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Bhatkal Muslims Protest over play portraying Prophet The Muslims of coastal town of Bhatkal took out a massive procession in the town on December 17 protesting against a Kannada play in a missionary run school in which a student acted as the Prophet. The play was staged on December 6 by the Anand Ashram Convent School where nearly 900 Muslim students are on the rolls. The procession organised by Majlis Islah-o- Tanzeem, the representative of the town’s Muslims, presented a memorandum to the civic and police authorities. Nearly 700 students were also taken off the rolls of the school by the angry parents who are making alternative arrangements for the coaching of the students. A delegation of the Bhatkal Muslims which visited Bangalore led by Maulana Ilyas Nadwi informed that the school had though tendered an apology and is requesting the community to return the students, but Muslims have rejected their apology. He said of the 5,000 Muslim students in the small town, nearly 1000 were currently studying in missionary schools in Bhatkal. But the recent events have suggested that the missionary schools were resorting to defaming the Islam.                                                                                                                                                         A Life Full of Laurels Syed Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi

Maulana Syed Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi the well known scholar, thinker, writer and historian passed away on Friday, 23 Ramadhan (31, December 1999), and was criminated the same night. Popularly known as Ali Mian, Mualana Nadwi was born in 1914 in a village near Rae Bareli of India’s Uttar Pradesh state. His father, Maulana Syed Abdul Hai, was a great Islamic scholar of his time . Maulana Ali Mian was only nine when his father died. His mother and brother raised him up. In his youth, Maulana Ali Mian was a student of Allama Sulaiman Nadwi, an Islamic luminary of his time. He studied Arabic language and literature from Sheikh Khaleel bin Mohammed bin Husain Yemeni and Taquiddin Hilali. Among the innumerable positions he held, he was the rector of Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama , Lucknow, and President of all India Muslim ersonal Law Board and Darul Musannifeen, Azamgarh. He was the founding member of the Islamic University, Madinah Al-Munawwarah and Muslim World League, Makkah Al-Mukarramah, president of the Islamic Centre of Oxford University and as well as consulting Editor of Britain’s Journal of Islamic Studies. Maulana had travelled extensively all over the world for the cause of Islam. In 1990, Maulana Ali Mian was conferred with Saudi Arabia’s prestigious King Faisal award in recognition of his services to Islam. He set an example when he donated the entire amount to Afghan jehad and to two Islamic institutions of Makkah. He received the prestigious award from the Govt of Dubai being the Islamic personality of the year. Maulana Ali Mian had written more than 100 books in Urdu and Arabic, many of which have been translated in English, French, Turkish, Malayalam and some other languages.