By Arshad Mohsin
In a famous Hadeeth narrated by Anas Ibn Malik , Ibn ‘Abbas reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said : 12,000 Muslims will not be defeated for lack of numbers. [Abu Dawud and at-Tirmidhi]
The official population of Muslims in India is counted above 200 Million, a number nearly 166 times bigger than the invincibility mark. Yet, Muslims in India are not only defeated and decamped but also subverted to the extent of imperceptible apostasy. The prophet PBUH can’t be wrong, we are!
Indian Muslims despite being divided into sects and Jamaat, the membership of each of these sects or Jamaat still numbers far above the 12000 mark. In my rough estimation Tableeghi Jamaat alone has more than 10 million members while Jamaat e Islami Hind has more than a million active members around the nation. Both of these Jamaat claim to be on the right path and represent Islam in its purest form. They both claim to follow Quran and Sunnah almost exactly like the first community of the believers.
Still, Muslims like Ikhlaq are dragged out of their homes and slaughtered. Young Hafiz e Quran Junaid is stabbed to death in running trains full of humans (not sure). Muslim traders like Pehlu Khan are brutally lynched. Muslims in villages like Naroda Patia, MuzaffarNagar and Shamli are mass murdered and forced to flee. Young girls in Muslim Kashmir are ordered out of their homes and raped in turns sometimes in front of their family members. All this goes on without a word of protest, let alone coming forward to protect, on the part of the Indian Muslims.
Lynched, raped, murdered, displaced, sacked, demonized, smeared, Indian Muslims still claim to be on the right path, practicing true Islam, though shamelessly defying the above mentioned Hadeeth and blatantly rejecting the holy Quran which commands the protection of fellow Muslims as obligatory.
It’s certainly not been the act of the prophet of Allah PBUH to leave the followers of Islam so vulnerable and defenseless. None of the rightly guided companions of the prophet PBUH ever failed to defend themselves and their fellow brothers and sisters in faith. Who then do the Indian Muslims emulate? Whose Islam do they follow? It’s certainly not the Islam of Prophet Muhammad PBUH.
Is it the Islam of Jinah ? No not him, his followers have already left India for Pakistan. Is it then the Islam of M.Abul Kalam Azad who chose to stay inside his Karol Bagh Bungalow when Muslims were being slaughtered like sheep in Delhi? Yes, may be! But is he solely responsible for creating the path of subversion and subsequent surrender of Indian Muslims to their Islamophobic political masters? Not solely but partially yes.
How far are the Islamic scholars (from seminaries like Deoband, Nadwa, Barelly etc.) responsible for inculcating this defenseless, watered down version of Islam in the Muslims of India ?
Let’s not answer this question until we know, who changed the act of establishing “Salaah” to something like reading “Namaaz” ? Who replaced “Salaah” the word from the holy Quran to “Namaaz” a meaningless word with no significance in Islam. Who authorized someone to change the Quranic word “Som” to a satanic word “Roza” and popularized it ? Who banned all the Islamic activities ( as were established by the holy Prophet PBUH in Masjid e Nabwi ) in Masajid and handed them over to some Firangis called “Secretary” and “President” ? Did the prophet of Islam PBUH hire a secretary or a president for the Masajid he built ? And when the Masajid in India running under the tutelage of the above mentioned seminaries or the scholars trained therein changed their characters, so did the Muslims who manned them. When “Namaaz” couldn’t connect the readers to their Sustainer they left for schools in search of sustenance. The conspiracy is too deep.
Why is it crucial to revisit the trajectory and the matrix of the deterioration of Muslims in India ?
Because if left unaddressed the situation can worsen by the day. The enemies of Islam and Indian Muslims have gone global in strength, resource and determination. The demonization, subversion and consequent persecution of Indian Muslims has now gained international support with the Zionist block forging alliance with their Indian counterpart. Yes the same Zionists who supplied lethal weapons to Burmese army in order for them to annihilate unarmed and helpless Rohingya Muslims in their motherland. Remember the seven Rohingya refugees recently deported by the humanitarian Modi government to helplessly ( with similar helplessness as most of the Indian Muslims face today ) face the shooting squad in Myanmar.
