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Fatah Ka Fatwa
''Fatah Ka Fatwa'' ( hi, फ़तह का फ़तवा) is an Indian discussion show, hosted by secularist and liberal activist Tarek Fatah on Hindi news channel Zee News. The 17-episode show focuses on issues relevant to Islam, such as terrorism, wearing the Hijab, the concept of a Kafir, Nikah mut‘ah, Nikah Halala, Islamic banking and finance, Child marriage etc. The series tries to explain various facets of the Quran as well as other theological nuggets of Islam. Asian Paints was initially the sponsor of the programme but company had to withdraw its support after an online petition was started calling Indian Muslims to boycott the brand, but later yoga guru Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Ayurved Ltd. stepped forward to offer the crucial sponsor support to Zee News and became its sponsor. Season 1 of the show ended on 6 May 2017. Guests Season 1 * Arif Mohammad Khan * Zakia Soman * Naish Hasan * Shabnam Khan * Amina Shervani * Shazia Ilmi * Sheeba Aslam Fehmi * Dr. Sheeri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zee News
Zee News is an Indian Hindi-language news channel owned by Subhash Chandra's Essel Group. It launched on 27 August 1999 and is the flagship channel of the Zee Media Corporation. The channel has been involved in several controversies and has broadcast fabricated news stories on multiple occasions.List of sources: * * * * * * * * The channel has been subjected to an ongoing criminal defamation case against legislator Mahua Moitra as of March 2020. History Zee Media Corporation Limited (formerly Zee News Ltd.) was founded by Essel Group. and it was incorporated in August 27, 1999 as Zee Sports Ltd. it was a subsidiary of the Zee Telefilms Ltd (later renamed to Zee Entertainment Enterprises).The company was Certificate of incorporation, reincorporated on 27 May 2004, as Zee News Ltd. It was demerged as a separate company of the Essel Group in 2006. In 2013, Zee News Ltd changed its name to Zee Media Corporation Limited. The chairman of the group is Subhash Chandra, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arif Mohammad Khan
Arif Mohammad Khan (born 18 November 1951) is an Indian politician representing the BJP. He currently serving as the Governor of Kerala & the Chancellor of all State Universities in Kerala. He is a former Union Minister. He has held several portfolios ranging from energy to civil aviation. Early life and education Arif Mohammad Khan was born on 18 November 1951 in Bulandshahr. He was educated at Jamia Millia School, Delhi, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh and at Shia College, Lucknow University. Political career Khan started his political career as a student leader. He was the President of Aligarh Muslim University Students' Union in the year 1972-73 and also its honorary Secretary a year earlier (1971–72). He contested the first legislative assembly election from Siyana constituency of Bulandshahar on Bharatiya Kranti Dal party's banner but was defeated. He became a member of the legislative assembly of UP in 1977 at the age of 26. Khan joined the Indian National Congr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haj Subsidy
The Haj subsidy was a subsidy based on religion that was given to Hajj pilgrims by the Government of India in the form of discounted air fare so that a pilgrim can fly to Mecca for Hajj. The program has its origins in British colonial era. In post-colonial era, the Government of India expanded the program in 1959 with the Hajj Act.The Haj Committee Act, 1959 Government of India The subsidy initially applied to Indian Muslim pilgrims traveling for religious reasons to Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Jordan by road and by sea. Expanded Haj subsidy started in 1954, as an idea initiated by the then government, with flights between Mumbai and Jeddah. Additional flight legs were added over the years, and since 1984, all Haj traffic has been shared by |
Burqa
A burqa or a burka, or , and ur, , it is also transliterated as burkha, bourkha, burqua or burqu' or borgha' and is pronounced natively . It is generally pronounced in the local variety of Arabic or variety of Persian, which varies. Examples: , plural: , in Literary Arabic by Egyptians: , plural: . ( ar, برقع ) is an enveloping outer garment worn by women which fully covers the body and the face in some Islamic traditions. Also known as a chadaree ( ps, چادري) or chaadar (Urdu, fa, چادر) in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran, or a ''paranja'' (russian: паранджа́; tt-Cyrl, пәрәнҗә) in Central Asia, the Arab version of the burqa is called the '' boshiya'' and is usually black. The term ''burqa'' is sometimes conflated with the ''niqāb'' even though, in more precise usage, the niqab is a face veil that leaves the eyes uncovered, while a burqa covers the entire body from the top of the head to the ground, with a mesh screen which only allows th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rekhta
''Rekhta'' ( ur, ; hi, रेख़्ता ) was the Hindustani language as its dialectal basis shifted to the Delhi dialect. This style evolved in both the Urdu alphabet, Perso-Arabic and Devanagari scripts and is considered an early form of Urdu and Hindi. The 13th century Sufi Muslim poet Amir Khusraw used the term "Hindustani language, Hindavi" (meaning "of Hind or India") for the 'Rekhta' dialect (the ancestor of Modern Urdu), the Persianized offshoot of the Apabharamsa vernacular Old Hindi, towards it's emergence during the era of Delhi Sultanate, and gave shape to it in a handful Islamic literature, thus called "the father of Urdu literature". Other early Sufi poets includes Baba Farid. later from the 18th century, the dialect was became the literary language and was further developed by the poets Mir Taqi Mir, Mir and Mirza Ghalib, Ghalib in the late Mughal empire, Mughal period, and the term eventually fallen out and came to be known as "Urdu", by the end of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triple Talaq In India
''Triple talaq'' (instant divorce) and ''talaq-e-mughallazah'' (irrevocable divorce) are now banned means of Islamic divorce previously available to Muslims in India, especially adherents of Hanafi Sunni Islamic schools of jurisprudence. A Muslim man could legally divorce his wife by proclaiming three times consecutively the word ''talaq'' (the Arabic word for "divorce") (in spoken, written or, more recently, electronic form). The use and status of triple talaq in India has been a subject of controversy and debate. Those questioning the practice have raised issues of justice, gender equality, human rights and secularism. The debate has involved the Government of India and the Supreme Court of India, and is connected to the debate about a uniform civil code (Article 44) in India. On 22 August 2017, the Indian Supreme Court deemed instant triple talaq (''talaq-e-biddah'') unconstitutional. Three of the five judges in the panel concurred that the practice of triple talaq is unconst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Infidel
