By: SHAFKAT AZIZ
My tearful pen can’t help jotting down about the intolerably heart-wrenching story of Phalgam, one of the most captivating health resorts of our peaceable valley, kashmir where one would hear the enchanting warbles of birds , now one hears wails , where one would smells the ambrosial flowers, now it smells of blood, where one would experience soothing breeze , now it has turned suffocating, where the soft green grass would comfort the sitters now it pricks them and spoil their attire with blood , where one would hear different sweet words of different languages , now one hears immensely abominable expression , “Barbarism ” , in different languages, where one would hear and see the light-hearted children from India and other corners of the world ,experiencing joyful time with their rents , now you hear them mourning at the ghastly death of their maters .
My heart is deeply glum and filled with abhorrence for the callous onslaught at our innocent tourist brothers, who had visited peaceable kashmir to refresh their jaded souls , and who didn’t know that inhumanity, that has hidden itself for long planning to reveal its true nature of cunningness upon them, on 22nd April 2025 .This invasion is of the ferocious beasts disguised in human form . This brutal massacre is totally and logically indelible and unpardonable. This abominable assailment has defiled and defamed the image of kashmir throughout the cosmos, the kashmir which is known for its natural enchantment , tranquility , hospitality , generosity and sociability. The whole valley has unified to protest against this unendurable invasion .We are wholeheartedly with the victims and anti to the ruthless invaders. This act is beyond the imagination of any pious religious or any political and social group which work for the prosperity of their nation and society. No religion in the world favours such a brutality. Every religion favours peace and serenity but this blood shed in the name of any religion , is the filthy idealogy of our foes who once again have commenced to show their true cunningness by turning our tranquil, peaceable kashmir into a blazing hell wrapped in terror which likely no one will dare to visit again. This invasion has created abhorrence in our hearts for one another and is likely to give rise to the communal war .But it should be strongly adhered to the minds that these are so called terrorist groups ( calling themselves mujahid ) and in the name of jihad, act savagely. Our Islam strongly thwarts us from killing any innocent human. In the Holy Quran, specifically in Surah Al-Ma’idah, verse no.5:32 emphasizes that whosoever takes an innocent life is considered to have killed all of humanity and saving a life is considered to be the same as saving the life of all humanity.
True Muslim rulers have never yearned for the regime over the world by the unfair use of their Power . Muslims reigned over India for about 600 years. If they had wished , they could have forced all the non-Muslims to embrace Islam by the misapplication of their power. And even Islam never allows us to kill or torture women , children and the weak and the aged of the community that is anti to us in any way. Such black sheep are almost in every community who have their own axe to grind which they feel is possible by this abominable way . Instead of planning for communal war, we should come together, be strongly unified irrespective of our religion, political and social beliefs and fight wholeheartedly to annihilate such antagonists of peace and humanity from our valley and country .
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