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Sunday, July 26, 2009

[chottala.com] Re: Formation of Pakistan and Biharis (So Called)

There is no doubt that Mr. Jinnah placed an unjust two nation theory stolen from Lahore Proposal by Sherebangla. India was devided on the basis of religion. Hindu politicians thought if undivided India is formed Muslim people will be a problem for absolute power for Hindus. And the then Muslim leaders thought if Pakistan is not formed Muslim leaders will not get chairs of state power. The unpatriotic foolish Muslim politicians made the division of india which is a land for Muslims and other people as well. I think if India was formed with a one unit country Muslims always would in the state power of undivided India.

This is weird that Jinnah placed the two nation theory for the interest of muslims but he himself was not a muslim because he didn't follow a Muslim lifestyle. He never prayed salat nor did other regular Muslim religious work. He never disclosed that he was TB patient.

On Biharis, they never came to Banga Desh. They came to Pakistan. So they opposed to divide pakistan blindly. They never could like Bangalis although Bangalis are Muslims in greater number in the region.


--- In chottala@yahoogroups.com, Lost Dream <lostadream@...> wrote:
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> It's so absurd that some people are commenting and writing on the above subjects with their hearts instead of their heads. The actual details about the creation of Pakistan can be found in independent history books. However, if you read history written by Indian scholars you shall get one version and if you read the Pakistani scholars writing it will be another.
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> Pakistan was created for the Muslims and nothing was ever considered about any language at that time. The issue of language came much later. There was a rift, reasons unknown to me, between the Bengali speaking people and the non-Bengali speaking people, who were economically more solvent. (I have not said Urdu). The non-Bengali population living in East Pakistan would seldom socialize with Bengalis, marriage between them was just of the question. The people of East Pakistan revolted when Urdu was proclaimed the national language not because Bengali is a richer language but because of the rift between Bengalis and Non-Bengalis. What actual difference does it make to have any particular language be the national language as long as no one forces one to learn and speak that language?
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> In the early 60's a bengali boy fell in love with a non-bengali girl in Chittagong, they eloped fearing repercation of the families. Somehow the girl was taken back by the girl's family and there a racket between both families. During the aurgument, the girl's family stated something like " We would prefer to give our daughter in marriage to a dog but not a bengali". This statement spread like wild fire in Chittagong, a riot broke out and non-bengalis were hunted down and assulted.
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> Now let me turn to the plight of the Beharis. The non-bengali people were classified as Beharis, there were only a few actual Beharis, who came from the State of Bihar, the rest were West Pakistanis, Bombaywallas, Kabuliwallahs, Madrasi, Gujratis and so on. The populations comming from India to settle in East Pakistan deserves much more respect than we ever give them. They left their homes, their lands, their jobs, livihood, other family members etc, to come and live with their fellow Islamic brothers and sisters. It was a big sacrifice for them. It's not easy to settle in a different unknown land with different cultures just because of the same religion, but they did. It is not the Beharis fault that Awami Leauge won a general election and Mr. Z. A. Bhutto would not allow Sk. Mujibur Rahaman, the leader of Awami Leauge to be the President of Pakistan.
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> Just after March 25, 1971, in Chittagong, the Beharis (which included the Pathans, Kabuliwallahs, West Pakistanis, Madrasis, etc.) were buchered by the Bengalis. After the Pakistani Army retook Chittagong, the Beharis supported the Pakistani Army. Who would not? Only a few Beharis were members of Rajakar, Al-Badar or Al-Shams. Most of the recruits were bengalis.
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> Many years have since passed, we need to forget the rifts and live together as a family. We need our county to be strong, both economicaly and in strength. We need the contributions of all citizens, irrespective of the language they speak or the religion they follow. Let us punish only the actual war-criminals.
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> Twisting history is also a serious crime.
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> My writing is not based on any books or opinions but on first hand observations.
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> Kind regards.
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> H. Haider
> To: chottala@yahoogroups.com
> From: dina30_khan@...
> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:39:43 -0700
> Subject: Re: [chottala.com] Why push the Biharis onto Bangladesh?
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> On religion basis division of Bengal & India was totally against the democracy.
> The reality is that the theory of 2 nations was a conspiracy against the democracy & against the humanity & human right. This conspiracy was done not only by Urdu Speaker Mr. Jinna but also it is done in cooperation of Hindi Speaker Mr. Neheru.
> It seems that Mr. Neheru might think if India not be divided then India might got before position of 1757 or fighting would start for state language of India between languages Urdu & Hindi or state Language of India would be majority people of
> Bangla
> Among then Muslims Politicians in the undivided Bengal except Mr. AKF Haque understood this conspiracy later Mr. Shahid Sarwardi could but other Muslims Bengal politicians including the father of now Independence Bangladesh could not be able to understand this conspiracy.
