When is our Dai going to do the same

[Maqbool]

qrden hasanah is tool to keep abdes in a fold. They give this to only who keep beard, wear topi and attend majlishes. Last year they have closed all private activities of qarden hasanah in Chennai and forced only one jamat run qarden hasanah. Here you have to give gold against loan, which is against the rule of qarden hasanah.

The Chennai is trial laboratory of kothar as it is Gujarat for RSS. They have started this scheme else were after this trial. Every abde now have no objection and believe that this is the correct method of qarden hasanah. Where as Sayedna MB saheb has frequently said in various bayan that no security should be taken when you give qarden hasanah.

[mnoorani]

qrden hasanah is tool to keep abdes in a fold. They give this to only who keep beard, wear topi and attend majlishes. Last year they have closed all private activities of qarden hasanah in Chennai and forced only one jamat run qarden hasanah. Here you have to give gold against loan, which is against the rule of qarden hasanah.

The Chennai is trial laboratory of kothar as it is Gujarat for RSS. They have started this scheme else were after this trial. Every abde now have no objection and believe that this is the correct method of qarden hasanah. Where as Sayedna MB saheb has frequently said in various bayan that no security should be taken when you give qarden hasanah.

Mola ki hai shaan nirali
lekin khanzeer ki zaat harami
Qarz nahin milta asaani.
Choti si baat, ab to samajh ja Noorani.

[ghulam muhammed]

When is our Dai going to do the same

Apple CEO Tim Cook to donate all his money

Apple chief executive Tim Cook is joining the roster of the very rich who are giving away their wealth.

Fortune magazine cited the head of the world's largest technology corporation as saying he planned to donate his estimated $785 million fortune to charity — after paying for his 10-year-old nephew's college education.

"You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change," Cook told the magazine.

Fortune estimated Cook's net worth, based on his holdings of Apple stock, at about $120 million. He also holds restricted stock worth $665 million if it were to be fully vested.

The 54-year-old CEO's revelation in Fortune's lengthy profile of him is an example of the increasingly public philanthropy of the world's richest people.

Billionaire financier Warren Buffett is encouraging the very wealthy to give away at least half their worth in their lifetimes through the 'Giving Pledge,' whose website lists such luminaries as Microsoft's Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Oracle's Larry Ellison.

While Cook's largesse could not begin to approach the scale of a Gates or Zuckerberg, both worth billions of dollars, the Apple CEO told Fortune he hopes to make a difference.

Cook, who is not listed on the website, is known as an intensely private person who shuns the spotlight on philanthropy.

In recent years, however, he has begun speaking out more openly about issues ranging from the environment to civil rights. Cook, who recently revealed he was gay, spoke out against discrimination of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual communities during his induction into the Alabama Academy of Honor last year.

He told Fortune he has started donating money to unspecified causes quietly and is trying to develop a more 'systematic approach' to philanthropy that goes beyond writing checks.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech ... 711718.cms

[seeker110]

Ye tuo yateem aur gharib ka haq hazam karte hai , in sae khairat ki ummeed ? Na hi in ko apne bazoo par nahi in ko khuda par bharosa hai.

[ghulam muhammed]

EVEN IN THE WILDEST OF DREAMS, CAN ANYONE THINK OF THE BOHRA DAI DOING THIS ......

[ghulam muhammed]

Businessman who enjoys establishing schools rather than building skyscrapers

Close to 4.5 lakh students from Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka have benefited from the programme, which amounted to Rs 100 crore of Zakat distribution during last 23 years. “We interview the students before disbursing the scholarships. When you meet these young students, you realize how much they struggle to complete their education,” says Giasuddin Babu Ghan.

Hyderabad: From financing a primary school under the shade of a tree to establishing world class higher education institute, Giasuddin Babu Khan has come a long way. And why not?

When the mainstream is still abuzz with debates over how to deliver on corporate social responsibility (CSR), here is a man who – 23 years ago – became a pioneer in the field, that too using Zakat as the instrument of change.

Heir to the legacy of a construction giant, Babu Khan is known today more for his charity work as the chairman of Hyderabad Zakat and Charitable Trust (HZCT), a gentleman from the construction business, who enjoys establishing an educational institute than building a skyscraper.

