WILL ULEMA ANSWER THIS QUESTION?
DALIT SAHITYA AKADEMY RESEARCH BUREAU
Bangalore: We questioned a large number of Muslim religious’ “scholars” of various organizations and schools of thought as to why the Indian Muslims are being beaten, killed, humiliated, and always on the receiving end. Throughout the 20th century and certainly from 1947 there is no case of Muslims directly oppressing the Hindus. Even the most rabid Hindu nazi has no complaint. Why then Muslims are being continuously persecuted?
Their common reply was – “we are not following Islam. Our moral life has become bad”.
To the same question, “educated” Muslims also gave the same reply. We have also heard and read the same stuff in the speeches and Friday sermons and writings in Islamic journals.
Cause of suffering: When we asked the “scholars” to elaborate and exemplify the “bad qualities” of the Muslims, first they were aghast, then they thought for some time and said: -.
“We have failed to perform daily prayers, Ramzan fasting and other obligations imposed by Allah. few do that, our sins will be forgiven and Allah’s blessings will shower and all sufferings will go”.
Some others said: “We Muslims do not have leaders; we are a divided lot. We do not follow the injunctions of Quran”. “Some others said. “A lot of our people are illiterate; our children do not go to schools”. Thirtieth because of our suffering.
Dismissed: But we were not satisfied with these replies.; We pondered over these questions and found that all these answers are over simplistic. Illiteracy, lack of education are not peculiar to Muslims. Backward communities and Dalits and even quite a lot of upper castes also are illiterate and uneducated. Besides, even advanced countries like US, France, UK also have illiterates and uneducated. So, this point is dismissed.:
We feel that the Muslims who matter have miserably failed in understanding the Muslim problem and its solution
Muslims & prayers: Non-performance of daily namaz by Ali Muslims is the most widely stated and misunderstood matter. Islam has divided the conduct of Muslims into two categories – Homologue Alfa hand Hugo Galabad – i.e.’ duties towards Allah and duties towards the creatures. In the former category, prayers, fasting, meditation are included which are purely of personal nature. It is purely between a Muslim and God. Nobody can absolve a person of such duties. One is entirely responsible for these duties oneself. Failure in these duties brings wrath on the individual.
Huqooqul Ibad: In the second category, acts of piety, help and succor to all creations including human beings (Muslims and non-Muslims) animals, planes and even inanimate objects like air, rivers, earth, everything is included. Failure to perform the duties towards these objects not only brings Allah’s wrath, but also of the particular objects. Prophets’ direction, oral and practical, on such simple matters that you should not urinate in water or in an animal’s bit, cut trees unnecessarily, beat animals, remove thorns from the road, keep hand on the mouth while yawning, are Ali matters relating to Huguely Ibad.
This is apart from bigger do’s and don’ts like do not steal, dress yourselves properly, do not tell lies, do not talk ill of others, help the ailing, traveling, learning and prisoners, defend your own rights, do not transgress the rights of others.
Who caused our sufferings?” Inter-society affairs depend not upon prayers, fasting and meditations but upon other acts and deeds which affect the society itself and other neighboring societies.
The Muslim problem and its answer has to be seen from the Hugooqul ibad point of view. This article deals with this aspect as the Babri Masjid blast has brought this question to the forefront.
Are the Muslim sufferings their own making or because of somebody else? The time has come to answer this question without fear or favor.
Our study reveals that in matter of these social obligations Muslim masses are perfectly in order “and the failure is not on their part but on the part of Muslim scholars, elites and the rich Muslims:
1 In any jail, Muslim prisoners are far less compared to their population. That means crime among Muslims is low.
2 Though living in poor localities, they mutually help others (Muslims and non-Muslims) in sickness, hunger and calamity.;
3 Morning to evening, they work hard, sweat themselves and feed their womenfolk, without compelling them to go out to earn, beg or steal.
