Bengaluru: The welfare portrayed by Islam is mental and health-related growth and abundance, said Prof KA Siddiq Hassan, national assistant Amir of Jamat e Islami, while delivering the key-note address of  Malayalis’ ifthar meet held in Bengaluru on August 7 Sunday. The meet was organised by theBengaluru unit of the Jamat e Islami at the Khuddus Saheb Eidgah Maidan near the Cantonment Railway Station.

However, he added, Islam does not allow total abstinence from worldly pleasures. It also gives much importance to hard work. The security of life and dignity is included in the proclaimed goals of the Shariah. Zakat, which helps eradicates poverty, is an exemplary system, and denying zakath is against divine justice, he added.

The meet began in the afternoon. NM Abdurahman, Jamat e Islami Kerala secretary, presided over the first session. Siraj Ibrahim Sait, Dr NA Muhammed (President, MMA), AB Qader Haji (Secretary, MMA), Mammu Haji, CM Muhammed Haji, MP Ali Haji, KS Abdul Majeed, KV Ashraf Hussain, K Shameer, K Moosa, Shareef Kottappurath and Sabu Shafeeq (Convener, Hira Welfare Association) spoke. In the second session after Maghrib, former president of the Solidarity Youth Movement Hameed Vaniyambalam spoke on the topic ‘the message of Badr’. An Islamic book fest also was held with books in different languages. Nearly 3000 people attended the meet.