New Delhi: Nearly 80 serving and retired IAS, IPS and IFS officers belonging to the Islamic faith have appealed to the Muslim community to adhere to social distancing norms, and not give anyone the opportunity to accuse it of spreading Covid-19 in India.
The officers’ appeal comes in the light of the Tablighi Jamaat event at New Delhi’s Nizamuddin area last month, which has resulted in about one-third of the total Covid-19 cases in India as on 5 April.
“Of late, a message is going in the society at large that Muslims, as a group, in India are not adhering to ‘social distancing’ and other measures to counter the spread of the pandemic,” the officers have written in their open appeal to Muslims.
“Distressing videos are in wide circulation showing stone pelting at health workers, and clash of men from Muslim community with police personnel who were enforcing the law. In some videos, policemen are being forced to baton-charge the people hell-bent to go to a mosque for prayer,” the officers state.
In this light, the officers have urged Muslims to “act responsibly and stand out as examples for fellow citizens in the fight against coronavirus”.
They add that the community should ensure its actions do not offer anyone an opportunity to accuse Muslims for the spread of the epidemic in India.
“They must adhere to the guidance of the public health experts and the orders of the government, since what is correct must be followed irrespective of whether one finds support for that or not in religious scriptures,” they state.
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Invoking the Quran
The officers have invoked Islamic teachings to argue that contracting the virus through negligence is a “sinful act”, even if you are the only person who gets infected.
“Suicide and courting danger and disease by one’s rash and negligent act is haram,” the officers state. “The virus does not remain confined to the body of the person who invited it to himself through his foolish act. It travels rapidly in the family and society, and brings indiscriminate deaths to innocents.”
They add: “The Quran says if one kills an innocent human being, it is as if he had killed all mankind, and whosoever saves the life of one, it is as if he had saved the life of all mankind.”
However, they also say that even in the absence of religious scripture, it is imperative that Muslims respect quarantine norms.
“Even if there were no religious sanctions to avoid a plague or remain in quarantine during a raging epidemic, adopting measures to safeguard oneself from it would still be the sensible thing to do,” they say.
“Muslims can pray collectively at the mosques after the pandemic dies out and the normal life is restored.”
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Humare is mulk me kayi sare mazhab hai. Hume in sab ko ek he nazar se dekhna chahiye jis tarah humara law and order use dekhta hai.jo koi bhi galat karenga use strictly punish kia jaye. Na k hum biased hoke in k bare me soch aur inhe criticise kare jis tarah media kar raha hai. Ultimately we have to save the harmony of our country .
Dear friends, it’s a good initiative by the muslim bureaucrats. Perhaps it need not be said so explicitly but it is understood that their appeal would have greater impact on the muslim brethren, particularly the poorer sections amongst them. I think they should first convince their religious leaders to cooperate and proliferate their message.
مسلم افسران کی یہ پہل قابل ستایش ہے کہ عام مسلمانوں سے شوشلڈسٹینگ بنانے کی اپیل کی گئی ہے لیکن مرکز نظام الدین کے بعد اب ہر طرح کی احتیاط کی جارہی ہے-مساجد میں نماز گزشتہ دو ہفتوں سے بند ہے اور شاید رمضان المبارک میں تراویح بھی مسجد میں نہ ہو گی- پہلے انسانیت کو بچانا ہے پھر مذہب بچے گا
The effort by our elite retirees is very much appreciated but I am not sure whether it will reach the targeted section of the society.
Woudn’t have it been better if some of them had come out on a social platform and voiced their opinions.
It is high time that we don’t mince our words about addressing the grave issue.
And, please do not paint all muslims with one brush, majority of them are cooperating with the govt, only a handful, ignorant and misguided members are defying the curfew as they take maulavis’ words for God’s words.
Let’s focus on dealing with the virus in a constructive way without waging a war against each other.
Corona will not discriminate, it is deadly and is capable of wiping out all of us. Remember! It has started affecting animals as well so there is no place to hide.
Responsible and sensible action must prevail.
Ya This is Allah’s quran but ignorant Muslims wouldn’t follow it. They ll follow illiterate mulla’s quran of jihad.
