A tribute to Maulana Noor Ahmad Trali
Adnan Shafi
Biography is simply an account of someone’s life or a few glimpses of someone’s life. However, we know the mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones. Therefore, Maulana Noor Ahmad Trali is not confined to his biography only. Nevertheless, his death was the end of something profitable, something that can’t be reimbursed, knowing the fact that he has left a tangible impact behind him.
Kashmir is ample of tragic stories, and deaths, even in the light of the day sometimes we forget to count all deaths and some even ignore all of them because suffering is our heritage, and we have been condoning everything calmly. So today I thought of talking a little differently from Kashmir. The intention is to share the heartache with the readers and tell them about the pain that is among the people of Tral. The death of Maulana Noor Ahmad was really a blow not to his family only but to all 66 villages (approx) of Tral.
Undoubtedly, we are not scholars and it is very painful to say that we are not pious either. We cannot have the familiarity of a scholar or a knower of truth. Maulana Noor Ahmad Trali strived a lot to give the teachings of religion and established such domains where we can obtain Islamic education thoroughly. Maulana Noor Ahmad Trali aspired a lot to give the teachings of religion and established such domains where we can obtain Islamic education thoroughly.
He turned away the western culture from the youth of Tral because of his extensive proficiency in the world of Islam. Who says our religion is in danger? It is not as we have scholars like Maulana Noor Ahmad Trali who mould the society with their favorable doctrine. Undoubtedly many students appeared out with good Islamic proficiency from his terrific foundations. We know the Almighty has not endowed human beings with the same qualities and attributes but has kept the differences between them, and this difference is the beauty of His infinite color.
If the Lord had willed, He would have made everyone beautiful, wealthy, and healthy, but this one color would have been against His creative dignity, and the purpose for which He created man might have been lost. Noor Ahmad Trali was among the ones who really offered his whole life for integrity and affection for the people and the fundamental awareness of Deen and Duniya.
In the modern world, religion does not seem to have the place it once existed, but the reality is that wherever the world goes, the world’s major religion will remain. Islam will remain. Though we are at hazard because of our disillusion and not obeying the path of such people.
Our irrationality and our futile arguments will construct an impediment before us. The biggest challenge we face today is we say there is no one like me or more than me. Our challenge is to become the cradle of knowledge, not in Islam, but diverse subjects, leaving the glorious Quran behind.
The minds are locked, but it seems that we have to do everything that will put more bolts on our minds regarding Islamic knowledge. We are moving toward ignorance. May Allah give Maulana Noor Ahmad Trali Jannat who chiseled most of the youth of Tral otherwise the western culture might have exclusively wrapped the whole Tral. During his lifetime sermon, he struggled a lot, yet, some people till now haven’t left the western culture.
There is great pain in the eyes of people who live in Tral but only grief, not the aspiration of following this righteous man. They keep quoting the agonizing couplets and write a lot about him, but never do they yearn to pursue the impressions, if so, then they might have taken to the road leading to Allah on all counts under the favorable teachings of this great scholar but it is not such, realizing the fact that people of Tral are fulfilling all activities against Islam.
They permit their children to go out without a veil. They have kept cable TV at home and watch movies /songs with their family members etc. The prominent aim of Malunai Noor Amhad Trali was to make people comprehend what is the real purpose of life and teach the etiquettes of the Quran and hadith.
In the last days of Maulana Noor Ahmad Trali, I guess it was the sermon he delivered on the previous Friday before his death. He strongly stressed the word “death” to make people realize that death is the end, if someone after death wants to return, he can’t, and the great illustration of his death is before us. If we people yearn to see him again in this world, we can’t, but the teachings that he taught us will never stamp him out from the hearts of people.
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