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“HAJI ALI VICTORY FOR RIGHT-THINKING”

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Citizens respond to Bombay HC verdict                                

On August 26, the Bombay High Court overturned a four-year ban on the entry of women to sanctum sanctorum of the Haji Ali Dargah, off the Worli coast in south Mumbai, much to the cheer of intellectuals and rights activists.

A division bench comprising Justices VM Kanade and Revati Mohite Dere held that the ban is violative of articles 14, 15 and 21 of the Constitution of India. It directed the Maharashtra government to provide adequate protection to visitors. However, it agreed to suspend the verdict for six weeks, enabling the dargah trust to challenge the ruling in the apex court. This means that the entry of women to the dargah is still on hold!

The verdict is the outcome of a PIL filed by social activists Noorjehan Safia Niaz and Zakia Soman. It comes in the wake of another, more generalized, ruling by the same court dated March 30 which states that women cannot be stopped from entering places of worship. Opponents of the Haji Ali ban also included the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) and Trupti Desai’s Bhumata Ranrangini Brigade.

The Haji Ali authorities are unhappy with this decision. All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen representative Haji Raffaq was of the opinion that “the court should not have allowed the petition”. The dargah trust which was one of the respondents in the case will now move the apex court against the HC verdict.

According to the president of the Haji Ali Dargah Trust, the reasons for imposing a ban on women’s entry to the dargah are (i) women wearing blouses with wide neckline bend on the mazaar, exposing parts of the body, (ii) the safety and security of women and (iii) earlier they were not aware of the provisions of Shariat and had made a mistake by allowing women.

However, Islamic scholars such as Zeenat Shaukat Ali have gone on record to say that Prophet Muhammad encouraged his companions, both men and women, to visit the graves and holy shrines with intent to purify the souls (tazkiyah), attain righteousness (taqwa) and remain mindful of the hereafter (aakhirah). He did not make any distinction between men and women while exhorting Muslims to visit graves and shrines in pursuit of these spiritual benefits.

As far as entry to mosques is concerned, the Shariat allows equal access to men and women vis-à-vis places of worship, say the scholars. Not only the Prophet, but also his wife Hazrat Aisha would visit the shrines of Islamic saints like Ameer Hamza. Throughout Islamic history, scores of women Muslim mystics have visited the shrines of holy saints.

Expectedly, there are opponents to this practice.

In fact, Qasim Rasool Ilyas, spokesperson of All India Muslin Personal Law Board, has told VON: “Temples and mosques are the same. We allow women inside mosques but only with separate entries. We are not in favor of women entering the dargah. As per Islam’s tenets, even if women are allowed inside, separate entrances should be made.”

“I have gone to Haji Ali Dargah in 2002 and entered the inner sanctum. I prayed there for almost an hour. There was no bar in place at the time. I have been told that there was an incident involving menstruation many years later which triggered the bar,” Hina Naqvi, qazi of All India Ulema and Mashaikh Board, has shared.

But there were others as well who were happy at the turn of events. Take cleric Yasub Abbas who said: “I am fully opposed to the restriction. I just want it to be removed completely.”

Desai of Bhumata Brigade also hailed the overturning of the ban. “We welcome the decision of the High Court. It is a tight slap on the faces of those who put a ban on women’s entry into the dargah and curbs on their freedom and agency. It’s a big victory of woman power.”

Iranian saint Pir Haji Ali Shah Bukhari lived in the 15th century. The legend of his dargah, which is a gem of Indo-Islamic architecture, revolves around a miracle that he had performed to deliver a woman who had spilled her cooking oil on the ground from its immediate consequence of a thrashing by her husband. The pir pushed a finger into the soil on the spot where the oil had fallen and out sprang a fountain of the liquid. The devotees of the pir are thus chiefly women, observers have felt.

By Vedika Kacker

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Pro and basic models in the iPhone 15 lineup may have more distinctions

According to reports, the sales fall for the current non-pro models is much greater than what Apple’s external environment had expected.

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At the ‘Far Out’ event in September of this year, Apple unveiled the iPhone 14 series, which includes four new models. The iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro were smaller models when they were first released by Apple, whereas the iPhone 14 Plus and iPhone 14 Pro Max had larger screens.

Early market indicators were indicative of weak demand for non-Pro models. According to a recent rumour, Apple is reportedly “extremely” worried about how the iPhone 14 Plus is selling and is trying to implement new marketing tactics to make up for it when the next iPhone series is released.

According to a recent story on the South Korean blog Naver, Apple is “seriously” contemplating new tactics for the future iPhone 15 lineup and is “seriously” considering how well the iPhone 14 Plus is selling. According to reports, the sales fall for the current non-pro models is much greater than what Apple’s external environment had expected.

