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From: N Sekar <nseka...@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, Apr 26, 2025, 1:54 PM
Subject: Fwd - Painful to read but is true and it hurts, will we wake up
atleast now?
To: Kerala Iyer <keralaiy...@googlegroups.com>, Narayanaswamy Sekar <
nsekar...@gmail.com>, Rangarajan T.N.C. <tncrangara...@yahoo.com>,
Chittanandam V. R. <chittananda...@gmail.com>, Srinivasan Sridharan <
sridhsriniva...@gmail.com>, Mathangi K. Kumar <mathangikku...@gmail.com>,
Rama (Iyer 123 Group) <kaviran...@gmail.com>, Suryanarayana Ambadipudi <
sn.ambadip...@gmail.com>, Mani APS <m...@manijpn.in>
*A Muslim woman writer has delivered a powerful slap on the cheeks of Hindu
society — Just take a look:*
{01}
Your married women have not only stopped covering their heads with their
saree pallus, they’ve even stopped wearing sarees altogether… even the
dupatta has disappeared.
Who stopped them?
We didn’t lead you to this decline… We Muslims are not responsible for it.
{02}
The tilak and bindi used to be your identity, right?
You used to consider a bare forehead as inauspicious, a sign of sorrow or
misfortune.
Now, not only have you stopped applying tilak before leaving home, your
women — in pursuit of modernity and fashion, trying to look more "forward"
— have even abandoned the bindi.
Where are Muslims at fault here?
{03}
You replaced traditional clothing in sacred ceremonies like marriages and
engagements with indecent pre-wedding rituals...
You turned birthdays and anniversaries into Western-style celebrations.
Is this our fault?
{04}
In our homes, when a child starts walking, he learns to hold his father's
finger and go to the mosque for prayer, and continues that practice as a
duty throughout life.
But your people have stopped going to temples.
Even if you go, it's only for 5–10 minutes, and that too only to ask for
something or seek relief from troubles.
So if your children grow up not knowing why they should go to temples, what
they should do there, or that worshipping God is their duty —
how are we responsible for that?
{05}
When your convent-educated children recite English poems, you feel proud.
But truly, you should have felt proud if your children recited the Navkar
Mantra, Gayatri Mantra, or some respectful shlokas.
On the contrary, when they cannot recite anything from your traditions, you
don’t even feel regret or guilt!
In our homes, a father's head bows in shame if his child can’t recite a
simple prayer in front of relatives.
We teach our children to greet elders with "Salaam" as soon as they learn
to speak.
You’ve replaced "Pranam" and "Namaste" with "Hello" and "Hi."
Are we to blame for that?
{06}
A boy from our religion, even after studying in a convent, learns Urdu and
Arabic and reads our holy scriptures.
But your child neither goes to a Hindu pathshala nor learns Sanskrit — and
even proper Hindi is difficult for him. They cannot even count in Hindi.
Is that our fault too?
{07}
You had everything — culture, history, traditions!
But you gave them up in a blind race for so-called modernity.
We didn’t. That’s the only difference.
You yourselves have abandoned your roots!
We didn’t leave ours in the past, and we’re not willing to leave them now
either.
{08}
The awareness to protect one’s identity should naturally exist in every
living community.
But in your case, you have to *tell* YOUR people to stay awake.
{09}
Just think how tragic this is!
Also consider — from where does this fear of losing your culture arise?
What’s the real cause of your insecurity?
Are *we* that cause?
{10}
Your problem is: you want your society to awaken —
but in doing so, you yourself don’t set an example through your own
behavior.
You remain as you are…
People don’t see you as being truly connected to your roots — and that’s
why, not only in your society but even in your own family, no one listens
to your religious thoughts.
In the same way, others in your society also behave just like you — with
the same double standards and hypocrisy.
That’s why no one listens to anyone in your society.
Is that *our* fault?
*Please reflect deeply on this. This is a bitter truth!*
🙏🏼
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