Bouquets and Brickbats

In the Islamic Voice of July 2007 on page 36, under matrimonial, the number of wanted alliance for the girls is 20 and out of these, seven are divorcees. Some of these divorcees are highly qualified and even MBBS, MD and MS doctors.  This is shocking and one can well imagine the miserable plight of the girls and their relatives. Similarly, there are 11 bridegrooms who want brides and three of them are divorcees.  It means, out of 31 males and females, 10 are divorcees.  It reflects a poor social life in the Muslim society.


Kindly take steps to reduce the divorce rates especially among the girls who suffer the most.  I feel sorry for the Muslim women. 

Apropos to  the  editorial  in Islamic Voice , September 2007, whether it is NCP and Congress coalition government in Maharashtra or Modi government in Gujarat, Muslims will not get justice.  They have double standards for justice, one for Muslims and something else for others. In all organised and pre-planned riots, it is the Muslims who are lynched, their properties looted and burnt and the police are silent spectators.  When they act, they round up the Muslim youth, search Muslim houses and recover planted weapons and will file cases on trumped up charges.

The Sachar Committee Report reveals that out of every hundred workers, about eleven are Hindu OBCs, three are Muslim-General and only one is Muslim OBC (Page 209 of the report).  Thus out of every 100 Muslims workers, there are 75 Muslim-General and 25 Muslim-OBCs.  Syed Shahabuddin also says that the Muslim OBC’s form about ľ of the Muslim population. Later, he puts Muslim-OBCs population to be 90 per cent. (Muslim India, May 2007).  From this, it can be very safely said that Muslim-General are at least three times over-represented in jobs with ratio to its population compared to Muslim-OBCs’ representation. Syed Shahabuddin staunchly advocates ‘Universal reservation for all the identifiable social group based on their population and level of backwardness’. The theory of prioritization of seats to Muslim OBCs is quite fair. But until the share is quantified, the rule will not be enforceable in the court of law. There will be various ways of interpretation to this and the community, as a whole, will never have a joint struggle.

These days, we find some brothers who keep themselves busy in advising others to be good in accordance with teachings of Islam, but in spite of that, do not get effective results. In my opinion, the reason behind it is that they do not practise what they preach. This is, why the people following practically the path of Islam influence others. Words have power. I mean that even today, your words can be affective, attractive and impressive when you practically live your life according to advice based on qualities that you attain after learning Islam.

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In the August issue of Islamic Voice, on page 36 under item 18 “Questions on Qur’an”, it is mentioned that the total number of verses in the Qur’an is 6666. This is incorrect. There are 6236 verses. Also under item 17, number of Rakats is mentioned as 540. This is not correct. They are 558. This can be checked from the Qur’an.


Thanks. We have noted down your reference.
Editor

This is with reference to the article on “Age of puberty and fasting” in the September 2007 issue of Islamic Voice and the answer given by Al-Shaykh Abd-Al ibn Humayd,


The poor girl is just asking,  if she should make up for the missed fasts. Actually the person should reply, “Y es you should make-up for the missed fasts since you have attained the age of puberty.” But the reply given was in too great detail. A female is asking a simple question and the male should reply in a dignified manner, not flaunt his sexual mentality, because of which the female is humiliated when she reads the article herself or her family members read it.


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