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Karachi madrassa speech competition 2008 : Osama’s elderly teacher to judge madrassa student debates today

By Fareed Farooqui

KARACHI: Eighty-year old Shaikhul Hadith Maulana Dr Sher Ali Shah, who once taught Osama bin Laden and Tehreek-e-Taliban Mulla Umar, is scheduled to act as the chief guest of the third annual ‘All Karachi Madrassas Speech Competition’ at Jamia Islamia Clifton on Thursday (today).

Maulana Dr Shah is the head of Jamia Haqqania, Akora Khattak, NWFP.

The chairman of the organizing committee and the nazim of Jamia Islamia Clifton, Mufti Abuzar Muhiuddin, told Daily Times that the panel of five judges has distributed the topics for the final round among 15 contestants. The winner takes away Rs 125,000 in cash, the runner up Rs 80,000 and the third one Rs 60,000.

The competition was held among 100 students of 41 madrassas from Malir, Karachi South, Karachi North, Karachi East and Karachi West, said the organizing committee’s Maulana Riaz Ahmed.

The toppers who made it to the final round are: Abdul Sami, Rasheed Ahmed and Attaullah (Karachi East), Attiqur Rehman, Shahid ul Islam and Abdul Kabir (Karachi West), Umar Farooque, Muhammad Tahir and Muhammad Siddique (Karachi Central), Abdul Samad, Bakht Nawaz and Muhammad Aalam (Karachi South) and Atta ur Rehman, Tousif Ahmed and Al Beruni from Malir.

“Four contestants in the final are winners from 2006 and 2007 and the remaining 11 are new ones,” said Muhiuddin. The topics up for debate are ‘Dawat wa Tableegh Ki Ehmiyat’ (The importance of proselytizing), Jadeed Zerai Iblagh ka Istemal’ (How to use the latest forms of mass communication), ‘Ikhtlaf-e-Rai aur us ka Ehtram’ (Difference of opinion and how to honour it), ‘Qatal-e-Nahq, Asbab, Asraat aur Wabbal’ (Intentional murder, causes, effects and its curse’.

The judging panel was formed under the supervision of Maulana Abdul Qayoom Haqqani, the principal of Jamia Abu Hurera Naushera, NWFP. It comprises Professor Maulana Dr Muhammad Saad Siddiqui from Punjab University, Lahore, Shaikhul Hadith Maulana Zahid al Rashidi from Jamia Nusratul Uloom Gujranwalla, the principal of Jamia Rashidia Turbat, Balochistan, Maulana Mufti Ehtsham ul Haq Asiabadi and the principal of Jamia Anwarul Uloom Kandiaro Sindh Mufti Muhammad Idrees.

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