4 In any accident, motor, fire, building collapse, or natural calamity, they are the first to run and help.
5 They settle their disputes mutually or through the advice of elders.
6 As petty merchants, artisans, mechanics, painters, electricians, masons and coolies they are hoariest in their dealings. In fact, Muslims in these categories are more in demand than others.
7 Hindu women and even Hindu men prefer to travel in Muslim autorickshaws and taxies as they can reach the destination safe unlike in Hindu-driven vehicles.
The above facts are only a few examples. We may add that the “poor” from all communities are also good like the Muslims. Such of those who do not have honesty, ability and good behavior, fail to earn their livelihood and become beggars and criminals. Their ratio among Muslims is negligible.
Daily Namaz: Judging from the Hugoogqul ibad point of view, we do not see Muslim masses on the wrong side. Exceptions only prove the rule. They may not perform daily prayers but that is not the reason for their political, economic and social discrimination. As self-employed people they hardly find time for prayers which needs leisure that they can’t afford. Leisure is the luxury of the rich. The poor, oppressed Muslim who is always suffering and struggling can’t be also accused of not performing regular namaz. This is adding insult to injury.
Such non-performing Muslims are there in all countries – Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran, Indonesia – everywhere in the world, but are they also persecuted as in India? Evenkite days of glory, under the Abbasi Moghul and Osmania rule, the non-performing Muslims were always in majority and still dominated the world in all fields.
No Muslim in scam: Even in the days of Prophet Mohammed, there were non-performing and sinful Muslims. Only their number was less.
For example, in the Harshad Mehta scandal and his “Scam”, no Muslim is involved, No Muslim was caught in selling Cabinet secrets. No Muslim is involved in Boors or any such scandal. Bride-burning or dowry deaths are rarities among Muslims.
Therefore, non-performing of namaz and fasting by all the Muslims and criminal activities by a few cannot be the reason for the Muslim problem.
From the Huqooqulibad point of view, the elite Muslims and the religious scholars appear to be more on the failing side,
Elite Muslims: As on the day of “independence”, Muslims of the past had left organizations like the Muslim League, Khaksar, Ahrar, Aligarh Muslim University, Anjuman’s in every town for Muslim social gathering, Ashore Khana’s and gymnasiums for the Muslim masses, holes, colleges, hospitals and, mushairas for the general Muslims. All these institutions have been either destroyed or weakened or condemned. Nothing is left for the Muslims now where Muslim masses and elites can sit. The only institution left now is the mosque where worldly affairs are not allowed to be discussed not it is worth discussing.
Monopoly of mosque: And mosques have become the exclusive domain of the religious scholars, five-time worshipers and managing members. And even they are so deeply divided into various wings of the “All-India” organizations – all sponsored from cow belt (Western UP and Delhi) like the Jam ate-Islami, Tablighi jamaat, Deoband, Bareli, Nadwa etc.
Having reached the saturation point of progress and having no program me for the present and future, these declining organizations and institutions have raked up futile debates on such non-issues like whiteites right to recite Quran to bless the dead; what should be the time for iftar in Ramazan, 6.30 PM or 6.32 PM, Idd should be performed on a single day throughout India, the lower apparel should be above ankles, whether this book should be read or not. Such petty disputes have divided the managers of mosques (not masses, because they do not go to mosque everyday) into hostile camps.
Hot bed of intrigues: Every mosque has become a hot bed of intrigues. These “scholars” are totally ignorant of worldly subjects like psychology, anthropology, sociology, political science, history, philosophy and above all “Hindu, Hinduism, and Hindu philosophy” which they confront every day.
While making these comments, it is emphasized that it is not an observation of the lakhs of imams and khatibs who are scattered all over India in small mosques. They are ordinary people and have risen from the masses and are very poorly paid servants-of the masjid committees.
The responsibility falls entirely upon the owners of the madrasas (the words rectors or principals are avoided) and masters of the movements. All these madrasas and movements hang round individuals who never come out of their secluded abodes and see the outside world.
