Road to Freedom; The Universal Birthright

“To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.”

And thus, the greatest of the unbending yet unbridled inferno witnessed by the mankind in the subcontinent was the road to independence in 20^th century which was filled with its own share of treacheries and was a daunting experience for all the Muslims of the subcontinent.  Many a life was laid to rest in a brutal manner and countless sacrifices marked the birth of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Indeed, Pakistan came into being in 1947 as a country divided merely in two wings: East and West separated by 1000 miles. It was the sheer hostility of Indians that separated the two wings. In the course of independence, several incidents that led to the achievement of the statehood, made it difficult to cultivate a desirable land of similar identity and a blooming majority. It was tenure more than a decade that was fraught in with civil unrests as well as Indians of all races and creeds sought independence from Great Britain, was followed by a massive migration involving some fourteen million refugees who crossed what became the Pakistan-India border. Almost one million persons Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs died during this bloody turmoil.

After the hiatus of several decades, the history is repeated in the same brutality with the Israel emerging as an over-hauling demon, excruciating millions of innocents in the name of self-interest and integrity. The same unspeakable sorrow, the unidentified pain, the howls raging out of broken hearts and a world interestingly witnessing the tableau of death and ruthlessness is what happening in Palestine and Kashmir. This is the mere detrimental canvas of the all the Palestinians and kashmiris, once again embarked on the road that has all but roses, thorned paths , unsightly terminus and the unfading world casted upon to support their adversary and stay wide-awake to their plights. Even the Arab world which sustains the same religion and avows the same oaths has untimely backed out to assist what is in the world known as Killers of the Muslim Ummah.

Palestine and Kashmir-as purged as the cascade of love and as tattered as the thwack of a thunderbolt. Hue and cry marks the dawn of their days and deaths their dusk. Bloodshed is at rife with their anguish having no vent. The callousness of this time is that their peers are eyeing their tormentation as spectators and are hell-bent in doing all but willful help. If time justifies the era of 1947, one can easily trace the uproars of the Muslims fighting for an individualistic identity among the intimidating Hindus further ruled by equally unsympathetic Britishers. The cries of the Muslims, out of severe oppression, women dishonored to acquire independence and young children massacred in the name of revenge is similar to what is world seeing taking place on the pious land of Palestine and Kashmir.

Similar pains and woes, indifferent world with uncalled for wraths to subdue the Muslims and devoid them of their freedom and existence. Trailing the unavoidable horror of Palestine and Kashmir is accessible due to the vast Media coverage, which plays its part proficiently even in such distress. But during the struggle of Muslims for their independence, Media was an infant on its growth and had not discovered its limbs in diversity. Still Muslims’ unshielded voices were dispersed efficiently only because of their staunch determination and unpremeditated response. It was the call for Muslim Ummah that held its faith and belief in the supreme Deity. For them their Provident was their sole protector and their Islam, their relief.  They looked upon Allah SWT when they were looked down upon. And thus, the whole tumult of violence and riotousness came to an end with the emergence of Pakistan.

A living message for the Muslims of Palestine and Kashmir, who are being toiled on the waves of suppression and occupation, should propel unsullied on their souls for their freedom. It is these miserabilities these innocent mortals face that will swab their sins while the tormentors continue their wage against them. The day has to face all shines after the hardships of their lives attain the umpteen heights. As it is famously quoted,

“The world holds two classes of men- intelligent men without religion and religious men without religion.”

For this world that cannot understand that two forces which are the worst enemies of civil freedom are the absolute monarchy and the revolution. If they call for absolute monarchy, then revolution is tend to follow. For all the brethren of Palestine and Kashmir, there’s no one before God, there is neither Jew nor Barbarians, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as the master, for by birth all men are free. They are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces the entire world, brethren of one family and children of God.

Hence the God can hear what the mankind can’t. God can see what the mankind can’t. Therefore, God can do all what the mankind cannot.

We as Muslims condemn the maltreatment of our Muslimhood on a massive level. We may be unarmed or unassuming to assist but we chant forever for our Muslim Ummah,

“The people will come to their own at last- God is not mocked forever.”