It is true that many people erroneously believe that Islam came to India in the middle of the fifteenth century A.D. with the invasion of the Babur, who was a descendent of the Mongol leader Timur Lung (Tamerlame). But the truth is totally otherwise. As a matter of fact, Islam which, as a religion, originated in Arabia in the 7th century, first arrived in India not from the north but from the south and that since the early years of the Islamic (Hejira) era, which began in 622 A.D. Islam in India, thus predates the Mughal conquest by several centuries.
It is a known fact that, since way back in history, the Arabs were active as mariners and traders in the Indian Ocean and, as such, had close commercial ties with the rulers of the port cities located along the Malabar Coast in southern India and also with several South Asian states. Those ties, established before the advent of Islam, flourished even more after the coming of the faith.
The Arab merchants and mariners, who were well viewed in the regions, directed their interest, after the coming of Islam, to not just trade and commerce but also to sharing the message of their new religion — Islam — with the people they traded with. And they succeeded beautifully in their da’awa (proselytizing) work, as history testifies. In fact, Islam slowly continued to make converts among the people of the coastal regions of southern India and also in the countries of the Far East and South Asia.
It is a fact that the South Asian country of Indonesia has the largest Muslim population in the world. And it is also a known fact that no Muslims ever led military campaigns in these regions in the name of religion. Islam arrived in Southeast Asia with the Arab traders, who were as eager to share their new faith with the people of the region as they were in the trade of spices and other commodities.
their cities and granted them all kinds of trading facilities and privileges. So it came to pass that the Arabs merchants often ended up setting up trade-depots and even establishing small settlements that have left their mark on the social and cultural fabric of the regions. The Indian Ocean was unknown to the Europeans at the time. It was the Arabs, who supplied Europe with such prized commodities like spices, silk, gold, silver and iron from the East. The Arab merchants would bring those goods by sea from South East Asia to the coastal cities and ports like Muscat in the Persian Gulf and from there carry them by land on caravans down the famous Silk Road to sell them in Venice, Florence and other trading centres in Europe.
The Arabs, while being skilled merchants and navigators, were also, it appears, equally zealous proselytisers, imbued as they were in their new faith — Islam — which, they were more than eager to impart to the people they traded with. That was how, initially, Islam entered India, South East Asia and Eastern China. And that centuries before India fell to Muslim warlords from the north. The first Muslim house of prayer — Cheramun Jami Masjid, the first Muslim house of prayer (masjid) in Kodungallur, in Kerala, South India, that dates as far back as 628 A.D., is a tangible proof.
The land on which the Cheramun Jami Masjid stands, was donated to the Muslims by King Cheramun Perumal of Kerala. Tradition has it that King Cheraman Perumal was the first Indian to convert to Islam and the story behind his conversion, as it is told in south Indian folklore, is a touching tale of faith and devotion to the God.
King Cheramun Perumal, it is told, had a dream in which he saw “the new moon split into two at the horizon”. He became intrigued by the dream which preyed on his mind for days. His court astrologers could not provide him with a satisfactory explanation. However, sometime later, King Cheraman met some Arab merchants, who were on their way to Ceylon (to-day Shri Lanka). These Arabs Muslims were brought to the king’s court and told about the king’s dream. They listened and then told the king of their Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him — pbuh) in Arabia, who had, indeed, performed such a miracle: splitting the moon into two, as is vouched in Chapter 54 of the Holy Qur’an, which says: “The Hour was nigh and the moon was cleft asunder.”
Cheramun Juma Masjid as it looks to-day. There was not much change in its basic appearance and style after the latest renovation done in 1974 except perhaps for the addition of the dome and the minarets. However, the inside decor of the masjid has basically remained unchanged as is its location in Kodungallur, Kerala.
King Cheramun was very much taken up by what he was told by the Arabs merchants, and it was not long before he decided to relinquish his throne and divide his kingdom among his chieftains and secretly leave for Mecca with the Arab merchants. In Mecca, King Cheramun met Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) and converted to Islam and took the name of Taj-Ud-Din. He was thus, we are told according to the legend, the first Indian to accept Islam. He stayed in Mecca for some time and then, after performing the Hajj (pilgrimage), he decided to return home. However, on the way home to the Malabar coast, he fell ill and, sensing his end near, wrote letters to his chieftains, which he remitted to his friends among whom was Malik Bin Dinaar, who was a sahaba (companion) of Prophet Muhammed (pbuh), to be delivered to his chieftains in Kerala.
In his letters, King Cheramun enjoined his chieftains “to receive the bearers of the letter and to treat them well,” and to be good and kind to them. The king died soon after at Dhufar, in Oman. Later, when Malik Bin Dinar arrived in Kodungallur, Kerala, with the king’s letters, the ruling chieftains, received him and his companions with courtesy as enjoined by their late king. Malik bin Dinaar and his followers were given facilities to practise their faith freely in the state and also permission to build a mosque in Kerala. The first masjid (mosque) was built in Kodungallur on a plot of land gifted to the first Muslims of India at the behest of King Cheramun. It was the first mosque ever built on Indian soil and it dates back to 628 A.D. (7 A.H. of the Islamic calendar). It is named Cheramun Juma Masjid after its benefactor, King Cheramun Perumal.
The historic mosque still stands on the spot it was built more than thirteen centuries ago and is, doubtless, one of the high points of Kerala. While the outside and the front of the mosque as well as the space area have undergone changes over the years to meet the demands of an ever-growing Islamic community, the shape and form of the original mosque have been preserved.. Malik bin Dinar was the first Ghazi (Imam) of the masjid and, at his death, he was interred in the compounds of the mosque.
The Cheramun Juma Masjid is a tangible testimony of Islam’s arrival in India long before the Mughal. Islam entered India peacefully with the Arab Muslim mariners and traders. India, which was always known for its secularism and tolerance, showed the same friendly and welcoming attitude towards Islam as it had shown towards the other faiths. As a matter of fact, India welcomed Islam just like it had welcomed the Jews and Christians centuries earlier. It is no wonder then that the first Jewish synagogue in India as well as the first Christian Church are both also located in Kondungallur, Kerala, in the south of India.
To the Malayalis – as the people of Kerala are often referred to – it is a matter of great pride that their society has always been reckoned for its peace, tolerance and harmonious living among people of diverse faiths. Indeed, it is a fact that south India has been generally free of communal disturbances often instigated by narrow-minded extremists and radicals — the kind that we hear to occur, now and then, in northern and central parts of the sub-continent. The Malayalis, who are invariably Hindus, Christians or Muslims, therefore, justly aver with legitimate pride that their part of India is a shining haven of secularism — a true haven of the cultural and religious diversity that India has always been reputed for. Sure, no one would begrudge them that pride!