Even after donning many honorable hats, the septuagenarian remains humble to his core. At his corporate office ‘Babu Khan House’, he devotes more time to HZCT projects than his century-old family business. Result: what started as an experiment to access the impact of centralized Zakat has become his obsession to shape the destiny of the struggling community members!

“We in our family were particular about Zakat, and it was a substantial amount 25 years ago. We thought zakat should be centralized, then only it can be effective,” Babu Khan narrates the beginning of HZCT as a centralized Zakat institution of his family.

Of course, he met with initial resistance. “How can Zakat be centralized, when everybody wants to spend his own money by himself?” was the common refrain. A determined Babu Khan established the trust in 1992 with an initial budget of Rs 11 lakh and since then, there has been no looking back.

Lack of support from other than his family discouraged Babu Khan a bit in the beginning, but he continued relentlessly. The concept of massive centralized Zakat doing concentrated work caught the eyes of many and slowly the contributions increased. The HZCT handles Rs 12 crore per year. As part of Corporate style functioning, the HZCT calls its workers as ‘officers’, 45 of them are in Telangana and 25 in Andhra Pradesh. But one thing was very clear since day one: the objective to educate the underprivileged children and youth.

The work started with 139 primary schools at village level. It was a difficult job as no teachers were interested to work in the villages and “teachers were pulled from neighboring towns.” Schools were run either in the shade of a tree or from the rooms of a local masjid.

Many people didn’t understand the importance of the education project in the beginning but at the end of the day, the basic literacy programme became quite a success with close to two lakh students getting primary education in villages which have no government facility.

Students were encouraged to go for intermediate education after their matriculation, many toppers among them qualified for engineering and medical seats but they had no money to support their education. Thus, HZCT also began helping deprived but bright students to secure higher professional education through its scholarship programme.

At a time when government scholarship programme was a distant dream; in that scenario Babu Khan engineered a substantial private scholarship programme, providing scholarship to 25,000 meritorious students per year. Close to 4,50,000 students from Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka have benefited from the programme, which amounted to Rs 100 crore of Zakat distribution during last 23 years. “We interview the students before disbursing the scholarships. When you meet these young students, you realize how much they struggle to complete their education,” he said.

Continued evolution

Not satisfied with just providing platforms for primary and professional education, Babu Khan went ahead with creating ‘Leaders of Tomorrow.’ His Trust started cherry picking bright students through written exam and interview to provide them free coaching for civil services at some premier institutes at Hyderabad. Many of them qualified for prelims but none made it through the final interview.

“We were quite disappointed that students were not succeeding,” Babu Khan accepts candidly while talking with TwoCircles.net. He adds, “When we tried to find out where have those students whom we supported gone we got to know many of them succeeded for top group I state services.”

Then, with an expression of a curious child, he bends over to tell: “Three of our students have been selected for RAW, working in different capacities. I hope you know what RAW is?”

The experience during coaching for civil services taught him one thing: to create the leaders, the exercise should start at the primary level.

Recently, he took the concept of creating the ‘Leaders of Tomorrow’ a notch ahead with his big ticket project: Hyderabad Institute of Excellence (HIE). Spread across a 120 acre campus in Vikarabad town, this is a residential school where qualitative education is provided to brilliant students from marginalised families. Students from remote villages with good academic records are admitted and provided full scholarship.”

Currently in its second year, the HIE has already received accolades. Its large pamphlet splashes faces of students with their economic background and their academic achievement. S M Touseef, son of a watch repairer, scored 98% in MPC (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry); so is Shaikh Imran, whose father works in a paan shop. Another student Vannur Valli scored 98% in BiPC (Biology, Physics, Chemistry), his father is an agricultural labour; so on and so forth. More than 250 students who are studying in class 11 and 12 are also receiving coaching for entrance exams for professional courses. It was a higher secondary school, but now a secondary school too has begun.

