By TCN News,
Bareily: Social Organisation ‘Paigham-e-Insaniat’ organised an educational conference at IMA Hall, Bareilly in which Justice M.S.A Siddiqui, Chairman, National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions and professor of Law at Aligarh Muslim University Dr. Shakeel Samdani participated as Chief Guest and Guest of Honour respectively.
Addressing the gathering Justice Siddiqui said that education is essential for the bright future of the community and Muslims should improve the standard of their educational institutions. He said that the Muslim community can face the challenges of 21st century through education only, that’s why the community should focus on education. He further added that this is the responsibility of social workers and intellectuals of the community to sensitise the people about acquiring knowledge.
Justice Siddiqui further said that he tried his best to discharge the duties of the Commission as its Chairman and has recognised maximum number of institutions, but at the same time never compromised with the standard and quality. He said that the maximum benefit (80%) was taken by the Christian organisations and only 20% benefit has been taken by Muslim institutions. He appreciated the Summer Islamic Classes organised by Paigham-e-Insaniat.
Guest of Honour, Dr.Shakeel Samdani said that for success a Muslim has to follow the path shown by Almighty Allah and his beloved Prophet (SAW). He said that in the past Muslims have ruled in the world but that was due to the fact that they never deviated from the path shown by ‘Shariat’. They achieved success everywhere and in every walk of life but for the last few centuries they are lagging behind in every field.
He said that the Muslim countries have largest reservoirs of natural resources in their hands, but they are not taking any advantage of that, now the only thing required is awareness and to remove inferiority complex from them. He said that in the past Muslims didn’t pay attention to female education and they suffered heavily but now the community is giving due attention on female education. We do hope that we will witness good result in future. He said that in the last twenty years the community`s educational graph has gone up and now our boys and girls are being selected in civil services, judiciary & other eminent services in perceptible numbers, this is due to the continuous struggle and hard work by the young generation. He stressed if they had been given reservation in jobs and educational institutions the result would have been far more impressive.
Dr. Shakeel Samdani said that no one can deny the importance of English and Hindi but for Indian Muslims Urdu is also very important because it is their mother tongue. The entire Islamic literature is either in Persian or in Urdu. For the` Milli` issues Urdu media is doing a wonderful job, that’s why Urdu language should be preserved and developed. He appealed to the audience to purchase one Urdu news paper daily. He also congratulated the organizers for having organized such a beautiful and apt programme.
Islamic summer classes are arranged by Paigham-e-Insaniat, for the last twelve years in Bareilly. This year also Islamic classes were arranged for ten days for boys and girls both. The prize and certificate distribution programme was organised to give prizes to the students who secured good marks and also for the boys and the girls who achieved great success in U.P Board, C.B.S.E and I.C.S.E Examination. The programme was conducted by Ahmad Aziz. The soul behind the programme was Dr. Ejaz Hasan Khan, who welcomed the guests. Dr.Shariq Wadood, co-ordinator of the programme and member Shoora, presented the report of the classes. Dr. Tahir Beg presented a thought provoking paper on Muslim education and Sachhar Committee.
The special feature of the programme that lasted more than five hours was that the women outnumbered men.