Khandani

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What does the term ‘khandani hai’, ‘khandani hoon’ etc mean ?
Everyone has some or the other khandan , then why some people are termed as being ‘khandani’ ?

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Khaandaanii vo hote haiN jinkaa shajra e Hasb o nasb Khaalis aur moHtaram hotaa hai...aap aise KhaandaanoN ko 'ashraaf' kah saktii haiN.

jinkaa shajrah-e-Hasb o nasb mashkook hotaa hai vo Khaandaanii nahiiN hote...unheN jis naam se pukaaraa jaataa hai vo lafz mujhe abhii yaad nahiiN aa rahaa hai...iA, yaad aane par bataauuNgaa yaa phir jise pataa ho vo likh de. :)

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Mashkook in what sense ?

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There is nothing Khandani heritage of anybody except stupidity to certain extent.

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I just want to know what it means and not whether it's right or wrong or stupid.

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lineage...vo Khaandaan jiske kisii fard ne neechii zaat * meN shaadii kii ho aur unke bachchoN ne us Khaandaan pe dhabba lagaa diyaa ho. lolz*

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khandan is usded in specific context when we say 'khandani'.Its not simple 'family'. This is basically same tactics as caste system.

Who can claim that all his/her previous generations were pure as to acts? No one, so why the discrimination. Unfortunately, it existed everywhere and exist in every society. British condemned Indian caste system, but they do have such compartmentalization in their societies as well.

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I just hate this najeeb ul tarfain crap.*

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wow! "najeeb ul tarfai'n"...waah! kia lafz iste'maal kiyaa hai...subHaan Allah :)

haN na yeh maaN aur baap DONON kii taraf se shareef honaa bhii 'ajeeb hai. :D

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Roughly Aristocratic lineage :)

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i think those who have some kind of standard,may be!!

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aur jo dono shareef na hon to unkay liye shareef ka ulat… :hmmm:

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Thank you @KKF , @the_kaur , @muqawwee123 , @Tahurra for the replies and @mahool for his presence :stuck_out_tongue:

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ashraafiya! :wink:

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Khaandi honay ka matlab yeh hai kay family history, credibility aur status hota hia… khandaan kay tor tareeqay bhi achay honn…

Sunar aur Lohar main khandani farq hia.
chamar khandan kay tor tareeqay alag hongay.
Qasai aur Kunjray apny tor tareeqay say numayan hongay…

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^ yeh bhii! :)

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ashraaf o ajlaaf are the terminologies opposite to each other

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Thank you too @mahool
:D

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You are always welcome…

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The caste system took root among Indian Muslims after Qutbuddin Aibak founded the Delhi Sultanate in the 13th century. Sultanate scholars divided Muslims into Ashraaf and Ajlaaf.

The Ashraaf are Syed, Shaikh, Mughal and Pathan and the Ajlaaf are Qasai (butcher), Nai (barber), Julaha (weaver). The very lowest Ajlaafs were Arzaals (sweepers, shoe-makers, etc). Hundreds of years later, the Sultanate’s categorization would be given extra legitimacy by respected 20th century clerics such as Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi, who extolled the supremacy of Syeds.

In fact, Muslims’ caste-consciousness runs so deep Allama Iqbal reprimanded them in a couplet: “Yun to Syed bhi ho, Mirza bhi ho Afghan bhi ho/Tum sabhi kuchch ho batao ke Musalman bhi ho (You are Syed, Mirza and Afghan/You are everything but Muslim)”.

The paradox of Muslim casteism can give rise to extraordinary situations. Falahi recalls Muslim speakers asking dalit Hindus in Azamgarh to embrace Islam a few years ago because “everyone is treated equally here. But a man stood up and said ‘there might be no castes in Islam, there are castes among Indian Muslims’. The speakers had no answer to that.”

झरोखा-jharoka: Indian Muslims: Ashraaf and Ajlaaf](http://nalin-jharoka.blogspot.com/2013/07/indian-muslims-ashraaf-and-ajlaaf.html)