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	<title>Asar on Lectures in English</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[<p>Well said: Thanks for a most positive and constructive feedback. I have taken it to heart and shall comply. My children and their friends have been asking me to lecture in English. These Urdu lectures were, in a way, just to test the ground. I wanted to check how alive and receptive we were, as a nation. Just like a neurologist, who at first checks the pupils of the eye to see if this comatose patient is alive or brain dead. The feedback over the past one year, from Shalimar Radio, has been extrememly encouraging to me. These lectures are heard live, by car and cab drivers and their families, in Los Angeles. These are my fellow Muslim Pakistani and Hindustani brothers, Bengalis too, whose families I want to salvage from the horrors of Talibani ideology. This last Saturday, for example, there were around 50 live callers on the radio. A lot of these were ladies.&#160; And several had flocked the parking lot of the Radio Station in Los Angeles. We had to ask them to leave for security reasons. I was delighted by their positive comments. Yet I could see the half hearted acknowledgements from children and youth, who said exactly what you said. Why not in English, they asked. I shall, I replied.</p>
<p>Please continue to provide feed back. I am so encouraged by your comments.</p>
<p>Asarul&#39;Islam</p>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>samsima on Lectures in English</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">&#160;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Who are you trying to address? What talent are you looking for? How much time do you want to invest on those who have grown older shaving their gray pubic to gain acceptance from god? Are you trying to put life on such people? If yes, then I think,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&#160; </span>I joined the wrong forum. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">&#160;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And if your answer is no, then lets target that generation who could understand. Generation, who have already challenged existing norms of so called &#8220;muslin&#8221; societies. Those are the people you should target. These people either already left Islam or in process of abandoning. Why, because when they asked questions they constantly received ignorant explanations either from sham scholars or from nonsensical tafsirs .&#160;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">&#160;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">These people are not narrow minded people. They just can&#8217;t be. They are still out there looking for answers, probably from different sources than Quran, yet still looking. These people will run to you because you speak their language, you remedy their guilt and rid their doubts with reason; yet from the Quran. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">&#160;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Who are these people? They are no other but our young adults (not children).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&#160; </span>Yes also our brothers and sisters and our parents but especially our young adults. These young adults are trained in these free countries to question, to evaluate, to reason, to express, to create and to lead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&#160; </span>They have already rejected all the dogmas and superstitious rituals which were instilled in us by ignorant mullahs and follower societies. Now they are looking for direction. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">&#160;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And guess what, they all speak English.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&#160; </span>Now you tell me, how these young adults can find the right path, which you are trying to convey. Their parents tell them to go to mosque but there they find someone who Quran calls creature &#8220;worst than animals&#8221;. So parents have no answer and mullah speak from different dimension. Where should they go? Books? Internet? How many books on Islam or Quran, including translations of Quran,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&#160; </span>in English you can name which these kids can refer to for true guidance. How many scholars you can name who are capable of delivering this Quranic message in English.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&#160; </span>I don&#8217;t know of any, do you? </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">&#160;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And if you also here to write your name in history by lecturing generations who can barely understand Urdu, then trust me Asr bhai, you are wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&#160; </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Neither my children nor yours &#8220;understand&#8221; or &#8220;speak&#8221; Urdu</strong>. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">&#160;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What do you want us to do? Do you want us to teach them Urdu so they could understand you, or Parwez, or Iqbal or Sir Syed? And once they finally learn Urdu then should I tell them to learn Arabic so they could understand Quran? </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">&#160;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Your website says &#8220;One Quran&#8230;, One Website&#8221;. You are advertising your rare and precious product in English but trying to sell it in Urdu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&#160; </span>People who are willing, are coming to you by reading your website slogan but then you are turning your face from them by speaking foreign language. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">&#160;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Though you&#8217;ve been delivering your message for a while, but your website is still new. Many still don&#8217;t know about it; many are still returning to it every week in hope of hearing something in familiar language.&#160; Many wants to refer this&#160;website to others in colleges, universities, at work places but can&#39;t due this language barrier. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">&#160;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What is your plan to quench their thirst?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&#160; </span>Or should we click on the X at the top right corner and close this website like others??</span></span></p>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
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