Zionist-ClA hand: These institutions are wasting money to build expensive mosques with marble floorings, tall minarets, huge domes and decorating them with wall-to-wall can etc. Could they not have con structed simple miscites and diverted the money to perform hiccough bad by constructing hostels hospitals and non-religious community centers or helped poor Muslims to build and repair their small houses? Even such plush mosques are coming up only in cities but villages are completely ignored. Some Gulf people under the advice of the American CIA, which in turn is guided by the Zionists have converted the Muslim ulema, institutions and elites into beggars I and spoiled their self-respect. Before “independence”, Indian Muslims gave all kinds of help to the Muslims everywhere – moral, material, physical – like in the hit fat movement. Today, these people look upon Arabs to throw alms in their bowl. Little wonder that Qaddafi is reported to have said – “Indian Muslims are bothered about life after death and not before – they ask for money for masjids and graveyards and for nothing else”.
They do not see the clear qur’anic declaration: “Do you make the giving of drink to pilgrims or the _maintenance of the sacred mosque, equal to those who believe in God and the last day and strive with might and main (Jihad) in the cause of God? They are * not comparable in the sight of God” (Tauba:19) “Those who believe and suffer exile and strive with might and main in God’s cause (jihad) with their goods and persons have the highest rank in the sight of God. They are the people who achieve salvation (Tauba:20)
They will dwell in heaven for ever. (Tauba 22).
Lack of leaders: The reason that Muslims have no – leaders speaks volumes of our ignorance. Leadership does not come from heaven nor from the top. Leaders are created by followers – that means the most essential requirement is their following. And the followers will follow a leader who has suffered and sacrificed for them.
Unless there are followers there can be no leaders. And the leader is not an individual, itis an organization. There are many leaders with very obedient and faithful followers – followers who even behave like slaves but the leaders are incompetent, narrow minded, arrogant and self-projecting. They are interested in their organizations only the function in their limited fields like those heads of govt. depts.
Jamate-islami: Jam ate-Islami and Tablighi-Jamat say that every Muslim is their member. Enrolled membership of the Jam ate-Islami has not increased beyond 5,000 from the past 40 years and this figure stands stagnant for 15 years. Like a govt. dept. the enrollment is fixed. Its members stand with folded hands before the leaders. For a new man it takes 10 to 15 years to enroll.
Tablighi-Jamat: The Tablighi-Jamat has lakhs and lakhs of obedient followers crisscrossing throughout India in trains, buses and on foot in highways end bylines with certain visible signs and garments. At the call of the leader sitting in Delhi, lakhs and lakhs car be mobilized within 2/3 days. No other organicity or movement can be corn pared with it in terms of m: membership, discipline, commitment and sacrifice.
But its leadership is bothered only of things bs low the surface of earth (grave) and above the skies (heaven). This Is how the police intelligence people have sent reports to the govt.
With a few thousand committed workers, Hindu nazis challenged the Muslims for six years and declared that they would destroy the Babri Masjid, come what may. And they did it right in broad daylight, right in the presence of police, PAC and the army units. “His is commitment, organization, programming and functioning.
Harmless organizations: With lakhs and lakhs of membership, the Tablighi-Jamat could work wonders. But its leadership has “no worldly ambitions”. It wants to march its followers to heaven. Does not matter, whether the nazis destroy the masjid, unveil Arina’s face, laugh at Prophet Mohammad’s noble wives, strive for common civil code, call the ancestors of Muslims as criminals, rogues and vandals – Tablighi is unconcerned. That is why the Hindu nazis call it a harmless organization.
Even remarks on the Prophet are ignored.
50,000 Muslim women raped: Iran’s Islamic Revolution, Baghdad’s bombardment, Bosnian massacre of Muslims (over 50,000 Muslim women were raped in Bosnia according to the Newsweek Jan.11,92) are matters which are not known to this leadership.
