Be Brothers: A Word to Hindus and Muslims
POETRY FORMAT, 19 Aug 2013
M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service
Oh my dear Hindu and Muslim brothers
Today you again fought, killed one another
Destroyed a mosque, damaged a temple
Burnt houses, property you crumbled
Maimed you old-aged and hurt children
Spared even not the pregnant women
Don’t you know what else you did?
The man you proudly killed with brick
Was the only hope for his three kids
Young wife, 4 sisters and parents sick
And his only crime, only treason
He belonged to a different religion
What makes you so blind and deaf?
To hear the cries of others and grief
Every now and then you just fight?
On pity issues, show unjust might
And shed the blood of one another
Harm, abuse, humiliate one another
As a stone shakes the ocean
Such are your fragile relations?
Until when you keep on fighting
And putting at stake the humanity
Awake, oh brothers awake
For the God sake, awake
And realise the very fact
All humans one family, in fact
May a Hindu or a Musalman
Same blood runs in their veins
One has same pain as the other
When a finger is cut with razor
When all religions’ one preaching
Yes, the well-being of humanity
Then why this claim and blame
All this hatred and the mayhem
When no one can live in isolation
Then why you think of separation
Had one religion or one nation
For world peace, a solution
There be ideal peace in Pakistan
Sri Lanka, Rwanda or Afghanistan
If not so, for what this all race
And after all, what is the base?
When a Hindu in Pakistan dies
Across borders a Hindu cries
And same does a Pakistani Muslim
He weeps for only Indian Muslims
We know, in their very next street
To fellow humans how they treat
Why don’t a Muslim cry
When a Hindu brother die
And a Hindu wets his eyes
When a Muslim brother dies
And day when this will happen
Our world will become heaven
Sustainable peace will be prevailing
All around, mankind will be healing
With spirit of live and let live, coexistence
Understanding, brotherhood and tolerance
Otherwise, in the flood of blind hatred
Our generations will flow one day, instead
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M. Ashaq Raza, Ph.D.: Ass. professor of botany, Govt. College for Women, Gandhi Nagar, Jammu; former director of research at Eritrean Institute of Technology; currently an academician in Department of Higher Education, Govt. of Jammu and Kashmir (India). Founder/president “Attitude Change International”, a non-profit peace NGO engaged in sustainable peace and development; charter president, Rotary Club of Darhal Malikan. Website: www.humanrightsforpeace.blogspot.com.
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