What Will Happen When These Men Rule? What kind of Islam or Hinduism? The Taliban said, “We want all Afghans to see themselves as part of the Islamic system that we will establish.”
Which Islamic System?
The Prophet (pbuh) gave the Islamic system to humanity like the Misaq-e-Madina (Madinah Treaty), where all humans, men, and women of different faiths were given equal respect and were treated with dignity, kindness, and justice? As the Quran says, we are all one family, the children of Adam and Eve. There was no such thing as an Islamic government, it was created by the imposter Caliphs to rule and control. What the Prophet did as a leader was to let each community be governed by its own laws (The Madinah treaty). Islam is guidance to create peaceful societies and not to rule others with a stick. Freedom of faith is a critical value of Islam. There is no compulsion of any kind against the will of any people. No one dared to speak about it, now, we are speaking about the ills of blending politics and religion and hope it gains momentum.
The other system was developed by some fringe scholars – where women were compelled to wear Burqa and not be a part of society’s well-being? If not, were they forced to comply with the Taliban version of Islam, which is not Islamic at all.
What kind of Hinduism?
The system that was given to humanity by great Vedic sages and Lord Krishna and Lord Rama was for all humans were to be treated with dignity as enshrined in the phrase Vasudhaiva Kutumbukum? Every human life is sacred. Hinduism is about liberating one’s soul.
The other system was invented by the RSS (mother organization of the current political party) founders that all men are not equal. The fringe scholar Manu created a discriminative caste system, where women were oppressed and considered men’s property, and some people were denied the complete dignity of a human being?
What are your thoughts?
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