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Bangalore mosque’s usual function
Bangalore: The city’s centrally located
Jama Masjid is not merely the spiritual and religious hub of the city's
Muslims, for from the bowels of this magnificent mosque goes out a stirring
call for modernizing the Muslim mindset.
For over 15 years the Jama Masjid has run a modern English medium school
from its cellars, employing Hijab-donning female teachers and imparting
basic skills in computers to Muslim children. It has also become customary
for the Masjid to invite and felicitate every new Commissioner of the City
Police after a Friday congregation, in order to build rapport with the
police force. With these hallmarks, Jama Masjid has come to symbolize the
new leadership in Bangalore.
Indeed, one would not expect all this from a traditional mosque. The change
owes itself to the dynamic secretary of the Muslim Charitable Fund Trust,
Atheeq Ahmed, who has been helped along in his campaign by the equally
enlightened Imam of the mosque, Maulana Riyazur Rahman Rashadi. The duo have
turned the Masjid into a beehive of educational and socio-economic activity,
even while taking care to impart basic Islamic instructions to students,
both boys and girls. q |
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