People send more time on WhatsApp and TikTok like platforms than listening to news. And this is true for everyone, even with Coronavirus you are not going to see news 24×7. Some people, organisations are taking advantage of this very simple fact. These videos which encourage Muslims to spread the virus, which even involve children, a majority of them are originating from abroad, this was investigated and confirmed by private cyber security firm. An account is used to spread the initial video and once the video gets momentum the original account is deleted (I am not going to list the actual foreign countries, you can find them in other news reports). And becoming viral in social media especially for religious content in times of uncertainty is very easy. With no offense to Muslims believing these kind of videos especially when they lack education is very easy. A lot of them do not know Quran in it’s enterity, they only know a few points that was told to them as education in childhood and what is repeated again and again in these Islamic events like the one in Delhi. Now when some video tells them “Coronavirus is not a virus but a call from Allah” they tend to believe it immediately. These Islamic preachers instead of ensuring the safety of people, for some personal goals of theirs enrage people saying if you don’t go to mosque you are not a good Muslim and what not. In Arabic countries they demolish mosques left and right for roads. They say mosque is a place for peace and prayer. You can have it anywhere. Here people are fight over it. As I said, they don’t know Quran, are uneducated and know only what’s told to them. Education is important for both personal growth and society’s growth. Not sure when the government is going to understand this.
Anyway for now government should ban TikTok. It’s not really something thats required for day to day life, also it originates from China.
In this moment, Humanity should play a vital role above the religion in everybody’s mind and follow the guidelines to defeat the disease.
I don’t think anyone can be taught hygiene and social responsibility at such late stage of life. You reap what you sow. The Countrymen are shocked and distressed to see such horrific irresponsible behaviour. From where one learns such things???????? Heart breaking
I request all the IAS IPS. IFS. KAS. Officers. Both retired and inservice May form community education Trust and may rendered voluntary services for the development of community in particular and Indians in general this is most important now a day’s this is my humble request please serve the community and nation because peace is essential for the development of every citizen and nation every religion says to do good and refrain from bad every religion teaches to live with peace avoid hatredness eat Halal avoid harm respect to all be mankind and humanity to all.
Stop giving chanda to this Mullah/Muftis who survives on Alms!! Let be it HAFIZ/Aalim/Mufti.. whosoever may be has to work like a peasant. Stop donating to Madrasa/ Masjid for next 25 years. As you said rightly let the administration of all wakf, masjid,Madaris be managed by Retd.Ias,afs,Ips Bureaucrats. We as community has come out from the Living in Ghettos.
Good gesture.
Generations of Muslim Civil Servants have neglected positive engagement on behalf of their mostly poor, marginalized and ghettoed brethren. They have some nerve pretending to lecture the persecuted minority on sins. Here’s hoping these useless bureaucrats continue to get their rewards from the current political dispensation – which is all that these kinds of people care about.
Good English and good drafting skills. After all they are the best of the best in India. But this armchair advice won’t work. And they won’t come out in the open. Too funked. So let it pass. Better speak to someone like Arif Md Khan and Tarek Fatah who have risked their life and limbs to against the Mullahs and Owaisis.
Good English and good drafting skills. After all they are the best of the best in India. But this armchair advice won’t work. And they won’t come out in the open. Too funked. So let it pass. Better speak to someone like Arif Md Khan and Tarek Fatah who have risked their life and limbs to against the Mullahs and Owaisis.
I read some of the comments but why people are not understanding humanity do u want to fight in this situation also.i request u all to pray for india and support our beloved PM to get rid of this disease which is enemy to India.
Jai hind,bharat Mata ki jai ho
Alhamdulillah … .a very good initiative by our elite Muslim brethren. Such attempts to reach out to the community is the need of the hour. We are aware of the fact that we lack selfless leaders to steer an illiterate or marginally educated set of people. However, only a very few could be reached through such means as the internet. The best impact I feel, would be through a combined effort of the top order bureaucrats and the religious leaders who deliver sermons, because our people believe more in the words of the Imam
Hoe come the elite intellectual Muslim’s appeal is published only in sparsely read digital editions like The Print and the Wire?
I might sound bad to my Muslim brothers. But it is time u introspection upon the system if Imam preachings and being about suitable changes. Change is the only constant and there should be change in the teachings which are done in masjid and other Islamic education places.
All the Bharatya’s have to uniformly, uninessly work to define retrenchment to all the boisterous & all the Hinious Act committed ,& in this also an indistructive humility(HARMÖNY) of the East’s West’s South’s North’s Of India must be Sensed .
Keep patience till then As justice happens ,untill normality prevail once upon again ,Everlastingly .
For everything a Muslim does, it must be written in their holy book, else they will ignore advice. Their terrorism acts are inspired by some verses in those texts.