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> Now we need to confirm that East Pakistan is created on 2 nation theories which is the foundation of Bangladesh & all citizens of East Pakistan are the citizens of Bangladesh only the war criminals are needed to face trial for establishing social justice
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> Subject: [chottala.com] Why push the Biharis onto Bangladesh?
> To: chottala@yahoogroups.com
> Received: Saturday, 25 July, 2009, 9:33 AM
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> We came to know from the history there were so many scientific thesis written in Urdu. There is no question of revengeful attitude in my writing. In spite of their activities in 1971 still few lacs of Biharis staying there for the last 39 years in the middle of full of Bengali people without any untoward incidents or revengeful activities. Bengali people initially did not have any conflict with the Biharis. The conflict of Bangalee Bihari started in 1971 when Biharis instead of taking side with the Bengalis with whom they used to stay for 25 years they accepted Pakistanis as their friends and initiated all sorts of atrocities against Bengalis by taking active parts along with their Pakistani
> associates.
> I don't know why I am unable to clear that the creation of Pakistan was on the basis of religion only, not on language.
> Before 1947 many iron men from our Bengal joined hand in hand with M.A. Jinnah and took active part in the creation of Pakistan on the agreement to create a separate home land for the Muslims in India. According to that they tried and were successful in creating Pakistan as a separate land for the Muslims.
> There was no agreement and no mention anywhere, the creation of Pakistan for Urdu only when there was movement for the creation of Pakistan going on. Why possessing this wrong idea, India was divided into two - Pakistan for Urdu language and India for Hindi language.
> It was only due to M.A. Jinnah who later on without giving any value to our Bengali language took the opportunity of our sincerity to enforce most unwanted Urdu language on our shoulder and by telling Urdu and Urdu only will be the state language of Pakistan, igniting the volcano producing an eruption creating a big explosion of our language movement which results ultimately the creation of Bangladesh in 1971. How they thought our Bengali people would accept their foolish dictatorial proposal.
> From our Bangladesh side there was no objection if West Pakistani people accept Urdu as their state language but in our the then East Pakistan how they thought and were dared enough to force Urdu language over us and subsequently objecting our own Bengali language in our own Bengal? Was it possible where the majority of us as son of the soil used to speak in Bengali by being born and brought up with our own ancestral Bengali language? How it was possible we would start again everything by accepting Urdu from the beginning as our new language? Sorry to say it was not possble.
> Bengali people never objected for the Biharis who entered in our small Bangladesh to speak in their own Urdu language nor bothered for it. The problem started when M.A. Jinnah tried to enforce the Urdu over our Bengal to accept it as state language. Really very strange to think even.
> We can sacrifice our small land of Bangladesh to share with those large influx of Biharis as they were our same Muslim community but in concern of language no compromise, as that was the language of our heart.
> That was the only reason by attacking our Bengali language these Biharis lost their all stronghold of their foot step in Bangladesh and have nowhere, got no place moving from one place to another as vagabond refugees.
> Biharis who supported and favoured Pakistan against us during our liberation war in 1971 after repeated claim by them for the last 39 years as they are Pakistani, Pakistan refused to accept them. On the other hand it is not possible for our Bangladesh to be converted again into Pakistan as it is already finished now.
> The question is now why to push those "Urdu Wala Biharis" onto Bangladesh as their most intimate "Mouch Wala Khan of Pakistan" refused to accept them? After staying for 25 years, Pakistan could not be a good friend of Bengalis how the Biharis thought those Pakistanis will be a good friend of them. What more we can do for them now? There is no other alternative except feeling pity for those poor Biharis.
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> Mr. Dowllah
> You are talking for revenging
> I am asking for lawful administration based on justice of law for humanity & human right.
> It is very clear though Pakistan was created based on the theory of 2 nations the cause is religion
> But historical causes of division were behind that reasons are still for continuing the problems in the subcontinent
> Though Mr. Jinnah was blamed he was the responsible person for division of India logically it could not be said only Mr. Jinnah was responsible.
> He was the initial member of Congress later he joined to ML.
> On analyzing it is clear that the historical backgrounds divisions of India are the main causes. Once on train travel Calcuta to Delhi I heard people in train gossiped that Urdu is language of Muslim & Hindi for Hindu.
> So it is looked India has no language problem all other local languages people have taken Hindi their national language & Harmony of Geo Political cultural is there..
> Though for Bengali language Bangladesh is liberated still in Bangladesh Bengali language is used only in domestic in drama in cinema & in political talking for illiterate people.
> It can not be used for earning medical knowledge or engineering knowledge or technical knowledge or official & administrative knowledge even it is not used for prestigious talking & in religion prayer.
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> It is the Language limited in Rabindra & Nazrul Sangith now in Natak of Homayan Ahmed & fun of Naslima Nasrin.
> No authority still is thinking or taking perfect action for making it a media of knowledge earning language. People think wasting of time for using this language.
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> Bangladesh Administration is needed to think how can be established lawful Administration & social justice for humanity & human right
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[chottala.com] Formation of Pakistan and Biharis (So Called)




