Responsibilities of educated Muslims 7

  The educated Muslims have historical responsibility at this crucial juncture. The Muslim community has been failed by clergies and communal leaders who pushed the community to the wall and made it vulnerable to attacks by paranoid elements.

Unfortunately, India is a land of social inequality for last 5000 years. The jobs were made dirty and clean and human beings doing such jobs became dirty or clean and this was made hereditary and socially segregated groups where eating together and intermarrying within groups was not possible because nobody wants to eat together or intermarry with a person or in a family of lower caste.

Muslims came with teaching of one God and belief in whole mankind a progeny of Adam and Eve but succumbed to Brahmanical caste system and did nothing to abolish untouchability, caste inequality, suttee and child marriage and inhuman horrible customs like child sacrifice or forced bosom nudity of low caste women or custom of devdasi.

It is British who took humanitarian measures abolished all those inhuman things and introduced widow remarriage and started education of women and made everyone equal before law.

Now think who were on path of humanity – Muslims in their 800 years or British in their 200 years ?

Nobody rebelled against Muslim rule because status quo of 4000 years continued but British measures of equal law enraged 15 % privileged section and they incited masses to rebel against British in 1857.

Following is the excerpt from speech of Prince Birjis Qadr son of Begum Hazrat Mahal :

:”.......Men of high class whether Muslim belonging to Sayyid, Shaikh, Mughal or Pathan families or Brahmans, Kshatriya, Vaish and Kayastha  among the Hindus were held in esteem and honour in accordance of their position. No mean person for example sweeper, leather worker carder or Pasi could claim equality with them. .........(English) They have brought the honour of the high classes on a level with that of the lower people- sweepers and leather workers. In fact , the English show preference to the lower castes over the higher classes. On the complaint of a sweeper or leather worker, they seize the person of even a Nawab and a Raja and disgrace him. Wherever they go they hang men of high classes, and kill their wives and children. Their soldiers dishonour women. They dig up their houses, seize their property, and leave nothing.” [History of Freedom Movement of India by Tara Chand ]