Responsibilities of educated Muslims 15

  The educated Muslims have historical responsibility at this crucial juncture. The Muslim community has been failed by clergies and communal leaders who pushed the community to the wall and made it vulnerable to attacks by paranoid elements.

Since 1947, India has become play ground of two evil factors :

1. Conspiracies by Hinduttava elements

2. Muslim orthodoxy and fanaticism

Both are reinforcing each other but both factors may make both communities modern and enlightened too.

The above two evil tendencies were allowed to flourish by Congress governments from 1947 to 2013 and now we are witnessing its evil effects.

How country like India – a country having different section of people on basis of religion, caste, language and region, should have been run?

All right thinking people should think on it and should also see how to maintain rule of their party, rule of one family and for Sawarn supremacy and of some northern parts, the  so called champions of democracy, secularism, national integration  and socialism betrayed their avowed higher values. The emerging young generation should stand for integration, socialism and secularism.

National anthem, national song and Tricolour were made centre of our national pride and love. National song declaring worship of mother – the country presented as mother is perhaps against human reason. Many modern people don’t subscribe to medieval version of worship and in its place there are feelings of love and service that should have been avowed.

Then concept of mother is again biased and perhaps vestige of matriarchy prevalent in some parts of ancient India and developed into worship of Kali and Durga, and that was transformed into icon of Bharat Mata during struggle against British rule under leadership of leaders belonging to Bengal.

In the lines of National anthem ‘ jan gan man adhinayak, Bharat bhagya vidhata ‘ here the words adhinayak and bhagya vidhata’ refer to whom ? To British governor general ? It appears that in hurry to grab power the political leaders agreed to Partition and to make national icons hurriedly. From the history, Buddha, Mahavir, Kabir and Nanak should have been chosen as  our teacher and , Ashok, Harsh and Akbar should have been chosen as right rulers. And perhaps those from history of Kashmir, Punjab, Assam, Northeast, Central India and South were not better known and we need to search those teachers and rulers who preached and practiced welfare of all and accord them right status and reject those from myths, epics and those who were unjust.

Then education should have been made uniform and compulsory and religion should have been made private affair without use of loud speakers in religious places and gatherings and limited one or two processions of different religions had been allowed. The education should have aimed to develop human personality with values of human reason, love, brotherhood, democracy, secularism and socialism. There was no sense in allowing religious and communal organizations to grow poisonous weed.

Further seeds of disintegration were sown by linguistic re-charting of map of India.  Perhaps the aim was to prop up local satraps with central help and no other party except Congress had enough funds for that purpose.

Very importantly, the caste should have been pushed back by everyone keeping his personal name, his/ her  mother’s name and lastly his/ her father’s name – no place for caste name.