PROVOKED THOUGHTS

Sitting at a very old mosque at Purana Quila whose origin is itself a mystery, felt like writing something.

Every civilization every great empires come to an end one day same as do our lives. Once a majestic mosque at the peak of Mughal era is now in a dilapidated condition where only pigeons come to fly and sit and the echo of there flapping of wings is making this solitude place more solitude. Though now and then some muslims are coming and offering prayers to theirs or our Almighty( I don’t want to create any controversy its just my style of writing) and observing a new creature in the mosque, that is me sitting in one of their carpets and scribing something in notebook.

May be they are thinking me to be writer or a philosopher or a archaeologist or a freak (last option seems more probable to me) but no one would be thinking that I am a lawyer. Purana Quila being just a stone throw away from Delhi High Court, I don’t think any of the money greedy lawyers would have ever visited this place and found new source of peace than what they find in admiring their bank balance. As rightly said Ignorance is Bliss.

Our country has always been good in patchwork our constitution can be a fine example of it. The patchwork or facelift which probably A.S.I has done to this mosque looks like a make up done to a Ramleela character.

AllAH O AKBAR can be heard, may be time for prayers. I feel a bit uneasy out of 6 people present in the mosque 5 of them are standing and doing prayers and the 6^th one i.e me is sitting on the ground as Emperor Akbar use to sit in his royal palace.

It feels nice it feels proud, the country in which I am living the secular and tolerant nature which cannot be found and created in any part of the world. You may create Burj Khalifa you may create Eiffel but tallest tower of secularism and tolerance towards every religion can only be felt and seen in India.

ALLAH IS ONE GOD IS ONE.

Than why cant there be only one religion for humanity i.e humanity. Why do muslims need to grow beard to prove loyalty towards their religion, why do Brahmins need to prove it by wearing thread, Cant we just hug each other, each others religion and spread the religion of humanity. Instead of wearing religious attires outside our impermanent body cant we cover differences in us with burqa and dhoti of love and brotherhood.

Should leave now got to go back to Zoo where black crows and wolves would be scavenging on our dead legal system.

23.2.2009

1.45 p.m