It's so absurd that some people are commenting and writing on the above subjects with their hearts instead of their heads. The actual details about the creation of Pakistan can be found in independent history books. However, if you read history written by Indian scholars you shall get one version and if you read the Pakistani scholars writing it will be another.

Pakistan was created for the Muslims and nothing was ever considered about any language at that time. The issue of language came much later. There was a rift, reasons unknown to me, between the Bengali speaking people and the non-Bengali speaking people, who were economically more solvent. (I have not said Urdu). The non-Bengali population living in East Pakistan would seldom socialize with Bengalis, marriage between them was just of the question. The people of East Pakistan revolted when Urdu was proclaimed the national language not because Bengali is a richer language but because of the rift between Bengalis and Non-Bengalis. What actual difference does it make to have any particular language be the national language as long as no one forces one to learn and speak that language?

In the early 60's a bengali boy fell in love with a non-bengali girl in Chittagong, they eloped fearing repercation of the families. Somehow the girl was taken back by the girl's family and there a racket between both families. During the aurgument, the girl's family stated something like " We would prefer to give our daughter in marriage to a dog but not a bengali". This statement spread like wild fire in Chittagong, a riot broke out and non-bengalis were hunted down and assulted.

Now let me turn to the plight of the Beharis. The non-bengali people were classified as Beharis, there were only a few actual Beharis, who came from the State of Bihar, the rest were West Pakistanis, Bombaywallas, Kabuliwallahs, Madrasi, Gujratis and so on. The populations comming from India to settle in East Pakistan deserves much more respect than we ever give them. They left their homes, their lands, their jobs, livihood, other family members etc, to come and live with their fellow Islamic brothers and sisters. It was a big sacrifice for them. It's not easy to settle in a different unknown land with different cultures just because of the same religion, but they did. It is not the Beharis fault that Awami Leauge won a general election and Mr. Z. A. Bhutto would not allow Sk. Mujibur Rahaman, the leader of Awami Leauge to be the President of Pakistan.

Just after March 25, 1971, in Chittagong, the Beharis (which included the Pathans, Kabuliwallahs, West Pakistanis, Madrasis, etc.) were buchered by the Bengalis. After the Pakistani Army retook Chittagong, the Beharis supported the Pakistani Army. Who would not? Only a few Beharis were members of Rajakar, Al-Badar or Al-Shams. Most of the recruits were bengalis.

Many years have since passed, we need to forget the rifts and live together as a family. We need our county to be strong, both economicaly and in strength. We need the contributions of all citizens, irrespective of the language they speak or the religion they follow. Let us punish only the actual war-criminals.

Twisting history is also a serious crime.

My writing is not based on any books or opinions but on first hand observations.

Kind regards.