An infidel (literally "unfaithful") is a person accused of disbelief in the central tenets of one's own religion, such as members of another religion, or the irreligious. Infidel is an ecclesiastical term in Christianity around which the Church developed a body of theology that deals with the concept of infidelity, which makes a clear differentiation between those who were baptized and followed the teachings of the Church versus those who are outside the faith. The term ''infidel'' was used by Christians to describe those perceived as the enemies of Christianity. After the ancient world, the concept of otherness, an exclusionary notion of the outside by societies with more or less coherent cultural boundaries, became associated with the development of the monotheistic and prophetic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (cf. pagan). In modern literature, the term infidel includes in its scope atheists, polytheists, animists, heathens, and pagans. A willingness to ident ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islamic Terrorism
Islamic terrorism (also known as Islamist terrorism or radical Islamic terrorism) refers to terrorist acts with religious motivations carried out by fundamentalist militant Islamists and Islamic extremists. Incidents and fatalities from Islamic terrorism have been concentrated in eight Muslim-majority countries (Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, and Syria), while four Islamic extremist groups (Islamic State, Boko Haram, the Taliban, and al-Qaeda) were responsible for 74% of all deaths from terrorism in 2015. The annual number of fatalities from terrorist attacks grew sharply from 2011 to 2014 when it reached a peak of 33,438, before declining to 13,826 in 2019. Since at least the 1990s, these terrorist incidents have occurred on a global scale, affecting not only Muslim-majority countries in Africa and Asia, but also Russia, Australia, Canada, Israel, India, the United States, China, Philippines, Thailand and countries within Europe. Such a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammed Hanif Khan Shastri
Mohammed Hanif Khan Shastri was an Indian Sanskrit scholar. He is winner of National Communal Harmony Award, in the individual category for the year 2009. The Government of India awarded him fourth highest civilian award Padma Shri (Literature & Education) in 2019. He has been professor at Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan. Died on 26 January 2020.He worked with a great enthusiasm in his last days, but due to prolonged illnesses and suffering from a weak body. He will be greatly remembered for his contribution in the field of religious literature. Early life Khan Shastri was born in district Sonbhadra of Uttar Pradesh. In an interview to Doordarshan, he informs that he was the first of his family to pass 5th standard and thus the environment was not academically inclined. On his failure in high school, his teacher Pundit Ratanlal Shastri, urged him to study one chapter of the Bhagavad Gita every day, which would ensure god's benevolence and thus put an end to all his troubles. This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
H Abdul Raqeeb
H Abdur Raqeeb is the General Secretary of Indian Center for Islamic Finance, New Delhi and has been promoting the concept of interest-free banking throughout India Since last two decades. His aims to get close all section of Society in main Banking Stream through interest free Banking System for this Novel cause he is working as one man army. To Introduce Interest Free Banking System in India He travelled across Many Countries and learn working model of Interest Free Banking, Met with Professional and Policy Makers across India and abroad. He is founder member of All India Muslim Personal law Board. He is also the Editor of Tamil fortnightly ''Samarasam''. Biography H Abdur Raqeeb was born in Vaniyambadi, currently stays in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He Completed B.Sc in Chemistry from Islamia College, Vaniyambadi. He holds a Diploma in Leather Technology and has excellent expertise in leather finishing. He is renowned leather technologist. Delivered Various Talk and presentati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rahman Abbas
Rahman Abbas (born 30 January 1972) is an Indian people, Indian fiction writer and the recipient of the India's highest literary Award ''Sahitya Akademi Award'' for his fourth novel ''Rohzin'' in 2018. He is also the recipient of the two State Academy Awards for his third and fourth novels respectively i.e. ''Hide and Seek in the Shadow of God'' (2011) and the ''Rohzin'' in 2017. He is the only Indian novelist whose work in German has received a LitProm Grant funded by the German Federal Foreign Office and the Swiss-South Cultural Fund. He writes in Urdu and in English language, English. His novels deal with themes of forbidden politics and love. The largest online reading portal Rekhta has stated that Rahman Abbas is one of the most read Urdu novelists. Penguin Random House has published Rohzin in English in May 2022. Rohzin has been longlisted for JCB Prize 2022, the richest literary prize in India. Life and career Abbas has master's degrees in Urdu literature, Urdu and Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lubna Sarwath
Lubna Sarwath is an Indian social activist and economist who fought the 2014 Indian general election from Hyderabad (Lok Sabha constituency) as Aam Aadmi Party candidate. Biography Lubna was selected in Probationary Officers Exam and joined as an officer in the Punjab National Bank. She completed Ph.D. programme in Islamic Economics and Finance (IEF) from Trisakti University, Jakarta, Indonesia. She was also a Visiting lecturer there on invitation. She got admission in Masters in both Islamic Economics in MIHE, UK and IIUM, Kuala Lumpur, but didn't study there. Lubna was on the Editorial Board for International Journal on Ethics and Systems, Emerald Publications, UK. Dr. Lubna is also an ecological activist, and was co-convener of NGO - SOUL (Save Our Urban Lakes). Presently, she is WICCI Water Resources Council State President Telangana. In January 2017, she applied to be part of Telangana State Wakf Board. Lubna has also said that bodies like All India Muslim Personal Law Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
