Assalamalaikum, all of you. No, no, please don’t get uncomfortable. I didn’t want to start this article like this, but since the majority seems so interested and worried about my identity, I thought I needed to be at the forefront.
It is me who should be worried about it, but of course, I cannot cross the very high and impressive benchmark that they’ve set, but little me would still try with love and peace.
I can easily say that no one can cross the high unattainable level that the majority has created when it comes to their love for the people of my faith. It has already crossed the benchmark of obsession.
At first, it was the people; then it came to what we eat, then it came to our masjids, then our monuments, and soon it will come to the air that we breathe, or on second thoughts, is it already there? Or maybe all of this came together?
At first, when I saw the songs, the hate speeches, the lynchings in pure horror, the horrible things, the gut-wrenching things, it made me teary-eyed, and I used to be so disappointed and angry with everything and what was being done.
But now, when I see things, I just feel nothing. If anything, I feel pity. How insecure can you be in your faith that you have to stoop so low?
The majority is so obsessed with us that if we don’t exist, they’ll have nothing to do, no one to talk about, no one to hate, no one to kill. Inka wujood hi humse hai (their existence is only because we exist).
But of course, who can blame them? They are people who haven’t known love, respect, care, tolerance and harmony their entire lives. What can you expect? If anything, they deserve our pity.
Am I worried about myself and the people of my faith? Yes. To a point. After that? No, absolutely not. I’m not worried because my faith is not in dunyaavi (worldly) institutions; my faith is in Allah. I know He is taking care of all of us.
After 15 December, 2019, when my university was attacked, it completely changed me. The way I looked at things changed, and since then, I’ve said countless times that Indian Muslims, especially the youth, need counselling for the everyday horror that we go through.
We already have so much to worry and now we have to worry about our lives also.
We know we have no one to protect us here, but we know we have Allah swt, and He surpasses all. But I’ve understood one thing, Muslims may or may not have given the majority anything, but at least they gave them full-time employment.