H. Haider

To: chottala@yahoogroups.com
From: dina30_khan@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:39:43 -0700
Subject: Re: [chottala.com] Why push the Biharis onto Bangladesh?

 
Mr Dowllah
On religion basis division of Bengal & India was totally against the democracy.
The reality is that the theory of 2 nations was a conspiracy against the democracy & against the humanity & human right. This conspiracy was done not only by Urdu Speaker Mr. Jinna but also it is done in cooperation of Hindi Speaker Mr. Neheru.
It seems that Mr. Neheru might think if India not be divided then India might got before position of 1757 or fighting would start for state language of India between languages Urdu & Hindi or state Language of India would be majority people of Bangla   
Among then Muslims Politicians in the undivided Bengal except Mr. AKF Haque understood this conspiracy later Mr. Shahid Sarwardi could but other Muslims Bengal politicians including the father of now Independence Bangladesh could not be able to understand this conspiracy.
However
Now we need to confirm that East Pakistan is created on 2 nation theories which is the foundation of Bangladesh & all citizens of East Pakistan are the citizens of Bangladesh only the war criminals are needed to face trial for establishing social justice & lawful Administration in Bangladesh

 


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From: siraj@yahoo.com <siraj@yahoo.com>
Subject: [chottala.com] Why push the Biharis onto Bangladesh?
To: chottala@yahoogroups.com
Received: Saturday, 25 July, 2009, 9:33 AM

 
Attention dina khan,

We came to know from the history there were so many scientific thesis written in Urdu. There is no question of revengeful attitude in my writing. In spite of their activities in 1971 still few lacs of Biharis staying there for the last 39 years in the middle of full of Bengali people without any untoward incidents or revengeful activities. Bengali people initially did not have any conflict with the Biharis. The conflict of Bangalee Bihari started in 1971 when Biharis instead of taking side with the Bengalis with whom they used to stay for 25 years they accepted Pakistanis as their friends and  initiated all sorts of atrocities against Bengalis by taking active parts along with their Pakistani associates.        

I don't know why I am unable to clear that the creation of Pakistan was on the basis of religion only, not on language.

Before 1947 many iron men from our Bengal joined hand in hand with M.A. Jinnah and took active part in the creation of Pakistan on the agreement to create a separate home land for the Muslims in India. According to that they tried and were successful in creating Pakistan as a separate land for the Muslims.

There was no agreement and no mention anywhere, the creation of Pakistan for Urdu only when there was movement for the creation of Pakistan going on. Why possessing this wrong idea, India was divided into two - Pakistan for Urdu language and India for Hindi language.

It was only due to M.A. Jinnah who later on without giving any value to our Bengali language took the opportunity of our sincerity to enforce most unwanted Urdu language on our shoulder and by telling Urdu and Urdu only will be the state language of Pakistan, igniting the volcano producing an eruption creating a big explosion of our language movement which results ultimately the creation of Bangladesh in 1971. How they thought our Bengali people would accept their foolish dictatorial proposal.

From our Bangladesh side there was no objection if West Pakistani people accept Urdu as their state language but in our the then East Pakistan how they thought and were dared enough to force Urdu language over  us and subsequently objecting our own Bengali language in our own Bengal? Was it possible where the majority of us as son of the soil used to speak in Bengali by being born and brought up with our own ancestral Bengali language? How it was possible we would start again everything by accepting Urdu from the beginning as our new language? Sorry to say it was not possble.

Bengali people never objected for the Biharis who entered in our small Bangladesh to speak in their own Urdu language nor bothered for it. The problem started when M.A. Jinnah tried to enforce the Urdu over our  Bengal to accept it as state language. Really very strange to think even. 

We can sacrifice our small land of Bangladesh to share with those large influx of Biharis as they were our same Muslim community but in concern of language no compromise, as that was the language of our heart. 

That was the only reason by attacking our Bengali language these Biharis lost their all stronghold of their foot step in Bangladesh and have nowhere, got no place moving from one place to another as vagabond refugees.

Biharis who supported and favoured Pakistan against us during our liberation war in 1971 after repeated claim by them for the last 39 years as they are Pakistani, Pakistan refused to accept them. On the other hand it is not possible for our Bangladesh to be converted again into Pakistan as it is already finished now.

