Protests in a disciplined manner and peacefully, can lead us to some degree of destination, come out sit on the roads, with out throwing stones, attest your protests the way other countries did and do, stone pelting is not a part of protests, to burn offices, schools, blocking roads, that cause inconvenience is not a part of protests, many patients have to go, attend hospitals or see the doctors, small children upto age of 11 to 12, don’t understand the value of time, even patient can collapse, if not brought to hospital in a golden hour, in botakadal area of Lal Bazaar, a conceived lady in a car was suffering from labor pain, was stopped by some children, after her husband told she is a delivery patient, how shocking is it, they compelled the lady to raise her kurta and abaya to see if she is pregnant or not, how sad it is for those, whose children are on roads for the cause they don’t know. Shyfully she showed, then she was allowed to go, unharmed but still the car’s head light was not speared, it was broken.
Is this the freedom we are fighting for, the stone pelters are all in the age of teens, not more than 11 to 12 years of age. Those who died, in this phase of agitation were mostly teens, elders and youths who have crossed their teen age, use them in a wrong way, brain wash them, and put them in a front row to fight, and throw stones on police and CRPF, in retaliation when security forces use force, pellets and teargas shells to disperse them, they all flee backward, leaving them in back, to take pellets, teargas and to die and get injured, how a man who has brain to think, can accept this as a freedom movement. They make teens their shield and incur pain to their parents whose children die or get injured.
Stone-pelting, blocking of roads is nowhere written in Quran, and to cause any sought of inconvenience to people is also not written in Islam.
To strike and strengthen the ongoing agitation can be run without throwing stones, and burning, damaging the private vehicles and properties of our own people. Better to peacefully sit on roads, occupy the areas, sit there, take turns to sit on roads as is and was done by all countries who fought and got independence.
To throw stones is a deed of yuhudi, who used to threw stones on Prophet Muhammad pbuh, to injure, tease and insult him. Has in the history of Islam and any war that was fought by Muhammad pbuh for the safety of Islam, used stones, you cannot find a single incident of people who stone pelted stones in a war, in the livihood of the Muhammad pbuh or after his death. He fought a war with discipline, both Islamic soldiers and enemies were equipped with arms that too many miles away from the city, in the desert, to save the lives of children and women.
But we do contrary to it, damaging our own properties and get killed in a very brutal way, giving pain to your families.
Change and transformation is needed at this crucial hour, if to keep this agitation going.
Please stop pelting stones at government forces.
It is Friday, one must address the congregation at the mosque, every Imam of respective places should tell people to abstain from stone-pelting.
The leaders should tell people to continue raising their voice against the ‘atrocities’ committed by forces in Kashmir valley and against the detention of religious leaders, “but in a peaceful manner”.
“STONE PELTING DOES NOT DO ANY GOOD, WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT THEY (FORCES) RETALIATE WITH BULLETS AND IN TURN OUR OWN PEOPLE ARE HURT.”
Leaders should raise their voice against the forces, and continue raising their voices peacefully without physically attacking any forces deployment.
The prayer leaders should make similar appeals, asking people to protest peacefully and with utmost discipline, not pelt stones on forces, and not raise pro-Pakistan slogans. Kashmir has its indigenous ‘freedom movement’ and raising pro-Pakistan slogans won’t do any good to the movement.
Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir – Mehbooba Mufti – said in August that only 5 percent people were involved in ‘violence’ and 95 percent people wanted peaceful solution to Kashmir problem.
The ongoing anti-government uprising in parts of Jammu and Kashmir – primarily in Kashmir valley – entered 74th day. Almost 89 people – including three policemen – have died since the mass protest began on July 8 with the killing of armed rebel commander Burhan Wani in an encounter with government forces in south Kashmir.
Safety in Counsel
“Where there is no counsel, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.”
A few years ago, my friend and I had to make a crucial decision. It involved many different factors: whether he should quit his current job and find a new one, whether we would be willing to lose much of what we had spent years building together, and whether we should uproot our family once again.
We prayed, sought counsel, and with the support and encouragement from many different people, we made a difficult decision.
My friend was unemployed for 10 months. There were times when doubt crept in and we wondered if we had done the right thing. In time however, God’s faithfulness proved far more than we could have imagined. It wasn’t easy. But looking back, we are able to see that God had a plan. And in that plan, He included others who, strong in their walk with God and filled with wisdom, would help guide and direct us, being a support and encouragement in a very challenging time.
There are moments in our lives when we immediately know what to do. But then there are other situations that require us to recognize that we need to seek out others who can help advise and support us in the specific area of need.
And ultimately, God has given us the greatest Counselor of all — the Holy Spirit. We can always receive help from Him.
O Allah thank You for the gift of Your Spirit whom You have freely given to me as a help and comfort in time of need. I ask that You would help guide and direct me in (name your situation). I ask that You would show me the right people to ask for guidance and that You would give me courage to ask for help. I desire for Your will to be done in my life. Amen.
In the same manner God would be having plan for we Kashmiries also, show patience, have faith in God, offer prayers, be good have good.
The views presented in this article are the Author’s own, and does not in anyway depict the views of the Kashmir Digest. This is an Op Ed.
Syed Abadi Hamdani
Freelance Writer
Writes on Social, Economical and Environmental Issues.