“DAWAT” MISQUOTES DV & MISLEADS MUSLIMS
Bangalore: As a reply to our Editorial of March 16, 1997: “Why Jamate-Islami disobeyed Koran, went against Moodie and then surrendered to Hindu nazis”, the Jamate-Islami mouthpiece, Dawlat (April 1, 1997), published its official reply in the form of an editorial.
Our criticism of the Jam ate-Islami was published in English language and the Jamat has its official English weekly, Radiance. We expected the reply to come in English in the Radiance. But the Jamat reply to our criticism did not appear in Radiance but in its Urdu journal. Why?
Is it because quite a lot of DV readers, who are also members of the Jamate-Islami, will come to know the anti-Islamic views of the Jamat?
Be that as it may, it is now confirmed from the Dawlat Editorial published below that the Jamat is not interested in identifying the enemies of Muslims who are also enemies of Dalits but rather would like to join hands with this very Enemy.
Sirajul Hasan dilemma: The reason for this long delay in publishing the Dawlat editorial is because none brought it to our notice. Even our Urdu-knowing Muslim readers of DV perhaps did not know about this Dawlat editorial.
Some Muslim readers of DV expected a violent reaction from the Jamat but the Dawlat piece shows that the Jamat is on a weak ground. On behalf of the Dalit Voice, we want to once again make it clear that we hold Moulana Sirajul Hasan Saheb in high esteem. As we know him for a very long time, we also know that he is a revolutionary Muslim and thinks exactly on our lines. But he is in the clutches of the Arya varia elite Muslims who are the bane of Jamate-Islam.
After having read the above Dawlat reply to our well-thought-out criticism, we are sure our readers will come to their own conclusion about the country’s most important Muslim religious organisation with which we k. are still maintaining cordial relationship and have high respect for its Amir, Moulana Sirajul Hasan.
Moduli’s warning: All that we wanted to say on the Jamate-Islami and the elite Muslims of India it represented, we have said by quoting from the writings of the very founder of the Jamat, Moulana Moodie.
Inside the Jamat itself the opinion is divided. A substantial section of its own members is not happy with the Jamat leadership for deviating from the path laid by its founder and flirting with the Hindu nazis.
That is why the Jamat resorted to such a vague answer to our criticisms, leaving aside the main points raised in our Editorial but misquoting us.
Foreign funds: More glaring is its total silence on the charge of foreign funds:
“Some Muslim organisations have been getting foreign funds. and when they started wagging their tails, the Hindu nazi rulers, who receive much bigger foreign funds, cut their tails and warned them that if ever they were to speak against Hindu nazis they would be crushed. It was a stern warning. Such Muslim organisations receiving foreign funds chose to rather obey the nazi dictates even at the cost of betraying the Koran and thereby inviting the “Curse of Allah”. This is what happened with the Jamate-Islami also. Today, the Jamat has become a tooth-less tiger.”
This is what we had said in our March 16,1997 Editorial
Why the Jamate-Islami did not reply to this criticism?
THE FOLLOWING IS THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE DAWAT EDITORIAL
Dalit intellectual V.T. Rajshekar has a grievance against the Jamate-Islami that it is not doing anything for the Dalits, Harijans, Backward Classes and even for the poor Muslims and that it has allied with the Brahmins. He states that he has done his best to convince the Jamat.
Four years ago, he had initiated a Debate with this object in Dalit Voice and it went on for one year. But the Jamat refused to be convinced and finally he decided to close the chapter.
Once again, he turned towards the Jamat, since he was moved in this direction when he met its Chief, Moulana Sirajul Hasan, and some of its leaders in January 1997. And this meeting so frustrated the Dalit intellectual that in the March 16, 1997 issue of Dalit Voice he has written a highly pricking Editorial and put the Jamat in the accused box. He has written that the Jamat has deviated from the teachings of Koran and the path shown by Moulana Moumouni and has surrendered its arms before the Hindu nazis.
Pointing towards the fundamental difference: Earlier too, there have been reporting’s in these columns about the boldness, capability and his views on the conditions of Muslims and knowledge on Islam of this Dalit intellectual. Just as he has been trying to convince the Jamat, there have been attempts to convince him too that he should understand the thinking, policy and programme of the Jamat. It is felt that he does not want to understand and goes on insisting that the Jamat should give up all its preoccupation but start slogans against Brahminism and join the Dalits in their agitations against it. It is evident from this situation that it would be better to maintain silence on this latest sorrow and anger of the Dalit friend. Yet, it is necessary to remind by pointing out at the agenda of the Dalit intellectual and the aims and objects of the Jamate-Islami. The fundamental difference is that the Dalit intellectual believes in the high-low status of human beings by birth.
Like the Brahmins, they too, consider some castes as high and some as low. But the Jamat considers all human beings as equals.
it does not believe in the superiority or inferiority of any person. All men are the creatures of Allah.
Jamat wants the good of all human beings.
Again, the Dalit intellectual wants the worldly benefits of only some of the classes, and being outdone by the feelings of re- venge, he wants to wipe off some other castes, while the Jamate-Islami wants the good of all human beings.
It tries to hold the hand of the persecutor as well as sympathise with the persecuted and save both from a bad end.
The Jagat raises its voice in its own fashion against the unwise order based on oppression, suppression, high and low. The agenda of the Dalit intellectual is that the order of high and low and castes should remain intact and the only change should be that the high castes should become low and the low castes should become high, or they should get equal status in the Brahminical order. If the high castes agree with this demand, they would hold fast their hands and march forward, as though their goal is achieved. But the work of the Jamat does not stop here. It wants to establish an exemplary society based on equality in this world and also for the redemption of human beings in the next world. That is why it invites all human beings towards their master.
How good it would be if our Dalit Editor and his Muslim advisors’ make an attempt to understand this truth.
