The month of Ramadan is about to leave from us in couple of days & we are going to celebrate the EID 2019 as a mark of successful passing of this month, remaining steadfast in prayers & in our fasting & to mention the least, making it full package as a dawah training program from Allah to Muslims to overhaul their past doings & to start a new dawn with refurbishing attitude that is totally error limited & to be pleasing Almighty Allah. Muslims around the world have been concomitant enough to please Almighty with their prayers & fasts. Some Muslims will be happy enough & satisfying that they have been able to have this full refresher program, while other sick or otherwise not been able to pray to maximum, will be eying for the next year to do the necessary. But as it is, no one knows whether he/she will be living till the next years Ramadan comes. This is the reason why it is always impressed upon to pray & fast in the month of Ramadan with steadfastness for we never know we will be living until next year or not. It is also clearly mentioned in the book of Allah as well as in the Sunnah, that destroyed be a person, who has not been able to offer the prayers & keep the obligatory fasts with right intention to please Allah in order that his/her past sings be forgiven.
We pray Allah that all our prayers, our Taraweeh, our fasts are accepted and our past sins forgiven. When on one hand, we are inching closer to say good bye to this blessed month until next year it comes again by celebrating Eid. The same time Muslim ummah is facing the brunt of religious intolerance from major power packed nations in the world, who negatively perceive Muslims as the only terrorists on earth. They spread hate crimes against Muslims, follow policies of deceit and deception and do every possible to destroy Muslims imagery in the world by framing polices that are at the heart of anti-Muslim cooperation. No one accepts Islam as religion of peace, everyone thinks of us as the fundamental extremists, spearheading this false notion of theirs, that we hatch terrorist conspiracies against other religious majorities in the world. In Islam, there is no provision of forcefully converting any person to Islam unless & until he is not accepting it by heart and they think we are forcefully making anti-Muslims to accept our religious when we know it is otherwise truth. We are not allowed to enter into the battle field till a full war is declared against Muslims. But we do see a full fledged war has been declared against our religion only for being Muslims & being the ambassadors of peace on earth. We have been left at the mercy of Allah as no other religion thinks of us as being the religion will equal rights as they withhold. Every time, anything happens in the world, it is presumed first hand to have been done by a Muslim terrorist.
Terrorism has no religious & no religion withholds policies of terrorism in its manifesto. Every religion is based on the true spirit of spreading the message of peace & so does religion of Islam. There are some terrorist organizations working in the world to malign the true image of Islam on the earth. They are not ours product, No religion spearheads terrorism. They are in fact the conspiracy policies of those who wish to see Muslims be butchered in every part of the world, who work to destroy the true image of Islam & who anyhow wish to see religion of Islam be un-followed for it is one of the fastest growing religion being followed right now in the world & people from different nooks & corners of the world are coming to accept this as the only true & divine religion. Amid all these speculations & hate crimes against Muslims world over, the Muslims themselves are dividing merely on the pretext of little misunderstandings & confusions that has deeply affected the global consensus of Muslim majority nations as how to curb this growing intolerance & hate mongering against Muslims. We see day in & day out, how the Muslims are subjected to worst form of deceit, damage, & how they are butchered as like never before. Our hearts are bleeding everyday on seeing this sorry state of affairs whether it be in Kashmir,
Palestine, Syria, Iraq & the likes. But we are sorry enough that we can’t control this religious imperialism, courtesy we are divided at grassroots level. How far we have seen this bloodshed of Muslims happening while safeguarding their religion & how far more we have to see this. We are hapless right now but not enough that we can’t defend our religion. They can defeat us monetarily, socially, psychologically, but they must remember that they can’t defeat our conscience; they can never defeat our ideology. Time has to come to make it clear to world that we are not terrorists on earth, but we are the ambassadors of peace. The religion of Islam is the abode of love, compassion & tranquility for everyone to live a peaceful & dignified life irrespective of his/her religion. But for that Muslim world need to mend it ways. Muslim states need to work in coordination to shun away this religious bigotrism, before they will work to shun this religious intolerance & hate crimes against Muslims world over. We see how the Muslim world stands divided at various fronts. It is not time to quarrel on murkier issues that does not pertain to Islam but we need to collaborate & corroborate on religious fronts, work in tandem and work as unit to come clean to the world that we are not divided, we are not terrorists, but we carry message of peace for the world. Give us a chance & you will find world a better place to live in.
Let’s pledge this Eid to shun away internal & political dissociations among ourselves & to work in association to dispel away this notion of Muslims being the religious extremists spreading terrorism in the world that otherwise is totally baseless. Let’s come forward & celebrate this Eid with these things in mind to safeguard our religion & to safeguard our identity.
May Allah accept every good deed from us all, Inshah’Allah.
The author is Doctoral Research Scholar (DST INSPIRE) at CSIR IIIM Jammu, (J&K)
