Muslim woman politician donates 5 acre land for Urdu University
Submitted by admin4 on 13 October 2008 - 6:26am.
By Mohammed Siddique, TwoCircles.net,
Hyderabad: A Muslim woman politician from Maharashtra has donated five acres of land in the historic city of Aurangabad to the Hyderabad based Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) for setting up a university campus there.
Fauzia Tehseen, Member of Legislative Council of Maharashtra announced donating the land during a visit to MANUU in Hyderabad on the invitation of the university management.
Profusely thanking the lady for her generous gesture, the pro vice chancellor of MANUU Prof K R Iqbal Ahmad said that the proposed campus at Aurangabad will have courses like B.Ed., Polytechnic and an Urdu model school.
Fauzia Tehseen along with a delegation of Maharashtra went around the sprawling campus of Urdu University at Gachi Bowli area and saw a number of buildings including the main administrative block.
About her donation of land she said that this way she wanted to serve the Urdu language. "The University campus in Aurangabad will be a precious gift to the historic city", she said.
Tehseen also requested the MANNU authorities to extend the activities of the university to Prabhani city, which has a sizeable population of Urdu speaking people. Iqbal Ahmad assured her that the university will start vocational courses in Prabhani very soon.
In his briefing to the delegation Prof. Iqbal Ahmad said that distance education courses offered by the university have as many as 1.5 lakh students, half of them women. "Half of our total women students are housewives", he said adding that the distance education courses were becoming more popular.
Aurangabad is the fifth place where land has been donated for the Urdu University. Prof. Iqbal Ahmad said that earlier people had donated lands at Darbhanga, Bhopal, Bangalore and Haryana for the campuses.
Maulana Azad National Urdu University was set up under an act of Parliament passed in 1998 and has come a long way during the last one decade.
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The BJP needs more than removal of the Haj subsidy to win
The BJP needs more than removal of the Haj subsidy to win – it needs a communal riot
Your letter is a pile of contradictions. The BJP has been pampering the Muslims, and so they lost the Hindu votes, you tell us.
I shall tell you something. The BJP is not going to win by removing Haj subsidy. The Muslims will accept its removal without a fight, and the move would go unnoticed. The BJP knows this.
The BJP can only win by creating a fight with Muslims. For that, they have to raise a mob, and attack some mosque in the name of Rama. A communal riot has to follow and the Hindus will run like sheep to the BJP for protection. This formula worked in Ayodhya in the 1990s.
It worked for Modi in the Gujarat election. The trouble is you cannot use it repeatedly – otherwise the fall out in the national and international media and business circles, would go against them permanently.
The BJP was the Great Hindu Hope for a section of Hindus - people like you. But it is a morally bankrupt party – it always was, and always will be. It failed and you cannot work out why !
something ushould know
something ushould know
Sister Fauzia Tehseen is a Beckon LIght
Sister Fauzia Tehseen, Assalamu Alaikum. What a wonderful personality you are
Yours is the best example that Muslims of the world should follow.
If every Muslim who can afford to give away and sacrifice as you have done,
We do not need the Sadaka and alms from the Indian Government. We can progress and
advance in leaps and bounds and compete effectively with other communities.
May Allah swt Bless you and family and Bestow on you good health, happiness and
prosperity.
RELINQUISH HAJ SUBSIDY TOO!!!
AMIN SAAB, ASLAMU ALIKUM, WHY DON'T THE INDIAN MUSLIMS RELINQUISH THE HAJ SUBSIDY TOO AND FORGO THAT SADAKA AND ALAM TOO FROM INDIAN GOVT. ANY WAY ACCEPTING MONEY FROM ANYONE ELSE FOR HAJ IS AGAINST ISLAMIC PRINCIPLES. ANY TAKERS???????
Important
Why is this comment made anonymous, janab...let's discuss things in an open forum with our identities.
