CONDITIONS OF PUNJABI MUSLIMS

CONDITIONS OF PUNJABI MUSLIMS

Brethren! To be a slave of the three idols I have spoken to you about today is real Shirk. You have broken the idols of stone, demolished the temples built of bricks and mortar, but paid little attention to the temples built within your breasts. To break these idols is most essential, nay it is the foremost condition to become a Muslim. Although I am addressing all the Muslims, and I am sure whatever loss the Muslims of the world as well as those of India are suffering is the result of worshipping these idols- but because Punjabi brethren are at present before me I have particularly to tell them that the root of all their ruination, humiliation and calamity are these very three things I have just mentioned. You are more than fifteen million in this land of the Punjab. You are more than half of the population of this province and the rest belong to other communities. But in spite of being such a big community you have no weight of your own. Some numerically far smaller communities than you are weighty. Think over its reason? Its only reason is that by being slave to Nafs, to family customs and to human beings, leaving aside God, your strength has been sapped from within.

1.Difference of castes

You have amongst you Rajputs, Gakhars, Mughuls, Jats and many other communities. Islam had asked all these communities to become one community, be a brother unto each other and get cemented like a solidly built wall of compact bricks. But you are still clinging to the old Hindu ideas. Just as there are separate castes among Hindus, in the same manner you are still split into separate tribes. You do not intermarry like Muslims. There is no relationship of brotherhood and fraternity between each other. Verbally you call each other Muslim brothers but in reality you observe all those distinctions which were prevalent before Islam. These distinctions have prevented you from becoming a strong wall. Each and every brick of yours is disjointed. You can neither rise together nor face a calamity together. If you are asked, in accordance with Islamic teachings, to break these distinctions and become one again, what do you reply? Just the same one point: "We cannot break the customs which have come down from our forefathers". What answer is given by God to this retort?

 “Only this "You may not break these customs and you may not give up following the rites of Hindus. We shall also break you into pieces and shall put you to disgrace and dishonor in spite of your numerical superiority."

2. Injustice in inheritance

Allah had commanded you that your sons and daughters are all entitled to inheritance. The answer you give to it is:

  "According to the law of our forefathers only sons and not daughters are entitled and we recognize the law of our forefathers in the place of the law of God."

For God's sake tell me if this is Islam? When you are asked to break this ancestral law, everybody from amongst you says that when all others will break it, you will also break it, as otherwise if others did not give a share to their daughters and you gave it then your wealth will go to others and the wealth of others will not come to your home. Just consider what does this reply mean? Will the Law of God be obeyed on this condition that when others will obey it then you will also follow suit.

Tomorrow you will say: "If others commit adultery, I shall also do it, if others commit theft, I shall also steal. In short, till such time as others do not give up sinning, I shall continue to commit all sins". The actual fact is that in this matter all the three above-mentioned idols are being worshipped. There is servitude of Self, servitude of forefathers, and servitude of polytheist nations. And along with all these three evils, there is also the claim that you yet belong to Islam! These are only two examples. Otherwise if the situation is looked at with open eyes, countless diseases like this will be found rampant within you. And in all these you will find that somewhere there is worship of one idol, somewhere of two and somewhere of three. While these idols are being worshipped and along with it Islam is also being claimed, then how do you expect that Allah will shower His blessing on you which has been promised only to true Muslims?