Mohammad Khalil Dy.
Superintendent of Police, Anti Corruption on his return from official Haj
pilgrimage was called in by his superior SSP Hamid Khan to narrate the event to
him. Khalil Sahib said: “Sir one of the pillars there at the mosque is under
protest.”
Astonished Khan said
“Reason?”
“Sir, Prophet Mohammad is
said to have rested and relaxed against the neighbouring pillar. And the pillar
under protest protests for such a discrimination.” said Khalil Sahib.
Soon Khan Sahib called in
Jawahir Lal Pundita retired DIG, the then Dy. SP to listen to the event.
To mock at Khalil Sahib, Khan
Sahib said: “It must have created a law and order problem.”
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Recently while recasting the
previous events, DIG Pundita(Retired) acclaimed the genius in Khalil Sahib as a
perfect Police Officer. I reminded him of ‘the pillar episode’ and asked him if
genius, why did he make fool of himself with such a statement.
Pundita said: “It is FAITH.”
I remained silent. I have
faith in Maha Ganesh and carry three Maha Ganeshs in my pocket and claim: “Maha
Ganesh is in my pocket.”
2004, I wept and sobbed in
front of the Rock depicting my Ganesh at Hari Parbat Srinagar. It is my faith
that within a week’s time my job held up for four years got solved.
While concentrating on each
point of the Rock, I see image of Maha Ganesh.
To be a vegetarian or non
vegetarian has nothing to do with sanctity of the temple. It is the
individual’s mindset.
Once at Tulmul in late
fifties, , Amar Nath Munshi’s( Fire Brigade officer) ‘doonga’ in the night got a little shake due to somebody’s push.
Alarm was raised and a villager in a fishing boat was apprehended as a thief.
In the morning, the held up villager (Ghar jewaiee) confessed his crime and
lead the police to a site across the nalah to show them the place where he said
had buried the booty. He named all the male members of his in-laws as his
associates in the crime. Pundit Amar Nath repeatedly said to the police that
nothing was missing in his doonga and no theft had taken place.
I asked one of the villagers
in the crowd as to what could be the reason of innocent people getting
humiliated and beaten.
He said: “His in-laws are
respectable people and are never expected to commit any crime. We the villagers
of Tulmula will never go for fishing in the nalah around the Tulmul Nagh. It is
our faith in Tulmul. He being an outsider with little faith in our conviction
must have clandestinely tried fishing during the night. Mata has caught him and
that is why his other innocent people are suffering for no crime.”
Ramzan Badyari, the Doon ga walla used
to tell us to inform him for trip to Tulmul one week earlier, so that the
family remained vegetarian for the week and would wash clothes and mop the
doonga to make both worthy for Tulmul.
Had eating mutton been sin,
nature would have not created carnivores. It is one’s mind set. Whatever
justification, to a lay man like me it is one’s mindset. Sin or no sin is a
relative term. Beef eater Muslims do not die due to eating of beef and pork
eater Hindus do not die due to pork. Bahta is allowed both jethka and halal
with little restrictions on a few occasions. Mindset and faith discipline the
life of a human being. Had lagan and nikah not been there then all would be
savages.