Striving towards educational and socio-economic empowerment of Muslims

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Striving towards educational and socio-economic
empowerment of Muslims
In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful and the
Most Benevolent
Bihar Anjuman is not an organization (nor
intends to be), but simply a network of
individuals whose hearts beat for Bihar
Jharkhand and for fellow Muslims worldwide.
www.biharanjuman.org
http//groups.yahoo.com/group/biharanjuman
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• Backwardness of the Muslim world due to peoples
  autocratic tendencies regarding their own
  viewpoints, their deciding the affairs without
  consultation, unwillingness to accept advice
  indeed, often severely censuring any attempt by
  others to offer advice.
• And if you had been rude and harsh-hearted, they
  would have disbanded from about you. So pardon
  them and ask forgiveness for them, and consult
  them in affairs. And when you have decided, then
  rely upon Allah. Indeed, Allah loves those who
  rely upon Him. Sûrah Âl Imrân 159
• .. The inspiration behind the Yahoo!
  Group.

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Striving towards educational and socio-economic
empowerment of Muslims

• Bringing together Muslims from all walks of life
  to interact and act jointly with an objective to
  educate, motivate, inspire and instill confidence
  in our young generation. Lets eradicate miseries
  and evil practices from our society.

Lets put our unspent energy to constructive use.
www.biharanjuman.org
http//groups.yahoo.com/group/biharanjuman
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Launched 11th March 1999, in Dubai
An extension of Anjumn Islamia, Bihar, Abu Dhabi
since 1986
An extension of Anjumn Islamia, Bihar, Abu Dhabi
since 1986
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Bihar Comparable to Africa's Poorest Nations

• Economic Times reported on 30th Nov 2006
• BIMARU (sick) states Bihar, MP, Rajasthan, Uttar
  Pradesh and 3 offshoots Jharkhand, Uttaranchal
  and Chattisgarh
• Account for 41 of India's population
• Saw a drop in their share in Indian GDP from 32
  at the beginning of the 90s to under 26, now.
• This is at a time when India grew _at_ 9.2

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Sachar Muslims worse off than Dalits

• Sachar Committee report, 30th Nov 2006
• 94.9 of Muslims Below Poverty Line (BPL)
• Muslims high school passed 7.2 (India)
• Muslims enrolled in colleges 6.5 (India)
• Muslim Graduate (Rural) 0.8 to 1.3 (India)
• Muslims Graduate (Urban) 6.1, Post-graduates
  1.2
• IIMs 1.3 and IITs 1.7, but success rate
  better that others gtgt far lesser numbers write
  these tests gtgt discrimination?? NO.
• 54.6 Muslims in villages and 60 per cent in
  urban areas, have never attended schools
• Government Staff 6.4, Police Services 3.3,
  Admin. services 2.2, Foreign services 1.6 But,
  Total labour force 10.
• Muslims in Judiciary 8 gtgt But Judges 2.7.

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Sachar Muslims worse off than Dalits

• Urban areas 80 Muslim boys are enrolled in
  schools, 90 of Dalits 95 of others.
• In 1965, the proportion of enrolled urban Muslim
  and Dalit children was the same 72.
• Rural areas just 68 Muslim girls are at school
  72 Dalit girls
• In 1965, urban Muslim girls (52 enrolment) were
  better off than Dalits (40).
• Who stops us from sending our children to school?

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Sachar Muslims worse off than Dalits

• 60.2 Muslims living in rural areas have no land.
• Just 2.1 of Muslim farmers have tractors. With
  15,25,000 tractors, India ranks 4 after US,
  Japan and Italy.
• A mere 1 own handpumps for safe/clean drinking
  water...
• Only 3.2 Muslims get subsidized loans
• Just 1.9 Muslims benefit from Antyodaya Anna
  Yojana Scheme
• Only 4 Muslim students are enrolled in madarsas
• Muslim parents are not averse to modern education
• Allahs gift Infant Mortality Rate and Sex
  ratio, Muslims better than others.
• apparently, Muslims are able to compete better
  when they complete their graduation.

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TIME TO ACT . ?