I am sorry, you are going by general concepts. Like any community, there are two groups, extremist and outspoken, and second is intelligent but silent. This second group unfortunately doesn’t come out and attack, verbally, and condemn the first group. Let us see in Hindus, we too have these type, whom forget about the Opposition, even Mr Modi frequently speak out against. That now becomes sect vs others (say Muslim, or a decade back Christians) – not all Hindus Vs others. This is one aspect missing in the Muslim moderates is – they keep quiet. Only people who talk are not too moderate, like Owaisi, or Azam Khan, or Malik, and automatically in people’s mind, we think all muslims are like that. Even the current violence that is happening – say in a muslim colony – why there are only some 10-15 persons throwing stones at health officials? That size of Gundas would be there in any zone, who keep the rest under their thumbs. It is required that these 90% to come out of the control and not only speak, but assert themselves. This is the only aspect missing, and that is even making these moderates going into defensive and many times leaning towards their saviours – the extremeists.
Rightly said. These worthies will not mention that the law of the land mandates a lockdown and as a citizen of the country one has to follow it. They need to invoke religion even to follow the law of the land. That is the problem.
Law of land is for everybody not for Muslims only. As showed by the media that 30 % of the cases due to Muslims but what about 70%. Nobody is talking about this…why? Why no body is saying that Trump rally should not be held, If people was in Markaz then people was also in other religious places and in much larger numbers then Markaz i.e. in Triputhi more then 40000… Why Ramnaumi event held in Ayodhya from 25th to 2nd lead by CM himself…why. My dear friend please stop blaming Muslims for these crisis as they are not responsible of corona in India. Everybody should take a lesson from UK that when ISKCON UK badly hit by COVID-19 with 21 positive and 5 devotees dead
More then 1000 devotees attended a funeral & got infected. Many remain untested. ISKCON admits it should have cancelled it
A case similar to #Tabhleegi-E-Jamaat but no one is demonising Hindus in UK like News Channel are doing it here in India …!!!
We have to fight it together not by blaming but by coming together… join hands and fight with Corona together.
My dear brother ,
Don’t talk like that without any confirmation of reality did u read or understood what are the message in the Quran for mankind ever…I think no….. because if u had read it. U will never wrote such nonsense things.
I request to u please first confirm the things before such nonsense.
There is lesson and if the government which ever party is in power. Any attempt to mix religion in politics or government, the situation would be like Pak. Thanks that our makers of constitution excluded religion fron6 constitution.
Life is fragil, whatever is happening has a cause embedded in past and change that has been fueled by rise of right wing politics world over. Majority are feeling insecure in free society, minorities are feeling insecure in their regressive secure world. Technology will leave half the human society jobless in next decade. Meanwhile idiots are having discourse whether what is written in religious book, and what is the meaning of social distancing. The peripheries of the society are wonderstruck, why are so call urban educated people interested in their life and teaching them to stay indoor. Finally what is the religion of corana vires. Titanic ship is shinking so will all our gods and holy books. Till then let us all play our own music.
Appreciable thought, put on paper. I have my Muslim friends, unfortunately in these incidents they don’t come out in open. And unfortunately there are too many outspoken and combative people who hog headlines and split the people (and it is there in all communities, I could see in TV Debates). Instead of condemning the Tablighi’s action (you need not condemn the whole sect, it was the leader, and in some sects, they take the leaders word as the final) – there are people defending it, and there were others attacking it – and then it was becoming the communal discourse – from both sides. Only one one debate, and strangely Arnab’s, I have seen him trying to put balm, where he called two from Sufis – one from the revered Chishti family, and they were forthright in condemning and also asserting that they are a small sect, and don’t represent the community, and even quoted to prove what they have done is even un-islamic. The point is if more and more such people – Muslim Leaders and people whom people respect, Shahi Imam, various Celebrities – Sports, Screen, etc come out and speak the way Mr Chisthi talked, the divide would be healed, and it would become Tablighi vs the rest of India – which I know, and my friends too say, it is. The several violent incidents against the Medical staff is unfortunately not helping the matter. These are high TRP, many channels won’t like to miss these, but when the debate is on, the people should in one word condemn it, and then the subject would be lost and divide won’t take place. I don’t know who is selecting such extremists on debate, probably they should be controlled by their own people. No one wants India divided in hearts, over trivial issues, ever, and even more so now.
I understand the views and comments of my fellow citizens, Irrespective of caste, community and religeon the humanity is suffering from the COVID-19. So it is the time to stand with the suffering people, We should not critisize any one those are effected, their lives are also in risk, no one is wantedly keep his life and his family members lives and society fellows lives in high risk. first of all We must think to save their lives, instead of critisizing. No one want to carry the COVID-19 and no one want to spread it.
