1. Scholarship form will be available at society office- Surat from 01-05-2019 to 30-06-2019.
2. Last date of form submission - 30-06-2019.
3. Form Price- Rs.20. (Moneyorder Rs.25, if you want to receive throgh post).

1. Forms will be available at society office- Surat from 01-05-2019 to 30-06-2019.
2. Benefit also given to Suratee Sunni Vohra widows from Zakat Fund.
3. Attach copy of Husband's death certificate, Ration Card and Aadhar Card is mandatory.

1. 9 students selected in ABC Bearing, Bharuch.
2. 16 mechanical students selected in SKH Y-TEC India Pvt Ltd(An Indo-Japan joint venture) at Maruti Suzuki Park, Becharaji.

You may deposit your donation directly in our Foreign Bank Account No. (UBININBBSUR)
SB A/C 311302010006567 
Union Bank of India, Station Road Branch, Surat OR Through our following authorized well wishers. 
For list of our authorized well wisher Click Here

           We feel and most of our readers will agree with us that we SURTI SUNNI VOHRAS have historically been very weak at inviting possible reverts to ISLAM and helping them to learn about our beautiful religion. Regretfully this also led our SURTI SUNNI VOHRAS to pay no or very little attention to the religious needs of those women from non-Muslim communities who married our village-based brothers. Besides giving them Muslim names, their other religious needs were not or very seldom taken care of. To us SUNNI SURTI VOHRAS they were 'NEW MUSLIMS' and were very often treated as “outsiders” at weddings, funerals and at social/religious gatherings. 
                We SURTI SUNNI VOHRAS living in Britain have not under gone much change in our thinking from our historical past when providing those who seek information on Islam and helping those who revert to ISLAM to learn about our religion. We can attend prayers at any of the many masajid across Britain run by our SURTI SUNNI VOHRAS and see reverts offering their NAMAAZ as SHAFIS. This we feel helps provide proof of our lack of effort in helping reverts to join us as HANAFIS. There is need for us to admit that whilst we SURTI SUNNI VOHRAS have played very important roles in making available masajid, madaris and dar-ul-ulooms across Britain we failed to talk to those who showed interest in learning about ISLAM and we feel we left this very important piece of work to others. 
                There is a need for us SURTI SUNNI VOHRAS to become interested in developing work with those who show an interest in learning about ISLAM. We feel such persons not only need to be introduced to our ULEMA or the imams of our masajid but they need long term support. Many a times we come across instances where someone interested in reverting to ISLAM is asked/helped to recite the KALIMA. This for many of the reverts is unfortunately the beginning and the end of accepting ISLAM. We feel we need to show more as well as sustained interest to help the new comers to know more about ISLAM to enable them to become part of our Muslim community, become practicing Muslims and remain steadfast as Muslims.  
                We feel we need to become aware and interested in the changes our SURTI SUNNI VOHRA endogamous group in Britain is undergoing and the challenges these changes are bringing along. Our system of arranging marriages of our children is fast losing its role. Similarly, our old system of cousins marrying cousins has disappeared or is about to disappear. A growing number of our young people of marriageable age no longer depend on their parents, or other relatives to seek marriage partners for them. A growing number of males as well as females who wish to get married look for their own partners. 
                Whilst most look for marriage partners from our SURTI SUNNI VOHRA endogamous group many of our young men and women prefer to marry persons of their choice. As a result of this we are being regularly joined through marriage by both Muslim men as well as women and by men and women reverts to Islam from different religious, ethnic and racial groups. With the progress of time we feel our SURTI SUNNI   endogamous group will continue to become composed of persons from different racial and ethnic groups as more and more of our men and women seek life partners of their choice whilst preferring to remain with or in close contact with their family members and members of our endogamous group. We now have within the SURTI SUNNI VOHRA endogamous group men and women from Pakistani, Bangladeshi, white British, Malaysian, Chinese, African, African- Caribbean, Arab and Somali origins or backgrounds and their numbers are growing as more and more of our members seek life partners from outside our endogamous group.
                There is nothing wrong, unusual or surprising with the type of expansion through marriage our endogamous group is undergoing. We feel we should feel happy with the fact that barring a few most of the non-Muslim men or women who get married to SURTI SUNNI VOHRA men or women revert to ISLAM. Historically we SURTI SUNNI VOHRAS reverted from some Hindu castes or sub-castes and later we were joined by members of other castes, sub-castes and ethnic and racial groups. If we look at our VOHRA brothers and sisters or look at our own family members, we will notice how different we look from the others. We have among our VOHRAS some who are tall and of slim build and others who are not so tall. We have those who are very light of complexion and others who are dark. We feel the new comers who join our SURTI SUNNI VOHRA endogamous group will help our group to have more variety in our sizes, shapes and colours and at the same time help our endogamous group to have more members.
                We feel we should welcome all the new comers to the SURTI SUNNI VOHRA endogamous group and provide them with the assistance they need. Some of those who join us from other Muslim communities will not need much support in learning about Islam. The support such persons will need will be about learning of our endogamous group. We feel such persons should be helped to understand our culture or what remains of our culture as we too like other communities living in Britain have lost many aspects of our culture. We would also like the new comers to our endogamous group to learn some ' GET-BY' GUJARATI to allow them to form closer ties especially with our older members.
                Those women or men who revert to Islam on marrying our men folk or our women folk will need more support to learn about Islam and our endogamous group and our culture. We feel we must not leave such persons to find their own way. They must be helped and supported to learn about Islam and our endogamous group. This will help them get close to Islam and to our endogamous group.