n an Open Government Initiative SSN proposes Department of Commerce to assume joint responsibility as the gatekeeper for new bidding fee auction industry.

How likely is it that the Department Of Commerce will ever set up of becoming the penny auction industry gatekeeper? Better odds of winning the lottery.— PennyAuctionWatch.comMIAMI, FL, UNITED STATES, July 14, 2015 /EINPresswire.com/ — Social Shopping Network ® announced today that it has assumed the responsibility as the gatekeeper for the new online socially transparent bidding fee auction industry. In an open idea blog submission, SSN has suggested to Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to assume joint responsibility on acting as the gatekeeper for the new transparent bidding fee auction industry. SSN is asking for readers to leave comments and suggestions on the Open Government Initiative’s website.

Social Shopping Network ® is the intellectual asset management company for the disruptive prefunded bidding fee auction patent. SSN’s Exhibia auction app revolutionizes the online auction industry by accepting bids from only Facebook or Google verified bidders. With the help of social login technology Exhibia customers can be sure they are always bidding against other real people and never against shills or bots.

An anonymous guest post published by Amanda Lee, May 30, 2015, PennyAuctionWatch.com: “The Industry Needs a Gate Keeper”. The post keeps going further: “The question is, who should be the gatekeeper? Obviously, it can’t be anyone who is bidder. In almost all cases I believe the best type of government is the government that governs lease. In this case, I believe it makes sense for the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to set up a gatekeeper where all penny auctions would legally be required to grant the DCCA access to the sites data where they can personally check all transactions and information on bidders.
How likely is it that the DCCA will ever set up such a gatekeeper? Better odds of winning the lottery.”

Regardless of the doubtful comments made by the blogger on the odds of DCCA assuming responsibility as the bidding fee auction watchdog. Social Shopping Network has went ahead and suggested the idea to Department of Commerce via the Open Government Initiative website. SSN is asking for readers to leave their comments and suggestions.

So what is wrong with the status quo? “Bots” or “Shills” which are the scourge of the online 1-click auction industry are a type of “fake bidder” created by an auction house to ensure that enough customer paid bids are used before the
items are won and the bidding session is closed. Exhibia eliminates the need for these nasty digital impostors by utilizing a patented “pre-funding step” which is the same as buying bid packages towards an item of interest. Once the
pre-funding threshold is reached for that item, the bidding commences with live bidders. In addition to prefunding, Exhibia.com utilizes a 3rd party verification for every guest who must be either Facebook or Google authenticated to verify that there is no “robot” bidders. Exhibia is the world’s first and only pre-funded pay to bid online bidding service.