The question is now why to push those "Urdu Wala Biharis" onto Bangladesh as their most intimate "Mouch Wala Khan of Pakistan" refused to accept them?  After staying for 25 years, Pakistan could not be a good friend of Bengalis how the Biharis thought those Pakistanis will be a good friend of them. What more we can do for them now? There is no other alternative except feeling pity for those poor Biharis. 

Dowllah.   

 

 
 
dina khan wrote:
Sent: July 24, 2009 8:59:39 PM
To: chottala@yahoogroup s.com
 
Mr. Dowllah
You are talking for revenging
I am asking for lawful administration based on justice of law for humanity & human right.
It is very clear though Pakistan was created based on the theory of 2 nations the cause is religion 
But historical causes of division were behind that reasons are still for continuing the problems in the subcontinent
Though Mr. Jinnah was blamed he was the responsible person for division of India logically it could not be said only Mr. Jinnah was responsible. 
He was the initial member of Congress later he joined to ML.
On analyzing it is clear that the historical backgrounds divisions of India are the main causes. Once on train travel Calcuta to Delhi I heard people in train gossiped that Urdu is language of Muslim & Hindi for Hindu.
So it is looked India has no language problem all other local languages people have taken Hindi their national language & Harmony of Geo Political cultural is there..
Though for Bengali language Bangladesh is liberated still in Bangladesh Bengali language is used only in domestic in drama in cinema & in political talking for illiterate people.
It can not be used for earning medical knowledge or engineering knowledge or technical knowledge or official & administrative knowledge even it is not used for prestigious talking & in religion prayer.
 
It is the Language limited in Rabindra & Nazrul Sangith now in Natak of Homayan Ahmed & fun of Naslima Nasrin.
No authority still is thinking or taking perfect action for making it a media of knowledge earning language. People think wasting of time for using this language.
However
Bangladesh Administration is needed to think how can be established lawful Administration & social justice for humanity & human right


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[chottala.com] Fw: *~history**Islam~*** The Destruction of Holy Sites in Mecca and Medina





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Subject: *~history**Islam~*** The Destruction of Holy Sites in Mecca and Medina

 

 

The Destruction of Holy Sites in Mecca and Medina

 

 

By Irfan Ahmed

The Arabian Peninsula , the cradle of Islam, is being demolished by hardliners. In countries such as Saudi Arabia almost all of the Islamic historical sites are gone, but this is not the first time they have been destroyed
In 1802, and army led by the sons of Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab (the founder of Wahhabism) and Muhammad ibn Saud occupied Taif and began a bloody massacre. A year later, the forces occupied the holy city of Mecca . They executed a campaign of destruction in many sacred places and leveled all the existing domes, even those built over the well of Zamzam. However, after the army left, Sharif Ghalib breached the truce, inciting the Wahhabis to reoccupy Mecca in 1805.

In 1806, the Wahhabi army occupied Medina . They did not leave any religious building, including mosques, without demolishing it, whether inside or outside the Baqi' (graveyard). They intended to demolish the grave of the Prophet Muhammad, may the peace and blessings of God be upon him, many times, but would repeatedly change their minds. At this time, non-Wahhabi Muslims were prevented from performing the Hajj (pilgrimage) . In 1805, Iraqi and Iranian Muslims were refused permission to perform Hajj, as were the Syrians in 1806 and Egyptians the following year. The Saudi leader at the time wanted the pilgrims to embrace his Wahhabi beliefs and accept his Wahhabi mission. If they refused, he denied them permission to perform the Hajj and considered them heretics and infidels—ignoring the word of God in Sura al-Baqara:

And who is more unjust than he who forbids that in places for the worship of God, His name should be celebrated? Whose
zeal is (in fact) to ruin them? It was not fitting that such
should themselves enter them except in fear. For them there
is nothing but disgrace in this world, and the world to come,
an exceeding torment. (Qur'an 2:114)

The Wahhabi army's destruction campaign targeted the graves of the martyrs of Uhud, the mosque at the grave of Sayyid al-Shuhada' Hamza bin Abdul Muttalib and the mosques outside the Baqi': the Mosque of Fatima al-Zahra, the Mosque of al-Manaratain, and Qubbat' al-Thanaya (the burial site of the Prophet's incisor that was broken in the battle of Uhud). The structures in the Baqi' were also leveled to the ground and not a single dome was left standing. This great place that was visited by millions of Muslims over many centuries became a garbage dump, such that it was not possible to recognize any grave or know whom it embraced.

