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Most of them belonged to different orders of Sufism.
Each and every village and Mohala in urban setting is
dwelt with a shrine of a Sufi saint.
Secondly there are many Islamic organizations,
madrasahs which have worked for strengthening the faith
among masses. There are also many Darul-futwa or
Institutions of verdicts. These Institutions guided the
Muslim masses in there day to day religious affairs.
As we see worldwide, the revolution in communication
and media has led to many changes in the means of
entertainment and life style of people. The people who
used to spend their extra time in local entertainments etc. s
instead spent in media related entertainments.
For example, in Kashmiri society, people were
entertaining themselves by listening to religious
hymns and naats, which are part of Kashmiri music. The
musicians entertained people with Islamic hymns, which
have been written by local poets in the praise of prophet,
his progeny and followers. This is referred to as sufiana
music. Thus with the emergence of media as T.V,
computer and Inter Net, the means of entertainment
changed. People began to give less attention to the
traditional means of entertaining.
Less attention is being provided to these and more and
more time is spent in watching T.V and other means of
entertainment offered by new gadgets. Each and every
person possess a cell phone, which is a mean of
communication as well as entertainment. The social
networking sites are at the tip of finger and people from
the age of 3 years to 50 are found , more or less, 24x7
busy in these gadgets.