I am not a very strict religious person but I do observe most of my religious traditions. Living in a lovely country like mine has a perk of enjoying the freedom of belief...
I love my country and I love my religion too... can't that be concomitantly true with I don't hate any other religions??
Lately I've seen a huge cry and havoc from both the sides, on social media... they have kind of made it mandatory that you either 'love your religion and hate others' or 'you don't love yours sufficiently and not hate other's'
Why to prove that you are truly following your religion you have to bring out the hatred towards other religions??
I've been seeing, a lot many activities in this regard lately but I always choose to remain silent... speaking on a topic, this sensitive, is very risky... you might be saying something and meaning something, but you will end up projecting something entirely different... (I hope this would not happen with me this time ) but something happened yesterday and I felt like I need to put my views forward too...
One of my batch mates, yesterday uploaded something on Facebook... he actually shared something already uploaded by someone else... it contained some obscene statements about prophet Mohammad (saw) which was both theologically and historically wrong... and without confirming the authenticity and truthfulness of the facts (which were not facts at all) he shared it. He did not bother this much because it was portraying a wrong image of a religion that was not his...
This batch mate of mine is a nice person... a little eccentric but a nice person. You know when you study "Medicine" for five and half years, you tend to become a little eccentric and when you already are a little eccentric it adds colours on top of that... But I don't judge people on the basis of that. in fact when I got to know that he was saving up his internship stipend and not going for coaching so that he could make his siblings go to school and study, I was moved... I started respecting him you know... And I started thinking him a responsible person... So this kind of step of his made me rethink about him....
It's not entirely his fault... the stuff he shared has also been shared by people from this side... it's always give and take in this world you know... let it be love or hatred... you can not love someone for long if your love is not been reciprocated and you can not hate someone for long if your hatred is not been reciprocated too...
I remember when cow slaughtering case (dadari) was on fire and I too was against killing of the man... even if it was (as claimed but not proved later) beef... but then I saw a video circulating with a man slaughtering a cow and saying obscene stuff... I saw it and realised that this act is no lesser than killing of a man...
Why all of a sudden eating beef has become superior to anything else in a Muslim's life? I am too a non vegetarian but I have no problem with vegans... I won't die of starvation if I won't get beef!!!
Why in a country, which feeds you, gives you shelter where you belong, you need to eat something which is prohibited...
You have problem with "not eating beef" just because it is been prohibited in another religion when there is "no compulsion of eating it" in yours... while you are ready to accept the "dowry tradition" though nothing of this sort is preached in your religion. Why not abandon this tradition too because it's not yours...
So I can not put entire blame on him (my batch mate)... Though he is not innocent, he's not guilty too... Actually I feel he's a victim of this entire mind game...
I feel when you are not strongly sure about your beliefs you need to find flaws in others... to me it seems like a defence mechanism... you need to make sure you hate other beliefs so that you can make your own brain believe that you sufficiently love yours
All those people in the past and all those in the present who took and are taking extreme steps were actually trying to satisfy this objective...
One of my best friends, is a Hindu Brahmana, one is a Vashya and another one is a Jain, and I tie Rakhi (a pious thread you tie to your brother so that it protects him and he promises to protect you. It's a Hindu festival) to a boy and they respect me for what I am. And never it came to their thoughts that I belong to a Muslim family does not follow their traditions... And I still pray five times a day and believe in my religion... I celebrate Holi and Diwali with them and I ask for forgiveness during the Shamavani week... And they celebrate Eid-ul-fitra and Eid-uz-zoha with me. They would burn firecrackers on Shab-e-baraat with me and I would put Deepaks on the boundary walls of my house in Deepawali and never it occurred to me that following their tradition or celebrating their festivals would make me lesser of a Muslim and never they felt like eating the Sewaeen (vermicelli, sweet dish we prepare on eid) cooked by my mom would make them lesser of a Hindu!!
