Not India Alone

Not India Alone

1990 5 May 12 Not India Alone (235) “It would be better if the community kept a low-profile, because high-profile Islam in India can only provoke confrontation;”

A book entitled The Struggle Within Islam by Rafiq Zakaria has recently been published in New Delhi in 1988. One of the issues dealt with in this book is that of the Indian Muslims. The author writes: “It would be better if the community kept a low-profile, because high-profile Islam in India can only provoke confrontation.”

Mr. G. Habibullah has brought out an article in The Times of India (June 18, 1989) in which he has criticized this viewpoint. He says: “Compare the bland Christian reaction to the vulgar and blasphemous film, ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’, and the vigorous Muslim reaction to The Satanic Verses. Islam is just not going to keep its head down and behave in a prudently gentlemanly fashion.”

Keeping a low profile is in essence a principle, and is not just a matter of keeping one’s head down. Whether it be a Muslim country or a non-Muslim one, success can be achieved only by following the low-profile path. Even those who fervently criticize this policy set their own personal affairs in order by adopting the very same policy.

Muslims must adopt the low-profile path as a matter of principle, not only in India but all over the world. In present times, there is no other way to live in this world.

People are losing just what they want to find

1990 5 May 12 People are losing just what they want to find (31) The Prophet said: “How wonderful, paradise is. Yet those who seek it have fallen asleep. And how terrible the Fire of Hell is. Yet those who dread it are also asleep.”