• Na samjhoge to mit jaoge .
• Islam zinda hota hai har karbala ke baad
• How many more karbalas do we need to wake up?
• Can we get some inspiration from Christian
  Missionaries? RSS-affiliated thousands of schools
  in tribal villages?
• Can we work to improve quality of education,
  healthcare?
• Or, shall we wait and watch? For another Karbala?

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GOOD DEEDS, why??

• And give glad tidings to those who believe and do
  righteous good deeds, that for them will be
  Gardens under which rivers flow (Paradise). Every
  time they will be provided with a fruit
  therefrom, they will say "This is what we were
  provided with before," and they will be given
  things in resemblance (i.e. in the same form but
  different in taste) and they shall have therein
  Azwajun Mutahharatun (purified mates or wives),
  (having no menses, stools, urine, etc.) and they
  will abide therein forever.  (  ???? ??????  ,
  Al-Baqara, Chapter 2, Verse 25)

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GOOD DEEDS, why??

• Verily! Those who believe and those who are Jews
  and Christians, and Sabians, whoever believes in
  Allah and the Last Day and do righteous good
  deeds shall have their reward with their Lord, on
  them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve .
   (  ???? ??????  , Al-Baqara, Chapter 2, Verse
  62)
• And those who believe (in the Oneness of Allah -
  Islamic Monotheism) and do righteous good deeds,
  they are dwellers of Paradise, they will dwell
  therein forever.  (  ???? ??????  , Al-Baqara,
  Chapter 2, Verse 82)

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GOOD DEEDS, why??

• And as for those who believe (in the Oneness of
  Allah) and do righteous good deeds, Allah will
  pay them their reward in full. And Allah does not
  like the Zalimoon (polytheists and wrong-doers).
   (  ???? ?? ?????  , Aal-e-Imran, Chapter 3,
  Verse 57)
• Those who answered (the Call of) Allah and the
  Messenger (Muhammad SAW) after being wounded for
  those of them who did good deeds and feared
  Allah, there is a great reward.  (  ???? ??
  ?????  , Aal-e-Imran, Chapter 3, Verse 172)
• And whoever does righteous good deeds, male or
  female, and is a true believer in the Oneness of
  Allah (Muslim), such will enter Paradise and not
  the least injustice, even to the size of a
  Naqeera (speck on the back of a datestone), will
  be done to them.  (  ???? ??????  , An-Nisa,
  Chapter 4, Verse 124)

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Enjoy this world and eat as cattle eat??

• Verily Allah will admit those who believe and do
  righteous deeds, to Gardens beneath which rivers
  flow while those who reject Allah will enjoy
  (this world) and eat as cattle eat and the Fire
  will be their abode. Quran, Surah47, Ayah12
• Alternative translation The essential aspect of
  Allah's association, help and support is that as
  a result of their Eiman and righteous deeds,
  Allah will bestow on them a blissful heavenly
  life the freshness of which will never fade.
  However for people who deny truth and think that
  life means only physical existence in this world,
  there is no difference between their lives and
  that of animals. Like the animals they eat, drink
  and enjoy life (and then die). The result of this
  concept of life is nothing but death and
  destruction (of human dignity).

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Yahoo!Group launched 14th June 2004
www.biharanjuman.org launched 3rd Oct, 2005
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• Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said, "I
  command you to do five things
• a group (organization),
• Hearing (Listening),
• Obedience (obeying the amir),
• Hijra (as the need arises), and
• Jihad internal (continuous process) external
  (when called for).
• He who secedes from the community, as much as a
  span, has cast off the tie of Islam from his neck
  unless he returns, and he who summons to what the
  pre-Islamic people believed belongs to the
  assemblies of Jahannam even if he fasts, prays,
  and asserts that he is a Muslim."
• Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith3694, narrated by Al-Harith
  al-Ash'ari

