After about 64 years, the prayers of Holi and Ramadan are falling together in the country. If there was no politics, it would have been a matter of good luck. Crores of Hindu and Muslim brothers of the country used to celebrate their festivals together. But for the country, this good fortune has to be misfortune and hundreds of people have to think for not taking sacrifice. Recently, a statement of CO Anuj Chaudhary of Sambhal district of UP came into the limelight for the preparations for peace on the prayers of Holi and Jumme. In which they are saying that people who have problems with colors, they will be good if they read Namaz at their home. After this statement, there is a lot of Hindu-Muslims in Holi and Ramadan from UP and Bihar to Maharashtra. Meanwhile, Dehradun SSP Ajay Singh has also reiterated Anuj Chaudhary. In the presence of Muslim organizations, he has appealed to all the people that those who have problems with colors, it will be better if you read the prayers of Jumme at home. The question is whether the people of this country have not been able to mature so far that the festival of two religions should be celebrated simultaneously? Or all this is being deliberately done keeping in mind the Bihar assembly elections. Let’s see.
Anuj Chaudhary’s statement against how much Muslims
With Holi, offering prayers of Ramadan Juma is an opportunity for politics that sometimes comes. As much as they can redeem this opportunity, they will redeem. There are not only Hinduist political parties among those who play on this pitch, but even those who call themselves secular want to beat a four on this pitch. In the meeting of the peace committee of Hindu and Muslims, Sambhal Police Circle Officer Anuj Chaudhary had only said that the prayers of Jumme are read 52 times a year and the festival of Holi is celebrated once a year. Therefore, the Muslims who have problems with the colors of Holi, do not get out of their homes that day and stay at their homes and pray. What a simple matter. This thing was made a palm of sesame. It was a simple matter that Holi does not come every month and every week. On such an occasion, the Muslim community should come forward and take this initiative. All Muslim religious leaders also gave a statement to increase harmony in this regard. Many Clarix took the initiative to change the time of prayer of Jumme. But those who do politics are sitting on both sides.
The way Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party, Congress leader Udit Raj etc. started making a statement against Anuj Chaudhary, obviously it had to be reacted. The kind of poisonous rhetoric that is being done from Uttar Pradesh to Bihar and Maharashtra has caused the most damage to those Muslim religious leaders who showed the path of peace. Opposition is telling it against India’s religious freedom and Muslims in such a way that the peaceful people are also becoming radical. When some leaders of our country are working on this statement and are trying to tell it against Muslims, at the same time many Muslim religious leaders have said that they do not consider anything wrong in Anuj Chaudhary’s statement and they are ready to change the time of prayer on the day of Holi.
The Imam of Idgah Mosque in Lucknow and Sadar of the Islamic Center of India announced that on March 14, the prayers of Jumme will be read not at 12.45 pm but at two o’clock. The same institution has also appealed to other mosques of the country that they can carry forward the time of prayer by maintaining their brotherhood with Hindus and doing so will not reduce the importance of prayers. Maulana Sajid Rashidi, president of All India Imam Association, has also appealed to all the Imams of the country to teach the prayers of the country late. And Muslims have also been told that they should not go to offer prayers in distant mosques on the day of Holi and make the prayers of juma in local mosques and it is called real secularism and brotherhood.
Is Bihar elections on target
After the endorsement of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the statement of Sambhav’s CO Anuj Chaudhary has started tremendous rhetoric about Holi and Ramadan. A UP MLA even said that if there is a problem with the color of Holi, the Muslim community should also make separate wards in hospitals for them. After all, whose religion is not able to tolerate color, how will he get treatment in hospitals with Hindus. A similar statement came from Raghuraj Singh, a minister of Uttar Pradesh, that people who have problems with the colors of Holi, should make a tarpaulin like a burqa. A Bihar MLA said that Muslim people should not leave the house on that day. BJP MLA Haribhushan Thakur Bachaul says that if it is necessary to get out, then they have to keep ‘heart big’, because during Holi, there may be some color which they should tolerate. He further said, ‘Zuma comes 52 times a year, but Holi only once. If Muslims consider color to be bad, then they should stay in the house. If you get out, bear the color. Obviously, if there is a slight ruckus after such a statement, then there will be an atmosphere in the BJP’s favor.
It is obvious that assembly elections are due in Bihar by October and November this year. In these elections, there will be a lot of effort of political parties to unite their core voters in such a way that even one vote does not go here and there. It is obvious that both BJP or RJD are ready to do anything for their core voters. Even if social harmony is spoiled for this.
Can’t play Rojedar Color
Holi is a festival of color and gulal. It is a festival of brotherhood. There is a festival of removing the throat and throat with each other. Similarly, Ramadan is also a festival of brotherhood. But the problem is that we do not want brotherhood. If this did not happen, then the fast of a Muslim would not have been spoiled when it feels color and gulal. Eid can also be celebrated in the way Christmas is being celebrated with great pomp in this country. But if Hindus and Muslims start celebrating Eid and Holi together, then what will happen to the political?
The staunch traditions of other Islam are also somewhat like getting mixed up with other religion. Scholars have different opinions about participating in non-Islamic religious traditions in Islam, but usually Muslim scholars recommend that Muslims should not be involved in activities that are associated with religious beliefs of any other religion. This is the reason that Hindus have been living together for several hundred years, but have not been able to learn to celebrate each other’s religious customs and festivals.
