Bakhabar, July, ramadan special, 2013 - Bihar Anjuman

EditorialIf the 11 months were the stains, Let Ramadan Be theCleanerThe holy month of Ramadan is here again to engulf us in itsspiritual beauty. A month of fasting coming to clean the dirtaccumulated , on our beings during the previous elevenmonths. Our spirit, our soul, deadened by the weight of ourpursuit of immediate materialistic goals, is left stranded onthe shores of restlessness. Ramadan is the best bet for aspring cleansing not just for the soul but also for the cage oursoul resides in. This cage called body doesn’t need to remindus to feed it. Eat sleep drink and merry!But this month has come to give us something moreprecious, if we focus on the purpose behind it, and i.e. to gainmore taqwa, to become stronger. Become stronger so thatwe can follow the edicts of Islam in a better and pronouncedway.Our focus unfortunately is on the wrong things. Let me tellyou about an incident from last year. On a TV show, animpoverished man from Somalia was asking a scholar in atelevision studio.We are very poor people. We don’t get anything to eat atsuhoor or iftar, will Allah accept our fasting?The Islamic scholar who was in Saudi gear put a handkerchiefto his nose and began to sob.Touching! Isn’t it?This wonderful sob story made headlines everywhere. Oh,they said, our Scholar…what a sensitive scholar!The focus was on those tears shed on a perfumed hanky inthe air conditioned studio. No reason to doubt the tears butwhat has happened to us?Why couldn’t that hungry desperation and that mostagonizing query about not having anything to eat either atsuhoor or iftar , make the headline everywhere ?In the same way, in this month of fasting where the focusshould be on the soul, what we do is, do a bit extra for thebody. You begin to observe it when we see Ramadanpictures flashing before us with the attractive pictures of amyriad variety of foods. Ramdan or Food Festival? Thishappens due to the change in focus , as I have said earlier.Our hunger during fasts should remind us of the hunger andtribulations of those unfortunate people , who don’t getanything to eat for their suhoor or iftar , or those who getsome food, but never enough. I am sure like me you too haveread stories of big wastages of food at the iftars andelaborate dinners thereafter. Muslims spend hugely onthese post iftar dinner parties. Let’s stick to simple iftarssimple dinners, and avoid Israaf. The amount thus saved canbe donated to any charity or better still a charitableeducational organization.Our change of focus to prefer aakhirah, over duniya, wouldbring a lot of wonders to our ummah and us . If Allah hadcreated us for this world , He would have created us withoutdeath!Bihar Anjuman’s Patna chapterarranged counseling sessionfor placements of MANUU 2010batch studentsBihar Anjuman’s Patna chapter arranged a special counselingsession for placements of MANUU 2010 passed students, on19th June 2013, at Dr. Usman Ghani Imarat Girls ComputerInstitute, Patna. Enam Khan Sb, convenor of the chapterinformed that eight students of MANUU 2010 batch passedfrom respective colleges, this year. The result of Hyderabadis announced and four students passed with good marks(avg. 65 %) We are waiting for Darbhanga result which isexpected in a few days.Please note five students opted for B.Tech. Their namesare……1 Md Faizan Alam. IT2 Saleem Hassan IT3 Belal Anwar IT4 Waqar Ahmad IT5 Md. Ameen Raza Civil Eng.Bihar Anjuman took care of their expenses throughout theirdiploma engineering studies from 201o to 2013. However, BAwill not support their B.Tech. studies with funds. Thestudents are ready to manage it themselves. However, threestudents need job without which they cannot finance theirfuture studies. They are1. Shabbir Raza ECE2. Md. Sajid CE3. Danish Raza CEWe are thankful to these people who visited on the day ofcounseling and discussed in presence of Shoaib Khan Sb, IPS.They are…1. Md. Ali Khan, M.D. ITECI2. Alok Kumar Nikhil, (B.Tech), Web designer3. Miss Jeewan Jyoti (MCA), IT counselor4. Vikash Kumar (B.Tech), IT counselorThey held separate meetings with the three students for twohours. They are asked to do certificate courses like OCA,OCP, DBAI, DB, aII for computer engineering students andfor communication engineering CCNA, CCNP or MCSP.These are three months certificate part time courses.However, they were offered small jobs in Kolkata. The canearn money and do certificate courses in Kolkota. We discussHyderabad, Banglore and Noida but these are very expensiveplaces. We have given one week thinking time to the threestudents.May the Ramadan cleaner wash away all the dirt, all thestains, from our souls .AameenBakhabar2