During the Gujarat carnage Hindu voluntary organizations were distributing aid. It was made obligatory to say ‘Jai Sri Ram’ to get the aid. When a volunteer saw an innocent child in torn and raged clothes he called him near, giving him a toffee asked him to say ‘Jai Sri Ram’.
Sense of honour for faith of the little child didn’t let him say the polytheistic wordings so he pulled back his extended hand for toffee and saying ‘la ilaha illallah Mohammad ur rasool ullah’ ran away from there.
Do you wonder who would have instilled the faith of Oneness of God in him? No doubt that his mother might have taught him that Allah is the one and only God and none others should be associated with him. But such warmth of faith cannot be witnessed in the children who are taught in convent and other schools of non Muslim administration.
The reason is that they are taught polytheism and apostasy in the school. There is no dearth of parents who prefer this kind of education to the religious education. When reciting ‘Vande mataram’ was planned to make obligatory during NDA government Maulana Ali Mian Nadwi at that time had proclaimed that ‘Muslims should take their children out of those schools where they are forced to recite polytheistic hymns even if they are to remain illiterate but we won’t let them indulge in polytheism.’
But today parents think that it is essential for the development of their child that he or she should be sent to a convent school. Is in not true that students studying in Christian missionary school recite such wordings daily in the assembly in which they pray to Jesus considering him the son of God? Parents know this but have comprised. They give an explanation that they ask their children to utter Allah instead of Jesus.
Those were the days when Aqeeqah ceremony was celebrated on the 7th day of the child’s birth. But there may be so many houses where purchasing two sheep is not a hard task still they try to evade this prescription. It is true that birthdays hold more importance than Aqeeqah, Tasmia Khwani, circumcision and other such Islamic rituals.
Today’s mothers instead of narrating stories of prophets, companions of prophet etc provide them with Mickey Mouse, Tom and Jerry, Harry Potter and the like. While the tuition teacher is given a warm welcome, the Maulvi who teaches Quran doesn’t get the reverence he is worthy for.
By: Ather Moin / Email Id: athermoin1@gmail.com
——–Siasat News