Depending on charities even for something basic such as education is a sad state of affairs for the Muslim community, Babu Khan acknowledges but maintains that the answer to all the problems of the community remains in ‘education’. And, counting on his experience from the field for over two dozen years, he claims this fact is now understood even at the grass root level. “The community has become very conscious at the lowest level, even in a small village, that they must educate their child … this is the only answer.”

For instance, his Trust has 3,800 widows with 6,600 orphans under the orphan care project. Almost all those orphan children are studying in government schools. “Can you believe it? A widow, who doesn’t have proper food to eat, is sending her children to school. That shows there is now awareness for education.”

As his clients were waiting outside to meet him, the obvious question was, how long will he keep sailing on two boats? “This (HZCT) is more enjoyable than doing business,” pat came his one liner. “In business you work for prospective profit. In this field, there is an assured profit from Allah, as simple as that, this work is more satisfying for me.”

After such a long fruitful journey, ask him about future plans, Babu Khan humbly plays it down: “I have tried to create an asset for the community, let the future generation decide what they want to do with it.”

http://twocircles.net/2015mar13/1426225 ... XYApmcw9LN

[Smart]

This thread is intriguing.
Comparing other religious and business leaders with the dai. How can you compare chalk and cheese?
All others mentioned are humans, whereas the dai is not. He is ilahul ard, Allah's vicegerent on earth.
Human laws apply to humans, and we lowly lifeforms are incapable of understanding laws that apply to divinity and godheads.
How dare we question?

[ghulam muhammed]

The Pope’s 10 Tips for a Happier Life

1. “Live and let live.” Everyone should be guided by this principle, he said, which has a similar expression in Rome with the saying, “Move forward and let others do the same.”

2. “Be giving of yourself to others.” People need to be open and generous toward others, he said, because “if you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid.”

3. “Proceed calmly” in life. The pope, who used to teach high school literature, used an image from an Argentine novel by Ricardo Guiraldes, in which the protagonist — gaucho Don Segundo Sombra — looks back on how he lived his life.

4. A healthy sense of leisure. The Pope said “consumerism has brought us anxiety”, and told parents to set aside time to play with their children and turn of the TV when they sit down to eat.

5. Sundays should be holidays. Workers should have Sundays off because “Sunday is for family,” he said.

6. Find innovative ways to create dignified jobs for young people. “We need to be creative with young people. If they have no opportunities they will get into drugs” and be more vulnerable to suicide, he said.

7. Respect and take care of nature. Environmental degradation “is one of the biggest challenges we have,” he said. “I think a question that we’re not asking ourselves is: ‘Isn’t humanity committing suicide with this indiscriminate and tyrannical use of nature?’”

8. Stop being negative. “Needing to talk badly about others indicates low self-esteem. That means, ‘I feel so low that instead of picking myself up I have to cut others down,’” the Pope said. “Letting go of negative things quickly is healthy.”

9. Don’t proselytise; respect others’ beliefs. “We can inspire others through witness so that one grows together in communicating. But the worst thing of all is religious proselytism, which paralyses: ‘I am talking with you in order to persuade you,’ No. Each person dialogues, starting with his and her own identity. The church grows by attraction, not proselytising,” the Pope said.

10. Work for peace. “We are living in a time of many wars,” he said, and “the call for peace must be shouted. Peace sometimes gives the impression of being quiet, but it is never quiet, peace is always proactive” and dynamic.

http://thehigherlearning.com/2014/07/31 ... e-spot-on/

[ghulam muhammed]

The 15 Diseases of Leadership, According to Pope Francis

Pope Francis has made no secret of his intention to radically reform the administrative structures of the Catholic church, which he regards as insular, imperious, and bureaucratic. He understands that in a hyper-kinetic world, inward-looking and self-obsessed leaders are a liability.

Last year, just before Christmas, the Pope addressed the leaders of the Roman Curia — the Cardinals and other officials who are charged with running the church’s byzantine network of administrative bodies. The Pope’s message to his colleagues was blunt. Leaders are susceptible to an array of debilitating maladies, including arrogance, intolerance, myopia, and pettiness. When those diseases go untreated, the organization itself is enfeebled. To have a healthy church, we need healthy leaders.

