Saturday, June 23, 2012

Contribution of Secularism

“Secular”, when we read this word, it seems to be so fascinating. It has become a fashion nowadays of being secular. Even I got attracted towards this word & thus was curios of knowing this word in detail and to understand its contribution to our Indian society.

For better understanding, I first searched the definition of SECULAR and the definition which I find is “Secularity (adjective form secular) is the state of being separate from religion. Despite occasional confusion, secularism is not necessarily synonymous with atheism nor agnosticism, it is instead the belief that religion and authority should be separate”

In nutshell we can say, the state should not take any decision which is influenced by religion.

I searched the history whereas found all religious people and the great persons where closer to religion. The interesting part was of ASHOK – The King of Magadha in 299 BC who became popular because of spreading Buddhism but as per the above definition, he was not secular.

The first king, whom I found as SECULAR was JAICHAND – The ruler of Kannauj during 1192 AD. He supported Muhammad Ghori for defeating PRITHIVIRAJ CHAUHAN, if JAICHAND would have been religious then keeping in mind the religion of PRITHVIRAJ CHAUHAN and religion of Muhammad Ghori he would have not supported Ghori to invade India, but he was a real secular. As per the definition he kept religion and authority separate. This action of secularism opens the gate to invaders and slavery of India started.

Was this the first contribution of Secularism to our Indian society?

Let’s move ahead, the next Secular I found in our history is MANSINGH, the real secular, who gave her sister to marry AKBAR, without a second though about religion, and become Senapati ( The Commander of Akbar army ). He fought against Sri Maharana Pratap, and make sure that Mughal should rule India.

I really want to question why we respect Maharana Pratap, why not MANSINGH – a real secular.

Was this second contribution of Secularism to our country ?

The history is full of seculars and their contribution but let’s come to year 1947.

Have we ever thought in year 1947, on 15th August our country was divided, the question lies between whom the division of this country was ? People will shy to answer this question, whereas let’s go through the fact.

The country which comes into existence was India & Pakistan, India a nation of secular thought people and Pakistan a nation of Islamic thought people.
Thus we can say the division of our country was between Seculars & Islamic people, in year 1947.

Who divided this country ? The answer is crystal clear; the country was divided between seculars and fundamentalist Muslims.

Is not this the actual contribution of secularism to our country ? Seculars can go to any extent.

The cunning seculars intentionally didn’t declared India as secular in year 1947 and nowhere in Preamble, the word SECULARS is mentioned.

Whereas when a son of a Prime Minister in year 1968 married a girl of a religion, which was not the majority religion of this country, a mistake which her mother did, was repeated again by her son. She tried to rectify the mistake and publicly again recreated the scene of marriage as Vedic marriage.

The mistake was done and her son was now a secular, the question was how the majority will correlate himself with her son in future. The constitution, not only the constitution, the preamble ( Preamble is soul of constitution, and can’t be amended ) was amended.

The whole country was converted, and the country become SECULAR, via 42nd amendment act, 1976.

We have to decide do we want to be seculars ? Do we want to use the abusive word “Secular” to ourselves ?

Doesn’t Seculars mean Traitors ?