Valinokkam is a village in Ramanathapuram district

Ramanathapuram District

Ramanathapuram District is an administrative district of Tamil Nadu state in southern India. The city of Ramanathapuram is the district headquarters. Ramanthapuram District has an area of 4123 km²...

 in Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...

 where the Graves of Hazart Imraan Ummayah Al Badawiyyah shaheed raziyallah Ta'ala anhu and Hazrat Sulthan Abdul Qadir Raziyallah anhu along with numbers of shuhadaas who were martyred along with Badhusha Sulthan Syed Ibrahim Shaheed of Erwadi

Erwadi

Ervadi or Erwadi is a village in Ramanathapuram district, Tamil Nadu in southern India belonging to Kadaladi Taluk and Keelakarai Town panchayat. The village is the location of the grave and shrine of Qutbus Sultan Syed Ibrahim Shaheed Badusha, the then ruler of Madinah Al Munawwara...

 is found. There are invisible graves of thousands of martyrs in valinokkam since it is one of the major location where the war between Arabs and pandiyas held. There is a Kattupalli

Kattupalli

Kattupalli is a separate campus in Ervadi dargah, Ramanathapuram district where the graves of Thousands of Martyrs who came along with Badhusha Sultan Syed Ibraaheem Shaheed is found....

 in valinokkam where the graves of a few Shuhadaas (Martyrs) are found.
Being in the sea shore, Valinokkam is famous for salt production. The Tamil Nadu Salt corporation started Salt production from Valinokkam in the year 1974.

As a leader of Robbery gang

Ummayya Al Badawiyya was the leader of a robbery gang before joining the troop of Shaheed Badhusha. He led a gang in the forest between Madinah and Jeddah

Jeddah

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, stayed there and robbed from the travellers who pass by that forests. One day, Umayyah was asleep beneath a tree and was staring at the top of the tree where He saw a child bird feeding its mother chewing the food. Imran went atop and found that bird to be blind and realised how Allah

Allah

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feeds all HIS creature.

Badusha's words a cause for change

He met Badhusha nayagam that night and the incident has brought a good change in Imran's mind. An advice given by Hazrat saheed badhusha became the reason for the change in mind of Hazrat Imran shaheed. He left His profession of robberinga nd with His entire gang joined the troop of Hazrat Badhusha Nayagam and started His journey towards India.

Major role in the war

Imran shaheedd played a very important role in the war held between Pandiyas and Arabs in 12th Century

Martyrdom-A never ending life and day to day Karaamaat

Badhusha Imran shaheed was martyred in the war which led to the start of a never ending life.

Village

The village is situated on a peninsula. Hence it played an essential role in the ancient wars which occurred in the region. Nice Masjid is said to have been constructed by Jinns, because nobody knows who constructed this masjid; even very old people can't answer.

Specialities of Valinokkam

• Tamil Nadu Salt Corporation
• Magnesium factory (shut down)
• Ship breaking port
• Dhargaas
• Beautiful beach & fish (Vanjiram or seela)