While the Muslims in India are still busy arguing about who among them is observant and who is particularly not, the global Islamobhobes are systematically mowing down the ummah from central African Republic to China to Myanmar to Syria to Yemen and to Afghanistan.
Been shorn of temporal power and deviously disconnected from the almighty Allah, Muslims of India have been being reared for Bosnia style genocide.Political isolation, racial and communal discrimination, forced conversion, ideological subversion; ghettoization, economic marginalization, forced migration, incapacitation and self-flagellation are some of the early signs of the impending catastrophe.
What else is likely to emerge?
More fitna in the guise of reforms and reformers. divisive agencies will masquerader as humanitarian organizations, lethal poisons will be sold as lifesaving drugs, dehumanization of Muslims through both mainstream and social media, mass incarceration and judicial rejections. What is the way out?
Repentance, Tauba and turning to the book of Allah.
Ankit , from delhi was also lynched by muslims … Hindus were killed in kashmir by muslims too … forgot to mention that ??
A must read for all Muslims.
Enlightening piece , My congratulation for to the writer for such a wonderful write up.Keep it up.
Hats off to the writer for coming with such a thought provoking article .
It is an absolute reality of condition of Indian Muslim today. A must read indeed
The author has written a pessimistic article and venting the “helplessness status” of a common member of society.
Islam’s aqeedah is universal and it’s for all languages.
Changing of Arabic terminologies to regional one was indeed the need for understanding in newer geographic boundaries during the early hours.
Still “salaah” and “saum” is called “tholugai” and ” nonbu” in the Tamil language ; Tamilnadu coastal area has got Islam during the life of Prophet Muhammad itself.,where you can find people as observant as their counterparts in other parts of subcontinent.
Further he has mentioned the names of prominent organisations names in a diminishing manner. I request author to study their works and then scribe.
Finally he has given the solution of tauba and turning to God and Quran which are the sought after remedies by the very organisations mentioned above.
Assalam O alaikum Brother Shafique,
I think your name itself is Arabic, what’s the Tamil for Shafique and would you mind calling yourself with that Tamil translation of your name? For Me, as a Muslim, the language of my holy book Quran is chosen by Allah to be Arabic , should be learnt, understood and preserved in Arabic itself.I t’s not only impossible but also a crime to try and translate the Quranic dictions like Salah, Barakah, Tahara, Saum etc. There is a lot of fitna in changing these words. In your own comment you have written that Islam reached you in the prophetic (PBUH) period itself and it was obligatory on you (tamilians) to bring it to the other part of India.But since you changed the words of Quran so your “tholugai” and ” nonbu” couldn’t reach us for the sheer reason of their meaninglessness.
Please avoid sounding meaningless from now onwards.
May Allah bless us all with the knowledge of Arabic and Quran.
Jazak Allah Khair for your comment.
Then why you conversing in English ? !
The author has written a pessimistic article and venting the “helplessness status” of a common member of society.
Islam’s aqeedah is universal and it’s for all languages.
Changing of Arabic terminologies to regional one was indeed the need for understanding in newer geographic boundaries during the early days.
Still “salaah” and “saum” is called “tholugai” and ” nonbu” in the Tamil language ; Tamilnadu coastal area has got Islam during the life of Prophet Muhammad itself.,where you can find people as observant as their counterparts in other parts of subcontinent.
Further he has mentioned the names of prominent organisations names in a diminishing manner. I request author to study their works and then scribe.
Finally he has given the solution of tauba and turning to God and Quran which are few of the sought after remedies by the very organisations mentioned above.
