HINDU-MUSLIM

        Major general (retired) Afsar Kareem has written many books and writes regular columns in Hindi and English. Once somebody made fun of him while he was abroad, with a delegation and called him that he was a ‘hindu-muslim’. Mr Kareem did not object and agreed that he was a Hindu-Muslim. Kareem has written that Muslims of India were never fundamentalists. I agree with Mr Kareem, before the seeds of hatred sown by the British in the form of creation of Muslim league and division between Muslim and Hindu, people of both the religion stayed together in harmony. Though many Muslim rulers destroyed and plundered Hindu temples but tolerant Hindu society imbibed the Muslims into it.

           India has always tolerated foreign intrusion starting from Aryans to Scathians-Kushanas to Afghan-Turks-Mongols to Mughals and British. It is a historical fact that Hindu temples were destroyed and Muslim structures were created on their place. Leave Babri Masjid aside there are so many, like Quwwat al-Islam Masjid at Qutub complex and Dhai-din-ka-Jhhonpra in Ajmer, live examples of these destructions since the material used in these monuments is taken from destructed Hindu Temples. Other then these monuments, Mansuri Masjid at Vijapur in Gujrat, Masjid at Manvi in Karnataka , Mausoleum of Shykh Abdullah Shah Changal at Dhar in Madhya Pradesh, Jami' Masjid at Malan in Gujrat, Jami' Masjid at Amod in Gujrat, Shrine of Shah Madar at Narwar in Mdhya Pradesh, Hamman Darwaza Masjid at Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh, Jami Masjid at Ghoda in Maharashtra, Gachinala Masjid in Kurnool District of Andhra Pradesh. (Source http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate/temple4.html) I am sure no common man wanted the destruction; neither Hindu nor Muslim, rather religious frenzy invaders did that. But Mother India adopted the sons of foreign soil and they mixed with her other sons. But not all Muslim came from Steppes, Afghanistan, Turkey or Iran but majority of them were the sons of soil. Millions Hindus were converted, forcibly and willingly, they started professing the new religion But they always remained tolerant. They celebrated Eid but they never forgot the lights of Diwali. If Hindus like Raja Todarmal, Man Singh and Birbal Served in Mughal army then Hakim Khan Sur and Ibrahim Gardi were the generals of Maharana Pratap and Marathas respectively. Abdul Rahim Khan-e-Khana, popularly known as Rahim, was a Muslim, but a great devotee of Lord Krishna. He belonged to the Bhakti period and wrote couplets in Hindi in praise of Lord Krishna. Raskhan was a Hindi poet who was both a Muslim and follower of Lord Krishna. Does the work of Saint Kabir Das need any introduction!

               I read so many reactions on the judgment, common Hindu and Muslim have welcomed the judgment though the so called leaders are not happy, as they don’t want Ayodhya Issue to die. They are like those invaders who, for the sake of the expansion of their empire, made the gullible soldiers to die on the name of religion. But common Muslim of India is still same, tolerant!!!!