Nay, even the demolition of the Babri Masjid a few miles away from the Delhi abode of the Tablighi- Janat is no issue for its leadership. Its followers are well-trained to carry on whispering campaign to introduce ng controversies among the mosque managers to change this sermon to that sermon.
Superiority complex: Young boys are recruited every day and provided with rosaries and training in… bed pushing and dramatics of making artificial cries of agony while seeking Allah’s blessing, Sweeping off lights. ‘This organization suffers from the dread of aimlessness and its members move about with an air of superiority around them
Urdu pronunciation: There are other committed leaders in regional bases like the Muslim League, Ittehadul Muslimeen. But the UP elites and “scholars” laugh at their Urdu pronunciation and try to destroy their bases through organizations like Majlisi Mushawrat’s, Babri Masjid Committees. All organizations have a prefix “all-India”. Cowbell is not prepared to bow to the South.
Who is responsible? The Quran fixes the responsibility for the destruction of a people by first indicting their leaders (who are given good things. of life) who transgress and disobey. It says:
“When we decide to destroy a population, we first send a definite order to those among them who are given the good things of this life, but they transgress, so that the word is proved true against them: then we destroy them utterly” (Bani Israeli: 15)
Thus, the entire responsibility for the Muslim problems is fixed on the leaders who have become transgressors.
The leaders of Jam ate-Islami and Tablighi-Jamat have chilled the Muslim thinking to below zero level. They vie with each other in calling the Muslims bad and sinful. All available service-oriented people have been taken away by them and none is available for other ‘activities. That is why other organizations car not come up.
Fault-finding habit: Islam says that you should not find fault with others but examine yourself, but they are taught to do the opposite. They find only faults in Muslim masses and totally ignore their great virtues: velour, truthfulness, readiness to die for principles, straight forwardness, struggle to earn halal food, discarding interest, and love for God, Prophet and Quran. The Editor of Dalit Voice paying tributes to Muslim greatness had once said that “if India is what it is today it is because of Muslims and particularly Muslim masses”. They do not see that even if the most wretched and the poorest Muslim is offered a lakh of rupees on the condition of picking up the Quran from a table and dropping it, he would refuse. Rather he would catch the neck of the proposer. Such is the love of common Muslims for the Quran and id Mohammed.
Bangalore incident: A simple adjective given to the “name of Prophet Mohammed in Saran: paper (Deccan Herald) had made them come to the streets and face police bullets and die with pleasure. They prefer to die as martyrs rather than worship for years and yet face trial, before God. Their psyche contains this statement of the prophet:
“Continuous prayer and non-stop fasting from the starting time of war till the end is no match for the struggle of the Mujahid I in battlefield” (Bukhari Shariff page 57).
Muslims have always been persecuted whenever and wherever they have stood up for Islam and ignored and lulled when they deviated. Prophet Mohammed and _ his colleagues were stoned, beaten, insulted spat upon, made to sleep on burning charcoal, and hot sand during their Meccan days for eleven years. Was it because they had given up Islamic morals? No. It was for upholding them.
Stop blaming Muslims: Imam Hussain was also persecuted for the same reason. Quran calls such ordeals as a trial from Allah and promises right path for those who face them as from Allah and bear with them (Surah 2, Ayat 155-157). Why don’t these Jamaats take these ordeals as trial and stop blaming Muslims?
Mohammed Ali example: If Muslims are not performing namaz and roza are their nazi enemies, who are successfully persecuting and destroying them, performing prayer?
Moulana Mohammed Ali while taking the help of MK Gandhi during the Khilafat agitation was so obliged that he called him his mentor next only to Prophet Mohammed. Many ulema bitterly criticized him and some agreed. At the same time in spite of his deep respect for Gandhi, he declared in 1923 at Aligarh that the most sinful Muslim criminal is better than Gandhi. On being challenged for this in the Congress session in Kakinada, he admitted and further declared that he would again say so. It is a matter of faith, just like Gandhi’s own faith in Varnashrama.