Through the years, I’ve heard dozens of management experts enumerate the qualities of great leaders. Seldom, though, do they speak plainly about the “diseases” of leadership. The Pope is more forthright. He understands that as human beings we have certain proclivities — not all of them noble. Nevertheless, leaders should be held to a high standard, since their scope of influence makes their ailments particularly infectious.

Friends, these diseases are a danger for every leader and every organization, and they can strike at the individual and the community levels.

The disease of thinking we are immortal, immune, or downright indispensable, [and therefore] neglecting the need for regular check-ups. A leadership team which is not self-critical, which does not keep up with things, which does not seek to be more fit, is a sick body. A simple visit to the cemetery might help us see the names of many people who thought they were immortal, immune, and indispensable! It is the disease of those who turn into lords and masters, who think of themselves as above others and not at their service. It is the pathology of power and comes from a superiority complex, from a narcissism which passionately gazes at its own image and does not see the face of others, especially the weakest and those most in need. The antidote to this plague is humility; to say heartily, “I am merely a servant. I have only done what was my duty.”

The disease of rivalry and vainglory. When appearances, our perks, and our titles become the primary object in life, we forget our fundamental duty as leaders—to “do nothing from selfishness or conceit but in humility count others better than ourselves.” [As leaders, we must] look not only to [our] own interests, but also to the interests of others.

The disease of idolizing superiors. This is the disease of those who court their superiors in the hope of gaining their favor. They are victims of careerism and opportunism; they honor persons [rather than the larger mission of the organization]. They think only of what they can get and not of what they should give; small-minded persons, unhappy and inspired only by their own lethal selfishness. Superiors themselves can be affected by this disease, when they try to obtain the submission, loyalty and psychological dependency of their subordinates, but the end result is unhealthy complicity.

The disease of a downcast face. You see this disease in those glum and dour persons who think that to be serious you have to put on a face of melancholy and severity, and treat others—especially those we consider our inferiors—with rigor, brusqueness and arrogance. In fact, a show of severity and sterile pessimism are frequently symptoms of fear and insecurity. A leader must make an effort to be courteous, serene, enthusiastic and joyful, a person who transmits joy everywhere he goes.

The disease of hoarding. This occurs when a leader tries to fill an existential void in his or her heart by accumulating material goods, not out of need but only in order to feel secure. The fact is that we are not able to bring material goods with us when we leave this life, since “the winding sheet does not have pockets” and all our treasures will never be able to fill that void; instead, they will only make it deeper and more demanding. Accumulating goods only burdens and inexorably slows down the journey!

The disease of extravagance and self-exhibition. This happens when a leader turns his or her service into power, and uses that power for material gain, or to acquire even greater power. This is the disease of persons who insatiably try to accumulate power and to this end are ready to slander, defame and discredit others; who put themselves on display to show that they are more capable than others. This disease does great harm because it leads people to justify the use of any means whatsoever to attain their goal, often in the name of justice and transparency! Here I remember a leader who used to call journalists to tell and invent private and confidential matters involving his colleagues. The only thing he was concerned about was being able to see himself on the front page, since this made him feel powerful and glamorous, while causing great harm to others and to the organization.

READ FULL ARTICLE :-

https://hbr.org/2015/04/the-15-diseases ... dium=Tweet

[SBM]

Br GM
All I can say is it looks like role reversal.
Before current Pope, there was lot of Pomp and corruption in Vatican and our Dawaats before 51 used to live a simple and humble life now it seems Pope Francis is doing what our Dawaats did (be humble and caring) and SMS and his gang is doing what previous Popes were doing.(arrogant and corrupt)

[Kaka Akela]

See how many of these 9 things we see in our current Dai???
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9 Ways to Spot a Fake Guru or Spiritual Teacher
By Paul Lenda

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

The old paradigm of life-controlling and mind-manipulating belief systems has left many to finally realize they have been living in an artificial reality created by egotistical people on power trips. This has led to a situation where many are wandering, trying to find their own way in a world without many true leaders, and as a result of this, a new market has developed which attempts to showcase answers to those people who have become disillusioned with the old dogmatic systems.

