Mufti Rule
A political leader while addressing a gathering said that Gandhian way of life was the best path and everybody should follow it. This exhortation was meted with a fiat(fatwa) from a Mufti who opined that anybody asking Muslims to follow a path other than the one shown by the Holy Prophet is violating the basic tenets of Islam. I couldn't believe the gross stupidity displayed by the mufti who is the guardian of muslim faith. This bickering cannot be backed by a divine sanction. It springs from resisting the power-shift triggered by democratization of religion. Every organized religion suffers when these emissaries carry a mandate to languid in the ruts of age-old thinking and take religion back to its tribal settings from where it was freed by its prophets.
Have these muftis offered their rationality at the altars of dogma? What the prophet has bequeathed to Muslims, if it has to be protected through strife and violence, then this creed urgently needs a prophet again. But is it possible? They have also done away with the possibility of prophethood by declaring that Prophet, the Mohammad, was the last link in the chain of Messengers with none left to succeed him. It took centuries for them to corrupt and misinterpret what the great prophet had brought to people to awaken them and they cannot risk it all now. At the slightest danger to their authority they crack down inasmuch as condemn the perceived godhood of people outside their beliefs.
How can they understand him who died with the name of God on his lips; a man who urged that it is one faith that is lived under different beliefs. Ved Vyas says in Mahabharata: “We find perfected men even beyond the pale of our caste and creed.” Man is not a prisoner but a follower of religion.
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Have these muftis offered their rationality at the altars of dogma? What the prophet has bequeathed to Muslims, if it has to be protected through strife and violence, then this creed urgently needs a prophet again. But is it possible? They have also done away with the possibility of prophethood by declaring that Prophet, the Mohammad, was the last link in the chain of Messengers with none left to succeed him. It took centuries for them to corrupt and misinterpret what the great prophet had brought to people to awaken them and they cannot risk it all now. At the slightest danger to their authority they crack down inasmuch as condemn the perceived godhood of people outside their beliefs.
How can they understand him who died with the name of God on his lips; a man who urged that it is one faith that is lived under different beliefs. Ved Vyas says in Mahabharata: “We find perfected men even beyond the pale of our caste and creed.” Man is not a prisoner but a follower of religion.
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Comments
No religion tells that violence is the path is to be followed. Mohammad himself has said the same things. However, its the greed for power and politics arising because of that has made this lessons all to be forgotten. It's YOU who decide which path to chose. I strongly believe that no GOD or Prophet will ever agree till eternity to chose violence to save a religion. If they would have wished it, Islam would never have existed, as this is not the oldest of all religions. I wish that the they start following the true teachings of Prophets and become truly respectful, as they can be.