Haj Subsidy
Brother Intekhaab, salams,
Why don't you explain about the fraud behind the Haj subsidy that our unidentified and sneaky brother talking about? He seems to be in the dark.
He has absolutely no idea how much is spent on temple renovations and subsidies to Hindu Brothers when different regions have thousands of temples having all sorts of temple festivals and Kumbabisegs.
I am not against it. Please do. Indiectly it helps commercialisation, consumer spending and businesses making more money. Is it NOT true that the Kashmir Muslims make their earnings from the annual Hindu Pilgrimage to Amarnath; these are part of Indian culture by whichever way you look at it.
HAJ SUBSIDY IS A FARCE
Wa alaikumussalam. Kindly correct your spelling for ASSALAMU ALAIKUM 9 There should be an emphatic double SS.? By the way,
Why are you hiding behind the ANONYMOUS Label Brother. Be courageous.
You are one hundred percent wrong in saying that only Muslims get subsidized travel allowances when they perform their once in life time pilgrimage to their holy land. As a matter of fact the Indian Government gives much more liberal travel subsidies to all the religious people in India. Subsidies even for railway tickets are given to hundreds of temple based festivals through out the year So please do not try to score extra points by giving misinformation and make Hindu brothers get wrongly angry about it. You are misleading brother.
I challenge you to ask the Indian Government to remove the Haj subsidy and at the same time remove all other similar subsidies to all religions ON ONE CONDITION.
why should we pay subsidies to religions when we shout that ours is a secular country?
My Condition is:
The Air India’s monopolizing profiteering racket should also come to a stop by allowing other world airlines offering cheaper fares to operate to carry the Haj pilgrims. The so called Hajj subsidy that you are crying about, is giving by right hand and grabbing it back by left hand, it is a big farce. By open competition, Muslims can buy air tickets 40% cheaper than Air India fares. Once again Haj subsidy is a real farce, there is no truth from the point of pure economics.
HAJ SUBSIDY
I salamed you- with SS OR S does it make a difference??? NOW ABOUT SUBSIDY- SAUDI ARABIA SPENDS BILLIONS OF DOLLARS EVERY YEAR ORGANISING HAJ- ACCOMMODATION, SECURITY, HYGIENE, SANITATION, ETC ETC ETC - NO COMPLAINT.IT'S REQUIRED. INDIA DOES IT FOR INDIANS IN INDIA. AJMEER SHAREEF, KUBH MELA, MUHARRAM, CRICKET MATCH, AMARNATH YATRA POLITICAL RALLYS ETC ETC ETC. EXPENDITURE ON PROVIDING ACCOMMODATION, SECURITY, HYGIENE, SANITATION, ETC ETC ETC TO THE PEOPLE OF A NATION FOR ANY ACTIVITY TAKING PLACE WITH IN THE GEOGRAPHICAL LIMITS OF THAT NATION IS LEGITIMATE EXPENDITURE, AS IT HAS BEEN INCURRED TO PREVENT CHAOS, BUT GIVING SUBSIDY FOR HAJ WHICH IS PERFORMED IN SAUDI ARABIA TO INDIAN MUSLIMS IS A SHAME. ACCEPTING IT WHEN QUR'AN SPECIFICALLY PROHIBITS IS A SHAME. WHY DON'T YOU GET A "FATWAH" ISSUED SAYING THAT HAJ DONE WITH GOVT SUBSIDY IS NOT A VALID HAJ RATHER THAN BLAMING EVERYONE FROM INDIAN AIRLINES TO INDIAN GOVT???? STILL BETTER- ALL MUSLIMS WHO FEEL SO STRONGLY ABOUT IT CAN DEPOSIT THE SUBSIDY AMOUNT TO INDIAN TREASURY UNDER ANY HEAD - SAY PRIME MINISTERS DISASTER RELIEF FUND. ANY TAKERS??? FRIEND- ACCEPT IT-WHEN IT COMES TO MONITORY GAINS RELIGION TAKES A BACK SEAT. IS THE FOLLOWERS OF ANY RELIGION IN INDIA LESS CORRUPT THAN FOLLOWERS OF ANY OTHER RELIGION???
