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A. Ahamed Arif, M.Com., M.Phil., Afzalul Ulama,Director
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Welcome to Arabic Institute of Commerce, India
Leaders in Modern Arabic Education, Training & Business Services since 1993
Why Hindus are learning Arabic
Every Sunday morning, dentist Vikram Ganje
visits University of Mumbai's leafy Kalina campus in Santacruz, almost 40 kms
from his home in Mumbra. He undertakes the weekly journey not to cure
anybody's nagging toothache. He is part of a class of 88 who have enrolled
themselves in an Arabic course that is taught from 10 am to 1 pm every
Sunday.
Fifteen in the class are Hindus — doctors,
engineers, businessmen, BPO personnel and event managers — who earlier did
not have even a fleeting acquaintance with the language in which the Koran
was revealed 1,400 years ago. Apart from the Koran and the Hadith (the
Prophet's traditions), all those exotic tales of medieval rulers who lorded
over the sandy lands of Arabia and other pieces of fascinating literature
that Indians have read in translations, are originally in Arabic.
I stay in Mumbra, a Muslim-dominated
area, where I often hear the azaan and the mullah's rendition of the Koran. I
felt sorry as I couldn't understand a word and gradually developed an
affinity to the language," says Ganje who can now read and write
rudimentary Arabic. Undoubtedly, curiosity about the Koran has drawn many to
the Arabic class.
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