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Dear Editor



I received a great shocked to hear about the sad demise of the father of prof: Abdul Sami, prof: Abdul Jamil and Dr. Samiul Haq. Inah-Lil-Lah-Wa-Ina-Ilaihi-Rajighun. As a Muslim it is our strong beliefs that we have to leave this transitory world one day. However, today we lose a well known and great Islamic scholar like Mufti Azam of Chitral and everyone is mourning and it will take long time to fill the gap. I pray to Almighty Allah to give the family strength and courage to bear this irreparable loss and may rest the departed soul in eternal peace. Pl convey my heartiest grief and sorrow to all the family members.



Dur Wali Khan Karachi

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The Demise of a whole World

A hadith of the Holy Prophet says� The demise of a learned scholar is the death of an entire world �
Allama Iqbal has poured out in this vein,
Don�t deem it easy because after the revolution of heavenly bodies for years that the appearance of a human being on earth becomes possible. When such worthy human beings pass away, the earth has to wait for many years for the birth of such gems of humanity. Maulana Abdul Dayyan ,who succumbed to heart failure on January 3,2008, was one of such human beings. Maulana Abdul Dayyan known as Mufti-e-Azam of Chitral was born in a religious family of Jangbazzar in Chitral in1919.His father Maulana Abdul Raouf and his grand father Maulana Haji Ali Mardan were famous for their piety in the whole area. After getting his early education from his father and having learnt the Holy Quran by heart, his thirst for knowledge made him the student of Maulana Mustajab a well-known scholar and saint of his time.
Getting education in those days was an uphill task which cannot be compared to the convenient availability of education in the present time but the youth Abdul Dayyan had the zeal and fervor of a true student. He had to travel for miles everyday to the far off village Ayun.
After studying different subjects at Chitral for twelve years, he had to stay at Akora Khatak under the guidance of Molvi Abdul Haq for two years. But Maulana Abdul Dayyan�s quest for knowledge did not cease and he traveled to the distance city of Dehli India craving to complete his Daura �e- Quran and Hadith there. He was fortunate to be honored by the erudite tutorship of Maulana Hussain Ahmad Madani and Maulana Aizaz Ali at madarssa Amenia India. After a few years he returned to his hometown with the enthusiasm of disseminating religious education to his own people. Being a man of ascetic mind he kept himself away from the courtly life and chose teaching, as a profession in the newly established Darululoom of Chitral .He was also selected as the Mufti-e-Azam of Darulifta, Chitral. He solved the problems of the people relating to Islamic jurisprudence. He taught in the fore mentioned institution for more than thirty years and trained thousands of Ulmas at Chitral.
Mufti Abdul Dayyan practiced what he preached. He was God fearing, honest, amiable, unostentatious and had unprejudiced attitude towards all and sundry. He led a simple life and did not sit idle like the so-called heavyweight champions of religion. People could see him working in his field during sowing and harvesting season. To keep himself spiritually intact, he observed all the additional fasting of the year enjoined by our Holy Prophet peace be upon him. As he was the imam of his mosque, he recited the whole Quran in his sweet voice while leading the prayers of Taraweeh during the holy month of Ramadan and sat for Aitakaaf every year. He was generous to his finger tips and he gave away all his GP fund and pension money secretly to the needy and the poor.
These qualities won the hearts of people for him and thousands of his followers attended his funeral with grieved hearts, instead of snow fall and cold weather. In brief his whole life displayed a true picture of a true Islamic scholar which can be emulated by the Ulemas and common man alike.
Maulana Abdul Dayyan left behind four sons and two daughters. Prof; Abdul Sami,Prof; Abdul Jamil , Prof; Dr. Samiul Haq and Abdul Hasseeb are his bereaved sons. Amoung his grand sons are Dr.Mehfooz Elahi, Dr. Atta Elahi , Abdul Hameed (M.Sc Forestry), Hafiz Inamul Haq , Hafiz Izharul Haq (students of International Islamic University), Basharat Sami and Assad Sami(students of Ayub Medical College Abbottabad). May Allah bless his soul with eternal peace and grant the bereaved family with the patience to bear the loss and the spirit to emulate his life style.

Saidul Abrar
Moghalandeh Chitral.

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Dear Sir,

Pl. convey my deepest sorrow and sympathies to Prof: Abdus Sami and brothers upon the demise of their beloved father, Mufti Adud-Dayan. May Allah shower His blessings upon the departed soul and give fortitude to the bereaved family, Ameen.

Sher Wali Khan Aseer
Abbottabad

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OSTENTATION A MALADY OF THE PRESENT TIME

Ostentation is eating into the vitals of our society. Certainly human beings are the roof and crown of all creatures. God Almighty has bestowed this honour on every descendent of Adam (Peace Be Upon Him) with conditionalities and reservations. On the other hand man is also prone to deprive himself of this honour by ignoring the directives of his creator. But homo sapien thinks that by artificial self-elation and by degrading his fellow human beings he will be deemed superior and honorable in the eyes of the world. In this way, our society is in the grip of hollow show off. Whatever capability or worldly favour we are endowed with instead of being grateful to Allah, we try to outshine others in such a manner that the less-fortunate feel sense of inferiority and deprivation which opens the Pandora box in our social life instead of adopting simple dealing and plain living everyone falls a prey to such social evils. The demonstration of ones respect ability evils and greatness is visible in very walk of our society. The political leadership being always power-hungry has established V.VIP culture. The religious parties backed out of their promise of eliminating VIP culture when they recently drunk power to the brim. The affluent and influential members of our society follow suit, which affects our society at large.
In brief whether it is function of marriage or funeral ceremony, ostentation is on the rampage. The rituals, ceremonies and ways adopted by the rich under the influence of electronic media are enough to throw the incapable into the abysmal depth of despondence and frustration.
The funeral of the affluent is attended by the multitude while the indigent is disposed of as if he or she does not belong to the human race. This trend has pervaded all the spheres of our society. The majority is involved in the rat race, as the almighty dollar has become the yardstick of security, respectability and power.
But we can turn this downward fall into up surge by turning ourselves towards the golden directives of the Holy Quraan. The care of all those social maladies lie in the teaching of the Holy Quraan which heals all the ills of humanity by curing the hearts of man.
The problems of the 21st Century can be solved only by adopting the golden principles of our divine book of guidance.

Saidul Abrar
Mughlandeh
District and Tehsil Chitral.