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اَلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُم وَرَحْمَةُ اَللهِ وَبَرَكاتُهُ
As the pandemic still continues worldwide, we have experienced back to back Lock-downs at our respective locations, to stop the spread of COVID-19 pandemic and this time too it is coupled with the occurrence of the Holy Month of Ramzan 1442H.
Similar to last year, Mehdavia Times took the initiative to conduct an International Essay writing Competition for Mehdavia Students , Professionals and everyone during the holy month of Ramzan.
Alhamdulillah, even this initiative was decided lately, and on demand by the participants of last essay competition and our well-wishers, with immense pleasure we proceeded ahead to announce the Second Mehdavia Times International Essay Writing Competition and received a very good response from participants from all over the world.
This time, we kept the topics open to the participants so that they can select their respective topic, and hinted them to consider the practical aspects of the topic to make it more best realistic.
By the grace of Allah, Sadaqa of Buzurgan e Deen, Dua of our Murshideen e Ikram, and our elders we had a great zoom session, that consisted of below sequence:
- Qirat-e-Kalaam by Qari Mohammed Farhan bin Janab Mukhtar Ahemed Saheb ahle Kirgaval
- Naat-e-Rasool by Janab Ameen Mohammed Farooqi Saheb ahle Chanapatan
- Naat-e-Mehdi by Janab Taj Khan Saheb, Ahle Mandya
- Naat-e-Mehdi by Janab Alam Khan Saheb ahle Chanapatan
- Welcome Address and Opening remarks by Janab Inayath Ulla Khan Saheb, Founder, Mehdavia Times Welfare Trust
- Presentation of Mehdavia Times 12 years Journey by Janab Tausif D Sayyed, Global Coordinator for Mehdavia Times
- Address by Guest of Honour Janab Syed Mohammed Suhail Sahab, Treasurer, Jamiat-e-Mahdavia, Matadahalli, Bangalore.
- Addressing by Chief Guest Hazrat Peer o Murshid Moulana Syed Mohammed Sarfaraz Mehdi Tashreefullahi Saheb Qibla, Hyderabad.
- Special Address by Janab Sha Rasheed Suhail Nizami Saheb Sahafi / Journalist Roz Naama Salar, Bengaluru
- Announcement of Second International Essay writing competition by Janab Hasan Mehdi Karekazi Saheb
- Manqabat Hz. Bandagi Miyan Syed Khundmeer Siddiq-e-Vilayath by Janab Alam Khan Saheb ahle Chanapatan
- Presidential address by Hazrat Peer-o-Murshid Alhaj Moulana Maulvi Syed Waliullah Saheb Ibrahimi, Motamid-e-Ijma-e-Murshideen-e-Groh-e-Mehdavia, Chanapatan
- Vote of Thanks by Janab Syed Mehboob Miya Saheb, Core Member, Khuddam-e-Millat-e-Mehdavia
- Tasbeeh led by Hazrat Peer o Murshid Moulana Syed Mohammed Sarfaraz Mehdi Tashreefullahi Saheb Qibla, Hyderabad.
Murshideen and Guests Congratulated all the participants and the winners of the essay competition and they also congratulated Janab Inayath Ulla Khan Saheb and his team on completion of Mehdavia Times and appreciated and acknowledged its consistent services since more than a decade.
Some Points Pondered Over:
- Janab S.M Suhail Saheb brought the attention towards Urdu seeing poor participation in this category. He also brought to the notice that majority of the participation has come form Roman Urdu (almost 65%).
- All the speakers discussed on the importance of the Urdu as a language and discussed deeply on how to improve it.
- Janab Inayath Ulla Khan brought the importance of referring to religious books regularly, and he highlighted the features of the latest book by Janab Maqsood Ali Khan Saheb titled '365 Din - Majmoa-e-Mazaamin', and how it has become a daily ritual of reading it as a Nutritional Capsule with daily dose of Deeni Talim and recommended all to read it. He also announced that Mehdavia Times will send a copy to all the winners shortly.
Important Announcements:
- All the winners will get a token of appreciation cash prize as mentioned above in your accounts which were provided to us along with entries along with Certificates by email and whatsapp. Books will be sent by courier after the lifting of lockdown.
