Mangaluru, November 28: “Islam does not have scope for terrorism. It has only idealism”, said Swami Lakshmi Shankaracharya of Kanpur.

He was speaking at Seerat symposium on ‘Reforms in society in the light of education of Prophet Muhammad’, organized as part of state-wide Seerat campaign on ‘Prophet Muhammad is the greatest guide of the mankind’, at town hall here on Wednesday.

Prophet Muhammad who had advocated the truth and non-violence had done nothing for himself. After giving a call to follow the path of Allah, he himself had followed on the same path braving all odds. He had participated in wars for peace. But that war was being misinterpreted as jihad, which is not fair, he said.  

People should understand that just offering namaz would not take any person to heaven.  Instead, good work was also a part of Islam, he said.

Jamaat-e-Islami Hind national secretary Moulana Muhammad Iqbal Mulla inaugurated the programme which was presided over by Seerat Campaign Reception Committee president Dr CP Habeeb-ur-Rehman.  

Novelist K. Veerabhadrappa, Senior journalist BM Haneef, Shanti Publications chairman Muhammad Attarullah Sharief, Mangaluru university Kannada professor B. Shivaram Shetty spoke on the occasion.

Reception Committee office-bearers K.K Shahul Hameed, P.B Abdul Hameed, Hanief Golthamajalu, Yahya Tangal, KM Sharief, Y Muhammad Beary Edapadav were present. Muhammad Salman chanted qirat, Shanti Publications manager Mohmmed Kunhi welcomed, while Mohammed Thumbay proposed vote of thanks. Hussain Katipalla and Asif Iqbal compared the programme.

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Batumi (Georgia), Jul 26 (PTI): Young Indian International Master Divya Deshmukh held her nerves to hold stalwart Koneru Humpy to a draw in game 1 of the FIDE Women's World Cup final, with both players having their share of opportunities to take the lead here on Saturday.

The draw with black means Humpy, the two-time World Rapid champion, holds a slight edge going in the second and final game under the classical chess rules in the two-game mini-match, and should the deadlock continue, games of shorter duration will be played to determine the winner.

Humpy employed the Queen's gambit accepted as black and it turned out to be a pretty fascinating game right out of the opening as Divya, 19, came up with a piece sacrifice early to deny the black king the right to castle.

Humpy was the first to err and, according to computers, Divya had things under control on the 14th move. However in her bid to recover the extra material, the Nagpur girl, who has secured a place in the Candidates tournament with her sterling performance here, missed a promising continuation.

What followed the exchange of all minor pieces and the ensuing queen and rook endgame gave enough counter play to both players. The game was eventually drawn after Humpy sacrificed her rook to force perpetual checks.

"The game saw an extremely sharp battle with the game ending in a draw in 41 moves. On move 7, Divya made her aggressive intentions clear by offering another pawn,

which looked like home preparation. Humpy made a practical decision of refraining from taking the pawn and a balanced position was reached by move 10 by white," said Grandmaster Pravin Thipsay, an Arjuna awardee and the first Indian to get a chess Grandmaster norm.

"However, instead of developing the undeveloped Knight, Humpy retreated the centralised Knight on move 10, giving huge positional advantage to Divya. Divya could have gained huge positional advantage on the 12th move by moving a rook. However, she chose to play for King side attack by sacrificing a piece instead.

"Humpy, too, erred at this stage and instead of moving the King to Queen side, moved it to the King side. Divya, on move 14, could have obtained a crushing attack by threatening a mate by developing her Queen. Instead she chose to exchange a pair of Bishops first, which enabled Humpy to defend her King by returning the piece," said Thipsay.

"Players thus reached a balanced Queen and two Rooks ending. Divya continued to play ambitiously and tried to attack Humpy’s King but the latter defended accurately and the game was drawn in 41 moves by perpetual check," he added.

In the play-off for the third place, Chinese players Zhongyi Tan, the former women's world champion and top seed Lei Tingjie also decided to split points out of a Queen’s gambit declined game.

The opening raised visions of a close contest between the two but having been knocked out of title race in the previous round, none of them wanted to take any huge risk. It was still a middle game when the players shook hands.

With the top two positions sealed for the Indians, the berth to the next Candidates is also assigned, while the player finishing third will also get an entry to the premier event scheduled for 2026.

Results: Divya Deshmukh (Ind) drew with Koneru Humpy (Ind); Zhongyi Tan (Chn) drew with Tingjie Lei (Chn).