By V.M. Khaleelur Rahman
The Student Islamic Organisation (SIO) Tamil Nadu Zone, conducted a meeting 0n 4th December 2010 in Chennai and launched an e-library styled as ‘RANDOM COLLECTIONZ’. Mr. Sirajul Hasan, Executive editor, Samarasam, recited the Qirat – verses of the holy Quran and Mr. Umair Siddiqui, a SIO activist leader, introduced the library. While Mr. Adil Sait spoke on the importance of communicating creativity, Mr. Maqbool Ahmed Siraj delivered the lecture on the impact of media and our need to participate in it. A film covering some Muslim activities was also shown.
Mr. Umair said introducing the e-library that the access of an average man to information was limited in quantity and scope until a few years ago but today everyone could obtain any information and learn from and interact with any culture in the world which has shrunk and become more open. According to him such an abundance of information has two sides. On one hand, the majority still seem to be dumped with commercially produced movies and music with repetitive subjects. There is an overload of essentially worthless, boring, monotonous content and many have accepted and also celebrate it. On the other, more activists, writers and artistes are realizing their dreams of producing what comes from their hearts and are keen to express it.
He said that the SIO is focused on capturing useful, thoughtful and energizing content and intends to pool in all these expressive works from different parts of the world and make them available for all of us. He further said that ‘Random Collectionz’ was started with two intentions: 1) to gather, celebrate and spread the diversity of God’s beautiful creations 2) to use creative material to initiate discussion on social, political, religious themes.
He invited all to be a part of this just started electronic library and said that as the name implies, Random Collectionz is open to all kinds of information as long as it is beneficial and that loads of new collections would be added every month and frequent programmes be conducted through the library.
In the e-library at present there are over 100 audio and video lectures, over 50 documentaries, topical movies and TV shows, wide range of international authors, speakers and producers and their works, songs and music albums covering Islam, contemporary affairs, politics, social issues, spiritual and self help subjects and softwares of Quran, Tafseer, Hadees etc.
The Chief Guest senior journalist Mr. Maqbool Ahmed Siraj said that there is no alternative to “knowledge” on which there is great emphasis in the Quran and Ahadees. He regretted that we have given up the example set by the Prophet Mohammed (sal-am) and his associates and are in the darkness now when others like the Jews have made tremendous achievements in different fields of activity by attaining knowledge from different sources and using it properly. He said that the community has not made any scientific invention worth the name during the past 500 years with the result that our position is weak. One can understand the importance of divine beauties better through knowledge. He also felt and explained in detail that unless we participate effectively in the media, we cannot convince the people on our stand on various community, national and international issues which are so much dearer to us. He congratulated the SIO team for the launch of the e-library and hoped that they would go on improving it for the benefit of the people.
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