First, Apple should think about lowering the price difference between pro models and entry-level devices. This is consistent with analyst Ross Young’s assertion that all iPhone models could get the Dynamic Island feature next year, which is now only accessible on iPhone 14 Pro models.

Future iPhone models’ pricing may also change, according to Apple, and “the price will be determined differently than it is currently.” It might lower the cost of the 2023 lineup’s Plus model. The starting pricing for the iPhone 14 Plus in India is Rs. 89,900. The starting price for the iPhone 14 Pro Max, in contrast, is Rs. 1,39,900.

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Ming-Chi Kuo, a well-known analyst, had already predicted that Apple would widen the gap between professional and non-professional iPhone models even more and include unique features in the iPhone 15 Pro Max. The business plans to raise the average selling price (ASP) of iPhone devices, according to Kuo.

The blog post also claims that there will be a clear distinction between the pro model and the max in terms of materials and camera components. This supports earlier rumours that stated the iPhone 15 Pro Max model would include a titanium chassis and a periscope zoom camera. It is anticipated that solid-state buttons would replace the traditional volume and power buttons on the high-end iPhone 15 devices.

The basic iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, and iPhone 15 Pro Max models are rumoured to be part of Apple’s 2023 iPhone portfolio. Apple’s upcoming A17 Bionic chip is anticipated to power the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. The A16 Bionic chip might be found in the non-Pro variants.

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Want to move on from your unworthy ex before Valentine’s Day? Name a cockroach after your ex and watch it eaten alive for just THIS much

As Valentine’s week nears, many couples are excited to celebrate their love and romance. However, this is not the case for everyone. A lot of people despise the concept of Valentine’s because of past relationship trauma and unworthy exes.

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As Valentine’s week nears, many couples are excited to celebrate their love and romance. However, this is not the case for everyone. A lot of people despise the concept of Valentine’s because of past relationship trauma and unworthy exes. What if you were told that there is a way to get your cockroach of an ex eaten by animals, alive? No, this will not murder your ex in reality, but you will never find a better way to move on.

The San Antonio Zoological Society has come up with an idea for people to name a cockroach or rat after their ex-boyfriend or girlfriend. The event is called Cry Me a Cockroach, which is organised every year on Valentine’s Day. The society took to their Twitter handle and said that if people donate, their ex will be fed to an animal. They will also receive certificates.

There are some zoos in Pennsylvania, like Lehigh Valley Zoo, where people are allowed to name a bug after their former boyfriend or girlfriend. After this, these bugs are fed to their animals. All of this is done for just $5 or Rs 374.

Lehigh Valley Zoo came up with this brilliantly vicious, yet harmful idea, and took to their official Twitter handle to advertise. They said that they get it that sometimes, love sucks. So instead of feeling down that their love may not last forever, people should put a twist on Valentine’s Day and name a bug after their ex. They mentioned that all people have to do is to make a $5 donation to name one of the feeder crickets, and they will feed them to their ambassador animals. The offer is open till February 14, 2022.

This is not it. The Lehigh Zoo Website will also upload weekly videos on Facebook for people to see their ex’s big-avatar getting eaten.

Indeed, for every undeserving ex, there is a bug waiting to be eaten.

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Ensure nutrition supplement ad wins hearts, Tweeple say video taught them a lot | WATCH

In this era of ads where some advertisements are really praised for their inclusivity while the others are being criticised, Ensure (an American brand of nutritional supplements) have also come up with a very heart touching advertisement in this festive season.

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In this era of ads where some advertisements are really praised for their inclusivity while the others are being criticised, Ensure (an American brand of nutritional supplements) have also come up with a very heart touching advertisement in this festive season.

The video is on fleek and it’s being liked and shared by people a lot on social media, soon it came out. Tweeple are appreciating and twitting this viral video with good compliments.

In this inspiring advertisement, we can see a man making a list of guests, asking her wife for one of his specific friends on the occasion of the festival but her wife denies informing him about the long list and work overload, the man then make her a cup of hot tea made of Ensure milk powder, saying that we should thank the people who took time for us when nobody did. This cute message is liked by the people and Twitter is flooded with appreciation posts with the hashtag StrongerInsideOut.

One person tweeted that this video taught him to come up front, help people and celebrate. Have a look :

The other Twitter user wrote about the amazing initiative of this video and appreciated this.

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What is Ensure?

Ensure is an American for nutritional supplements and replacements for meals. This brand, Ensure is manufactured by Abbott Laboratories.

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Ensure Original contains 220 calories, six grams of saturated fat, 15 grams of sugar, and nine grams of protein in a 237-ml (8-fl oz) bottle. Water, corn maltodextrin, sugar, milk protein concentrate, canola oil, and soy protein isolate are the top six ingredients in Ensure original. For people with lactose intolerance can also take this as Ensure is considered lactose-free.

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