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Mother Rediscovered

Thanks to the media, the commercial giants have spent heavily on defining motherhood through their products. Biscuits, stationeries, soft drinks, online gift vendors have all rediscovered a sudden fondness for the entity called ‘Mother’. Business as usual.

ഉമര്‍ ബാഫഖി തങ്ങള്‍ അനുകരണീയ വ്യക്തിത്വത്തിന്റെ ഉടമ

മുസ്ലിംലീഗിന്റെ കെട്ടുറപ്പിനും സമുദായത്തിന്റെ സംഘടിതശക്തിക്കും വേണ്ടി അഹോരാത്രം പരിശ്രമിച്ച തങ്ങള്‍, ഇതര രാഷ്ട്രീയസംഘടനകളില്‍ നിന്നു തികച്ചും വ്യത്യസ്തമായ പ്രവര്‍ത്തനശെയിലിയാണു നടപ്പാക്കാന്‍ മുതിര്‍ന്നത്‌. അധികാരത്തിനും പദവികള്‍ക്കും വേണ്ടി ഒരിക്കലും ആദര്‍ശം പണയപ്പെടുത്തരുതെന്ന സന്ദേശമായിരുന്നു ആ ജീവിതം.
ശക്തനായ വക്താവിനെയും മാതൃകായോഗ്യനായ നേതാവിനെയും അനുകരണീയ വ്യക്തിത്വത്തിന്റെ ഉടമയെയുമാണ്‌ ഈ വിയോഗത്തോടെ നഷ്ടപ്പെട്ടത്‌…KP Kunhimoosa

Violent love-hooks

The more our attachments, the more our pain of separation. A man with wife, son, mother, sister, brothers would suffer more the agony of separation than a brother without these ‘love-hooks’ which violently clings to his soul.

Kodappanekkal House in despair, as Family head loses soul mate

Kodappanekkal (the house of Syed Shihab Thangal) was in gloom yesterday as the head of the family was not present to witness the demise of the lady of the house.
He had called the previous day from Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA where he was admitted for treatment. They shared light jokes as well as health conditions […]

Ponnani - Minor Makkah

The name Ponnani
According to some historical records, Ponnani’s history dates back to 2000 years. There are differences of opinion regarding the evolution of the name of Ponnani.
Legend has it that the Ponnana (meaning a type of elephant in Malayalam) was auctioned in the Brahmin temples here and thus came to be known as Ponnani. Yet […]

The fall of Ottoman Caliphate and the Indian Khilafat Movement

Introduction
A western critic once wrote that a visitor from Mars who arrived on earth during the sixteenth century would have probably concluded that the world was on the verge of becoming Muslim. No doubt, with the Mughal Empire in the Indian Subcontinent in the East, Safavid Empire in the center and the Ottoman empire in […]

Genesis and Growth of the Mappila Community

Contributed to Jaihoon.com by Dr. Hussein Randathani. Posted on December 16 2005
The long-standing Arab contact

Cheraman Perumal

The First Indian to accept Islam
Cheraman Perumal, of Kodungallur, Kerala, was the first Indian to accept Islam. Many historians have recorded this fact in their writings. For example, M. Hamidulla writes in “Muhammad Rasoolullah” quoting some old manuscripts from India Office Library (ref no. Arabic, 2807, 152-173)
“There is a very old tradition in Malabar, South-West […]

Sayyida Nafisa at-Tahira

Rare Lady Saint of the Egpytians
[Excerpted from From the Light of Ahl al-Bayt: My Spiritual Experiences Unveiled] by Imam Metawalli ash-Sha`rawi
Sayyida Nafisa was born in Makkah on the 11th of Rabi`a al-Awwal, the same night that the Prophet (s) was born, in the year 145 H. Her father had been appointed governor of Madinat al-Munawwara […]

Great Ones are grown in the lap of Noble Mothers

[A life sketch of Sayyeda Khairunnisa, the mother of Maulana Syed Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi.]
Maulana’s mother was a hafidhah (committed Holy Quran into memory), a scholar and a poetess. A few of her books, including two poetry collections, have been published. She enjoyed good command over the women of the village and hence led […]