However, there are quite a few (an understatement) in this new domain of contemporary spiritual guidance that are taking outright advantage of people and creating circumstances that vary very little from the old paradigm; they simply polished it and gave the illusion that it’s something else.

There’s an influx of ‘enlightened masters of the universe’ pervading the spiritual sphere these days. Gurus and spiritual teachers are popping up left and right. Many of them seem to provide an easy way out of the voids many people feel they have within their lives, and as a result these gurus and teachers make a ridiculously massive amount of money… even earning social ranks akin to being glamorous superstars.




Yes, it seems there are those within the spiritual arena who are looking at the qualitative aspects of self-growth and seeing a marvellous money-making opportunity or a way to have incredible power over others; a pyramid scheme is sometimes then created and established. This is very dangerous in that it can negatively affect the perception of legitimacy on the entire spiritual community and all that it encompasses. As a result, genuine spiritual teachers and self-growth coaches are often disregarded as being ‘false gurus’ giving out spiritual-sounding nonsense that lacks substance and is unhelpful for a person’s spiritual growth.

Being aware that there are such enlightenment pyramid schemes can help us steer away from the false gurus and find the genuine teachers that truly wish to help people and the global consciousness of humanity. It is admittedly difficult at times to see through the spiritual façade that some create as a front to hide their true nature and intentions, even moreso with teachers who were once very enlightening but the money and the fame got the best of them.

Having others do the work for us, such as various guru rating services that exist today, is dangerous as well since we are putting our faith in a complete stranger to pick out “authentic” and genuine spiritual teachers. Obviously there can be plenty of deception, subjective bias, and decisions made without those raters being fully informed about a particular person who stands in line for the golden star of approval.

Identifying False Gurus and Spiritual Teachers

1. Charging Large Amounts of Money
Actions speak infinitely louder than words. Anyone can proclaim magnificent and wonderful things. But do these words live up to how the person lives and expresses themselves in his or her daily lives?

Perhaps the biggest problem that I have found is the issue of money. I have seen self-appointed gurus, spiritual teachers, and whatever other title they go under charging unbelievably large amounts of money for information, knowledge, or so-called ‘higher wisdom’ that is available to everyone — by looking to sages who charge little or nothing, and also by looking within for the answers via meditation and other self-induced spiritual practices. I have also seen several money embezzlement cases. If you’re paying someone $295 for a spiritual ’12 strand DNA activation’ then you’ve probably just been conned.

2. Giving Themselves Fancy Titles
While on the subject of empty words, when looking to a potential spiritual teacher for guidance, notice if that individual proclaims such magnificent titles referring to themselves as being enlightened masters, self-realized yogis, or being a saint – one of the ultimate delusions of grandeur following the narcissistic Christ Complex. An enlightened person finds no need for ego masturbation.

Those who have experienced the Ultimate/Absolute Reality don’t continuously boast about how they have achieved enlightenment and are better than others. They are in fact, quite humble, perhaps sometimes too humble, but humble they are. They understand that there is no benefit to themselves or their students to make such declarations based on the realizations they’ve had about Reality. There is no need to establish a hierarchical framework within teachers and students work as we are all passengers on the same train, separated only slightly in that we sometimes sit in different train cars. We are all going the same direction, ultimately.

3. Inability to Take Criticism
Another sign of a con-man in guru’s clothing is whether the person is able to take criticism or not. Those who are not genuine spiritual teachers will get offended and defensive over criticisms made towards them instead of looking inward and taking into consideration what those criticisms are. How dare an unenlightened mortal criticize them! Nobody is perfect, after all. But I have even seen the sad situation of lawsuits being made by these so-called enlightened masters against people who had the ‘nerve’ to point out something they feel was incorrect, deceptive, harmful, etc.

4. Overly Focused on the End Goal
If you notice a spiritual teacher or guru having an almost-bizarre love affair with enlightenment this and enlightenment that, be cautious. Many of these enlightenment gurus focus on enlightenment itself instead of actually teaching others how exactly to attain that state. They do not teach about all the baby-steps leading up to the enlightening of one’s awareness in the most authentic of ways. Even the revered Buddha did not reach enlightenment overnight. Unless a spiritual teacher shows you a realistic way to reach enlightenment, such as through a particular meditation or awareness expanding technique, then you will be better off without their help… and you will keep your hard-earned money as well.

