{"id":32931,"date":"2013-08-19T12:24:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T11:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=32931"},"modified":"2015-05-06T08:59:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T07:59:10","slug":"be-brothers-a-word-to-hindus-and-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/08\/be-brothers-a-word-to-hindus-and-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Brothers: A Word to Hindus and Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oh my dear Hindu and Muslim brothers<\/span><\/p>\n

Today you again fought, killed one another<\/span><\/p>\n

Destroyed a mosque, damaged a temple<\/span><\/p>\n

Burnt houses, property you crumbled\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Maimed you old-aged and hurt children <\/span><\/p>\n

Spared even not the pregnant women <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t you know what else you did?<\/span><\/p>\n

The man you proudly killed with brick <\/span><\/p>\n

Was the only hope for his three kids <\/span><\/p>\n

Young wife, 4 sisters and parents sick <\/span><\/p>\n

And his only crime, only treason\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

He belonged to a different religion <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What makes you so blind and deaf?<\/span><\/p>\n

To hear the cries of others and grief <\/span><\/p>\n

Every now and then you just fight?<\/span><\/p>\n

On pity issues, show unjust might <\/span><\/p>\n

And shed the blood of one another <\/span><\/p>\n

Harm, abuse, humiliate one another\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As a stone shakes the ocean <\/span><\/p>\n

Such are your fragile relations?<\/span><\/p>\n

Until when you keep on fighting<\/span><\/p>\n

And putting at stake the humanity <\/span><\/p>\n

Awake, oh brothers awake<\/span><\/p>\n

For the God sake, awake <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And realise the very fact<\/span><\/p>\n

All humans one family, in fact <\/span><\/p>\n

May a Hindu or a Musalman<\/span><\/p>\n

Same blood runs in their veins <\/span><\/p>\n

One has same pain as the other <\/span><\/p>\n

When a finger is cut with razor<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When all religions\u2019 one preaching<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, the well-being of humanity <\/span><\/p>\n

Then why this claim and blame<\/span><\/p>\n

All this hatred and the mayhem <\/span><\/p>\n

When no one can live in isolation <\/span><\/p>\n

Then why you think of separation<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Had one religion or one nation<\/span><\/p>\n

For world peace, a solution <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>There be ideal peace in Pakistan <\/span><\/p>\n

Sri Lanka, Rwanda or Afghanistan \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If not so, for what this all race<\/span><\/p>\n

And after all, what is the base? <\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/p>\n

When a Hindu in Pakistan dies<\/span><\/p>\n

Across borders a Hindu cries<\/span><\/p>\n

And same does a Pakistani Muslim <\/span><\/p>\n

He weeps for only Indian Muslims <\/span><\/p>\n

We know, in their very next street <\/span><\/p>\n

To fellow humans how they treat<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Why don\u2019t a Muslim cry<\/span><\/p>\n

When a Hindu brother die<\/span><\/p>\n

And a Hindu wets his eyes<\/span><\/p>\n

When a Muslim brother dies <\/span><\/p>\n

And day when this will happen <\/span><\/p>\n

Our world will become heaven \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sustainable peace will be prevailing <\/span><\/p>\n

All around, mankind will be healing <\/span><\/p>\n

With spirit of live and let live, coexistence<\/span><\/p>\n

Understanding, brotherhood and tolerance <\/span><\/p>\n

Otherwise, in the flood of blind hatred<\/span><\/p>\n

Our generations will flow one day, instead \u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

______________________<\/span><\/p>\n

M. Ashaq Raza, Ph.D.: <\/span><\/em>Ass. professor of botany, Govt. College for Women, Gandhi Nagar, Jammu<\/span><\/i>; 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 \u201cAttitude Change International\u201d, a non-profit peace NGO engaged in sustainable peace and development; cha<\/em>rter president, Rotary Club of Darhal Malikan. Website: www.humanrightsforpeace.blogspot.com<\/a><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Oh my dear Hindu and Muslim brothers
\nToday you again fought, killed one another
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