JAIHOON.COM

ABOUT

All praise and Glory belongs to Allah. May his blessings be upon the Beloved Prophet, his companions and his descendants. It is in fact with the blessings of Madina that Jaihoon has been flowing…

History

Jaihoon.com was launched in 1999 as (apparently) a past time hobby of a college student. But the inner passion of such an effort was the aspiration of a thousand heart-years.

Conceptual

The evolution of Jaihoon.com has seen a sea of trials and obstacles. Masha Allah, at present it is much more than a personal homepage that it was meant to be in the initial stages. It can now rightfully claim a host of achievements like live coverage, delivering breaking news and a many other trend setting technologies like first ever website to introduce update through mobile alert and the pioneer in having a title track for a website.

Technical

The homepage was hosted on a free hosting service with a redirected domain. Gradually it had the domain name registered as well as moved to a paid hosting platform.

Audio and Video were incorporated alongside texts. Press reports kept appearing now and then on various contents in the website. Interviews on radio and TV stations and invitations to seminars were often. Introduction of Malayalam and Arabic texts expanded the horizon of the website and pulled larger crowd.

From simple HTML table format in the past to the stylish ergonomic designs, the look and feel has endlessly evolved embracing the latest technologies in the web-o-sphere. It is impossible to mention here the names of the countless benevolent friends who have shared their expertise in developing it till the present form running on a popular CMS blogging software.

Philosophy

What is Jaihoon.com?

Jaihoon is influenced by the writings of Hazrat Imam Ahmed Sirhindi and Hazrat Shah Waliyullah Dehlavi, well known for their scientific treatment of Islamic thought and Sufism.

Jaihoon is based on the philosophy of Dr Allama Mohammed Iqbal, the visionary poet-philosopher of Indian subcontinent. This site attempts to spread Iqbal’s message of love and universalism. In doing so, Jaihoon has followed the interpretation of Iqbalian philosophy given by the renowned late Islamic scholar, Maulana Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi, Lucknow, India.

It is the product of my thoughts influenced by the works of these scholars. I have chosen them by myself and as such is prone to human errors. They are in no way responsible for my failures in understanding of their works. This site is not the official voice of any persons or organizations.

The name ‘Jaihoon’

Jaihoon is named after a river in Turkistan which is mentioned in the following lines of Allama Iqbal

In the heart of the Fire of Rum is your remedy,
On your intellect the Franks have cast their spell;
My eye is illumined by his grace,
By his munificence Jaihoon is contained in my ewer

Innovations

The new Jaihoon.com is engineered with many new features which were unavailable in the earlier version. Most of them were made possible with the help of plugins developed by generous hearts for public use.

Search engine friendly

Jaihoon.com already enjoys strong visibility in prominent search engines has been further reinforced by the new design. Unlike before, the site also ranks well in Malayalam search results. To search in Malayalam go to http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic/Malayalam and copy the text in the search box at Jaihoon.com press submit for results..

Categories renamed

Certain categories have been renamed and few of them merged to make them more userfriendly and precise.

Tags

These are labels help to classify articles based on certain topics.These are important when certain articles belong to more than one categories. The tag cloud (collection of tags on the right bar) also gives a overview of the range of topics found in the site.

Related Articles

Below each page, one can also find the links to certain other related articles chosen at random. The similiarity is based on tags given to each article.

Role Play of Visitors

In addition to the display of the total number of users on the site at a given time, there is also opportunity to see the last five searches performed on the site. Plus, the visitor can express his reaction to any article by using the stars rating option. If anyone finds the article appealing, they can share it with their friends using the EMail This option. The Share This also does the same thing but the emphasis is on addiing the page to social networking sites including del.icio.us Digg, Furl, Netscape, Yahoo!, My Web ,StumbleUpon, Google Bookmarks, Technorati, BlinkList, Newsvine, magnolia, reddit, Windows Live, Tailrank

Flash videos and MP3 audios

Conforming to the evolving trends on the Web, the new design has adopted Flash videos and MP3 audio as standards.

Hijri date

This has been a fresh move to display the Hijri date of the corresponding Gregorian calndar besides each post.

Auto Update notification

Certain pages contain a ‘Subscribe to Email Update Notification’ option which when selected would send emails notifying them of the update.

Subscribe To Comments

Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry

Statistics

The new design also gives an insight to visitors of the total performance of the website including the most rated, most emailed, recent searches and recent comments by others.

Grateful

My heart felt gratitude for all those who helped me with their time, energy, advice and especially with their prayers. There are many who guided me in my pursuit of Jaihoon. May Allah bless them all.

The work ahead

The world is expanding in size and thought. But time is getting lesser and lesser. There is no time to waste. Every moment is begging for an action from you. There is no reason to sit idle because, as Iqbal says,

Waqt-e-fursat hai kahan? Kaam abhi bhi baaqi hai!
Noor-e-tawheed ka ikhtimam abhi bhi baaqi hai!

‘There is no time to relax, much still remains to be done;
You have yet to fully spread the light of God, the only one.’

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