In his comment on the post, the PHOSITA (person having ordinary skill in the art) opposition leader Bobby James writes: “In respect to the author’s statement, “In the history of penny auctions never once has any site owner said, “My site runs shills and bots.”” That is an inaccurate statement. Miko Lasso admitted it when he ran Bidstick and he continues to admit it and cite it as one of the reasons for his ridiculous prefunded auction model.”

Yes this is true, Social Shopping Network’s founder Miko Lasso is the first penny auction executive to come clean on bots and shills. “I came clean to my customers in an open chat already in 2009, that the only way for us to fight “collusion” was by utilizing bots.” Miko Lasso continues: “If I had a time machine and I could go back to 2009 and tell myself that the solution for solving collusion issues is with prefunding. I would if I could, but the reality is that I don’t have a time machine.”
Miko Lasso

Scientifically speaking, water is the basis of life, but beyond being essential to your very existence, water serves all sorts of purposes that help you feel your absolute best. No, it can’t cure cancer (though it may help prevent it), pay your rent (though it does save you money), or take out the trash, here are six reasons H2O can help solve many annoying day-to-day health issues-and possibly prevent a few big ones-from headaches to those last few pounds.

1. Water boosts metabolism:
Trying to lose weight? Drinking water can boost your body’s ability to burn fat. A study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism found that drinking water (about 17oz) increases metabolic rate by 30 percent in healthy men and women. The boost occurred within 10 minutes but reached a maximum 30-40 minutes after drinking.
2. Studies also suggest that drinking one or two glasses of water before a meal can fill you up so you naturally eat less, says Andrea N. Giancoli, MPH, RD spokesperson for The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Plus, even mild dehydration will slow down metabolism by as much as 3 percent. 2. It safeguards your heart: Speaking of essential for life…drinking a good amount of water could lower your risk of a heart attack. A six-year study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that people who drank more than five glasses of water a day were 41 percent less likely to die from a heart attack during the study period than those who drank less than two glasses. Bonus: Drinking all that water may reduce cancer risk as well. Research shows that staying hydrated can reduce risk of colon cancer by 45 percent, bladder cancer by 50 percent, and possibly reduce breast cancer risk too.

3. Water prevents headaches: The most debilitating kind as well: Migraines. In one study published in the journal Neurology, scientists recruited migraine sufferers and divided them into two groups: one took a placebo, the others were told to drink 1.5 liters of water (about six cups) in addition to their usual daily intake. At the end of two weeks, the water group had experienced 21 fewer hours of pain than those in the placebo group, as well as a decrease in pain intensity.

4. Water boosts your brainpower: Your brain needs a lot of oxygen to function at optimum levels, so drinking plenty of water ensures that it’s getting all it needs. In fact, drinking eight to 10 cups of water per day can improve your levels of cognitive performance by as much as 30 percent.
The door swings both ways: Research shows that a dehydration level of just 1 percent of your body weight reduces thinking functions, so staying well-hydrated is super important for your mental performance .

5. It makes you rich: Making water your go-to drink saves a lot of money in the long run. Even though 60 percent of the U.S. population buys bottled water , it’s still cheaper, on average, than juices, sodas, and Starbucks- especially when you buy it by the case. What’s even cheaper: buying a filter and drinking water out of the tap. To put it in perspective, replacing your daily can of soda at lunch with a free-from-the-tap glass of water (or water cooler if you have access to one) can save you about $180 a year.

6. It keeps you alert: Dehydration is the single most common cause of daytime fatigue , so if your afternoon slump is more like a desperate need for an afternoon nap, guzzle a glass of water. It can also make you better at your job, or at least prevent you from being bad at a it-just a two percent dehydration level can trigger short-term memory problems and difficulty focusing on a computer screen or printed page.

New Delhi, Jul 10 (PTI) Tata Motors today said it has bagged an order for supplying 1,200 multi-axle trucks to the Indian Army.

It is the single largest order awarded to an Indian company in land systems by the Indian army and comprises 1,200 units of high-mobility 6X6 multi-axle trucks, Tata Motors said in a statement.

The trucks will be used for loading-unloading and transportation of ammunition pallets, spares and other operational equipment, it added.

Developed indigenously, the Tata 6X6 high mobility all- terrain all-wheel drive vehicle, has completed a total trial duration of 25 months, demonstrating maximum performance in the most demanding conditions, the company said.

“We at Tata Motors are extremely proud to have bagged the single largest order, among Indian OEM’s from the Indian army, for the most technologically advanced high mobility load carrier system ever built here in India,” Tata Motors, Vice President, Defence & Government Business, Vernon Noronha said.

The order is a validation of Tata Motor’s strategy and growth potential, he added.

“As leading suppliers of mobility solutions to the country’s security forces, we will shortly commence delivery of these high-mobility vehicles,” Noronha said.

Tata Motors stock was trading at Rs 401, up 0.72 per cent, on the BSE.