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Chapter Representatives Naiyer Ahsan (Dubai)
Asrarul Haque (AMU) Perwez Ahmad (Chennai)
Khan Parvez Ahmed (Patna) Aijaz Haque (Jeddah
and Patna) Sufian Badar (Delhi) Faisal Ahmed
(Delhi) Syed Quamar Ahmad Iqbal (Riyadh) Siraj
Akram (Riyadh) Jawaid Iqbal (Chicago) Aftab
Usmani (California) K. W. Falahi (AMU) Shams Noor
Alam (Bangalore) Zafar Aslam (Jubail, KSA)
Shakil Ahmed Kakvi (Qatar Jehanabad) Syed
Anwer Jamal (Qatar) Ejaz Ahmed (Kolkata) Ayaz A
Shafi (Kolkata) Azhar Imam (Hyderabad)

• Moderators (Yahoo! Group)
• Ahmad Rasheed (Darbhanga, Hufoof, AMU)
• Shabi Hashmi (Darbhanga, UK, AMU)
• Abul Farah (Ranchi, Korea, AMU)
• Shakeel Ashrafi (Jehanabad, Patna, Abu Dhabi,
  NIT-Surathkal)
• Atia Khan (BAJEE, Patna, JMI)
• Syed Rashique Ahmad (Jeddah, Patna)
• Shakeel Ashraf (Sharjah, Begusarai, MIT)
• Firdausi Imam (Toronto, Muzaffarpur, Kolkata)
• Shakeel Ahmad (Dubai, Samastipur, IT-BHU, XLRI)

www.biharanjuman.org/moderators.htm
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Time where is the time for all this?

• Sahih Muslim Hadith 5612 Narrated by Buraydah
  ibn al-Hasib on the authority of his father
  Allah's Messenger (saws) said He who played
  chess is like one who dyed his hand with the
  flesh and blood of swine.
• O Children of Adam! Take your adornment (by
  wearing your clean clothes), while praying and
  going round (the Tawaf of ) the Kabah, and eat
  and drink but waste not by extravagance,
  certainly He (Allah) likes not Al-Musrifoon
  (those who waste by extravagance). Al-Araf,
  Chapter 7, Verse 31

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PATRONS
www.biharanjuman.org/Patrons.htm

• Salman Ahmad Siddiquee (Darbhanga, Hyderabad,
  Dubai)
• Dr. Imteyaz Ahmad Khan (Chapra, UK)
• Dr. Moiz Shams (Patna, Makkah)
• Dr. Maulana Saud Alam Qasmi (Darbhanga, AMU)
• Moin "Moon" Khan (Illinois, USA)
• Dr. Syed Iqbal Haider (Nalanda, Sharjah)
• Anwar Bari (Muzaffarpur, Sharjah)

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Muslim Personalities
www.biharanjuman.org/Muslim_Personalities.htm
PAST Present Future

• Sher Shah Suri, The Lion King of India
• Sir Syed Ali Imam Syed Hasan Imam
• Maulana Mazharul Haque
• Dr. Syed Mahmood
• Maulana Mohammed Ali Mungheri (RA)
• Maulana Syed Sulaiman Nadvi (RA)
• Maulana Manazir Ahsan Geelani (RA)
• Maulana Minatullah Rehmani (RA)
• Qadhi Mujahidul Islam Qasmi (RA)
• Daud Khan
• Pir Shah Nufa
• Sufi Saint Makhdoom Shah
• Mullah Muhammed Said

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Muslim Personalities
www.biharanjuman.org/Muslim_Personalities.htm
PAST Present Future

• Patrons of Bihar Anjuman
• Dr. Syed Hasan (Syed Bhai) of Insan School
• Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, environmental advisor to
  UK Govt.
• Dr. Abdul Wahab Ashrafi, ex-Chairman, Bihar
  Universities Services Commission
• Brother Amanullah Khan, Chairman, Students
  Islamic Trust
• Dr. Manzoor Alam, Chairman, Institute of
  Objective Studies