- A weekly Online Urdu Course will be started soon, details will follow
- A management Development Program 'Financial Literacy Course' on how to manage ones earnings and start saving will be conducted in mid of June 2021 in association with CDSL & SEBI for which a Joint Certificate with CDSL will be provided.
Now we are glad to announce the results of the 2nd International Essay Competition here in our blog for your reference. The richness in the submitted content and experiencing the huge talent amongst our younger generation, their excellent capability to pen down the great values of Islam to enlighten self as well as others in the best practical way is worth appreciating. These competitions are never a win-lose competitions however, it really helps not only the participants and their beloved ones, but also us, and the entire community in upgrading and enhancing our thoughts, knowledge levels to the next level in both Duniya-o-Akhirat.
We categorized the essays in the Junior and Senior Category for English, Urdu and Roman language, also welcomed other regional languages too, to help recognize the blissful content written by the budding writers of our community:
The honorable Jury of this contest were Janab Syed Mohammed Suhail Sahab, Bangalore and Internal Jury comprising of Janab Hasan Mahedi Kalekazi Sahab, Janab Syed Mahaboob Miya Saheb, Janab Tausif D Sayyed Sahab, Hajia Shabreen Begum Saheba and the Editor in Chief of Mehdavia Times Janab Inayath Ulla Khan Sahab. All of them did a wonderful job of evaluating each entry and recognizing the best essays for their respective categories. We thank them for their immense efforts and time invested in this project, without which it would have been a challenge for the organizers to announce the results.
As a token of appreciation, In Sha Allah, following rewards & recognition will be awarded to the winners:
All the participants will be get a Participation Certificate soft copy by email shortly.
All the Winners will be given their respective cash prize, their certificates as soft copies on their email..
- First Prize: ₹.2500/-
- Second Prize: ₹.2000/-
- Third Prize: ₹.1000/-
- Consolation Prize: ₹.500/-
Insha Allah the selected essays will be published in our Mehdavia Times official blog periodically.
Top Three winners of each category are going to get a special book.
We would also like to mention and thank the critical enablers of this initiative who collaborated with us with all their compliments and sponsored the prizes to the deserving participants. These stakeholders have consistently acknowledged the spirit of our youngsters in faith and we are happy for their useful steps in encouraging the winners and others as well.
We take this opportunity to acknowledge our sponsors and enablers who directly or indirectly collaborated with our Global initiative in making this program a grand success viz;
Khuddama-e-Millat-e-Mehdavia-Dubai for being one of the generous sponsor of the program.
Umer Mungale & Associates, Ausa, Maharashtra for the consistent support and motivation in our projects undertaken.
We are indeed positive to work collaboratively with you and make each initiative worth value adding to our people in faith, and thereby making it a success.
We take this opportunity to acknowledge the services rendered by following brothers who tirelessly worked to make this initiative a grand success;
Janab Tausif Dilawar Sayyed (Ahl e Chichondi Patil, Ahmednagar), muqeem Qatar, for being the motivating factor for this initiative, as a project manager and as Mehdavia Times Global Coordinator.
Janab Hasan Mahedi Kalekazi Sahab, Shankeshwar, Belgaum who not only served as a team member and Subject Matter Expert but also has been part of the Jury.
Janab Inayath Ulla Khan Sahab (Ahl e Mandya, Muqeem Bangalore) founder of Mehdavia Times, as he mastered this core team located globally to ensure success. His effective vision and professional and soft skills ensured this project achieved the objectives.
Janab Syed Mahaboob Miya (Ahl e Channapatan, Mukeem, Dubai, UAE) Core member, Khuddama Millat e Mehdavia.
May Allah SWT accept all our deeds done for the sake of Allah, and we wish all the participants and their respective guardians all the best for their future endeavors.
Below is list of winners for your reference.
Once again Hearty congratulations to all the winners and participants and also to their respected parents and family members.
Please do send your feedback in our comment section to convey your thoughts to us. This shall definitely makes us better and better in our future projects planned.
Insha Allah the video of the program will be shared shortly on our youtube channel for you to watch and share among your contacts.
Jazak Allahu Khair
Team Mehdavia Times
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