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The Islamic Shariah fully covers a Muslim’s life from birth to death reminding him at every step that he is a bondsman of Allah, a member of the Ummah (community) of the Prophet of Islam, and a follower of a specific way of life. He thus remembers that he should take the religious code of …
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Muslims have played a very significant role in the national struggle for freedom. They have been in the forefront of it. After all it was Muslims from whose hands the British had wrested power in India. Arrival of British in India In 1601, an East India company trade delegation under the leadership of Vasco da …
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No trace of the formal educational institutions or madrasahs (as they later came to be known) is to be found during the early days of Islam. The first attempt to bring the study of different branches of learning under a systematic and standardized institution was made in the fourth century after Hijrah (Muslim calendar) when …
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It is amazing that although the chief Sufistic Orders had their origins outside India, sufism attained its greatest success in India. This was due partly to the circumstances of history and partly to the inherent Indian character and temperament. There branched forth from these Orders such fraternities in India which themselves grew into permanent orders …
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Today the Muslims of India are reeling under severe economic crisis and lack of job and business opportunities for the Muslim youth. It is needless to emphasise how important economic peace and security is to the mental and physical well-being of a people. Impact of Financial Uncertainty on People There is nothing more degrading than …
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The first institution known to history for the care of sick and wounded was perhaps established by Hippocrates. Bimaristan is the Persian word for hospitals while its Arabic version is Maristan. In the Muslim era the Umayyad Caliph Walid bin Abdul Malik was the first ruler who set up a hospital in 706 and appointed …
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India was abounded in fruit trees like mangoes, jack fruit, tamarind etc from the ancient times. But the Muslim rulers of India, besides setting up new cities and settlements and providing means of irrigation, imported fruit and flower plants from far off lands and laid out large formal gardens. To name only a few a …
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Muslim Rulers of India and especially those of Deccan gave special attention to construction and management of water bodies for the purpose of ease of irrigation and reclamation of waste lands. We have been able to collect information only about a few of the tanks and canals out of huge number of water bodies built …
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Muslim rulers of India gave innumerable roads and highways to India and it is not possible to give a detailed account of each of them here in this post. Therefore we are mentioning only the main and reputed thoroughfares of the Muslim period. The highway connecting the famous city of Sehwan (earlier Siwistan) in Sindh …
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There are two major festivals of Muslims: Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. Eid al-Fitr occurs immediately after the month of Ramadan, on the first day of the month of Shawwal which is the tenth month in the Islamic calendar while Eid al Adha falls on the 10th of Dhil Hijjah, the twelfth month in the …
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