– Dr Mubasshir Alig
After the partition of the country on August 15 1947, a large majority of Muslims decided to stay in India. At that time there were two major parties in this country with which Muslims had to settle matters. On one side was the Hindu Mahasabha, which Muslims considered as a hardline Hindu organization, and on the other side was the Congress, which claimed to be secular and sympathetic to Muslims. The Hindu Mahasabha spoke only of the Hindu community so Muslims couldn’t come along with them, but the Congress spoke of ‘Indians’ so a large majority of Muslims considered the Congress as their party and supporter. Even Muslim intellectuals and religious scholars considered the Congress to be Noah’s Ark and that joining it was the only way to salvation. But at that time there were some sincere thinkers and visionaries who saw that this movement of the Congress was in no way different from the Hindu Mahasabha. And the Congress is, in fact, another side of the ‘Shudhhi’ movement. Leading the charge was Maulana Maududi, who sought to get Muslims to critically examine the Indian Congress and its policies and to make Muslims aware of its consequences, but Maulana Maududi was too young, contrarily on the other hand Muslim religious scholars were part of the Congress, but they had no significant role in the party. With time, all the predictions made by Maulana seventy to seventy-five years ago came true and the real face of the Congress came to the fore. A clear example of this is the recent hate speeches made by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in Jaipur and Amethi.
In his speeches, he repeatedly called himself a Hindu. He called India, a country of Hindus, and spoke of bringing Hindu rule to this country. From these speeches of Rahul Gandhi, many things became clear, and the truth got revealed. The Congress, which has been calling itself secular for the last seventy-eighty years and Muslims have been subjected to this deception, has now openly admitted that it is a party of Hindus and works for them. This is the same Congress that has been intoxicating the Muslims with secularism after the partition which has kept the Muslims intoxicated and whenever the Muslims talked of solving their religious problems this party opposed it saying that the secular structure of this country will be threatened. The sectarian parties will be strengthened from now onwards but the Congress party has shed the veil of secularism.
Ever since the BJP came to power with a clear majority, all the so-called secular parties have realized that secularism is a hoax and has nothing to do with the real world. It is not possible for an individual to remain religious in his individual affairs and to be alienated from religion in his collective affairs. So now all the parties have started adopting the policy of the BJP and have started calling themselves Hindus. So now the leaders of all the so-called secular parties are declaring that they are Hindus.
After the partition, the country was considered a secular state instead of Hindu Rashtra (although the word secular was added to the Constitution of India in 1941), but all that work was done to pave the way for Hindu Rashtra. The education policies like the Wardha Scheme and the VidyaMandir were also designed to convert the Muslim generation into apostates and integrate them into the Hindu Rashtra. Gradually laws will be enacted which will harm the followers of other religions, but for the benefit of the followers of the Hindu religion. The SC and ST Act prohibits religion so that the Dalits here do not give up their religion in the lure of reservations and adopt Islam or Christianity, no matter how much they may be persecuted.
In a situation where the reality of secularism has become clear, the Muslims of India must protect themselves from this deception. We need to overcome the divisions of life that we have had so far, individually and collectively. We must fully practice religion and try to spread the religion to the people as a complete system of life. If we do that, we will be happy in this world and the hereafter. May Allah help us to act upon it.
