 noon on 19th March andaccordingly we postponed our protest march", Abra-hani said.

The delegation included Sudhendra Kulkarni Chair-man Observers Research Foundation, Dr. ZaheerKazi

Ismail Yusuf College, Mumbai:Facing Humiliation after 85 years of Service

Devendra Fadnavis, Chief Minister, Maharastra


NewsPreseidentAnjuman-e-Islam, Shabbir Ansari, AamirE-dresy, Salim Alware, M A Khalid, FerozMithiborewalaand others.

The Maharashtra government's decision to allot IsmailYusuf College land to the NLU faced stiff opposit

bakhabar, april 2015

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