Eid Mubarak!

 

Eid Mubarak!

Eid Mubarak. May the blessings of Allah subahana wa t’ala bring you joy, peace and prosperity! May you have a joyous and blessed Eid al Adha!

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19th Dhu’l Qa’ada Urs Hazrat Dr. Zahurul Hassan Sharib, Gudri Shah Baba IV, 1996CE

Gudri Shah Baba IV
Hazrat Dr. Zahurul Hassan Sharib, Gudri Shah Baba IV

(The following text and photo can be found at http://sufi-mystic.net/text2.htm#5)

“I am not concerned in the least with what you are, what you have, what you believe, how you live; how you act, how much faith you may have, how much belief you may have, or how much hope you may have; but I am concerned with what you would like to become.”

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12th Dhu’l Qa’ada Urs Shah Nizamuddin Aurangabadi (ra), Aurangabad, 1142AH/1730CE

Dargah of Nizamuddin Aurangabadi
Dargah of Nizamuddin Aurangabadi

Qutubul Aqtaab Qutub-e-Deccan Shaikh ul Islam Hazrat Khawaja Sayyed Shah Nizamuddin Auliya Aurangabadi R.A.

Among the most renowned saints in India Sheikh ul Islam wal Muslimin Hazrat khwaja Shah Nizamuddin Auliya Aurangabadi is counted as one of the prominent saint of India. The year of birth of Hazrat Rh was 1060 Hijri i.e. 1650 AD. He belongs to village near Lucknow named as Kakor.

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The Uighurs and China’s Long History of Trouble with Islam

A Uighur woman walking past a statue of Mao Zedong in Kashgar City, northwestern Xinjiang, China, 2017. Photo credit: Guillaume Payen / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images.

A Uighur woman walking past a statue of Mao Zedong in Kashgar City, northwestern Xinjiang, China, 2017. Photo credit: Guillaume Payen / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images.

Islam was of little concern to China’s rulers when the religion arrived in the seventh century. Then problems began to arise.

In late 2018, I spent several days at the Forbidden City, the gargantuan palace in the middle of Beijing where China’s emperors ruled the land for nearly five hundred years. I was there to attend a conference on religion and power in imperial China, but my thoughts were drawn to more contemporary concerns: the plight of the Uighurs in China’s far western province of Xinjiang, including re-education camps aimed at breaking their faith in Islam.

Source: The Uighurs and China’s Long History of Trouble with Islam

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Delhi: In a first since Independence, no Urs celebrations at Hazrat Nizamuddin dargah | Delhi News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: For the first time since 1947, the annual Urs festival commemorating the death anniversary of Sufi Saint Amir Khusro will not be celebrated.

Source: Delhi: In a first since Independence, no Urs celebrations at Hazrat Nizamuddin dargah | Delhi News – Times of India

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