Khaleequr Rahman: Muslim Leadership in India

Khaleequr Rahman: Muslim Leadership in India: "After independence, we have not produced leaders like Moulana Azad, Mohammed Ali Jouhar, Khan Gaffar Khan, Kidwai saheb etc. It is not that..."

Muslim Leadership in India

After independence, we have not produced leaders like Moulana Azad, Mohammed Ali Jouhar, Khan Gaffar Khan, Kidwai saheb etc. It is not that the muslims are not capable of leadership but the people are so much divided that they dont want to accept any one person as their leader today and we are all divided and still talk about the unity. Unless, the muslims zero on some body as their leader, our community would always be struggling to resolve their issues and would always be playing the blame game. India is a country which has given muslims its due place and respect with absolute freedom of speech, freedom to practise our religion and follow our personal law. I would like to ask my brethren which country in the world has given so much privileges to muslims. Such privileges are not even available to muslims in the islamic countries where their voices are curbed. Barring incidents like Godhra, Malegoan, Samjhota express, Ajmer sheriff blast and Mecca Masjid blast, there has always been communal harmony in the country. We all know who is responsible for these massacres, blasts etc., it is the same people who murdered Mahatma so we need not be surprised that they are the traitors who are all the time working master mindedly to dis intigrate the country and disturb the communal harmony. At this juncture, what we are really missing is the true, honest leadership in Muslims, the leadership which ran the freedom movement of the country with Gandhi ji and Pandit ji. Babri Masjid is an issue in its own place and needs to be resolved as the verdict of the Supreme Court has put the matter on the back burner.

It is quite unfortunate that for every untoward incident, we are blamed and blamed by whom, the Sangh Pariwar and the BJP and for every blast we are held responsible and by whom again by Sangh Pariwar and BJP. But as we all know god also softens the hearts of the terrorists and he did that in the face of Aseemanad who confessed the truth in front of the magistrate embarassing the Sangh Pariwar and BJP and bringing them under the frame, the frame of a terrorist. Till yesterday the muslims were being alleged as terrorist and today, a simple boy from Hyderabad Kaleem with his behavior melted the heart of Aseemanad which led to his confession. Unfortunately, here again we are facing the leadership crises and the lack of strong and powerful leadership in muslims, we are not able to propogate this issue and take it to the people of the country exposing the real culprits. The media has done a fantastic job in this regard and our government should be given the full credit for exposing the culprits before the nation.

According to a very old saying, the function of leadership is to produce more leaders and unfortunately this is missing because our muslims leaders are competing among themselves and in the process the interests of the community are sacrificed. It is high time that a selfless leadership is required to lead the India and Indian Muslims. Basically, the Allah has made the humanity as Asrhaf ul Maqluqaat, that means the supreme among his creations. They are born with the leadership qualities but becoming a leader is being honest and selfless. Unless a leader has these two qualities, there will not be impact in his speeches and his statements. Next thing which is important to be a good leader is to be fearless. The most important trait of leadership is the vision. Unfortunately, our muslims leaders dont have the vision for the community and the nation. And even if they have the vision, they have down sized it under the circumstances.

I feel we have potentially good people to be the national leaders. Mohammed Azharuddin, has got an enormous mass appeal and he is selfless. he is picking up fast and needs to emerge as the muslim leader of the country. The other person is Omar Abdullah. I am highly impressed with this man. He is class apart.

My suggestion our former cricketer is to embark on the roads and go for the talent hunt among the muslims to find the leaders of tomorrow. he should be visiting all the parts of the country with a pre-planned programme and at every district level, he should be hunting for the talent and beleive me there is enormous talent. Azharuddin saheb, you can lead this a movement with the support and the blessing of the high command and the party and especially under the guidance of Dig Vijaya singh saheb and Rahul Gandhi. And in the process, he will emerge as the leader of the muslims and the strongest leader. In turn, the new leadership will emerge among the muslims and the party will also be highly benefitted and where ever he will be going, you will activating the cadre and youth will be attracted and get associated with the Congress Party. There we see the Muslim leadership emerging!