The occupation of the holy places by the army and their preventing Muslims from performing Hajj led thousands of people to flee Mecca and Medina to escape religious persecution. The Muslims started to complain and express their concerns, and public opinion put pressure on the Ottoman Caliph to liberate and rebuild the two holy places and once again permit the Muslims to perform the pilgrimage. Accordingly, an army led by Muhammad Ali Pasha, the Caliph's viceroy in Egypt , was sent. When the forces arrived in the Hijaz, a number of tribes marched in support of the army, which regained control over Medina and then Mecca .

In 1818, the Wahhabis were defeated and they withdrew from the holy places. The Prophet's Mosque, the Baqi' and the monuments at Uhud were rebuilt during the reigns of the Ottoman sultans 'Abd al-Majid I, 'Abd al-Hamid II and Mahmud II. From 1848 to 1860, the buildings were renovated and the Ottomans built the domes and mosques in splendid aesthetic style. They also rebuilt the Baqi' with a large dome over the graves of the Prophet's daughter Fatima al-Zahra, Imam Zainul 'Abidin ('Ali bin al-Hussain), Imam Muhammad ibn 'Ali al-Baqir and Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq. The graves of others related to the Prophet found at the Baqi' include those belonging to Ibrahim (son), 'Uthman ibn 'Affan (Companion and son-in-law), Saffia bint Abdul Muttalib (aunt), Atika bint 'Abd al-Muttalib (aunt), Al-'Abbas ibn 'Abd al-Muttalib (uncle), Fatima bint Assad (Imam Ali's mother), 'Abd Allah ibn Ja'far bin Abi Talib (cousin) and Aqil ibn Abi Talib (The Prophet's cousin).

The grave of the Prophet's father 'Abd Allah was in Dar al-Nabigha of the Bani Najjar, the house of where the Prophet learned to swim. However, his father's grave was exhumed 17 years ago and transferred to the Baqi'. The area of the house today lies under the marble covering the plaza surrounding the mosque.

A number of the Prophet's wives (the Mothers of the Faithful) were buried in the Baqi': 'A'isha, Hafsa, Juwayriya, Saffia, Sawda, Zaynab bint Khuzaima, Zaynab bint Jahsh, Umm Habiba and Umm Salama. The tomb of Khadija, the Prophet's first wife, is in Mecca because she died before the Hijra (migration of Muslims to Medina ). Her grave is in the Hajun cemetery, known as Maqbarat'al-Ma'la. The tomb of Maimouna, another wife, is also in Mecca in an area known as Sarif, which lies on the side of the Hijra Road , nearly 13 miles (20 kilometers) outside Mecca.\

On April 21,1925, the domes in the Baqi' were demolished once more along with the tombs of the holy personalities in Maqbarat'al-Ma'la in Mecca, where the Holy Prophet's mother, wife Khadija, grandfather and other ancestors are buried. Destruction of the sacred sites in the Hijaz continues till this day. Wahhabis say they are trying to rescue Islam from what they consider innovations, deviances and idolatries. Among the practices they believe are contrary to Islam are constructing elaborate monuments over graves and making supplications there.

The Mashrubat Umm Ibrahim—which was built to mark the location of the house where the Prophet's son, Ibrahim, was born to Mariah, his Egyptian wife—also contained the grave of Hamida al-Barbariyya, the mother of Imam Musa al-Kazim. These sites were destroyed over the past few years.

I recently met with one of the leading political leaders of Medina and took the opportunity to speak to him about the destruction of these holy sites. He told me that the sites were not being demolished, but that torrential rain in Medina was washing away the old buildings! I told him the mosque and tomb of Sayyid Imam al-Uraidhi ibn Ja'far al-Sadiq, four miles from the Prophet's Mosque, was destroyed by dynamite and flattened on August 13, 2002. Imam al-Uraidhi is ninth in line from the Prophet. I also asked him about the plan to demolish the last remnant of the historical vestiges of the Messenger of God, namely his noble birthplace, which has been converted into a library, "Maktabat Makka al-Mukarrama." There was no answer.