REPLY TO MR. NO IDENTITY ON HAJ SUSIDY
Brother No-Identity, you have not answered the issue. My contention is that, Air India ( An Indian Government undertaking)which has a monopoly to arrange transportation for the Haj Pilgrims is making huge profits and part of the profits is returned to the pilgrims, and for political reasons this dividend is termed subsidy.
I refer to one instance when Air India lost 50 crores last year when the UP Haj Committee decided to change loyalties from Air India to Saudi Airlines for sending 30 000 pilgrims. Calculate the per capita loss per passenger, it comes to INR 16,666.This is what Indian Govt calls subsidy. It is making, huge profits by one way and returning part of the profit in a more attractively palatable way to Muslims maintain the vote bank.
NOW FOR THE SAKE OF ARGUMENT, LET US ASSUME SUBSIDY.I GO ALONG YOUR WARPED IDEA
Every Indian consumer irrespective of religion makes direct and mostly indirect taxes to the Indian Exchequer. Out of this public fund, the Indian Govt dishes out subsidy to all its citizens. Indian Muslims are part and parcel of the Indian Political Entity, so why do you say, it is such a shame for Indian Muslims to get back their share of the contribution from the Exchequer like any other citizen of the country.
Are you a trained Muslim religious scholar to give a fatwah based on the Quran that such subsidies should never be accepted by Muslims,
You say, “accepting it when the Quran specifically accept it is a shame.”
Why don’t you quote the specific Quran verse that applies to the situation in a non-Muslim country. Produce your proof and your masterly interpretation on the verse.
Please tell me whether you knew about the following subsidy given to Hindu Brothers.
Hindus do receive government subsidies for pilgrimages to Mount Kailash, and from a variety of sources. First, the Ministry of External Affairs routes INR 3250 to each Kailash yatri. The Uttar Pradesh state government then adds INR 5000 per pilgrim. The Delhi state government adds another INR 5000 for any pilgrim from Delhi.Have you added up the total Saheb?
Would you say, Hindus can be benefitted from the public treasury for pilgrimage, but it is haram for Muslims? What a travesty and a perversion my brother? Your vision is clouded and argument unconvincing.
Have you heard about the case of the Ujjain Ardha Kumbh, in Madhya Pradesh in April 2004? At that time, Chief Minister Uma Bharati promised that she would do all she could for the festival, which at the time was expecting millions of pilgrims. Bharati ultimately received additional funds from the Centre to the tune of INR 10 billion.
Compared to this the Haj subsidy you are talking about is a pea nut.Read more and do more research and kill your prejudices.Take care. May God Guide you to the right path.
READ WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN.
Mr AMIN READ WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN AGAIN. I WILL REPEAT IT 1.INDIA SPENDING MONEY ON RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY OF ANY RELIGION INCLUDING ISLAM IN INDIA IS LEGITIMATE SIMILAR TO SAUDI ARABIA SPENDING MONEY FOR HAJ IN SAUDI ARABIA. 2. INDIAN AIR LINE IS A GOVT COMPANY. IT IS EARNING PROFIT FROM GOVT FUND DISPENSED AMONGST MUSLIMS BY INDIAN GOVT. DO YOU WANT THE SUBSIDY FROM INDIAN GOVT AND THEN USE SAUDI AIRLINES??? IT IS LIKE A CHILD SPENDING THE POCKET MONEY GIVEN BY HIS FATHER WHO OWNS AN ICE CREAM SHOP TO BUY ICE CREAM FROM NEIGHBORS ICE CREAM SHOP.3.QUR'AN IS NOT EVEN UNDERSTOOD BY MUSLIMS. SENTENCES WHICH ARE "ZAHIR" - OBVIOUS AND "KHAFI"- HIDDEN MEANING. NOW THE "KHAFI" SENTENCES ARE FURTHER SUBDIVIDED INTO -i "KHAJI"- SENTENCES WITH HIDDEN MEANING BENEATH LITERAL MEANING. ii"MUSHKIL"- AMBIGUOUS MEANING SENTENCES. iii "MUJMAL"- SENTENCES WITH SEVERAL MEANING WITH RARE WORDS WHOSE MEANING ARE NOT CLEAR. iv "MUTASHBIH"- ONLY MUHAMMAD KNEW THE MEANING. SO FRIEND EVEN YOU DO NOT KNOW THE QUR'AN WELL. WHY EXPECT ME TO KNOW IT??
