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Telugu version of Quran fascinates ‘others’
Telugu version of Quran fascinates ‘others’, Book Festival in Vijayawada, UIRC. A young couple, Abhiram and Bhavana, from Khammam spent more than one and a half hour in a stall at the Book Festival.
Vijayawada: A young couple, Abhiram and Bhavana, from Khammam spent more than one and a half hour in a stall at the Book Festival, here, on Sunday, flipping through a book and sometimes seeing its pages, besides lending their keen ears to volunteer Nazeer Ahmed.
They were enthused to buy the book. It was the holy Quran. The stall has been set up by the Universal Islamic Research Centre (UIRC), Hyderabad. While Abhiram is pursuing MS in Austria, Bhavana is doing PhD in Visakhapatnam.
Bhavana says one of the main principles of Islam that “God is One” fascinated them. They wanted to know more about God. “This is the first time we became aware of the contents of the Quran. The volunteer explained well. The holy book is in Telugu. The language is very easy; that is why we picked it up”, explained Bhavana, a keen reader of religious books. Nazeer, who is into tyre business in Autonagar, is working in the stall.
The pious youngster says 90 per cent of Muslims, who recite Quran daily, do not know the meaning of the words as they are in Arabic. That is why the lifestyle of many Muslims is different from what Quran teaches. Even those who blow themselves amid people in the name of ‘Jihad’ do not know what is in Quran, he observes. The Telugu version facilitates all people in the State, irrespective of their religion, to know what Quran says and stands for, he said. The book festival---an annual feast for book-lovers, knowledge seekers and students---is providing a good platform for those who want to encourage others to know what they feel is good. On these lines, three stalls have been set up this year, displaying books on Islam in English, Telugu and Urdu.
Two stalls were put up by trusts from Hyderabad. More than a dozen people from the City are working at these stalls as volunteers. They are satisfied with the public response.
Abdul Gaffur, a volunteer, happily says with the Telugu Quran and various other books on Islam, they are able to dispel misconceptions about Islam among some people from other religions.
