Better light a candle than curse the darkness Monthly e-Magazine ISSN 2319-4049 http://bakhabar.biharanjuman.org/ BE AWARE, ALWAYS, EVERYWHERE Volume 8, Issue 11, November 2015 IN DEPTH Why Does The Vice President Of India Worry The Right Wing Beware of Sadness ( نزحلا ) Ibn Al Qayyim may Allah have mercy on him said the word – (sadness) does not appear in the Quran only in the form of forbidding الو مهيلع فوخالف ) or in the form of negating it ( اونزحتالو ونهت الو ) it .( نونزحي مه And the reason for this is because there is no benefit for having sad - Editorial Board ness in the heart. The most beloved thing to the shaitan is to make the believing slave Publisher sad by taking him off track. Bihar Anjuman BaKhabar ينإ مهللا ) sought refuge in Allah (swt) from sadness (ﷺ ) Editorial Board The Prophet ( نزحلاو مهلا نم كب ذوعأ ,Asrarul Haque, Seraj Akram, Mohd. 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Kolkata Hyderabad Toronto So be the owner of a heart that breathes happiness and satisfaction. Muzaffarpur Ranchi Gaya May Allah (swt) make your times happy and may Allah (swt) forgive Dammam/Kh California Chicago obar us all. Ameen. 2 Bakhabar : November 2015 Mystery of Missing Muslim CaptaiI nBy Ts K Aorufn I Industry The difference, essentially, is education. his newspaper's finding that only 2.67% of the directors and seniormost executives of the Of course, the same prejudice that makes it hard for largest 500 companies listed on the Bombay Muslims to rent a home in urban India will be at TStock Exchange are Muslims is a sad reflection on work when it comes to hiring as well. However, the state of the community and of Indian society in given the shortage of talent in general, companies general, but hardly comes as a shock Except to those are likely to pay attention more to capability than to engaged in professional demonization of Muslims as religious identity. Discrimination on the basis of descendants of foreign invaders who pollute the cul - community used to be far stronger and overt in the ture, owe foreign allegiance, harbour terror in their pre-liberalisation era of suppressed competition. hearts and are resolutely fecund, so as to outnumber Even in companies with Muslim promoters, the Hindus, the sooner the better. The 2011 Census data largest proportion of senior managers would be non showed that the Mus - Muslims, more likely lim population than not. This under - growth rate has scores the role of fac - steadily been coming tors other than down, is lower than Other minorities discrimination in hiring that for Bihar as a for the weak representa - whole and that, in ab - Christians, Sikhs, tion of Muslims in deci - solute numbers, Hin - sion making roles in dus outnumber corporate India. Muslims by the Jains & Parsis--are largest ever majority The Sachar committee today . Now, the ET likely to be overrep - report and the subse - study brings out an quent evaluation report indicator of relative on its recommenda - economic disempow - resented. The differ - tions, by Prof Amitabh erment of Muslims, Kundu both brought out as well. Rather than ence, essentially, is the plight of India's the caricature of men - Muslim minorities. In ace the Hindutva terms of socio-eco - brigade paints of the education nomic indicators, they Muslim, the reality are at the bottom of the shows a deprived, heap, along with the disempowered com - scheduled castes and munity living under the shadow of violence as the scheduled tribes. number of communal incidents recorded by the Home ministry keeps going up. The Planning Commission, under the previous UPA Of course, Muslims are not alone in being under-rep - government, found that funds allotted for education resented in the corporate hall of fame. The result and healthcare had systematically skirted Muslim- would be even more disheartening, if one were to dominated villages in places like Uttar Pradesh. This hunt for the presence of members of India's deprived led former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to de - castes and tribal groups in the higher echelons of clare that the minorities and other deprived sections corporate India. However, certain other minority had the first claim on the nation's resources. Such communities are likely to be overrepresented, in re - statements were widely interpreted to be minority lation to their population: Christians, Sikhs, Jains appeasement -with merit, considering that Congress- and Parsis. led Maharashtra did not particularly lag Gujarat in 3 Bakhabar : November 2015 putting away young Muslim men behind bars for Because such jobs are not available/ possible, the years on terror charges that were subsequently dis - conclusion is that education is of no use. We encour - proved. age children to learn some odd skill and start work - ing when they should be in schools/colleges. Those Vice President Ansari recently said Muslim back - who want to have some semblance of education send wardness is a drag on the entire society . He called their children to Madarsas, an important reason upon the community itself to do more for its own up - being that there things are free including boarding lift. Things are, indeed, changing. and lodging. Community bears the expenses by way of Zakaat. When e-learning software producer Extra Marks was scouting for a school to deploy its offering, it met Even if some child is intelligent and interested in ed - with skepticism and rejection, till it met up with the ucation, the family finds one or the other excuse to Muslim Education Society in Kerala. The MES discontinue the formal schooling and higher educa - school in Pattambi was the first school to buy and tion. The same is more so in case of girls. use English-language software and tablet based teaching and learning. Being better as compared to others in the commu - nity, especially by way of education, it becomes our This is, of course, far removed from the Madrasas of duty to encourage the deprived section (education- north India, where Muslim pupils are herded into a wise) of community towards education. We can do closed universe, whose horizons are defined by so by: Urdu, the only language they learn, besides the Ara - bic of the Quran. 1. Starting or support - ing existing educa - The route to redemp - tional institutes, tion for Muslims, as especially the ones well as for other de - which admit and edu - prived sections of In - cate children from de - dian society, is to prived sections of the equip themselves to community. take part in the ongo - ing structural trans - 2. There are large formation of the numbers of organiza - Indian economy , tions which are en - from an economy couraging formal where the bulk of the education by way of workforce was en - scholarships, financial gaged in agriculture assistance for fee, to the new, emerg - hostel expenses etc. ing, urbanizing pow - We can support such erhouse of services and industry . Those who organizations as well. become skilled professionals and entrepreneurs from among the ranks of the deprived communities will 3. By providing financial assistance to students who augment their community's social capital and help are good and interested in education. Most of the the rest climb their way out of backwardness. time the families are not in a position or not inter - ested in paying the fee and other expenses.