During
the time of the Prophet (S.A.), the Ansari lady, Rufaida,
ran a nursing home in pitched tents in the courtyard of the
Prophet’s mosque in Medina. Wounded soldiers of Islam
used to be nursed there. This happened many centuries before
the European ideal, Florence Nightingale came into the picture.
To emulate the above Islamic tradition, we have already sent
a girl from our orphanage for training in the general nursing
course. Some girls are trained as medical laboratory technicians.
Many more girls are being urged to follow these precedents.
We
promote Islamic values in our institutions. The American President
says he wants to impose western values in Islamic countries.
What are the western values? Are they the honored places give
to intoxicants and gambling? Twenty per cent of all babies
born in the U.K. are of unwed mothers, so the newspapers report.
Are the western values conducive to these happenings? And
the American President casts ruin and desolation in his wake
in the Muslim countries in the name of human rights (Western
values indeed!). Human rights were emphasized by the prophet
(S.A.) in his final speech centuries before even the Magna
Carta was drawn up.
In
the Girl’s Orphanage, there are arrangements for training
in computer application, tailoring etc. in addition to coaching
classes for religious subjects and school curriculum. Marriage
is arranged for girls who are not interested in pursuing their
studies beyond +2.
The
boys trained in this Institution, are working as Imams and
teachers in various parts of the Kerala State and outside.
They have been very successful in their fields and they bring
laurels to their mother institute that is Falahiya.
We
are, at present, inaugurating a three-storey building to accommodate
the Boys Section. It includes the boarding section, the Daras
section, the computer school and the library.
Of
the boys, 50% are school-going. The remaining inmates pursue
their religious and temporal studies in the Daras and in the
Tahfeez-ul-Qur’an division. In both the girls section
and the boys section, we have facilities for recreation and
games.
We
are contemplating a five year Imam-training course. This course
is intended to equip the future Imams of the mosques to face
the challenges of modern developments in the various fields
of human endeavor.
The
inauguration celebration proposes to have a crowded programmed
which includes the marriage of a girl inmate which will be
the sixth of such marriages of orphans here. The Sand-giving
(issue of Degree Certificates) ceremony to those who passed
out from the Daras and the tahfiz-ul-Qur’an is another
memorable item.
To
conclude, the primary aim of the Falahiya Trust is to uphold
and to infuse into society, the Islamic values as enunciated
by the Holy Qur’an and to make the inmates successful
citizen of our great country, India.
This
(Holy Qur’an) is a message to the entire world: to those
among you that have the will to be upright. (Qur’an,
81, 27, 28)
Finally,
I pray to Allah for His all-embracing help in the operation
of all the institutions under the Falahiya Trust as contemplated
in its aims.
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