Anandshankar Pandya
The first change was of religion; the second, of nomenclature. Thus, in the wake of a Hindu’s conversion of faith, he was given a new name of Persian or Arab stock to convey the impression that he had changed even his nationality. Buddhism went to China, but the Buddhist converts there, did not alter their names. The third change was linguistic through the imposition of Persian or Urdu script. The fourth was of culture, forcing the converted Hindu to shed his dhoti and wear pyjamas, plus grow a beard. In sharp contrast, no such conversion of name or language took place in China, Japan or Russia.
The fifth change was historical. The converted people started worship of Sindbad, Hindbad, Laila-Majnu and Arab leaders, who had nothing to do with them. At the same time, Gandhiji, who sacrificed his life for Muslims, was denounced by Maulana Muhammed Ali, president of the Kakinada Congress, from Lucknow’s Ameen-ud-Dawla park in the following words: “The most sinful amongst Muslims is better than Mahatma Gandhi since he believes in Koran Sharief and Prophet Mohammed.”
The sixth transformation was geographical. The new converts were taught to hate the Ganga, the Jamuna, the Himalayas, so on, and was forced to look upon those small ponds in deserts as their dreamlands. Thus, through a nefarious conspiracy aimed at cutting off their umbilical link with their language, costumes, festivals, culture, customs, history, etc.
Turks were short of funds; so they helped out only those who were very close to them. This favoritism is obvious from the list of courtiers from Turkey in Indian darbars. Malik Kaffar and Khwaja Hamman, who graced the court of Emperor Alauddin, were both foreigners. Humayun’s courtier Behram Khan was an Afghan. Among the navratnas of Akbar’s darbar, Abdul Faizi, Abdul Fazl, Hakim Hamam and Mullah-do-Pyaza were all alien Muslims. Two principal courtiers of Jehangir and Aurangzeb, Asif Jhah and Mir Jumala, were also foreigners. As Indian Muslims were not to be trusted.
In granting fiefs or lands, Indian Muslims were always sidelined. But for Jaipur, Jodhpur, Udaipur and similar other Hindu fiefdoms, all the others, including Hyderabad, Jaunpur, Bhopal, Tonk, Jawara, Gujarat, Khandesh and so on, were gifted away to alien Muslims. Converts were deemed fit to be slaves, never masters.
The converts were told to worship at the tombs of alien saints at Ajmer, Behraich, Delhi, Gulbarga, Pakistan, Makarpur, etc. But those of Indian saints like Kabir, Rahim and Malik Mohammed Jayasi were frequented by very few. The Indian Muslims unwilling to migrate to Pakistan voted for the formation of Pakistan by backing Muslim league. As a result, while the affluent Muslims crossed over to Pakistan, their less fortunate brethren were left behind in India. Muslims who did not bother about own well-being wallowed in poverty. Why are they so crazy about Pakistan? What has Pakistan done for them?
Muslims should realise that there is no conflict in respecting their Rahim as well as Hindus’ Ram. Indonesia is a Muslim country; yet its people celebrate Ramleela every year with immense fervor. Their contention is that they have changed their creed, but not their ancestry. Ram was their ancestor, their origin. But Indian Muslims look upon Hindustan and Hindus as their opponents, Pakistan as their homeland and Taimur and Babur as their ancestors!
As a consequence, Indian Muslims have failed to come up with any world famous figures, whereas Hindus can boast of Swami Vivekanand, Gandhi, Tangore, Dr. Radhakrishana, Tata, Birla and so on. Unless and until they change their mindset, Indian Muslims will continue to remain the most backward, poor and much maligned community in the whole world, slaves of alien Muslims to boot, but Hindus want to improve their lot. If Muslims persist in supporting dictatorships and considering violence as their creed, how can they progress in this modern age where democracy is the backbone of all development? Shri Bhuleshah says; “Islam, the messenger of peace, has been reduced today to demolition of temples and looting the followers of other faiths in blatant violation of human rights”.
Pseudo secular leaders are also doing maximum damage to the cause of Muslims, in order to garner their cheap votes through emotional blackmail like 4 marriages, easy divorce, Babri Masjid issue, wearing scalp white cap, going to Dargah with chader (as Nitish kumar C.M. Bihar is doing) and giving some economic benefits like Govt. jobs, cheap bank loans and easy admission colleges etc. But they are not giving them any big opportunity to be patriot, joining the mainstream of nation and producing big industrialists and famous persons in public life, through high education. When Mamata Bannerji, Chief Minister of West Bengal, attends any Muslim function, she wears a Burqa and also joins their Namaz. This has added to her vote bank but has not improved the economic condition of poor ignorant Muslims. Such gimmicks to fool the Muslims are going on since 50 years.
While in Narendra Modi’s Gujrat, who is labeled as communal, there is no riot, no curfew and the Muslims are progressing economically. They are happy and do not want to leave Gujrat because they have now realised that efforts of Modi are sincere. Hence some Maulvies have started expressing distrust in Congress and Samajwadi Party of Mulayam Singh who had promised lots of benefits to Muslims but nothing substantial has been done so far, except some crumbs thrown at them.
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