Within the last 10 years, Muqbil ibn Hadi al-Wadi'i, a student at the University of Medina, wrote a thesis titled "About the Dome Built over the Grave of the Messenger," sponsored by Sheikh Hammad al-Ansari. In this paper, the student demands that the noble grave be brought out of the Mosque. He says the presence of the holy grave and noble dome are major innovations and that they both need to be destroyed! His thesis received very high marks. Last year, the city planning board of Medina painted the famous green dome of the Prophet's Holy Mosque silver. After intense protests by the citizens of Medina , the board restored the dome to its original color.

In the Ottoman part of the Prophet's Mosque, at the center of the three sections raised a bit from the ground level are three circles. The first, toward the west, corresponds to the grave of the Prophet. The next two toward the east correspond to the graves of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq and 'Umar ibn al-Khattab. Above the circles are invocations including "Ya Allah" and "Ya Muhammad." The latter was removed and replaced it with "Ya Majid" by adding the dot under the 'ha of Muhammad to make it jim and two dots under the second mim of Muhammad to make it 'ya. There are qasidas written by rulers of the Muslim world, such as Sultan 'Abd al- Hamid. Many verses of the famous Burda of al-Busayri had also been painted over. On the Qibla side, the brass partition that is divided into three sections between two columns, the authorities have also tried to cover the famous two verses inscribed in the east from the story of al-'Utbi as mentioned by Ibn Kathir in his Tafsir. "O best of those whose bones are buried in the deep earth, and from whose fragrance the depth and height have become sweet! May I be the ransom for a grave in which you dwell, where purity, bounty and munificence."

If one raises his head a bit, he will see on the first section of this partition a green banner, on which the words of the Almighty are framed in yellow:

O you who believe! Raise not your voices above the voice of

the Prophet, may blessings and peace be upon him and his

family, nor speak aloud to him in talk, as you speak aloud to

one another, lest your deeds be rendered fruitless while you

perceive not. (Qur'an 49:2)

The Sacred Chamber has four exterior doors: on the south, Bab al-Tawba (The Door of Repentance), on the north, Bab al-Tahajjud (The Door of Night Prayer), on the east, Bab Fatima (the Door of Fatima), and on the west, Bab al-Nabi (The Door of the Prophet)—also known as Bab al- Wufud (The Door of Delegations) . These gates have been present since the year 668 AH except for the Gate of the Night Prayer, which was installed in 729 AH. Inside there are two gates, one on either side of the triangular part of the interior compartment. All of these doors are covered by brass shelves holding Qur'ans, an attempt to prevent the public from looking inside the Sacred chamber.

The Wahhabi religious authorities are, unfortunately, on a fast track. In 1998 the grave of Amina bint Wahb, the Prophet's mother, was bulldozed in Abwa and gasoline was poured on it. Even though thousands of petitions throughout the Muslim world were sent to Saudi Arabia , nothing stopped this action. One of my late teachers, Sheikh Sayyid Muhammad ibn 'Alawi al-Maliki, a Meccan who was a great historian on the holy sites and inherited his knowledge from his father and forefathers who were all teachers of the holy Haram, showed me pictures of the grave of Sayyida Amina marked with a pile of stones after the destruction. The House of Khadija was excavated during the Haram extensions, then hurriedly covered over so as to obliterate any trace of it. This was the house where the Prophet received some of his first revelations and it is also where his children Umm Kulthum, Ruqqaya, Zaynab, Fatima, and Qasim were born. Dar al-Arqam, the first school in Islam where the Prophet taught has also been demolished. It was in the area of Shi'b 'Ali near the Bab 'Ali door opposite the king's palace. It is now part of the extension of the Haram.

The authorities plan to demolish the house of Mawlid, where the Prophet was born. About 60 years ago, this house, which used to have a dome over it, was turned into a cattle market. Some people then worked together to transform it into a library, which it is today. It is lined with shelves of books about Mecca , most of them written by Meccans. But the library is under threat again because of the new Jabal 'Umar project, one of the largest real estate development projects near the Grand Mosque. The birthplace of the Prophet is to make way for a car park and hotels. About 99% of real estate owners in the Jabal 'Umar area are shareholders in this company. The owners have been provided with financial incentives, including what they used to receive as rents, combining five-star facilities under the luxurious Le Meridien banner. The Meridien Towers will allow several thousand housing units in Mecca to be available during specified periods of time, for a one-off, fixed fee, giving the towers 25 years of shared ownership in Mecca . This scheme allow outsiders, whether Muslim or not, to invest in the city; they will be allowed to buy from a range of properties that can be used, sublet, resold or given as a gift.

