EDUCATION: Education is an art of reading,art of learning,art of thinking and art of living.Education is not merely ‘chalk and talk’,it’s a wholesome process requiring the active participation of a student,techer,and the parents.The art of reading and learning does not mean to read and learn books, it means to read life and learn through the universe.If someone gets a higher degree it doesn’t mean that he/she is educated.He/she should be considered learned. In fact an illiterate person can be educated and a learned may not be educated.Like the Parliamentarians ,whatever they show in the Parliament that indicates that they could be learned but not educated.The percentage of learned people is much more then the percentage of educated in the world.Now a days,in schools, colleges and in universities,they are not providing education,they are only providing certificates and degrees,by which one is entitled for a job.Every one is running for money.The world becomes materialistic and if you point this out to someone you will be answered that it's one’s personal matter.
PERSONAL: Nothing is personal for a person.Everyone has a right to interfere in anyone’s personal matter.The term ‘Personal’ means those things that belong to someone’s personality or those matters which concern to a person.Now there are three important moments of life which is 100% personal or belong to a single person.If someone is born it is his/her personal matter,because no one has been born except him/her.But the parents and other society members are always involved here.At the time of a marriage of a person, family, friends and society are again involved.Finally,at the time of death again all these people are involved.When in three big personal matters of life everyone is getting involved then how can one say for any aspect of life that it’s a personal matter and no one has a right to interfere, whether it is social, cultural, business or marriage.
MARRIAGE: Marriage is a declaration of a man and a woman in a society that they decided to live together and will fulfill their sexual desire without any fear.From the ancient time till date there is no single system of marriage,only this declaration is adopted universally by all religions and societies after some amendments suited to their religions or societies. One can not challenge the other that your marriage is wrong and mine is right.All the systems or customs are made by men. For Example, Isaac, Joseph, Moses and David never got married by that custom which is applicable today in Jews and Christians.
In Muslims there is a system of ‘NIKAH’ for marriage,but from Adam to Ibrahim and up to Prophet Mohammed(P.B.U.H.) the present Nikah system did not exist.This system started after the arrival of the Holy Qur’an. Even the first marriage of Prophet Mohammed with Hazrat Khadija was according to an Arabian system, which was the simple declaration.
In India from Vedic age till some centuries there was only ‘SWEMVER’ system and the religion was called vedic religion or ‘Sanathan’ not Hinduism or Hindu.
HINDU:Neither Hinduism was a religion nor Hindu was a community. The Vedic or Sanathan religion is based on Vedas, i.e., Rig Veda, Sam Veda, Athurva Veda, Yajurva Veda and Upnishada.In the ancient times those who followed two vedas were called ‘Drivedi’ or ‘Dubey’.The follower of three vedas were called ‘Trivedi’ and those following four vedas were ‘Chaturvedi’ or ‘Chaubey’.They were not called Hindus.
In fact, the Indian civilization was called the Indus valley civilization or the ‘Sindh civilization’ because of sindh river.When people from Persia entered India their language and accent were totally different.Instead of ‘S’ they pronounced ‘H’.Like ‘Saptah’ they pronounced ‘Haftah’ and instead of ‘Sindh’ they pronounced ‘Hind’.Even in Arabia still they called Indians ‘Al-Hindi’.When it became Hind then the Ocean's name became Hind Mahasagar.Later on when people from Afghanistan entered India they became happy by the hospitality and friendship of the Indians.So they called the country ‘HIND-DOSTAAN’.It means that the Hindi people are very friendly.This Hind Doostaan later became Hindustan or India.
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Very educative post. Most things mentioned here are never taught to us in books.
ReplyDeleteThe pace and straightforwardness of the article is really appealing. Description of these various topics is a fantastic idea. :)
ReplyDeleteYour comment about the nikah is slightly erroneous. Actually the only difference between the nikaah in the period of jaahiliyah and post jaahiliyah is th inclusion of the ayahs of the khutah-e-haajah (Which is logical since the Qur'an hadn't been revealed then). With the exception of that, all other things were present: Agreement between the parties involved, dowry and witnesses :)
ReplyDeleteUrwah Ibn al-Zubair informed him that Aisha, the wife of the Prophet (peace & blessings of Allah be upon him)informed him that marriage in the Jahiliyah was of four types:
(1) one was marriage of people as it is today, where a man betroths his ward or his daughter to another man, and the latter assigns a dowry (bridewealth) to her and then marries her;
(2) another type was where a man said to his wife when she was purified from her menses, send to N. and ask to have intercourse with him; her husband then stays away from her and does not touchher at all until it is clear that she is pregnant from that (other) man with whom
she sought intercourse. When it is clear that she is pregnant, her husband has intercourse with her if he wants. He acts thus simply from the desire for a child. This type of marriage was known as Nikah al-Istibda, the marriage of
seeking intercourse;
(3) another type was where a group (raht) of less than ten men used to visit the same woman and all of them to have intercourse with
her. If she became pregnant and bore a child, when some nights had passed after the birth she could send for them, and not a man of them might refuse. When they had come together in her presence, she would say to them, You
(pl.) know the result of your acts. I have borne a child and he is your (sing.)
child, N., naming whoever she will by his name; her child is attached to him and the man may not refuse;
(4) the fourth type is where many men frequent a
woman, and she does not keep herself from any who comes to her. These women are the baghaya (prostitutes). They used to set up at their door banners forming a sign. Whoever wanted them went in to them. If one of them conceived
and bore a child, they gathered together to her and summoned the physiognomists to designate as father the man whom the child resembled
most. Then the child remained attached to him and was called his son, no objection to this course being possible.
When Muhammad (peace & blessings of Allah be upon him) came preaching the truth, he destroyed all the types of marriage of
the Jahiliyah except that which people practise today’.
To illustrate this, I quote an extract from the Prophet's( peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) biography Ar Raheeq Ar Makhtum (The Sealed Nectar) that depicts how his marriage to Khadijah (May Allah be pleased with her) was conducted since this is the only marriage of his that was conducted before the advent of Islam:
HIS MARRIAGE TO KHADIJAH:
When he returned to Makkah, Khadijah noticed, in her money, more profits and blessings than she used to. Her hireling also told her of Muhammad’s good manners, honesty, deep thought, sincerity and faith. She realized that she homed at her target. Many prominent men had asked for her hand in marriage but she always spurned their advances. She disclosed her wish to her friend Nafisa, daughter of Maniya, who immediately went to Muhammad (Peace be upon him) and broke the good news to him. He agreed and requested his uncles to go to Khadijah’s uncle and talk on this issue.
Subsequently, they were married. The marriage contract was witnessed by Bani Hashim and the
heads of Mudar. This took place after the Prophet’s return from Syria. He gave her twenty camels as dowry. She was, then, forty years old and was considered as the best woman of her folk in lineage, fortune and wisdom. She was the first woman whom the Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) married. He did not get married to any other until she had died.