Few days back I read a news report on a Pakistan's News website that a
TV journalist in Pakistan called Maya had a unique show on TV in this holy
month of Ramadhan where she converted a Hindu Pakistani boy to Islam and the
show increased its TRP manifolds. She even invited viewers for calls to
give this boy his new pious Islamic name. I know you will say "koi
zabardasti to nahin karwaii gai thi... Allah ne use taufeeq di
siraat-ul-mustaqeem par chalne ki" agreed my friend.
Instantly my thoughts
came on Muslims in India and thought of a similar show on Indian TV where a
Muslim boy willingly converts to Hinduism. Even the idea of such a show sent
shivers in my spine and i sweat. The
resultant purification would have engulfed the entire country in a raging fire;
however, the minimal reaction this episode has received from my fellow Muslim
scholors, writers, thinkers and most importantly the crusaders of “just” who
who are up against any communal sufferings, be it banning of burqa’s in France,
or Burmese atrocities, or Assam riots just proves that we are also communal and
I include MYSELF also in this list.
We Facebook
columinst should be ashamed to read such a
hideous mockery of the two religions. My Muslim friends and most
importantly my Aligarian friends, why am I having a serious doubt within that we ourselves are not less communal than those we cry for? Why I don’t
go through any article or FB status from an Aligarian or a Muslim who have the courage to
stand up and say that Yes we are ashamed, Why only Maya from Pakistan in
particular? I am sure many of us believe that the ongoing drama about the
Akbarabadi Mosque is blown out of proportion, why can’t we protest and write against
a Muslim MLA in Delhi, who is trying to derail a Metro Project connecting Old
Delhi and wants Akbarabadi Masjid there.
Dear Mr MLA, stop it…. अल्लाह के वास्ते बंद करो ये ड्रामा …बहुत हुआ . We have ample
of Mosques in Delhi which gives a deserted look and are void of Namazi;s there.
मस्जिद तो बना ली शब् भर में , इमान की हरारत वालून ने
मनन अपना पुराना पापी है , सदियों में नमाज़ी बन न सका
मनन अपना पुराना पापी है , सदियों में नमाज़ी बन न सका
Dear Aligarian’s and Muslim friends, I may be wrong in my approach but this is
what I was undergoing for the last many days and I tried to vent it out through
this writeup.
Yours
Fahad
6 comments:
Thank you Fahad Bhai for calling a spade and spade.Yes..This is naked bitter truth that we ourselves are not less communal than those we cry for.
I agree my friend! We live in a society where religion is given preference over development. We can order a planned Sikh killing a "Galti" and ask for sorry. But canot over look a riot where it is still not clear who did what. When it comes to being "secular", we expect the Majority population to be liberal and accommodating and respect other not the other way round. The point i would like to hi-light here is that, give me one country where minorities have the kind of rights as India has. Hindus now a days are uprooted from there mother land in Kashmeer, Assam, Kerela. Conversions are a daily affair in Orisa, Six sister states. I remember few lines of a poet"
"Dill Karta hai fool chadado look tantra ki arthi pur.. Bharat ka beta sarnarthi hogaye apne dharti pur.."
Dear Fahad,
It gives me immense pride to call myself an Aligarian today. I think you have said something in your post which even the most "high and mighty", "self appropriated secular minded Muslims" would shy away from. Why dont the Muslims realise that they need folks like you. But you really cant blame people many times. They get misled and blinded by circumstances and indoctrination. I still remember way back in 1986-87 when i tried to explain my friends at the hostel in Abdullah not to sign the document endorsing Rajiv Gandhi govt's repeal of the Shah Bano ruling I was asked by my teachers to keep mum as i was a non muslim. But i really wanted the girls to see that they were infact signing for their own defeat. They cudn't see it ....indoctrination ...what to do! I wish education gives us all the courage to call a spade a spade. Among all religions. Lets please not even imagine something as insane as what happened on the pak TV for India. .....
i just went thru ur write up it was just like something coming out of my own diary that i hav penned down during my four years of stay at AMU...there are many a instances like this which are thought provoking we at AMU protest for the suppression of MUSLIMS worldwide but i hvnt found a single occasion or a seminar to protest against many other odds which is actually a shameful thing from the pepole of a place which has been home to intellect like nowhere its high time we decide where r we heading to???
y cnt we hav a single non muslim candidate winning in the elections for the past two years???
why there r no lunch hours in the month of ramzan???
many more questions like this jolt my mind nd will continue to do so...m sorry if i am sounding offensive but its actually the truth....
i forgot to mention in my previous comment HATS OFF FAHAD bhai:)
Fahad with due respect I do not subscribe to your views---only thing that I know is that "Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright." Maya and like's can't turn a leaf unless until Allah(swt) wills.
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