Kejriwal: A Hindu by faith A Muslim by practice
By Syed Zubair Ahmad,
When
Arvind Kejriwal was delivering his inaugural speech as Chief Minister
of Delhi I was sitting in another room and listening to him. All of a
sudden I heard him saying ‘Mai Allah Ka Shukrya Ada Karta Hun’, I got
confused and went to the room where the TV set was on. O my God, it was
Kejriwal who uttered this sentence of gratefulness. I did not hear such
words of praise of Almighty even from the mouth of a Muslim politician
in India.
When
I see Kejriwal’s sacrifice and his struggle for the cause of common
man, when I see his austerity, his simple life style, his honesty and
his straightforwardness I wish he were Muslim. Whatever he calling for
or doing is absolutely the teaching of Islam.
Prophet
Muhammad said: ‘The best among the people is the one who does good to
the people’. It’s Kejriwal who is doing good to the people, who is
striving for the betterment of people, who is fighting for the
upliftment of the people for a long time.
Prophet Muhammad said that ‘Your worst enemy is your ego’.
Kejriwal in his inaugural speech as the CM asked his supporters to shun
all kind of ego otherwise a new movement may start to end our ego.
Prophet Muhammad said ‘Those who take bribe and those who give bribe,
both will go to hell’. It’s Kejriwal who is fighting against all kinds
of bribe and corruptions. It is Kejriwal who took oath from the people
to neither take bribe nor give bribe to anyone.
Prophet
Muhammad said ‘Cleanliness is the part of Imaan. When Kejriwal was
income tax commissioner he used to clean his table, when he became
politician he took the broom and started cleaning the system.
Prophet
Muhammad said ‘Simplicity is the part of Imaan.’ Look at the simplicity
of Kejriwal. He is the simplest person by any standard.
Once
Prophet Muhammad was sitting on his foot, one of his companions asked
‘why are you sitting like this? The prophet said ‘I am a servant of
Almighty Allah and I sit like a servant’. Kejriwal always says ‘meri koee auqaat nhi’ ‘meri koee haisiyat nahi’ I am nothing, I have no status.
Prophet
Muhammad said ‘The best form of jihad is to say the truth before the
oppressive rulers’. Kejriwal is telling the truth before the rulers.
Muslims
believe that the time of death is fixed, and no power of this world can
put off it for a moment. By refusing his security Kejriwal has proved
that he also believes in the fixed time of death. He told media persons
that if God wants to kill him, no one can save him. And if does not
want, no one can kill him.
Islam
is the greatest advocate of brotherhood, and it declares all mankind
the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve. Kejriwal gave the massage of
brotherhood by singing the song…insaan se insaan ka ho bhaee chara yahi paigham hamara’
Kejriwal
is one of the few Hindu politicians in my knowledge who don’t follow
the unethical policy of Chanakya who advocated to ignore all kinds of
ethics to grab the power at any cost.
The
way Kejriwal and his ministers are roaming freely and contacting people
in a move to redress their grievances and solve their problem reminds
us the Caliphs of Islamic history when Muslim Caliphs used to roam into
the streets to know the problems of the masses.
If
Kejriwal really wants to eliminate the corruptions from the society he
must know that legislation can never and will never end the corruption
from the society. The legislation on rape is before us. In spite of most
stringent legislation after 16 Dec incident last year the crime against women rose to 400% in Delhi itself.
Kejriwal needs to apply the following model to end the corruption from the society if he really wants to do so.
During
one of his frequent disguised journeys to survey the condition of his
people, Caliph Umar overheard a milkmaid refusing to obey her mother’s
orders to sell adulterated milk. The mother reportedly told her daughter
to add water to the milk as Caliph Umar is not there looking at them.
The girl shot back that though Caliph Umar is not looking at them, Allah
is always watching over everyone. Next morning Omar sent an officer to
purchase milk from the girl and learned that she had kept her resolve;
the milk was unadulterated. Umar summoned the girl and her mother to his
court and told them what he had heard. Then he offered to marry the
girl to his son Asim as a reward. She accepted, and from this union was
born a girl named Layla that would in due course become the mother of
Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz (682 A.D.) who is known as Omar II in the Islamic
history .
Caliph
Omar II was the mightiest ruler of his time on the planet whose
authority was spread in three continents – but Umar died in Ra jab 101
AH at the age of 38 in a rented house at the place called Dair Sim’aan
near Homs in Syria . He was buried in Dair Sim’aan on a piece of land he
had purchased from a Christian. He reportedly left behind only 17
dinars with a will that out of this amount the rent of the house in
which he died and the price of the land in which he was buried would be
paid.
Once
his wife found him weeping after prayers. She asked what had happened.
He replied: “I have been made the ruler over the Muslims and I was
thinking of the poor who are starving, and the sick who are destitute,
and the naked who are in distress, and the oppressed that are stricken,
and the stranger that is in prison, and the venerable elder, and him
that had a large family and small means, and the like of them in
countries of the earth and the distant provinces, and I felt that my
Lord would ask me about them on the Day of Resurrection, and I feared
that no defense would avail me (at that time), and I wept.”
The
Facebook page of Kejriwal describes him as Gandhis’ Talisman. If
Kejriwal really wants to solve the problems of the masses then he must
follow the advice of Gandhi .Just after the independence in his speech
delivered in Kolkata Mahatma Gandhi said ” that if India finds a man
like Omar ibn Khatab all the problems will be solved”.
Gandhi was the greatest supporter of Caliphate Movement and was much influenced by the second Caliph Omar.
Anyway
what is supposed to be done by Muslims, Kejriwal is doing,what is
responsibility of a Muslim is being performed by Kejriwal , that is why i
say ‘Kejriwal is a Hindu by faith and Muslim by practice’ because
Islam is a all about worshiping God and serving the humanity.
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