Mangaluru, Jan 16: “I have attended several major events organised by various organisations and political parties at Nehru Maidan. But this is the only event which instigated me to think seriously about life,” said Arun Kumar, city based a college student.
Arun Kumar was one of the thousands of knowledge seekers who were impressed by theThe Miracle', an ongoing exhibition on Islam, organised by Karnataka Salafi Association from January 9 to 15 at Nehru Maidan in the heart of the city.
He also revealed that when hired an auto-rickshaw to the exhibition venue on Sunday evening, the driver Johnson too started praising the exhibition. “This shows how people of all faiths were attracted by this exhibition. I salute the organisers for allaying the misconceptions about Islam,” he added.
According to the organisers, though the majority of the visitors were Muslims, thousands of non-Muslims too attended the exhibition and many of them appreciated the selfless effort.
A talk onthe real message of Quran' by Zaid Patel, the founder of the iPlus Telemedia Private Ltd, on Sunday night attracted nearly thirty thousand people. Husain Salafi, president of Sharjah based Indian Islahi Centre, explained that terrorism and Islam cannot coexist.
The exhibition premises was spread over 30,000 square feet of 400 plus informative panels in English and Kannada. Volunteers explained tenets of the religion to the visitors in two air-conditioned pavilions, for women and men separately, at the exposition.
All the panels at the expo were done based on scientific models. Topics such as embryology that speaks about science and Islam; and dangers of alcohol that tells people alcohol does not make anyone healthy or strong, are explained at length. The other counters relate to wonders of the human body, where the purpose of each part of the body is explained.
There was also section to eradicate misconceptions about Islam and clarify that terrorist organisations such as ISIS that use the name of Islam are in fact anti-Islamic groups. There were also separate video theatres in the two languages that offer multimedia sermons.
"This is an attempt to eradicate evil ideas that people have about Islam. To become good from bad and also a campaign against substance abuse, wastage of food and terrorism. The end result we want is that people of all religion to give away communal thinking and live in peace," said Mohammed Haneef Uppinangady, president of the association.
Commenting on people often linking Islam to terrorism and IS, Haneef stressed that Islam teaches about peace and Holy Book clearly points out that nobody has a right to kill anyone. If one does, he/she is killing the entire mankind. The exhibition also exhorted visitors not to get attracted by the teaching of IS and terror outfits and it is against the religion.
Bengaluru, Feb 14: After the swearing-in of ten former JDS and Congress MLAs, political boundaries seem to have become more fluid, with little clarity on who is on whose side. When Honnali BJP MLA Renukacharya visited senior Congressman DK Shivakumar at the latter’s residence, many eyebrows were raised over the reason behind the meeting. There was speculation over why Renukacharya would be meeting a man who is, in all likelihood, slated to be the next KPCC president.
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how many people embraced islam during the exhibition period. Just wait and watch
My suggestion to right people.. DO NOT Entertainment the guy \ VIREN KOTIAN MUMBAI\"
No correct point in his comment, he simply provoke the muslim from his non sense comment thats it.. \"KESIRIGE KALLU HAKUVUDU OLLEYADALLAH\""
All is paid drama...Everyone knows about this after media exposed Zakir naik shows...
Really a great program, each and every slides are supported with Quran and hadees, may allah bless us with his grace to understand what the real life is and who is the real creator of the world and and the purpose of creations
Barakallah feek, may allah rewards the organisers
Naren.. ninna ajji bedi..!!! Sumne bai banda haage bogala bedi..!!
Ma sha Allah....well organised ksa group by the grace Almighty Allah...True message of holy Quraan, and about islam towards people to know the real true messages...
Hope most of all people got advantages of program.
May Allah give us more and more to get knowledge of true message of Quran..Aameen
mr. viren kotian, you have missed this golden opportunity to understand islam, instead of posting harsh, rude words here and in social media about islam, u should have been attend this wonderful programme.
may allah guide mr. viren kotian to the right path. aameen.
only dua can change a life. if allah wills.
Very Well organized and maintained. Good to see such programs in future. Keep coastal on peace by organizing such programs which benefit all religions.
Please ignore the guy filled with dung. He needs lot of mental patience.
Dear Althaf, i hope you would have given good statement acceptable to everyone. You should not pin point any one or any organisation. I am not happy with your statement. May Allah bless you with right way of thinking.
Thank you so much for excellent analysis on the Islamic exhibition. This kind of impartial reports should keep appearing on coastaldigest.com.
Viren
Wake up man.. Even indian media could not prove that Dr.Zakir naik is inspiring youths to join ISIS then how can you prove that. If you have proof of this then go and submit to indian government so that they can take action instead barking here.
One more thing if my allah decide something to happen then it will happen no one in this earth can stop that,... Again no one..
Good job going around mangalore.....
Naren you ate a lot of chillis....that is why....
@ Viren
This was supposed to happen and many goods things will happen...
They plan but God is the best planner..
The more you put obstacle.. the better people will be curious about islam..
Finally i want to dedicate
Mashaa allah / Good Work /from KSA team , Mangalore
i really appreciate.................
Jazak Allah Khair
Masha Allha great work from KSA. and its benifit to all not only muslim non muslim also.we need to give clear islam to the world.
Salafis are the ones who had tried to bring Zakri Naik ( who inspired youths to join ISIS) to Mangalore. Now they are trying to say Islam and ISIS is different. They are fooling people. What they are doing is missionary job. How did mangalore police allow this to happen?
If U depend on false media information about islam and Muslims... Many will lose in knowing the reality of LIFE which the CREATOR has given us... to know the TRUTH about life , we should look into the Source... everything will be cleared when we take the knowledge from the original source...
Non MUslims should atleast read one time \the QURAN\" once in their lifetime at the earliest... to know what islam says about LIFE on this earth and the hereafter .... God can give us LIFE again after death, the way he had given us first time... its simple for him... (Praise b to God alone)"
I really appreciate the hard work of KSA for spreading the true message of islam to non muslims. I also believe that all of mangaloreans had attended the exhibition except soofis and so called sunnis and SSF
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