It will have 60 rooms for Muslim girls, prayer hall, library and audio-video facilities. Informs Farukh Qaiser, a hostel for Muslim working women will also come up alongside, on a site donated by philanthropist Dayananda Pai. Need for such a centre in Bangalore has been a long-felt one as single Muslim working women have been feeling the necessity for a place where they could lead a secure life in keeping with the ethos of their culture and religion. Though on a much lower key the Bazm has been campaigning for the facilities for Muslim women to pray in the mosques and arrange Islamic lectures for women. It intends to set up Islamic counselling for marrying couples in order to create awareness of rights and duties of spouses after marriage.
Some lessons are there to be learnt by all.
Women, unlike men, are more focussed, understand the human sufferings, value the family's integrity and therefore more willing to lend a helping hand to banish pain and misery from the society. In the early Islamic society, female nurses attended the wounded soldiers on the battlefields. The West borrowed the idea of employing women for social service and tapped their energies. No wonder then why the educational and medical services in the current West are so dominated by the women. Iran, after the Islamic revolution, has mobilised women in large numbers, of course within hijab, to put them to use in media, education, research and social work.