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 The
Muslims of Kerala have been keeping a creative
identity in social, political and cultural realms.
The social interference fashioned by the Kerala
Muslims on the platform of Islamic humanitarianism
testifies their vigilant religious life and
original social existence. The God-fearing life
style of the forgone scholars played a major role
in creatively employing the cultural possibilities
of the Islamic life. The dynamic moral fiber of
the Muslim life in Kerala is imprinted by the
vibrant social leadership of the awe-inspiring
Ulemas.
The roots of such Organic Intellectual life can be
traced in scholars like Sheikh Zainuddin Maqdooms,
Omer Qasi, Sayed Alavi of Mampurom, and Ali
Musliyar…etc. The public opinion and communal
interests of the Muslims of Kerala has been
greatly influenced by the brave social
interference of these Ulemas, and of course,
Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar is a real
inheritor of this Dharma of the rich and
scholastic legacy of the Kerala Muslims.
Kanthapuram would
be remembered by the future generation on the
very fact that he led forward the contemporary
Muslim multitude from a chaotic and
apprehensive stage to one with confidence and
hope. He guided the Kerala Muslim Society by
redefining the sense of duty of the Ulama or
the learned, and actively involving in the
process of social reformation, and thereby
played an incomparable role in linking the
Islamic society with the mainstream
population. He bequeathed great respite on
the anxieties of a society, which had been
historically sidelined, by presenting the
communal issues on the wider perspective of
social justice.  |
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