So we must take oath to fight to eradicate this Pandemic COV8D-19 from the earth, and will make awareness among the society while following the Government orders and instructions of the Health Experts. I appriciate the Medical Services of Health Department Doctors, Health Workers, AYUSH Dept Doctors, Para-Medical Staff, Nurses and Employees. Home Department, Police Officials and Police Men and Womens, Revenue Department Officers and Employees, Indian Army, NGOs and Intelectuals for their tremendous Services.
Jai Hind
Regards
Dr.A.A.Khan.BUMS.,MD.
President: Unani Medical Organization TS. Mobile 9848261962
AYUSH “doctors” are not real doctors.
Removing their quackery interference is one of the most important things to do.
You can start making hand sanitizers like PM said.
Even most of their educated fleets are useless. Being an IAS, IPS officer , what purpose they have served so far. Either puppet of government or Congress oriented. Only USA can teach them perfect lesson. Their religion itself is a virus, and the world must look for a workable antidotes for that in no time. Everybody knows, their acts and misdeeds are not unintentional. Then, what purpose does it serve to say that, don’t give anybody chance. What does it sound like. Means, they are innocent jokers? Tough time for India, if Hindustan are not united against these buggers. Yesterday, I had seen, in my neighborhood, no single Muslim families has switched off their lights. Leave lit up candles and all. They are defected human piece. And bloody goons.
Your attitude towards these people show your biases and infected mentality. Blaming an entire community for the actions of a few radicalised people show your negligence. Hats of to SUCH A BIGOTED HINDUSTANI
We Hindus r siculsr till one night Bunch of Roges come to our Home n misbehave with our Ladies n kill male member like what it happened in Kashmir in 1990. This Virus has no medicine only Hindus should Unite n kill those Virus economically
Well I belong to a Muslim family and live with most of the houses of Muslims and not only we all light up our houses but clapped and appraised for our nearby clinics and hospital.
Your mind is fully cover by a Viruses Danger than Covic 19. So stop discriminating others and think about the future of India. You said ”their religion itself is a virus ”. So far I never heard a that!! I am from Christianity background and have a 1000s of friend Muslim,Hindu,Budhist etc. I never face a religious problem ,who the hell are you to said “their religious itself is a virus”. You seem educated but logically you are idiot and viruses minded fellow.
Jai hind.
JB phle kbi ill hote thy tw Kia Diya jlaye thy ya doctor ke pass gye thy
Modi pgl h usko sanitization krna Chahiye tw pgla sbko bolta h Diya jalao
Modi is most ilitrate pm of India
Hard tym for India officer are highly educated but pm is angutha chap
U r right khangressUPA ( Undercover Pakistani Agent) deshdrohi Gaddar Chor party should have Ruled n Pappi or Italian Lady should be PM, they highly educated n elite Class.
You are right your stupid come is very right what they are doing you can’t see. If any hindu or any person has done anything like this in others contry or in Islamic countries they have been hanged
sochne ki baat h aur samjhne ki jo aap me bilkul nhi insan bano
Sir (civil service people) please releive the religion from the clutches of mullahs whose narrow minded teachings are the bane which the Muslim community is facing
Why gentleman is all pandits are educated MS, MBA, MBBS, P.hd from american University as they are very broadminded. Just observe for one day how a mullah maintains clean himself and a pandit howmuch from him.
Muslim belongs are now in that position not to accept their fault. They always try to find out the Modi and Saha ‘s fault which is unnecessary .
Don’t misguide any body in India every religions teaches good moralities but foolish people are moving against to it ….but one thing is sure that is people through a stone in people and sit innocent if all indian are one then nothing can pick up……indian is one and we are one
KOVID-19 in India every things are well in places of others countries but some communal minded and of RSS alliances and GODI media spreading fall newsies on account of the climate of country became worst. The central government and theirs BJP government in states as UP. , M.P. , Karnataka are doing Mal fool activities in this context govt. are fully responsible. Jay Hind, Jay Bharat.
OK REFUSE TO RECOGNISE FACTS STARING AT YOU. DONT BELIEVE ANYTHING
Only reason the world hate your community is likes of you are here amongst and hit your moron heads here n there.
Laden & Bagdsdi come from amongst you, not from pias Muslims.
Better improve and stop spewing malicious narrative on others.
You are telling that all news are of modi media .sir pls go and ask your brother and sister you rascal same to you .then from where this IPS and IAS are give this type of nonsense news may be they’re also from modi media
Dear Friend,
its not about religion.. But what Tablighis Kamaat did at Nizamuddin is just a hateful at this situation.. but nobody is ready to accept this.. instead trying to show the fingers across the world..