By TCN News,
Gorakhpur: Image of Muslims and Islam portrayed by the western media makes us to believe that the Islam and its Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) propagate terrorism and violence and the cult of violence owes much to these teachings, pointed out Prof Shakeel Samdani from the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).
“These assertions (by the western media) have no iota of truth as Islam and the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) have given the concept of peace, tolerance and co existence and the Prophet always advised the Muslims to eschew violence,” Prof Samdani, the renowned faculty from AMU and president of Sir Syed Awareness Forum said here on Tuesday, December 2.
Sitting on dias Prof. Shakeel Samdani, Mr. Samani, Dr. Beg, etc.
He was speaking on ‘Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and Global Peace’ at Miya Sahab Islamia Inter College here as the chief guest. He said that the last Prophet emphasised more on justice and education and his life is full of the examples of justice.
“When Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) declared his Prophet hood at that time, there were only 17 literate persons in Mecca and exactly after 23 years when he left this world, there were many lakh people who were not only literate but well educated and expert in Quran, Hadith, legal knowledge, literature, history etc. The most important feature of Prophet’s life was democratisation of knowledge/ education. This achievement of Prophet Muhammad is unique in the history of Prophets,” he informed.
Expressing his views about the battles fought by Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), Prof Samdani said that most of them were defensive in nature and total causalities from both the sides was around 1,000. “Had Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) believed in violence and killing the figure would have been much higher. History stands as witness that most of the Islamic rulers especially the rightly guided Caliphs have spread love, affection, tolerance and peace after their victory.”
Prof Samdani further said that Islam has given equal protection to men and women and for the first time in the history of the civilized world, women were declared as owner of their body and soul. They were given share in property and their status was enhanced to such an extent that the road to jannah was declared to be through the mother, wife and the daughter. “It means that if a person wants to go to paradise, then he will have to respect the rights of women and restore them. Due to the successful mission of Prophet, the non-Muslim scholars have acknowledged him as the most successful person in the history of mankind, which is evident from ‘The Hundred’ written by a Christian scientist Michel Hart, who placed Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) as number one and his own Prophet Jesus Christ at number three,” he said.
The AMU professor further urged the audience to lead their life in accordance with the teachings of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and devote their time and energy for constructive activities and spend their money for social work also. He also requested the audience to abstain from differences on the basis of schools of thoughts and remain united, a release said.
While replying a question related to present political scenario in India, Prof Samdani opined that India is a democratic country, where everyone is free to participate in political activity and the freedoms and liberties which we are enjoying in this country. “This is not available to Muslims in many other countries. We should be thankful to the Almighty Allah that we are getting so much freedom in socialist, secular, democratic republic that is India.”
Sipasnama being presented to Prof. Shakeel Samdani by R. K. Samani
Inaugurating the Islamic exhibition Prof Samdani congratulated the manager Rashid Kamal Samani, principal Zafar Ahmad Khan and convenor Mukhtar Ahmad. A three day Seerat Conference and state level competition was organized by the college in which large number of students from all over the state participated. The program was presided over by Dr Mirza Shafi Baig (London).
Samani welcomed the guests while vote of thanks was proposed by Zafar Ahmad Khan and the programme was conducted by Tariq Shafiq Nadwi. The program was concluded after the dua of Mufti Waliullah.
The conference became a great success due to the presence of Mahmood Saeed Haris, Assistant Manager, Ahmad Naseem Ansari, Shafiq Ahmad Ansari, Associate Professors, Gorakhpur University, Mohiuddin Khan, Dr Wahid Ali, Mirza Rafiq Baig, Dr Ashfaq, Najmul Hasan, Jabir Ali Siddiqui, Nadeemullah Abbasi, Dr Ghyasuddin Ansari, Niyaz Khan, Anis Ahmad, Ahmad Tanzeem, Afzal Khan, etc., the release added.