5. Behaving Hypocritically
Beware of hypocrites! This is perhaps one of the simplest methods of weeding out spiritual “snake-oil salesmen”. Look if they practice what they preach. If they teach about how you should meditate daily to promote your spiritual growth, do they meditate daily? Are they leading by example? When they talk about radiating love and light and all that is beautiful, are they doing so themselves? Nobody likes a hypocrite, especially if that hypocrite is promising spiritual enlightenment.

6. Focusing on Fulfilling Egocentric Desires
One especially important aspect of a guru or spiritual teacher that we should look into is their investment in the material aspects of life. Are they displaying behavior that is indicative of being a neophyte on the spiritual path? Do they overly focus on money, sex, and power? A dynamic Taostistic-like balance is a necessity for a balanced life, but when dependence and abuse of the material starts to emerge and creep into the mind then there is a problem.

7. Displaying Spiritual Materialism
Spiritual materialism is something that’s especially become more of an issue in recent years and is worth becoming more aware about for anyone on the path to self-realization and enlightenment. In Psychology Today, Michael J. Formica defines: “Spiritual materialism is that process by which the ego grasps at the accomplishments and progress of the self upon the spiritual path; an act by which its very nature denies the Self.”

The increased focus on spiritual materialism is problematic. All the courses, teachings, books, and workshops that focus on using the Law of Attraction to bring us riches and worldly abundance hold materialist desires at their core, and do not reflect actual spiritual growth messages.

Although spiritual growth and self-actualization can lead to ‘like attracting like’, because of the immense positivity we project outward, attracting riches is not the purpose of attaining these mind states. These messages that use the dynamics of attraction are not bad in and of themselves, but when they are misrepresented as being a path towards higher spirituality, then that is when we should be cautious of proceeding further. Do not become lost in the illusion that faux spirituality creates.

8. Behaving Selfishly
Selflessness should be the dominant quality in the spiritually-advanced soul, not selfishness. Spirituality has no place for superstars and glamour. It is not the spiritual teacher themselves that should be the focus, but rather the spiritual messages and teachings. How can we attain our own Self-realization if our position of awareness is focused externally on the teacher, rather than internally on the Self?

9. Promising a Fast Path to Self-Realization
There is nothing directly bad with spiritual workshops themselves, but when you see a spiritual teacher giving a spiritual course that’s several hundred or thousand dollars and lasts several days or even weeks do not expect to reach enlightenment just by completing such a workshop. Yes, we all live busy lives and feel as if we do not have enough time to dedicate towards our spiritual growth, but let’s be realistic: it is highly unlikely you will become self-realized in 3 weeks.

The processes of spiritual growth, self-actualization, self-realization, and enlightenment can take years or an entire lifetime – some even say multiple lifetimes. It’s said that there is only one person in recorded history that attained enlightenment in one lifetime (Milerapa) and the way he attained the enlightened state was highly unorthodox, to put it lightly. We would all like to believe that there is a fast lane to these things, but this is not the case. Of course, there are always exceptions and some reach the mountain’s summit faster than others. But as a whole, it is a process that includes much dedication and time.

http://wakeup-world.com/2013/12/09/9-wa ... l-teacher/

[ghulam muhammed]

INSTEAD OF THE "PAID" DABBA THAALI BEING SHOVED DOWN THE THROAT OF GULLIBLE ABDES, WILL THE DAI DO THIS ......

Generous Turkish Couple Celebrate Their Wedding Day By Feeding 4000 Syrian Refugees

The wedding day is usually the newlywed couple’s day, but this generous Turkish couple wanted to share the joy and happiness with other people and they are not their closed ones. Fethullah Üzümcüoğlu, 24, and Esra Polat, 20, of Turkey, wanted to spend the money they had received for their wedding feeding Syrian refugees instead. They dressed in the bride and groom’s attire and stood behind the counter and gave the food to 4000 people all the day.

“We wanted to help our Syrian brothers,” the newlyweds shared in a statement through KYM. “Seeing the happiness in the eyes of the Syrian refugee children is just priceless. We started our journey to happiness with making others happy and that’s a great feeling.”