Rabia Basri : The jewel from Basra

Life sketch
Rabi’a’s parents were so poor that there was no oil in house to light a lamp, nor a cloth even to wrap her with.
She was the fourth child in the family. Her mother requested her husband to borrow some oil from a neighbor. But he had resolved in his life never to ask for […]

Super cop shocked at Gujarat Riots

Reuters | 07-04-2002
Julio Ribeiro, known as India’s “super cop” for his success in quelling religious riots, battling militants and fighting crime, says he has never seen communal hatred on the scale that exists in riot-hit Gujarat.
“If the world took notice of (massacres in) Rwanda and Bosnia, it should take notice of this,” he said, referring […]

Gujarat: Missing hands and heads

ArabNews.com | 01-05-2002
NEW DELHI, 30 April — Members of the ruling Hindu extremist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were directly involved in the killings of hundreds of Muslims in the western state of Gujarat, which were preplanned and could spread throughout the country, Human Rights Watch charged yesterday.
The New York-based rights group said the state government […]

Arab Women speak out!

[By Ambreen Syed Freelance writer - Washington D.C, May 19, 2002, IslamOnline.net ]
It was news when Queen Rania of Jordan led a rally of 400 women to hand over a protest note to the U.N. office in Amman over Zionist terrorism in Occupied Palestine. However, it was seen as an official attempt to tell the […]

Shoot first, find out later!

[LONDON, July 4 (IslamOnline & News Agencies]
Prominent British-based journalist John Pilger took a front-page swipe at Washington Thursday, July 4, saying that the U.S. is a “rogue state” and charging that its bombs have claimed more Afghan civilian lives than those lost in the World Trade Center.
Britain’s mass-selling Daily Mirror headlined Pilger’s article “Mourn on […]

Don’t ask me for that Love again.

[ Islamonline.net, By Anthony J. Aschettino Peace Activist – USA 21/06/2002]
Sometimes you go through an experience in life that leaves an indelible mark on your soul and an inerasable footprint on your mind. My trip through the West Bank as a participating member of the International Solidarity Movement for the Palestinian People was such […]

Atrocities against Women in India: Thoughts on Gujarat massacre

by Nihla_ag, Student Counselor.
Gujarat ke firaq se hai khar khar dil
Betaab hai seene mein aatish bahar dil
Marham nahin hai iske zakhm ka jahan mein
Shamshir-e-hijr se jo huwa hain figr dil
(My heart is thorn-filled with longing for Gujarat
Restless, frantic, flame wrapped in the spring
On earth there exists no balm for its wound
My heart split asunder […]

Merciless offer kills a helpless lover

Exit an expat, with dreams killed by his sponsor, by Saleh Fareed, Special to Arab News, Feb 9th 2003
JEDDAH, 9 February 2003 — A young expatriate’s long-cherished dream ended with his death last week in Jeddah. His sponsor had refused his request for an exit/re-entry visa.
The man’s best friend, who prefers to remain anonymous, told […]

‘Let’s Run a Race, but First Let Me Break Your Knees.’

An edited version from the article by by Arundhati Roy, ‘Buy One, Get One Free’ ; Sponsored by the Center for Economic and Social Rights; May 19, 2003. Copyright 2003 by Arundhati Roy
In these times, when we have to race to keep abreast of the speed at which our freedoms are being snatched from us, […]

Islamaphobia Acceptable face of Anti-Semitism

BRITISH EXPERT: ISLAMAPHOBIA ACCEPTABLE FACE OF ANTI-SEMITISM SINCE 911 [Press Release sent to Jaihoon.com]
London, 22/7/2003: A British journalist specializing in Middle Eastern affairs has identified Islamaphobia as the acceptable face of anti-Semitism in the West in a new book to be published in August 2003.
Monal Seidan is the British author of the Muslim’s Guide to […]

Time Poverty in the Technology Era

[By RICHARD SEVEN, Seattle Times]
Today, the constant pinging of your e-mail can be like the drip-drip-drip of water torture. We’re swimming in doodads and options - text messaging and search engines, Blackberries and blogs, Wi-fi, cell phones that try to do all of the above, and the promise that we haven’t seen anything yet.
We’re […]