Mr.Anonymous's Knowledge of the Quran on Haji Subsidy
Dear Mr.No Name,Greetings to you.
Your point 2 has absolutely no meaning, do you believe Air India dispensing fund amongst Indian Muslims only: This is utter non-sense considering the bias in India.
Your next question . DO YOU WANT THE SUBSIDY FROM INDIAN GOVT AND THEN USE SAUDI AIRLINES???
Is also a total twist, a deceiving argument. Reread my argument once again. I said Air India lost INR 16,666 per passenger because the Haj pilgrims changed from Air India to Saudi Airline.
If Air India has been competitive in their fares, Air India could have made profits and part of these profits could have been given away to the pilgrims as subsidy. Do you understand?
Let there be open international tenders for air lines to carry Haj Pilgrims in which case we can totally remove the subsidy, at the same time abolish all subsidies to every community in India under the banner of true secularism. Do not try to smear one eye with butter and another eye with chalk.
Ideological differences do not reduce the rights of citizens following non-Hindu religions.
You were boasting about specific verse in the Quran forbidding receiving subsidy. Please produce the so called specific verse. The we throw it open to scholars for discussion.
Your last statement is equally sad, you say, quote “SO FRIEND EVEN YOU DO NOT KNOW THE QUR'AN WELL.”
You do not know how much I know the Quran
but your last statement, quote “WHY EXPECT ME TO KNOW IT??” reveals your honest ignorance.Thanks for the transparency. May God Guide to the right path.Take care.
SELECTIVE REPLAY INDICATE DEFENSIVE ATTITUDE.
Friend Amin, You have conveniently avoided commenting on my third point to an accepted fact that even Muslims do not understand the QUR'AN written in 7TH Century Arabic, and THE MUSLIMS THEMSELVES ACCEPT THAT some of the verses can be explained only by Muhammad who unfortunately died in 632AD.
ABOUT HAJ SUBSIDY GIVEN BY INDIAN GOVT- LET ALL MUSLIMS REJECT IT AND GO BY ANY MEANS. HOWEVER, VERSE 27 OF SURAH 22- AL-HAJ, IN QUR'AN DIRECT ALL MUSLIMS TO COME TO HAJ ON FOOT OR MOUNTED ON CAMEL "EVEN IF YOU HAVE TO COME THROUGH DEEP AND DISTANT MOUNTAIN HIGHWAYS. So why are you going by aircraft???? WHEN YOU CAN MODIFY QUR'AN TO SUITE YOUR REQUIREMENT ON HAJ WHY CAN'T YOU MODIFY THE VERSES GIVEN BELOW.
QUR'AN CHAPTER 9: AL-TAWBA (REPENTANCE)
Verse 29 (madina)
Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
5- AL-MAEDA (THE TABLE, THE TABLE SPREAD)
Verse 82 (madina)
Strongest among men in enmity to the believers wilt thou find the Jews and Pagans; and nearest among them in love to the believers wilt thou find those who say, "We are Christians": because amongst these are men devoted to learning and men who have renounced the world, and they are not arrogant.