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Muslim Institutionswww.biharanjuman.org/instituti
ons.htm
About Us About Bihar Anjumanwww.biharanjuman.or
g/about.htm
Website
About Biharwww.biharanjuman.org/know_bihar.htm
Objectiveswww.biharanjuman.org/objectives.htm
Events Events organized by Bihar
Anjumanwww.biharanjuman.org/events.htm
News Live from IndianMuslims.infowww.biharanjum
an.org/news.htm
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Job Huntwww.biharanjuman.org/vacancies.htm
Website
Scholarshipwww.biharanjuman.org/banee.htm
Articleswww.biharanjuman.org/articles_all.htm
Projectswww.biharanjuman.org/projects.htm
Matrimonials SABA Shadi Assistance by
BAwww.biharanjuman.org/matrimonials.htm
Achieverswww.biharanjuman.org/achievers.htm
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Useful Links more 150 linkswww.biharanjuman.org
/links.htm
Anjuman FAQwww.biharanjuman.org/FAQ.htm
Website
Yahoo!Groupwww.biharanjuman.org/yahoo.htm
Anti-dowrywww.biharanjuman.org/dowry.htm
Higher Educationwww.biharanjuman.org/high_ed_ind.
htm
BA Chapterswww.biharanjuman.org/chapters.htm
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Anjuman Email - shakeel_at_biharanjuman.orgwww.bihar
anjuman.org/email.htm
Patna Flights Petition to Civil Aviation
Ministrywww.petitiononline.com/Patna/petition.htm
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Website
Guide to Islamwww.biharanjuman.org/islam_guide.ht
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Quran Translation Full Quran - Surah
IndexArabic Uthmani, Arabic Simple,
TransliterationTranslations in English by Yusuf
Ali, Shakir, Pickthal, Mohsin Khan, Translations
in French, Spanish, Indonesian, Melayu,
Germanwww.biharanjuman.org/quran.htm
BASERA BAs Schemes for Empowerment of Rural
Areaswww.biharanjuman.org/basera.htm
BA Calendar Desk Wall Calendar, by Siraj
Akramwww.biharanjuman.org/desk_calendar.htm
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Shabis Blogwww.biharanjuman.org/shabi_blog.htm
Website
FIFA World Cupwww.biharanjuman.org/fifa_world_cup
.htm
BASIL BAs Sources of Infinite
Learningwww.biharanjuman.org/basil.htm
BAJEE BAs Jewels for Educational Economic
Empowermentwww.biharanjuman.org/bajee.htm
BANEE Career Centrewww.biharanjuman.org/bcc_delhi
.htm
Search for any word in Quran or in
Hadeethwww.biharanjuman.org/islamic_tools.htm
NRI Commissions in Stateswww.biharanjuman.org/nri
_commissions.htm
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Dubai Newspaper profiles Bihar Anjumanwww.biharan
juman.org/emiratespost.pdf
Weather in Patna (Live)www.biharanjuman.org/home.
htm
Website
Model School Project at Ranipur
Villagewww.biharanjuman.org/Project_ranipur.htm
Convert Hijri Dates to Gregorian
Dateswww.biharanjuman.org/islamic_tools.htm
Convert Gregorian Dates to Hijri
Dateswww.biharanjuman.org/islamic_tools.htm
Help build Sabalpur (Patna) mosquewww.biharanjuma
n.org/sabalpur.htm
Foreign Missions in Indiawww.biharanjuman.org/for
eign_missions.htm
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Objectives

• The Anjuman shall be a non-profit welfare
  organization.
• The Anjuman shall have no affiliation with any
  political or religious organization whatsoever.
• The Anjuman shall respect the law of the land at
  all times
• To promote friendship, social and cultural
  relations among NRI Muslims hailing from Bihar
  and Jharkhand.
• To prepare and maintain a comprehensive directory
  showing complete names and addresses of all
  expatriates from Bihar  and Jharkhand living
  anywhere in the world
• Anjuman shall strive to establish funds, to
  fulfill objectives including, but not limited to,
  the following
• To offer aid and assistance to the people of
  Bihar  and Jharkhand badly affected by natural
  calamities and other disastrous incidents.
• To establish close contacts with other
  organizations and extend full support in
  promoting welfare activities outside Bihar  and
  Jharkhand for Muslim brethren affected during
  calamities.

