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Acharya Sanjay Dwivedi
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Ahmed Pandit
I would like to
share something with you..
Last Thursday
(12-Oct-2006) I was invited for a small
event at the residence of my colleague.
(Mohsin Shabandri,
http://www.bhatkallys.com). The
event was organised to felicitate
Mohammed Abdul Muneem, popularly known
as Ahmed Pandit. He is
a converted Muslim. Formerly known as
Acharya Sanjay Dwivedi.
What
is important about this person is he is
a well educated person in Hindu
Dharma/Vedas. He attained the status of
"Acharya", The highest degree in the
teaching of Hindu Vedas / dharma. There
is no other degree above it. In the
speech he mentioned that after that he
could become one of the head of the 4
peets (Like kanchi sankaracharya).
At the age of 15 he as appointed as head
priest of Birla group of temples and
also president of All India Brahmin's
Association.
As far as the
political influence of his family is
concerned, his grand father is the
current chief minister of
Uttaranchal, N.D. Tiwari. His
mother Shri Kamla Devi has served as
education minister of Uttar Pradesh for
over 9 years.
In the event he
spoke in great detail about his life and
his journey towards Islam. The full
video is available at
http://www.urduaudio.com
(language Hindi).
What turned him
toward Islam, Because of which he lost
so many things in this world. (He told
in the meeting that if he goes for a
marriage as a priest, his fees will be
around 51/- lakhs, yes 51 lakhs., such
was his level among Hindus.) Now he is
living the life of an ordinary Muslim.
But nonetheless he has taken up the
mission of spreading Islam. Currently he
is President, Al Hidayah, Hyderabad.
What initiated his
journey to the truth? It is nothing but
a strict observation of prayer
by a fellow Muslim student at
the school. (Ahmed Pandit used to attend
regular school for a brief time to give
the board exams). The school in which he
was studying was a very strict one with
rules. If anybody comes late for example
for 5 minutes he will receive 5 beats.
The fellow Muslim student called Imran
used to be late for about 20 minutes in
the afternoon and used to receive 20
beats daily. When Ahmed Pandit enquired
the teachers about this they told him
that " He is a Muslim, he goes to prayer
and always comes late, He will never
improve. Taking pity on him Ahmed pundit
asked him "why don't you pray to your
God after returning from School or why
don't you do that early at least.
Imran replied
"Excuse me Panditji, You are controlling
your God, you keep him at house, office
etc. and offer pooja t your convenient.
For us we are controlled by God, if I
don't offer prayer at the established
time, I will be punished in the next
world. The punishment , of this
world is nothing for me compared to the
punishment of the next world.
Ahmed Pandit said
that this set a spark on him, which
ultimately led him to Islam.
He said on one
occasion he visited Imran's house, there
he saw Imran's father praying. (Imran's
father was not a common man. He was chief
justice of Bhopal.
Ahmed Pandit said that despite his
position where he can easily amass his
wealth by bribery, that man led a simple
life, staying in an ordinary one bedroom
flat. He was also conducting
Dars-E-Quran to his collegues, advocates
and other professionals at his home)
The conversation
between them went on like this. Just
keep in your mind that Ahmed Pandit was
admitted to the Hindu university at the
age of 4 and he was not much exposed to
the outside world, hence he knew nothing
about Islam..
Ahmed Pandit: "
Uncle if you don't mind can I ask one
question?"
Imran's father: "
Go ahead son."
Ahmed Pandit:
"What type of yoga you were doing?"
Imran's father: "I
was not doing any yoga, I was praying to
God."
Ahmed Pandit: "
Don't make fun of me uncle, if you are
praying to God, where is the God, there
is nothing in front of you, it is just
the wall. We used to pray in front of
God, who is colorful and well decorated"
At this point
Imran's father said nothing he asked
Ahmed Pandit, "do you know Hindi well?",
Ahmed Pandit replied that he is
proficient in Hindi and Sanskrit.
Imran's father went inside his house and
returned with a copy of Quran with Hindi
translation. He handed it over to Ahmed
Pandit and told him to go through it.
After the exams are
over, Ahmed Pandit returned to his
"Gurukul" and he said there is a private
area which are only reserved for the
student there. No one can enter there
without permission. There he took his
time and went through Quran.
He said While going
through Quran many bell rang within him.
He came across many words which were
exactly matching the Vedas he learned,
specially the word "Mohamed, Ahamed".
(He said that while teaching the Vedas
his teachers said that Ahamed in the
Veda refer to Krishna, a
clear lie...)
He said the words
of Imran "The punishment of this world
is nothing in front of the punishment of
the next world" keep on repeating in his
mind. He decided to escape from the
Gurukul and become a Muslim, which he
ultimately did.
He talked in length
the details of his becoming Muslim and
the turmoils he underwent.
Giving further
details here will make this mail more
lengthy. Full details are available in
the audio and video format (in Hindi) at
http://www.urduaudio.com. If
anybody wants more from me (if they
don't understand Hindi) InshaAllah I
will write again as second part..
He also noted that
if Muslims are filled with the
likes of Imran and his father, The whole
world will be filled with Muslims.
Remember he was in
such a position where every VIPs and
VVIPs will visit him to get his
blessing. He bared it all for the sake
of Islam. Now he is in a mission of
inviting Hindu brothers towards Islam.
Pray to Allah in
this Ramadan to give him success in his
mission and make his life easy in this
world and to grand him high position in
the
Paradise. Coincidently this event was held on 20th of Ramadan and he
told that he became Muslim on the same
day (20th of Ramadan) in Mumbai.
Also let us try to invite others
to Islam not only by our saying but also
by our doing, We have a good example in
Imran and his father.
Wassalam
Peer Mohamed
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