The special ceremony was held in the southern Turkish city of Kilis, located on the Syrian border. Since the conflict started in Syria in 2011, more than a million of Syrian refugees were hosted by Turkey. In total, four-million refugees have fled the war-torn country seeking shelter elsewhere.

Instead of throwing a party for themselves, Turkish couple Fethullah Üzümcüoğlu and Esra Polat decided to do something different

“I thought that sharing a big delicious dinner with our family and friends was unnecessary, knowing that there are so many people in need living next door”

“We think we’ve made an investment in happiness by sharing our dinner with Syrian refugees living in our city”

http://www.viralnovelty.net/generous-tu ... -refugees/#

[ghulam muhammed]

Chair For Pope Francis’ Mass Arrives At Madison Square Garden

With three weeks to go until Pope Francis visits New York City, Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Wednesday unveiled a chair made for the pope that will be used for his Mass at Madison Square Garden.

The handmade birch wood chair was built in a Port Chester garage by immigrant day laborers.

“He wanted something very simple. He wanted something wooden. He didn’t want any designs. So we’re very grateful to the workers who are very proud of what that represents,” Dolan said. “A chair represents unity, and a chair represents teaching authority.”

The pontiff will enter the Garden in a golf cart-type vehicle, ride around the arena and eventually head to the altar, 1010 WINS’ Juliet Papa reported.

Garden officials told CBS2’s Lou Young they expect that could be a time when magic moments happen — like during Pope John Paul II’s entrance into the Garden in 1979 when he literally rescued a child in distress.

“He found a lost child, lifted her up and her parents found her. An iconic moment. Right here on the floor, right here,” MSG Vice President Joel Fisher told Young.

Dolan said the pope told him he wants “to pray with my people, and I want to see as many of my people as possible.”

The theme of the Mass will be peace and justice, reflecting Pope Francis’ emphasis on the dispossessed and the marginalized of our society.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/09/02/ ... re-garden/

[think]

bohrie's and bohri religious priests should learn a lesson. The pope although christian reflects the exact personality of moula Ali. He may call himself a christian but he is muslim to the core. His values speak for him. Great article.
would like to see the day when muffy and his gang realize what life on earth is all about. In our religion we have a court fight going on between the two mullas to see who is the rightful owner of the mass ill gotten wealth of the bohri community. What a shame. The worst of it all; if some good hearted bohris did start a trust to help their brother in need than such a trust was also usurped by the 51st Dai Tahir saifuddin and all the charity that should have gone to the poor is now enjoyed by this clan of day light robbers.

[ghulam muhammed]

Pope Washes Feet of Muslim Migrants at Easter Week Mass

"We have different cultures and religions, but we are brothers and we want to live in peace"

(CASTELNUOVO DI PORTO, Italy) — Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of Muslim, Christian and Hindu refugees Thursday and declared them all children of the same God, as he performed a gesture of welcome and brotherhood at a time of increased anti-Muslim sentiment following the Brussels attacks.

Francis denounced the carnage as a “gesture of war” carried out by blood-thirsty people beholden to the weapons industry during an Easter Week Mass with asylum-seekers at a shelter in Castelnuovo di Porto, outside Rome.

The Holy Thursday rite re-enacts the foot-washing ritual Jesus performed on his apostles before being crucified, and is meant as a gesture of service. Francis contrasted that gesture with the “gesture of destruction” carried out by the Brussels attackers, saying they wanted to destroy the brotherhood of humanity represented by the migrants.

Several of the migrants then wept as Francis knelt before them, poured holy water from a brass pitcher over their feet, wiped them clean and kissed them.

At the end of the Mass, Francis greeted each refugee, one by one, posing for selfies and accepting notes as he moved down the rows.

Francis shocked many Catholics within weeks of his 2013 election by performing the ritual on women and Muslims at a juvenile detention center. After years of violating the rules outright, Francis in January changed the regulations to explicitly allow women and girls to participate.

