She Quit Bollywood and Dedicated her Life to ISLAM

(KD) Mursaleen Peerzada, a girl from North Kashmir’s Sopore, 'feels enlightened after she quit her job of an assistant director in Boll... thumbnail 1 summary

Monday, January 19, 2015

(KD) Mursaleen Peerzada, a girl from North Kashmir’s Sopore, 'feels enlightened after she quit her job of an assistant director in Bollywood and dedicated her life to Islam'. The girl says 'her priority would be to aware Kashmir women about true Islamic values'.Mursaleen , who has worked as an assistant director in Salman Khan starrer ‘Ek Tha Tiger’ and was employed with the Yash Raj Films, said: she has dedicated her life for dawah and her priority from will be to introduce Kashmir’s present generation particularly girls to the true values of Islam and make them aware that it is the only religion that provides honor and dignity to the women.She is part of a the women group of Islamic Research Foundation that is in Kashmir these days to propagate the true vales of the Islam.She is concerned about the 'growing trends of westernization among women' in Kashmir and terms it ‘ironic’ that Hijab is being used with western outfits. “The immortality in Kashmir is growing and the Islamic concepts and values are being undermined. The basic reason for this Fitna is the emergence of western style in Muslim women,” said Mursaleen, who at present is pursuing her masters in Islamic studies through correspondence at a Saudi Arabia university.Narrating how she trod the 'just' path, she said: I was born and brought up in Mumbai- the city of dreams. "After completing my graduation, I asked my father to permit me to join Bollywood. I was a complete westernized girl adopting the very style and the way of living. My father was a close friend of late Yash Chopra. He introduced me to him and I started working at Yash Raj Films as an assistant director. My first project was Salman Khan starrer Ek Tha Tiger. Everyone had to admit my skills in the film making. Later on during the making of Jab Tak Hai Jaan, Yash Chopra passed away. That was the real shock for me as he was like my grandfather.”Mursaleen said that she was offered work in YRF under Maneesh Sharma. “They crew tested me for film. I was asked to face the cameras but something somewhere in me rebuked my conscience. I stood in front of the lights like a dead person sans any expressions and understood that the city is hell bent upon exposing women at the worst. I left for my home and did nothing for a long. Later I got a book written by Dr Zakir Naik. The script changed me within. I told my father that I am joining IRF. I met wife of DR Naik (Farhat Aapa). I joined the school and for six months, my dress and my lifestyle didn’t change but later I started covering myself with Hijab. Life changed and I can now say with certainty that the glamorous life of films is no way a right choice for a women. Only Islam can give women regard, respect and status.”When asked how better the Islamic way of life is than that of the Bollywood- considered by many as life of dreams, she said ,’one thousand times. Islam is the best way of living; nothing would be its substitute.’