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Objectives

• To provide financial support for (a) marriage of
  economically weak Muslim girls from Bihar  or
  Jharkhand , and (b) for technical education to
  economically weak Muslims of Bihar.
• To help, assist and aid in the establishment of
  institutions for promoting technical and
  job-oriented education in Bihar  and Jharkhand
  for Muslims.
• To award scholarship to eligible, talented and
  economically challenged Muslim students of Bihar 
  and Jharkhand pursuing technical education.
• To set up an information and guidance centre and
  maintain a data-bank of Educational Institutions
  for career enhancement
• To obtain information from government bodies on
  facilities offered for rehabilitation of NRIS
  returning home and providing the same to members.
  
• To propagate Islamic values and participate
  actively in the reforms leading to betterment of
  the Islamic society.
• To organize religious, literary, social and
  cultural get-togethers.

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Part-B Objectives For Local Chapters (at country
or city levels)

• To meet regularly to devise means leading to
  achieve the goals, review the working of the
  Anjuman and to present members' views and
  demands/ requirements.
• To provide moral, material and physical help to
  members in case of
• Any accident,
• Serious illness leading to hospitalization,
• Financial crisis,
• Death.
• To provide legal support to members whenever
  required.
• To provide physical, moral and financial support
  to non-member NRI Muslims hailing from Bihar  and
  Jharkhand in times of crisis, e.g., to stranded
  new-comers.
• To provide guidance, feedback and assistance to
  all new entrants from Bihar seeking placement in
  the concerned country.
• To maintain a data-bank of prospective employers
  for the new entrants.
• The above is to be achieved in a transparent
  manner by respecting the views of most of the
  members through a modus operandi agreed by the
  group. Members should provide suggestions in
  order to make the best use of the resources that
  we may generate through cooperation.

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Projects

• BANEE Bihar ANjumans Educational Empowerment
  schemes
• Scholarship 15 beneficiaries currently info
  about numerous schemes from other sources
• Model Schools
• Career Counselling Centres
• Polytechnic (ITI)
• Womens polytechnic in Patna
• ITI in Darbhanga
• BAJEE
• BASIL
• BASERA

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Projects

• Health Camps
• Free Eye Camps, by Dr. Moiz Shams, Makkah (View
  pictures)
• Eye Hospital, by Dr. Moiz Shams, Makkah

Those who (in charity) spend of their goods by
night and by day, in secret and in public, have
their reward with their Lord on them shall be no
fear, nor shall they grieve. Surah Al-Baqara,
Ayah 274
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Be a witnesses for mankind Messenger/ Khalifa

• 022.078 (YUSUFALI)
• And strive in His cause as ye ought to strive,
  (with sincerity and under discipline). He has
  chosen you, and has imposed no difficulties on
  you in religion it is the cult of your father
  Abraham. It is He Who has named you Muslims, both
  before and in this (Revelation) that the
  Messenger may be a witness for you, and ye be
  witnesses for mankind! So establish regular
  Prayer, give regular Charity, and hold fast to
  Allah! He is your Protector - the Best to protect
  and the Best to help!

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Be a witnesses for mankind Messenger/ Khalifa

• 021.073 (YUSUFALI)
• And We made them leaders, guiding (men) by Our
  Command, and We sent them inspiration to do good
  deeds, to establish regular prayers, and to
  practise regular charity and they constantly
  served Us (and Us only).
• 022.035 (YUSUFALI)
• To those whose hearts when Allah is mentioned,
  are filled with fear, who show patient
  perseverance over their afflictions, keep up
  regular prayer, and spend (in charity) out of
  what We have bestowed upon them.

