Swami Lakshmi Shankaracharya emphasized that the twin blasts in Hyderabad was executed not by humans but by Satans. 60 year old Swami Lakshmi Shankaracharya who was well known for his venom spitting against Islam and Muslims changed his outlook regarding Islam after reading Holy Quran and Seerat-e-Nabi (pbuh) and since then he made promotion of national integrity his mission. Talking to Siasat correspondent on phone Swami Lakshmi Shankaracharya said no religion teaches violence and surely violence is Satan’s act. He told that Hyderabadi Muslims are compassionate. Whenever he arrived at Hyderabad he felt that Hyderabad is the only city in the country which can be rightly called as the symbol of Ganges-Yamuna culture.
Condemning the blasts he asked the police and investigative agencies not to jump to any conclusion without carrying out investigation, lest real culprits will escape the law.
It must be noted that Swami Lakshmi Shankaracharya was initially very critical about Islam and Muslims. He considered Islam to be the root cause of global terrorism. He wrote a book ‘The History of Islamic Terrorism’ to support his views. However, on being urged to study Islam from its original sources Swami Lakshmi Shankaracharya read Holy Qur’an from cover to cover besides the life of Prophet Muhammad (SAW). Finally he realised that he misunderstood Islam. He accepted his mistake and decided to write a rejoinder of such negative materials in a book titled ‘Islam- Terror or Ideal Path’.
Abul Aimal