US sees Muslims as enemies, says Sabri

The New Indian Express, Kozhikode, March 22, 2005
Kozhikode, March 21: The US which kills Muslims and attacks Islamic countries is the ral terrorist in the world and the American declaration of a war on terrorism is just a farce, said Dr. Ekrima Saeed Sabri, grand mufti of Jerusalem, who was here to participate in the […]

The earth quivered: Angrily, quietly but steadily

Thoughts on the earthquake which hit Pakistan (and India) in October 2005
Posted with permission from the author
I cannot recollect the majority of this Ramadhan. Three weeks have been completely erased from my memory. I can easily blame this numbness on the earthquake and the sentiments this has stirred deep within me. It’s hard to describe […]

Partition would have been averted, if Nehru heeded to Gandhi’s choice of Jinnah

Source: MadhyamamOnline, http://www.madhyamamonline.in/news_archive_details.asp?id=4&nid=87590&dt=1/31/2006
(Kollam, Kerala:) “The partition of India could have been avoided, had leaders including Nehru accepted Gandhi’s wish to make Mohammed Ali Jinnah as the Prime Minister of India” said Venkata Kalyanam, the personal assistant of Gandhi.
He was speaking at the ‘Meet the Press’ program organized by the Press Club. ‘Predicting there be communal […]

Sheikh Zainudhin Makhdum

Introduction
Sheikh Zainudhin Makhdum I, son of Ahmed bin Ma’bari, was born in 872 A.H at Cochin. He settled at Ponnani and being a master of Arabic language, he had several literary works to his credit including Murshid, Adkiya and Shubul Iman.
He had also written a treatise called ‘Tahrees Ahlil Imani Ala Jihadi Abdatisuul Bani’ appealing […]

A medical dimension

Kerala, today, is the proud home of the ancient therapeutic system of Ayurveda. Some of the special treatments in vogue in Kerala like Pizhichil, Navarakkizhi, Dhara, etc, the curative effects of which are a wonder even to the great protagonists of the modern system of medicine, have contributed to add luster to Kerala’s fame and […]

Kunhali Marakkar - Forerunners of Indian Navy

Marakkar Heroes- marking a new trend in naval patriotism
The Marakkars were the leading business group of the region when the Portuguese arrived in Kerala. They had settled at Cochin and were believed to be the descendants of the Arabs who migrated to Kerala. Some historians maintain that they were original natives. They became well known […]

Tipu Sultan : Dream of India and nightmare of British invaders

Tipu Sultan had ruled over Malabar for about 36 years. He had introduced many administrative reforms in the land especially issues relating to land distribution. The land owning class could not tolerate his welfare approach towards the poor farmers. Hence, during the Mysore Rule, they took refuge with the Thiruvidamkur kingdom. It was natural for the […]

The Indian Prime Minister pays homage to Ali Mian.

Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee joined the Muslim world in mourning the sudden death of. . .

Dr. Sheikh Sultan’s condolence message on the death of Ali Mian

It is with the great sorrow that we learn the death of the great Islamist. . .

My meeting with Allama Iqbal

I had a meeting with the illustrious poet, which was worthy of being remembered. On. . .

Great Ones are grown in the lap of Noble Mothers

[A life sketch of Sayyeda Khairunnisa, the mother of Maulana Syed Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi.]

Maulana’s. . .

Creation Of Worship From Benevolence

When knowledge of man about God is correct and he finds all the favors, small and great having flowed from Him on his outward as well on his inward and finds the Lord of benevolence more noble, more worthy and more glorious than any of the creatures in glory and nobility then that all cannot be valued and compared with the amount of love coupled with veneration and humbleness which man bears for Him.

