Marvellous Mosque going to be built in Cologne, Germany

The biggest mosque in Germany is going to be constructed in Cologne. The city office on Thursday decided to let the construction on the proposed site since long controversy whether to allow to construct or not.

The structure will cost between €15 billion and €20 billion, financed by private donations from more than 800 groups in Germany. Construction will be completed in 2010 by the locally based Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB), which has close ties to Ankara.

The mosque, designed by German architects Paul and Gottfried Böhm, will be a domed building with glass walls and two minarets. The minarets will be 180 feet tall, one-third the height of the towers of the Cologne Cathedral. The mosque will also be flanked by tall office buildings. DITIB has agreed not to broadcast the call to prayer over loudspeakers.

Photo: The proposed design of mosque!

The decision to let build mosque in the town predominated with Christian is the example of excellent and harmonious German system! We respect the decision and brotherhood among all religions.

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First Nepali Translation of Qur'an

The first-ever complete translation of the Noble Qur'an into the Nepali language is finally seeing the light as part of efforts to spread knowledge of Islam among Nepal's Muslims and Nepali-speaking people across South East Asia.
"We have taken the initiative to send the message of Allah to Nepali people through the translation of Qur'an to the Nepali language," Maulana Nazrul Hasan Falahi, President of the Photo: It took Nepali Muslim scholars and language experts years of hard work to bring this unprecedented Qur'an's Nepali translation to the light. Islami Sangh Nepal organization which did the translation, told IslamOnline.net in a phone interview. The Nepali translation of the meanings of the Qur'an was launched on May 31 in a special ceremony in the capital Kathmandu.
It was attended by Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim religious leaders as well as hundreds of media figures, politicians, diplomats and community activists. The launch made headlines in all the major print and electronic media outlets. Islami Sangh, a leading Muslim organization in Nepal, has begun the project five years ago with funding from the Al-Quran Academy London, an international organisation engaged in Islamic research and publication. It took Nepali scholars and linguists years of hard work to bring this unprecedented translation to light.
Previously there were only translations for short parts of the Muslim holy book published in Nepali. The complete translation comprises a total of 1,168 pages with the original version of Qur'an in Arabic language.
The translation of Islam's holy book is meeting the religious need of Nepalese who are thirst for understanding the meanings of Qur'an. "The Nepali translation will provide a unique tool to know Qur'an for the Nepali people," Hafiz Munir Uddin, Director General of Al-Quran Academy London, told IOL. Khadiza Akhter Rezaee, a scholar and a women rights activist from Britain who attended the launch ceremony, agrees. "Qur'an is the main source of Islamic knowledge, so the Nepali version of Qur'an is a golden opportunity for Nepali Muslims."
Nepal was the world's only Hindu state till 2006 when the parliament amended the constitution and declared it a secular state. According to the CIA World Fact Book, Muslims constitute 4.2 percent of the country's 28-million population. Jamila Marium, of Nepal Islami Sangh, believes the translation will help many, Muslims and non-Muslims, to understand Islam.
"Qur'an translation into the Nepali language is good event for Nepali Muslims and the Nepali people in general," she says. "Now we know the message of Allah through our own language."
The project sponsors hope the new translation will also serve Nepali-speaking people across South East Asia. Beside being the lingua-franca language spoken in Nepal, Nepali is also spoken in Bhutan, Myanmar and some parts of India. About 2000 copies of the new translation of the meanings of the Qur'an have so far been printed in New Delhi. "Qur'an is a complete code of life and true guidance for all human being," said Faizan Ahmad, Secretary General of Islami Sangh Nepal. Nepal is by constitution is secular country where the people of all religions live together in cooperation and harmony since centuries.

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My first experience in the Church

It is the first time in my life, I attended church today. I went to Christophorus church in Goettingen, to attend the Fixton programme. It was the international pray programme with some connection to Christian Festival etc...

It was my wish to attend the church programme since long time. I really wanted to know and experience the Christian culture and religion. Since we are in the Christian majority country with lots of beautiful churches, I donot want to miss the opportunity to experience this activities, but I feared with being blamed many nonsenses from Hindu fundamentalists and feared to blamed as the opportunists however there is no other opportunities rather than earning valuable experiences.

When I entered into the Church, I felt quite wonderful. I compared our deities and temples, and people' behaviour and the church people. There are some similarities and differences also. Similarities are both place are meant for peace, harmony and intergration. Both places teach the messages of dedicating ownself for humankinds and others. But, I find many differences in surrounding environments. People in the church looks like quite happier, richer and well dressed. There are no discrimination between sex, gender, castes and classes. People are found well dressed, mixed up with people. The preacher (Pastor?) attending every people individually and taking care of them. There is pray..........and pray is in music..........songs..............instruments etc. It seems quite similar to our BHAJAN. We use to pray in similar way in bhajan.

Another interesting thing that I found today is, at the end of pray, the Pastor described about need of humanitarian aid in the Myanmar after Catastrophic Nargis. They asked all the people to contribute to the relief fund to help Myanmar people. They rotated donation collecting bags, and everyone put some Euro inside. I also contributed 5 Euro. I think this amount is too little but it shows my connectivity with rescue cum rehabilitation operation.

The official website of Chritophorus church is:

http://www.kirchenkreis-goettingen.de/gemeinden/stadt/christophorus.html

There were team from South Korea, Indonesia and Africa, who sung prayer songs. Since everyting was in Deutsche, I understood only few words but I enjoyed the peace and cooperative people inside. It is nice to experience church activities once in life sothat people will learn and understand the views of other people. Respecting all the religions irrespective of christianity, hinduism, buddhism, islamisms etc...will reduce the communal tensions in the world and contribute the integration of society. The world is one and the people of this one world cannot be divided into conflicting (Voilence) community. All of them should work for the sake of reducing hunger, poverty, climatic changes and all forms of discrimination. My experience in very first day of church visits taught me that there is nothing to be hated in the world. All the creatures and human beings should be respected and supported at the time of need. We should not hate others, if we start to hate others then we will be also creating society to hate ourselves.

I donot know whether I did right or wrong by joining today's Church programme in the views of critics but I am satisfied with it. I have paramount respect to my own religion (Hinduism), and I will always remain in the same faith, but I will not resist myself from knowing and equally respecting other religions too.

Suggestings and comments are welcome!

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Asia is the origin of all major religions and civilisations

"The earth is one but the world is many." Why? The earth is divided into many world. World of Christian, World of Hindu, World of Muslims, World of Budhists, Developed worlds, poor worlds etc. God created one Earth, but we created different worlds.

But, when we considers about the civilisation and origin of major religions in the world, we find Asia as the origin. Asia is the origin of all civilisation. The central and south Asia, in particular can be said as the origin of all religion. Almighty Jesus borne in Bethlehem (Israel), the origin of Islam is as Mecca (Saudi Arabia), the birth place of Lord Buddha (Lumbini, Nepal) and the origin of Hinduism is in the periphery of Nepal and India. So, the major religion all over the world has the common ancestor, which is Asia. So to be the Asian is to be the pioneer of all civilisation and religion. The photos above show Lumbini (Birth place of Lord Buddha, Nepal), Pashupati Nath temple (one of the oldest and highly reputed Hindu temple, Nepal), Mecca (Saudi Arabia), Bethlehem (Birth of place of Jesus, Israel) and Janakpur (birth place of Goddess, Janaki (Sita), Nepal).

All these religions say the same thing on different ways. The gist of all is communal harmony, peace and prosperity, humanity and selflessness. All these religions should have tolerance and respects to other religions also sothat the different worlds will be merged into one Earth.

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