The latest recipients of Al Fitrah’s braille Qurans in India are from Andhra Pradesh. They are Syed Hameed Khasem, a 28-year-old hafidz of the Quran and Shaik Akram, 27 years old who can read braille in English, Arabic and Telugu. Alhamdulillah Al Fitrah Foundation’s braille press here in Malaysia produces braille Qurans and Islamic texts and guides, for the visually impaired everywhere in the world.
THROUGHOUT his life, Thavasothy S. Mailvaganam Pillai, who was born blind, has not only been meeting expectations but exceeding them.
The lecturer at a private college had to adapt to online teaching and learning due to the Covid-19 pandemic and movement control order.
“I had to learn how to use an online teaching and learning platform fast during the first MCO last year.
“I have two adult children, who are doctors, who helped me, ” said Thavasothy who has a BA from Universiti Malaya and MEd from Australia.
The 69-year-old, who retired as a history teacher from SMK (P) Taman Petaling, said his late father, who was an engineer with Keretapi Tanah Melayu, was his biggest supporter.
At a cursory glance, co-founders and husband and wife duo, Nadir and Yadira Thabatah, are an unusual pairing by most standards. Their dynamic defies societal expectations, considering Yadira is entirely blind and Nadir is legally blind.
They have often been told how inspirational they are as parents, members of society and founders of a nonprofit, all of which they’ve remarkably managed ‘despite being blind.’
Given their successful endeavours, admiration is certainly warranted. However, the compliments prefaced by “despite your disability” can be highly vexing. On a surface level, it’s seemingly innocent, and yet it can be offensive considering the buried assumption that disabled individuals are generally not expected to curate accomplishments. It’s that subliminal perception, mostly possessed inadvertently by society, that Nadir and Yadira are working to get rid of.
We are happy to share a photo of Lokman Ayva from the Turkish blind association Beyazay and the words from our Turkish friends:
Hagia Sophia is a one thousand five hundred year old building. When muslims conquered İstanbul, it was used as a mosque for 481 years.
Unfortunately, in 1934, it was changed to museum . But alhamdulillah, yesterday, its status as a mosque again was confirmed by president Erdogan. We had been very sad since 1934 and we are very very happy now, brothers and sisters. What Lokman brother is saying is Alhamdulillah, thousands of alhamdulillah.
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He had died reading the Qur’an, one of the teachers of the Holy #Qur’an in the #Turkish state of Aydın called Haji Ali Shafalak. Hundreds of Quran hafiz graduated under his teaching and they found him dead at this position
He had died the way he lived his life reading and teaching the Quran
May Allah be merciful with his soul and grant him Alfardoos Alala Ameen
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