For the holy month of Ramadan in Mecca , authorities built a wall enclosure in the Haram for women to pray there so men will not be able to see them. However, this has also blocked women's visibility of the Ka'ba while they perform their prayers. The tawaf (circumambulation) for women has also been restricted to certain times. We don't know if these changes are permanent or just for Ramadan.

In Medina , of the seven mosques at the site of the Battle of the Trench (Jabal al-Khandaq), where Sura al-Ahzab was revealed, only two remain. The others have been demolished and a Saudi bank's cashpoint machine has been built in the area. The remaining mosques will be demolished as soon as the new mosque being constructed is ready. One of the mosques slated for destruction is Masjid Fath, the mosque and rock of victory, where the Prophet stood during the battle of the trench praying for victory. On the rock is where he received God's promises of victory and of the conquest of Mecca .

Dr. Irfan Ahmed is Joint Chairman of the Islamic Heritage and Research Foundation, which was formed to help protect and preserve the holy sites in the Hijaz. For more information contact: islamic_heritage@ hotmail.com

 

http://www.islamica magazine. com/Issue- 15/The-Destructi on-of-Holy- Sites-in- Mecca-and- Medina.html

 

 

 


 
 



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[chottala.com] Hasina's about-turn to her commitment to change



Hasina's about-turn to her commitment to change
Her first major failure to show the nation that she is capable



Let us first give the credit, where it is due. AL as a party has complied to the rules set by EC, held its council and submitted
its constitution. More importantly, the party has selected a relatively younger leader to be the General Secretary. However, Hasina forgot her own commitment to change her party - create a new party which will deliver the charter of change to 
the nation.


Are we to believe that the councilors do not have the capacity to elect the full committee of the party? Even if they decide to 
continue the farcical culture of empowering the Netri to make the committe, why can they do it before the council is over? Hasina could announce a slate of committee members to the councilors which they could have suported. But she did't do it. Why? 

On the face it, at the least, its the imcompetence that stands out. Beyond incompetence, there could be a number of possibilities that includes previous corrupt practice of selling these positions to the highest bidders as they used to do for the nomination of MP candidates. 

If she can't change the way the party is run (let alone to relinquish the party top position while being PM), how could we beleive that she can deliver the charter of change or a digital Bangladesh? So far, it was honeymoon period for the last six months. However, the way the party council has been conducted, it has demonstrated the first major failure of Hasina as a leader. 


Things to watch in near future:

1. Her selection of cabinet was welcomed by many - however, it is time to assess their performance.  Lets see whether you have learned how to assess. 

2. The parliamentary committees are primarily to make policies, they are not investigation agencies. Hasina should know this. They aren't doing their job.

3. The current celing 10% limit of technocrat ministers quota should be abolished or increased at least. Hasina should formalize some of her advisers as full ministers in technocrat quota.

4. It is time to implement the Human Rights Commission fully and make it effective.

5. It is time to implement the Right to Information Act fully and take meaningful steps so that people can benefit from it.

6. Initiate town-hall style citizens consultation meetings about Asian Highway, Chittagong Deep Seaport, Tipaimukh

7. Complete the judicial reforms (Oust imcompetent and rajakar sympathezers from the High Court) that was initiated by the CTG.

8. Try the war criminals.

If you thought some of the ideas are worth of your reading time, please forward it to others. If you have an ear to the columnists in regular traditional media, please forward it to them. If you have an ear to the journalists and news editors of the electronic media, discuss it with them. Hope they would look at the suggestions and give due diligence.

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After election of December 2008, we have been silent - we are 
observing what Hasina government does with the trial of war 
criminals. We would stay silent until we really make up our mind 
about the intention of war criminal trial by AL government. But 
this article is one of the few exceptions which needed immediate 
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