The Vatican said Thursday that four women and eight men took part. The women included an Italian Catholic who works at the center and three Eritrean Coptic Christian migrants. The men included four Catholics from Nigeria, three Muslims from Mali, Syria and Pakistan and a Hindu man from India.

The Vatican’s new norms said anyone from the “people of God” could be chosen to participate in the ceremony. While the phrase “people of God” refers to baptized Christians, the decree also said that pastors should instruct “both the chosen faithful and others so that they may participate in the rite consciously, actively and fruitfully,” suggesting that the rite could be open to non-Catholics as well.

Francis clearly intended the message to be universal.

“All of us, together: Muslims, Hindi, Catholics, Copts, Evangelicals. But brothers, children of the same God,” he said. “We want to live in peace, integrated.”

http://time.com/4271679/pope-muslim-mig ... w_facebook

[accountability]

if only muslims could have a leader like this. i am not comparing syedna to the pope. i think it is impossible for syedna saheb to show such humility and generousity. Pope francis is changing the world. But only thing is, is world ready to change. with so much bigotry and hatred, with twisted religious interpretation, his voice seems to be loosing in the rhetorical noise.
what a shame. who are they, where have they come from, I cannot comprehend. How could humans be so inhumane.

[ghulam muhammed]

CAN MUFFY GET TRUE WORLD RECOGNITION AND AWARD LIKE FATHER BERNARD KINVI INSTEAD OF "PAID" DEGREES, CHANCELORSHIPS ETC. !!

Father Bernard Kinvi is humbled by the prospect of winning a $1 million peace prize for saving hundreds and possibly thousands of Muslims and Christians alike from the sectarian violence that grips his nation.

He is also amazed that word of his work has gotten around.

The Catholic priest from the Central African Republic is one of four finalists of the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity, an annual award given by humanitarian initiative 100 Lives, which was formed in honor of those who survived the Armenian Genocide over a century ago. The prize is given every year to individuals or groups that commit an extraordinary act of humanity.

"It is my duty as a Camilian priest who has dedicated his life to the service those who are ill and those who are suffering, even at if it meant risking my own life.”

“It gives me great emotion,” Kinvi told FoxNews.com, speaking in French in an email interview. “I work in a remote corner of the Earth. We don’t do any advertising, nor do we look for international recognition.

“To see my name among the finalists of this award that I did not even know existed is for me a pleasant surprise.”

Kinvi, who was born in Togo, started a church and mission hospital three years ago in the northwestern town of Bossemptee, just as violence began to engulf the nation. The region had been in turmoil for more than a decade, but fighting between Christian and Muslim extremists exploded in 2013.

Kinvi is creditd with harboring more than 1,500 refugees, without regard to their religious beliefs, as they fled the violence.

“My presence amongst them has given them refuge,” Kinvi said. “Those who are injured or sick are all treated at my hospital. We feed the hungry and we intervene to free those who have been captured. We visit those who fled and sought refuge in Cameroon to give them moral support and encourage them not to seek vengeance.

"At home, children can now go to school, which gives us a lot of hope for the future," he continued. "It’s a profound relief for our people.”

Kinvi has been threatened by Christian militia members for aiding Muslims, many of whom he helped safely cross into neighboring Cameroon.

“I did not check their religion before helping them,” Kinvi tells FoxNews.com. “I had in front of me human beings whose lives were in danger. It is my duty as a Camilian priest who has dedicated his life to the service those who are ill and those who are suffering, even at if it meant risking my own life.”

If Kinvi wins the Aurora Prize, he intends to use the money to continue his work in Bossemptele.

“I will be able to purchase more medicine and continue to visit the most remote villages with a mobile hospital to treat the most marginalized people," he said.

But he was quick to add that others in the church are doing similar work.

“There are many priests and nuns who carry out the same type of work as I do," he said. "Just like me, they work quietly and do not seek recognition."

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/03/25 ... frica.html

[Aminullah]

Syedna khuzaima qutbuddin (R) was humble and very concern about the poor and helpless people, this is my personal experience with him.

may Allah grant him great place in heaven Ameen.

[Aminullah]

Community has lost a great scholar and a leader, but unfortunately in all those mufaddali monkey dance no bohra has realize this.