Writer has forgotten to mention Salfi mazhab. The article proves he carries bias in his mind against all masalaks other than his own. On the international plane,highest and most horrible damage is done to muslims of the world by the SALFI deviants by painting zihad of Islam as TERRORISM. Their criminal actions built hatred against muslims all over the world.These terrorist muslims killed muslims for not being muslims of their hue. India is far better in treatment of muslims, barring the present rule by hindutva terrorists,than what misery muslims are facing in middle East. We see and meet at times the nationals of middle East who in respect of Islam are worse than Indian muslims. One aspect of our miseries calls for self introspection in the light of shariah. That is for ourselves and should remain in the midst of ourselves. The other aspect is how non muslims are treating us and how to address it on secular plane. The root reasons are well known among muslims and sooner they change,the better it will be for us all.
I know only one Deen i.e ISALM. All the sub sects are the creations of Kafirs to divide Muslim brothers.
Beware of such ideologies.
ISLAM—mainstream, moderate and based on genuine knowledge of Quran and saheeh hadiths–seen in proper scholastic and experienced context! No firqas, no separate jamaats—just under the Ulema of All India Muslim Personal Law Board and Jamiatul Ulema-Hind and Jamaate Islami together-minus any faction—only exception is non-Shia…because they continue to be betrayers against the Prophet’s family and Sahaaba throughout Islamic history.
l hope author is aware of what he is writing.its a deliberate article.
No need to make such contradictory article which is of no use to muslims or anybody.
Badiuzzaman
Your statement proves that you are a Salfi,Najdi,Ahle hadisi terrorist deviant. This very fanatic unislamic thinking resulted in killing of of muslims by barbarian ISIS terrorist outfit who followed in the foot steps of terrorist Muhammad bin Wahab who too had this very atheistic thinking with which he killed many many. You and the likes of you are a cancer to muslims of the world. May Allah reduce your type to the irreducible minimum. Aameen.
I know ,I am Muslim and nothing else. Neither Wahabi, Hanafi, Deobandi, Ahle hadith, nor Ahle sunnat wal jamait , etc, etc( I don not know ,how many?. Agin I am a Muslim and only Muslim. belives in only Quarn and Shih hadith.
I am not fanatic, you seems to be. Request you to got be admitted in Agra or Ranchi.
May ALLAH show you right path, Ameen
Those who don’t have knowledge talk only of words like Quran and hadis. They read the neither. Those of this kind are divided into uncountable sects each calling the other Mushrik and Wajibul qatl. Crazy terrorist fanatics.
Agar ab bhi na smabhle to, ( if still you are Ahle hadith, Barailvai, Deobandi,…..) then only ALLAH can save you. Then famous couplet by Allam Iqbal, for you janab:
…………. Tum hi batao ke tum musalman bhi ho.( Sheikh , Syed ,Patan ……, Barailvi, Deobandi, Ahle sunnat wal jamat…)
…………. Tumhari dastan tak na hogi dastanoon mein.
May ALLAH show you SARAT E MUSTAQEEM.
It duty of muslims to identify bogus muslims to the muslims and save them from misguidance. All other than Ahle sunnat wa aljamat are either deviant or non muslims like Qadianis etc. Unity only of real muslims.
Muslims in India are Alhamdulillah doing fantastic work like they used to be in Makkah under the Prophet–with restraint and guidance of local Ulema. They are excelling in education and all useful fields of humanity.
Any article without wise and pragmatic solutions—we do not take seriously at all—-but main crux of discussion is—-United we Stand, divided we fall—-so we call ourselves only mainstream “Muslims” brethren– no deviant sects—as Allah exhorts us to do in His final book Quraan.
Differ on small matters, but do not deviate to extremism !
Very nice comment. The last statement sums it all. Never deviate to extremism !
Jeez.. do you guys have a small compartment somewhere in your minds for anyone or anything other than Muslims/Islam? Every issue loses nuance and breadth when evaluated with a narrow prism of For/anti Islam/Muslim. You know the rest of us suffer many similar deprivations as muslims? When was the last time you guys raised your voice for any other downtrodden and oppressed people of India? Do you have anything useful and practical to say on issues common to everyone such as healthcare, pollution, inflation, economy etc. Or are you going to throw the Quran at everything and make everyone else cringe away? By looking at everything with green Islamist eyes you are automatically pushing everyone away and alienating yourself further. And then you wonder why no one speaks up for you.