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You are right, they depend on mosques and Madaris (religious
institutions). They are no celestial creatures. They feel
hunger. They have their families and take good care of them.
They serve the mosques and Madaris from where they get three
time food and boarding facilities. They are not angels, they
make mistakes. They are not above human beings, they commit
sins. They have internal differences. They are divided into
different sects. They are not alike. There are good as well
as bad among them. There are some who never hesitate in giving
any sacrifice on the name of religion while there are others
who never care for the religion rather compromise on religious
norms and second atheists in their anti-Islam activities against
those who strictly follow the religion of Allah and His Prophet,
Muhammad (sallallahu `alaihe wasallam).
Those who always say ‘yes’ to the rulers for their
every ‘good and bad’, who say night to the day
if rulers say so, who look at the rulers to know the truth
about Jihad and riots, and differentiate between Halal and
Haram, are considered trustworthy. Such courtiers who always
depended on the alms from the higher authorities were rewarded
in different manners for their extra-ordinary and unjust support
to the rulers. They also get packets of cash and grants for
building their personal houses. They take foreign tours on
the State expenses. But on the other hand those who stick
to the religion, depend on the only salary they draw from
the mosques and religious institutions have always been sore
of the eye. However, there has always been a special blessing
of Allah in the bread such religious people earn by serving
mosques and religions institutions. They can never become
anti-religion, they never compromise on their religion. They
can get beheaded but can never bow before the atheists.
They are always sincere to the religion of Islam. These were
the people who preferred to sit on the mat in mosques and
Madaris and eliminated anti-Islam forces at a time when it
was being apprehended that days of Islam had been numbered
in Hindustan, and shortly the Islamic civilization will be
converted into Hindu civilization. Moreover, when the plan
to convert Hindustan into Christianity which was backed by
the West, it were only Muslim clerics who came forward, endured
hardship, faced imprisonment, remained in exile, lost their
properties and loved ones, some died in jails and skins of
some were peeled off their bodies, but they eliminated the
anti-Islam plan of the West and proved on the anti-Islam forces
that as long as people who love mosques and Madaris are alive,
neither anti-Islam forces can succeed in their nefarious designs
nor they can herald non-Islamic religion successfully.
The loyalty of these Muslim clerics is beyond any doubt. They
have crystal clear past and they are never accused of doing
against the Constitution of the country. But, whenever the
country faced hard time, they came forward and extended all
out help to the State and the administration. Either it was
1965 war or 1971 tragedy, none of these religious people remained
in the back line of the fighters. Some joined volunteer services,
some encourages masses in their orations from mosques, some
prayed to Allah Almighty with tears in their eyes and some
took out protest processions in every nook and corner to unite
the nation and bring them at one platform.
These servants of Madaris neither expressed disliking and
hatred to the present day education nor they gave a Fatwa
on learning the foreign language. Neither they looked at the
college students with disliking nor they spoke rubbish against
the foreign education.
When Hazrat Sheikh-ul-Hind, Maulana Mehmood Hussain (rahimahullah)
was on the deathbed and could not walk without any support,
he proceeded to Aligarh. With the support and help of two
persons he went to the ground and addressed a large gathering.
Excerpts of his historic speech are as follows:
“My children, when I noticed that our youth are more
concentrating on the schools and colleges than the religious
institutions and education at mosques, I, in association with
a few of my close friends and well-wishers came to Aligarh
and established a strong relation between Deoband and Aligarh
at two places. The research workers know that neither me nor
my predecessors and forefathers ever opposed learning of alien
language and never gave any Fatwa against it. However, I said
only this much that opting for English education infests our
own culture, civilization and religion and Nazarenism overwhelms
the religious faith. If this is so then I would prefer to
be illiterate than becoming educated in foreign faculties.”
The apprehension of Hazrat Sheikh-ul-Hind is cent per cent
true. What he apprehended the present day Muslims are witnessing
the same. Most of those who opted for foreign education have
joined hands with anti-Islam forces and making fun of religious
people. In some cases the punishment under Islamic laws are
termed ‘brutality’ and in some cases observing
purdah by the Muslim women is declared hindrance in the way
of progress and prosperity. In some cases Jihad is called
‘terrorism’. Those, in the power lobby do not
even hesitate calling `Ulama-e-Keram uneducated and people
of primitive thoughts. On top of everything, efforts are being
made to declare the religious people disqualified from contesting
for the assembly seats. This shows that plan is underway to
call `Ulama-e-Keram ‘uneducated’ and illiterate
‘intellectuals’.
Rights of legislation are being given into the hands of those
people who cannot even recite the Holy Qur’an. While
on the other hand those who are enlightened with the religious
education and who are the only source to spread the religion
of Islam are being discouraged at every level. They are not
being considered capable of running administrative affairs.
There is a lobby who wants to keep the `Ulama-e-Keram isolated,
confined to mosques and Madaris only. Moreover, there are
people who do not even like Ulama-e-Keram imparting religious
education in mosques and Madaris. Such anti-Islam elements
want to eliminate Ulama-e-Keram from the motherland. It seems
that they have not yet received any dictation from their Western
Lords otherwise they would never waste a single moment in
sending each and every religious man to Cuba.
Such anti-Islam people must not forget that in case `Ulama-e-Keram
are confined to the mosques and Madaris only and their voice
is crushed then there would be a big revolt but there would
be no Mujaddid-e-Alif Sani (revivalist of the second millennium).
There might be preachers of Christianity like Funder but there
would be Rahmatullah Kiranvi. There might be heralders of
Qadiyaniat but there would be no Binnori of Mufti Mehmood.
There might be many who would largely depend on the taxes
collected from the general masses but there would be no one
called mosque people. There might be a number of people who
would darken the world with anti-Islam activities but there
would be no body to spread the education of Qur’an and
Sunnah. If (God forbid) such a situation arises, then it would
be justified to say: “Those who were considered of no
importance were actually the only source of light in the world.”
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