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CHARITY gtgtgt helping others (61 instances in
Quran, found using Search Engine)
http//www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/reference/searchquran.
html

• 002.043 002.083 002.110 002.177 002.215
  002.263 002.264 002.267 002.270 002.271
  002.273 002.274 002.276 002.277 002.280
  004.077 004.092 004.114 004.162 005.012
  005.045 005.055 007.156 009.005 009.011
  009.018 009.071 009.075 009.079 009.104
  012.088 014.031 019.031 019.055 021.073
  022.035 022.041 022.078 023.004 023.060
  024.037 024.056 027.003 028.054 030.039
  031.004 032.016 033.033 033.035 035.029
  041.007 057.007 057.018 058.012 058.013
  063.010 064.016 073.020 075.031 092.005
  098.005
• Mostly appearing as aqeemus-salat wa
  atauz-zakat

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Proven Recipe for success

• Vision
• Mission
• Goals
• Objectives

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Vision Empowerment

• Educational literacy, skill development,
  professionalism
• Social (Religious) reduce alienation w.r.t other
  societies, participation, brotherhood (bondage),
  progressive society, networking, joining of
  hands, meeting of minds
• Cultural (Religious) eradicate evils (casteism,
  inequality, dowry, unislamic practices),
  propagate Islamic values
• Economic Develop earning capabilities, exploit
  opportunities, micro-finance, macro-finance,
  zakat for economic development?
• Political last priority - if the above is
  achieved, political empowerment automatically
  comes our way. But awareness is essential,
  approach must be sensible, strengthen the hands
  of benefactors.

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Road Map

• Dream big dare to dream
• Know our bundle of resources and capabilities,
  understand Core Competencies (Hamel Prahalad)
• Develop Strategy Based on mission, vision, goals
  objectives. Stretch and Leverage (Take
  inspiration from the story of Japan)
• Develop Plans
• Enact
• Review Results, resources, strategies, plans,
  actions
• Repeat 2 to 6, continuously

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Strategic Alliances
No re-inventing of the WHEEL

• Al Noor Trust (Dr. Moiz Shams)
• Institute of Objective Studies (IOS)
• Biharbrains
• Kainat Foundation
• Imarat-e-Sharia
• Dr. Abdul Hais trust
• Al Khair Cooperative Credit Society

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Strategic Moves
No way to compete with the govt

• NGO Formation Registration
• Relationship with District Administration
• Info gathering all state govt funds
• Info gathering all central govt funds
• Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
• Relationship with IDB
• Relationship with business houses
• Garnering HANDS

Utilize government funds maximize benefits to
our community
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HANDS We need a lot of them

• H Harness, Harvest Hands, minds, hearts
• A Active
• N Network of New hands, energy, ideas
• D Decisive Quick decisions, speedy
  communication
• S Soldiers of peace, for Action

HANDS Harness Active Network of Decisive Soldiers
HANDS Shall we have yours?
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Strategy as Stretch Leverage

• How have firms with limited resource endowment
  but great ambitions (such as Canon) succeeded?
• They set their goals higher than what their
  limited resources could enable them to attain
  immediately. They created a stretch
• They leveraged their resources to reach these
  seemingly unreachable goals
• So, do you still doubt that you also can?!

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Strategy as Stretch Leverage
Resources can be leveraged in six ways

• Complementing
• Blending
• Balancing
• Conserving resources
• Recycling
• Co-opting
• Shielding
• Recovering

• Concentrating
• Convergence
• Focus
• Accumulating
• Extracting
• Borrowing

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Challenges - If anything, Islam promotes GROWTH

• Social
• Cultural
• Religious
• Educational
• Technological
• Economic
• Political
• Psychological

If we think we can . We Will!
Islam teaches OPTIMISM
Noland, Marcus, 2003, Religion, Culture, and
Economic Performance, Institute for International
Economics (www.iie.com/publications/wp/2003/03-8.p
df, retrieved Jan 2004)
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• Whatever is being done is just a beginning, and
  there is a lot to do within the limited time that
  has been allotted to us by Allah.
• Who can guarantee that he will live tomorrow?
• Therefore, we have to try our best to do whatever
  we can, today.
• We just can't postpone things for the morrow.
• In Bihar Anjuman, every one has a fair chance of
  proving his love for fellow Muslims and his
  obedience to commandments of Allah and Rasool, in
  this respect.
• Just talking about it in forums and in teashops
  or on stages are not enough.

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It's time to take note, and stand up, dear
brothers!
Small deeds done are better than great deeds
planned
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Questions?
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Thank You! Jazakallah! You have been too
GOOD masha-Allah!!