Barzakh and Ego’s Experience of Different standards of Time

The most depressing error of Materialism is the supposition that finite consciousness exhausts its object. Philosophy and science are only one way of approaching that object. There are other ways of approach open to us; and death, if present actions has sufficiently fortified the ego against the shock that physical dissolution brings, is only a […]

O Prophet! We belong to you

Oh you, solace for us, the downtrodden,
Deliver the community from fear of death.
You destroyed Lat and Manat of old,
And revived the timeworn world.
Meditation and remembrance of man and jinn,
You are the morning, prayer of Azan.
Burning and ecstasy is from la-llah.
We made no god from quadruped,
Nor bowed low before the hermit,
Nor bend the knee before ancient […]

The Ultimate Aim of Ego

Art thou in the stage of, life “, or “death”, ‘death-in-life’?
Invoke the aid of three witnesses to verify thy ‘Station’.
The first witness is thine own consciousness-
See thyself, then, with thine own light.
The second witness is the consciousness of another ego-
See thyself, then, with the light of an ego other than thee.
The third witness is God’s […]

Allama Iqbal’s Biography

Birth
Iqbal was born in the Punjab on February 22, 1873. His ancestors, who were Kashmiri Brahmins, had embraced Islam two hundred years earlier. Iqbal’s own father was a devout Muslim with Sufistic bent of mind.
Primary Education
He received his early education in Sialkot. After passing the entrance examination, he joined Intermediary College. Mir Hassan, a great […]

Profit for one, Death for many

Though Europe is radiant with the light of knowledge,
The ‘Ocean of Darkness’ is barren of the ‘Fount of Life’
In splendor, in seduction and in grace,
The buildings of banks outsoar the Houses of God.
In appearance it is trade, in reality gambling,
Profit for one, for thousands sudden death,
Science, philosophy, college, constitution,
Preach man’s equality and suck men’s blood.
Want […]

Life sketch of Shah Waliyullah

Life sketch of Shah Waliyullah

Birth

Shah Waliyullah was born in 1703 AC four years before. . .

The Choice is Yours

If the kings know not their Sustainer they are beggars,
And if the beggars do they are Darius and Jamshed;
Freedom of the heart is sovereignity; stomach is death,
The choice is yours; heart or stomach?
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Iqbal: A bridge between East and the West

By Saeed A. Durrani, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Birmingham, England
Essay read at the International Symposium on ‘Iqbal and the Modern Era’ held at Ghent, Belgium, on 18-19 November 1997 under the auspices of Iqbal Foundation Europe. This version was published in Iqbal Review, by Iqbal Academy Hyderabad, Nov 1998. Posted on July […]

Allama Iqbal and Umar Qazi: Two lovers of the Holy Prophet

By Jaihoon, published in Iqbal Review, by Iqbal Academy Hyderabad, Apr 1998. Posted on June 06, 2007
(The author is Chief Editor of Jaihoon.com, a non-profitable initiative delivering innovative and thought-provoking perspectives. He writes frequently on mystic themes and contemporary issues. He lives in the Middle East with his parents, wife and son and has authored […]

Madina : Motherland of Love

There are two occasions when we feel the biggest joy and pain respectively. The greatest

July 2006

Hunters the artists are, Not prey!
Al hamdu lillah, there has sbeen considerable progress on the new Malayalam book project. The cover design is done in state of the art style. There is charm and appeal for both eyes and heart. Almost three weeks of day-night deliberations, the artist was also tirelessly enthusiastic for its perfection.
When […]

Apr-May

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

السلام عليكم
The previous two weeks have been busy with personal and social engagements.
The coming of Musawwir has brought in bright colors of joy and expectations. Humans dream on, building one over the other. And then one stumbles, he is in tears. The bounty of Allah is great and a lot. May Allah […]

A Sweet Revenge Between two lovers of God

O Friend
Lovers always secrecy choose
Beloved alone their love knows
Love is not to be in loose

Transforming solar energy to neural electric impulse on our taste-buds

Jaihoon’s essay on sustenance provided by God for Man.
We live in a calculated world. Our

To landlords who break hearts: Beware!

O gem of this world!
O gem of all gems!
For days a line haven’t I written

Political Monsters and Suicidal Chickens of Kerala

Jaihoon’s critique on the widespread political agitations and suicide deaths of Kerala, the South Indian

Sweet Love, Bitter death!

- Jaihoon
Love is a sweet and selfless feeling
Before the beloved, the heart is kneeling
Lives are