better light a candle than curse the darkness

BaKhabar, Vol 3, Issue 6, June 2010
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Islam in a nutshell
         Allah
-  Sabiran Khatoon (sabirankhatoon@yahoo.in)

                                         ------- Continued from Part-1

To start with building a house, several ground works are required to be done & then, is stepped up with a foundation. As the foundation is made strong, the building strength and its elevation would be so.
    Islam, the religion of humanity, governed by “Allah”, also needs a clear cut affirmation statement & its exoneration. Kalma is the same for rising at the top of Islam. Once, you have put forth a firm statement & accepted by heart, you are on the first phase of the religion. This Kalma holds everything in itself & insist to admire the people What he has? By the grace of “Allah”, every small to smallest, large to largest, seen, unseen, known, unknown, all the metaphorous, non-metaphorous, etc. are the whole acceptance of omnipresence, the one & only “Allah”.
    This kalma makes embolden you to have the belief that entire system is under certain rule governed by the Supreme Authority. The air blows with its speed, its intensity, direction, amount every thing is controlled by auto-power.
    Sun is having enormous amount of energy associated with it, but it can not radiate energy with out following certain rule of the supreme power.  Moon moves, seeming to increase, decrease, brighten, dulled etc. all are based upon natural principle of the ultimate supreme power.
    Generally, what people, in dearth of knowledge, accept that this particular body has enormous energy or source of energy, or benefiting us, and then they start to think to be the slave of that very small thing considering its greatness without having the exquisite rather with leaky knowledge. Science has also verified and approved that sun is not the only source of energy. There are lots of thousands of stars even older, greater in energies in the sky, being followed by the rules of supreme.

Men can think that the sun, one light year distant away from us, is tendering such an amount of energy, if the entire source in the universe is considered  to be supplying energy to earth, then how many sun like so, called will get appeared. In fact there are God made substances for the benefit of human beings & to run the universe Sun, Moon, Stars, Satellites Earth, sky and many beyond imaginative substances,. God has surely framed certain rule & they are all obeying. Nonetheless, you can say these all are obeying their own. If, so, there would have been a great chance of big-bang and disarrangement & mishappening. That is the greatness, uniqueness & self proceed of thinking towards the  Omni-Present, Supreme Authority.
    The Kalma makes us submissive in totality & so with the understanding meaning of the Kalma , every greatness has for him(Allah) & none is worshipable after him.
    When some one will be submissive in nature, his kindness will be overjoyed & enlightened with the blessed power of he God & than only a man can get interlink with his bestowed supreme authority. If ,it is so, no body other than him may divert from your right path. So the Kalma has every meaning & proclamation to be an Islamic.
    No religion in the universe can say that there are as many Gods. If, it had been so, there should be non-uniform, un-recognized system showing every where filthyness. Hence, some one can realized that there is at all no chance of existence more than a God, no, because it can not be & is not. Kalma has very vast, wider and versatile meaning and can not be explained in such a small piece of article.
    It has been made a very little effort to get understand the value of firmness in Islam. Kalma is the first, foremost one of the five fundamentals of Islam. There are more or less than one lakh twenty-four thousand prophets witnessed by this unique & exquisite kalma with first and the last prophet Hazrat Mohammad Sal-lallaho-Alaih-e- Wassallam. “AMEEN”
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(This is part-2 of a series of articles, on the topic, and insha- allah, will elaborate further, in its next phases.)
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Quran, 3:105
And do not be like those, who became divided into sects and got involved in differences of opinion even after receiving clear teachings.
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Muslim representation in Civil Services - An Analysis

-    M Naushad Ansari (ruby.naushad@gmail.com)

While we brag of the achievement made by Kashmiri doctor Shah Faisal in the UPSC exam 2010, it has been found that the overall selection from the community has seen a steep decline over the period. In comparison to the 31 selection made in the year 2009 out of 791 candidates, the total number of candidates who made to the final call this year has declined to 21 out of 875 ie the percentage decline in year 2010 is around two and half percent.

It is pertinent to mention that the first IAS topper from the community was Amir Subhani of Bihar who succeeded in the year 1986. Syed Shahabuddin, ex- Member of Parliament and presently, the president of All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat was the first Muslim IAS topper. His yeomen untiring services to the community remain rarest of the rare. 
Analysts are observing since the percentage of Muslim graduates works out to be nearly four per cent, their selection is not much below this ratio. This analysis seems confusing and forms wrong notions. Another such attempt comes to the fore when people try to dilute the demand of Muslim reservation in government services saying that the lower number of graduates among Muslims leads them to lower representation in such jobs. However, until the proportion of non-Muslim graduates is taken into account, a logical analysis cannot be carried out.
According to Sachhar Committee Report, the proportion of Muslim graduates during 2004-05 was 3.4 per cent. On the other hand, among 'General Hindus' it was found to be 15.3 per cent, among 'SC/ST Hindus' it was 2.2 per cent, among 'OBC Hindus' it was 4.4 per cent and among 'other minorities' it was 8.9 per cent. In short, around 7.7 per cent of non-Muslims were found to be graduates as against 3.4 per cent Muslims. (Page 67, Sachhar Committee Report)
However, one can conclude that this 7.7 per cent of non-Muslim graduates could corner 96 per cent and 97.5 per cent of seats in the Civil Services Examination in the year 2009 and 2010 respectively, leaving 4 per cent and 2.5 per cent for Muslims in the respective years. That means the ratio of success among non-Muslim graduates was more than twelve times to the ratio of graduates among them, whereas, for the Muslims it was almost at par.
Therefore, in order to analyse the issue of gross under-representation of Muslims in Civil Services, the whole issue needs to be studied in depth. Moreover, the reasons for the under-representation are not only those that meet our eyes!

hari mirch, by siraj akram
Quran, 3:103
Hold fast together to Allah's cord and Iet nothing divide you. Remember the favour of Allah upon you, when you were enemies to one another, then He united your hearts, and by His grace, you became like brothers, and you were on the brink of the abyss of Fire and He rescued you from it. Thus does Allah make His signs clear to you so that you may find the right path to true success by these.          
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