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> Persian Ramayana, Arabic Gita preserved
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> Hyderabad, Sept. 24: In this age of religious bigotry,
> many Muslim organisations of the State are working
> tirelessly to preserve rare Hindu scriptures. The
> 117-year-old Dairatul Maarif treasures its copy of the
> Arabic version of the Bhagawad Gita, probably the only
> one of its kind in the world. Similarly valued is the
> Persian Ramayana, estimated to be more than 600 years
> old, which is kept in the library-cum-research centre
> of the 132-year-old Jamia Nizamia.
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> The Arabic Gita and the Persian Ramayana are merely
> two among the 200-odd rare Hindu religious manuscripts
> and books preserved in various Muslim research
> institutes including madarasas. These organisations
> take great care of such manuscripts. The organisations
> use state-of-the-art methods to protect them for
> posterity. Several manuscripts been digitised and the
> CD versions are available for scholars of comparative
> religion.
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> The Arabic version of the Holy Gita, known as Al Kita,
> is about 100 years old. The Jamia Nizamia, a deemed
> university with international recognition, also
> possesses a 500-year-old manuscript of the Mahabharata
> in Persian. Both these documents have been laminated
> and preserved by Nizamia. "They are invaluable," said
> Syed Akbar Nizamuddin, chancellor of Jamia Nizamia.
> "The Mahabharata manuscript is in bad shape and we
> have now carefully hand-laminated it. We have also
> micro-filmed and digitised the scriptures."
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> Al Kita was published by Dairatul Maarif in the
> beginning of the last century on the request of a
> noble from Kolkata. Its pirated editions are available
> in the Gulf countries. Another valuable possession of
> the Daira is the Arabic version of Rabindranath
> Tagore's great Geetanjali.
>
> "There's nothing comm-unal about knowledge," Mufti
> Khaleel Ahmad, the grand mufti and vice-chancellor of
> the Nizamia, told this correspondent. "Only people are
> communal. Reading books of different religions
> enha-nces one's understanding. No religion teaches
> hatred," the Mufti said.
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> Dozens of researchers visit these libraries to study
> the rare documents. The Islamic Academy of Comparative
> Religion also has in its possession score of Hindu
> religious books, including 188 Upanishads, four Vedas,
> Bhagawad Gi-ta, Valmiki Ramayana, Ma-nusmriti and
> several Pura-nas. It also possesses 30 Bibles in
> Hebrew, Arabic, Urdu, Telugu and Greek.
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> "Luckily, our books are still in good condition," said
> M. Asifuddin, president of IACR. "We have been taking
> great care to preserve them." Another city Muslim
> organisation labouriously preserving Hindu scriptures
> is the Iqbal Academy. It has rare copies of the Gita
> and Mahabharata. The Asafia Library and the HEH Nizam
> Trust's Library have several Hindu scriptures in Urdu,
> Persian and Arabic. "Study of different religions
> will help prevent misconceptions, hatred and
> mistrust," said secretary of the All-India Muslim
> Per-sonal Law Board Abdul Rahim Qureshi.
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> "We can eradicate social evils by promoting religious
> values," Queshi said. Hafiz Shujath Hussain, a
> research scholar poring over the Al Kita, said it was
> heartening to see Muslim organisations preserve such
> rare manuscripts. "We have to take care to keep them
> safe for ever," he said.
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