And prophet Mohammed has said that he would rescue that Muslim from the clutches of hell, who has no way of escape from other sources. (Moulana Mohammed Ali-Sahabuddin Abdur Rahman, page 143, Maba Muar if, Azamgarh 1977).
Four warnings: We warn the fault- finding Muslims: Hindu nazis hate Muslims for the following reasons: (1) They being mostly converts from the Shudras and Untouchables (their erstwhile slaves) claim equality with them. Josh Maliha Bac a straightforward question to Sardar Patelastowhy e hated Muslims. Sardar replied, “I very much respect Muslim outside and settle d here. I hate those Muslims who are converts from Shudras and low castes”. (Yodon ki barat – Josh Maliha Badi, page 171, Hind Pocket Books (P)Ltd. Shahdara, Delhi-32)
(2) The Quran says allemande born equal from the common parents, Adam and Eve. But the Manu dharma Shastra says that Brahmins are born from the head of Brahma (God) and others from his hands, waist and legs and others are subservient to Brahmins.
(3) The Quran says there is only one God, shapeless and formless. The Hindu Puranas say that there are 330- crore gods, with all sorts of shapes and forms.
(4) Muslims keep the mosque opener all. Brahmins restrict Untouchables from entering the temple and to the interior none is allowed.
it is ideological clash: There are innumerable such uncompromising contradictions. Islam and Brahminism are the exact opposite of each other and therefore cannot live together (Read M.N. Roy: Historical Role of Islam.)
But Muslims and Brahmins have lived and can live together without interfering with each other on the Quranic doctrine of “Your religion for you and ours for us”. (109.6).
Brahminesses leadership: This is the Quranic secularism which Muslims uphold. That is why they are for secularism, and since secularism is Quranic the enemies of Muslims hate it and struggle goes for the destruction of Islam and Muslim. That means the fight between Hindus and Muslims is ideological. Not because, Muslims are sinful and not doing namaz properly. This charge comes from the brahminesses Muslim leadership. There are 1,600 “castes” and 1,140 tribes of Scheduled Castes, 3,700 Backward Castes and over 1,000 upper castes. All these 8,000 odd castes are at logger heads with each other. People from all these castes Have converted to Islam and formed one Islamic brotherhood and challenged the Brahmin-imposed injustice and inequality.
Bahujan Samaj-BSO war: Day by day this brotherhood of the 85% Bahujan Samaj is increasing and this the Hindu nazis want to crush. The Dec 6.1992 demolition of Babri Masjid signifies a decisive stage in the ongoing war between the Bahujan Samaj and the Brahminical social order (BSQO). This burning hatred of Muslims is an attempt to take back the runaway slaves back to the master’s fold, The false nazi reports of “reconversion” in Rajasthan are indicators.
“Spanish Experiment”: The only “misdeed” of the “Indian Muslims for which they are persecuted is their failure to, know their past, their oppressors, grand designs and philosophy and the Muslim duty towards their blood brothers still entrenched in the maze of castes, tribes and Jati’s of the Brahminical social order.
If the Muslim elites do not shed their easy-chaired assumptions and know about the great virtues of the Muslim masses immediately and use them, and their abundant energies not only for self-defense but also to liberate the oppressed Dalits, we are sure of the next follow-up action as per the “Spanish Experiment” (DV Aug. 1 92 p.20) will begin.
Conclusion: If the existing Muslim leadership is allowed. to continue not only the Babri Masjid will not be rebuilt but the Jama Masjid followed by Varanasi, Mathura and 3,000 other mosques will also follow. Muslims will be castrated and the first victims will be this discredited leadership. I is for these reasons the Editor of DV welcomed the destruction of Babri Masjid (DV edit, Jan.1 93).