HAJ SUBSIDY: SELECTIVE READING SHOWS ANTI-ISLAM BIAS
REPLY TO MR ANONYMOUS ON HAJ SUBSIDY
Muslims do not understand the Quran, is sweepingly over simplistic assertion that carries absolutely no logic. Quran is understood much more vividly than any other religious scripture in the world. That we can challenge. It is true that interpretations vary but there is no other Book in the world that has been so elaborately researched and discussed as the Quran. Any divine revelation is meant to be that way, that is why Ijtihad ( independent reasoning) is allowed to Mulsim scholars. It is the beauty of the Quran that it has been giving new light and new wisdom based on the time.
Why do you say Muslims should reject Haj Subsidy ( I stick to your view here, but as I have said several times, Haj Subsidy is a farce) Why don’t you say Indians of all religions should reject subsidies? Why don’t you say the secular government should stop all subsidy.Why don’t you say that Rs 13,250 received by every Hindu pilgrim to Mount Kailash should be rejected? What logic is there that one section of the citizens receive subsidy but another section should reject it or should not be paid? Don’t you agree every citizen pays tax to the Indian Govt? So why discriminate the tax payers based on their faiths that you have been illogically arguing about? There is no support for your view from the Quran.
In case you are a Bajrang Dal card holder, then come out bravely and say openly that let India become a Ram Raj and we stop all support to non-Hindus. That I understand and probably many intellectuals like me may agree even to the notion of Hinduism becoming a State Religion of India subject to preconditions similar to Protestant Christianity being the State Religion of U.K. or Islam being the State Religion of Iran. As long as International treaties are accepted, as long as UNO’s human right clauses are fully implemented and minority rights are protected, there is absolutely no problem if Hinduism became the official religion of India.
The issue of Jizya has been explained to non-Muslims several hundreds of times. It was much lower than Zakah paid by Muslims. Please access the following portal for full explanation.
http://jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/003260.php
You have taken the verse from Al-Maeda out of context. What is given in the verse was applicable during the time when Muhammad(saw) was fighting a war of survival. It is equally applicable now should a similar situation arise,to destroy Islam and certainly applicable in the Zionist occupied Palestine where the Jews are mercilessly butchering the original inhabitants both Muslim and Christian Arabs. Refer to the following from the sacred Hindu Scriptures and see what happens if you take them out of context.
“Killing of a woman, a Shudra or an atheist is not sinful. Woman is an embodiment of the worst desires, hatred, deceit, jealousy and bad character. Women should never be given freedom.” Bhagvad Gita (Manu IX. 17 and V. 47, 147)
Similarly another holy script of Hindu religious book preaches looking down upon women by terming a woman equal to a dog, crow and shudra (a low cast poor Hindu who has no rights in Hindu society).
“And whilst not coming into contact with Sudras and remains of food; for this Gharma is he that shines yonder, and he is excellence, truth, and light; but woman, the Sudra, the dog, and the black bird (the crow), are untruth: he should not look at these, lest he should mingle excellence and sin, light and darkness, truth and untruth.” – Satapatha Brahmana 14:1:1:31.
If you are a Hindu, please give your interpretation of the above verses, in case you are a Muslim, please ask our Hindu brothers to explain.
You got to understand the entire Quran and the History of Islam to interpret the meaning of the Quran. You will certainly go wrong if your views are clouded and unfairly biased. Take care. Keep reading.
The make-believe world of Hindutva Hindus
The government can remove the Haj subsidy if you want, but it has to be done through parliament, not by raising a mob.
The BJP government did not do this. The reason the governments will not remove the Haj subsidy is that India wins goodwill from the Arab countries; this translates into business.
Lot of the money goes to Air India, the hotel and tour operators who are based in India.
You are getting carried away.
This is why I say Hindutva cannot go far – you live in a make-believe world of your own. Hindutva cannot succeed because there are not enough Hindus who are stupid enough to believe you.
The rest of the rubbish you wrote is irrelevant and only confirms Hindutva is followed by Hindus with a sense of inferiority and insecurity.
Have you considered converting ? Since Hinduism has made you into a wreck, you have to look at other options.
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