When I introspected deeply enough I felt pity for those who need to hate me to believe they love themselves...
I love my country and I love my religion too... can't that be concomitantly true with I don't hate any other religions??
Lately I've seen a huge cry and havoc from both the sides, on social media... they have kind of made it mandatory that you either 'love your religion and hate others' or 'you don't love yours sufficiently and not hate other's'
Why to prove that you are truly following your religion you have to bring out the hatred towards other religions??
I've been seeing, a lot many activities in this regard lately but I always choose to remain silent... speaking on a topic, this sensitive, is very risky... you might be saying something and meaning something, but you will end up projecting something entirely different... (I hope this would not happen with me this time ) but something happened yesterday and I felt like I need to put my views forward too...
One of my batch mates, yesterday uploaded something on Facebook... he actually shared something already uploaded by someone else... it contained some obscene statements about prophet Mohammad (saw) which was both theologically and historically wrong... and without confirming the authenticity and truthfulness of the facts (which were not facts at all) he shared it. He did not bother this much because it was portraying a wrong image of a religion that was not his...
This batch mate of mine is a nice person... a little eccentric but a nice person. You know when you study "Medicine" for five and half years, you tend to become a little eccentric and when you already are a little eccentric it adds colours on top of that... But I don't judge people on the basis of that. in fact when I got to know that he was saving up his internship stipend and not going for coaching so that he could make his siblings go to school and study, I was moved... I started respecting him you know... And I started thinking him a responsible person... So this kind of step of his made me rethink about him....
It's not entirely his fault... the stuff he shared has also been shared by people from this side... it's always give and take in this world you know... let it be love or hatred... you can not love someone for long if your love is not been reciprocated and you can not hate someone for long if your hatred is not been reciprocated too...
I remember when cow slaughtering case (dadari) was on fire and I too was against killing of the man... even if it was (as claimed but not proved later) beef... but then I saw a video circulating with a man slaughtering a cow and saying obscene stuff... I saw it and realised that this act is no lesser than killing of a man...
Why all of a sudden eating beef has become superior to anything else in a Muslim's life? I am too a non vegetarian but I have no problem with vegans... I won't die of starvation if I won't get beef!!!
Why in a country, which feeds you, gives you shelter where you belong, you need to eat something which is prohibited...
You have problem with "not eating beef" just because it is been prohibited in another religion when there is "no compulsion of eating it" in yours... while you are ready to accept the "dowry tradition" though nothing of this sort is preached in your religion. Why not abandon this tradition too because it's not yours...
So I can not put entire blame on him (my batch mate)... Though he is not innocent, he's not guilty too... Actually I feel he's a victim of this entire mind game...
I feel when you are not strongly sure about your beliefs you need to find flaws in others... to me it seems like a defence mechanism... you need to make sure you hate other beliefs so that you can make your own brain believe that you sufficiently love yours
All those people in the past and all those in the present who took and are taking extreme steps were actually trying to satisfy this objective...
One of my best friends, is a Hindu Brahmana, one is a Vashya and another one is a Jain, and I tie Rakhi (a pious thread you tie to your brother so that it protects him and he promises to protect you. It's a Hindu festival) to a boy and they respect me for what I am. And never it came to their thoughts that I belong to a Muslim family does not follow their traditions... And I still pray five times a day and believe in my religion... I celebrate Holi and Diwali with them and I ask for forgiveness during the Shamavani week... And they celebrate Eid-ul-fitra and Eid-uz-zoha with me. They would burn firecrackers on Shab-e-baraat with me and I would put Deepaks on the boundary walls of my house in Deepawali and never it occurred to me that following their tradition or celebrating their festivals would make me lesser of a Muslim and never they felt like eating the Sewaeen (vermicelli, sweet dish we prepare on eid) cooked by my mom would make them lesser of a Hindu!!
When I introspected deeply enough I felt pity for those who need to hate me to believe they love themselves...
