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You seem to assume things and why are you attacking Masr? the situation in India/Pakistan is far worse.

Once upon a time there was a country it was called Al-Hind. Then Muhammed bin Qasim (RA) established a Islamic government in Sindh part of that country in 712AC. Th rest of the country was divided into small independent kingdoms. Over a period of time Muslims consolidated it and established several dynastic rules of Muslims. There were Mamlukes. There were Tughlaqs. There were Khalgis. There were Syeds. There were Lodhis. It is called Delhi Sultanet. When Halaqu Khan's forces devastated the Abbasid Empire the last surviving prince saved his life by escaping towards Al-Hind. This Sultanet produced the Kings like Altmash who did not miss the Sunnah prayers before Asr prayers. Then the Mughals took over from there. There was a brief period of about a decade where Sur Dynasty ruled. Shershah Suri in span of just few years gave India the road system as well as the postal system among other similar things. By the arrival of 19th century the Mughal Empire, amongst the biggest Empires ever seen by the history, lost its verve. It disappeared with a very visible flicker in 1857. India became part of the British Colonial Empire. The Scholars whom we remember around this place were involved in the fight against the British but Allah(SWT) had preferred defeat for them. And Allah(SWT) has His strange ways. And His decisions are the best for us. The stories of sacrifices of these Scholars are chronicled in Persian and Urdu news papers of that time. The English press covered the British point of view. The British point of view is available in the modern English History text books. The Muslim point of view is available in the books written by our Scholars. There is huge disparity between the two streams. People did not know about the Urdu-Persian sources based history. Dr Nadir Ali Khan Sahab (DB) worked on the History of Urdu journalism and presented some of the literature to the English audience. Khwaja Hasan Nizami has a set of twelve articles about the events of 1857 in Urdu. Yours truly does not have the courage to go through them. Scottish author William Dalrymple a decade ago told the English speaking world that there is Indian point of view also available about the events of 1857 in his book The Last Mughal.

Lots of Scholars of Islam were hanged on the trees from Western U.P. province of India to Delhi. Hazrat Haji Imdadullah Sahab (RA) migrated to Makkah. Many other also did the same. The rest established the seminary at Deoband in mid sixties of 19th century. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, born in 1817 in Delhi, established a school at Aligarh ten years later which now exists as the Aligarh Muslim Universitry. His contention was that Muslims should acquire modern English based education, including science and technology, to better their lot. Soon there started movements in India to remove the British rule and they all combined together to form a social phenomena, there were military streams also but with hindsight they seem insignificant, of gigantic proportions. India became independent in 1947 of the British Rule but with an important detail. A Muslim state called Pakistan, in two parts - East and West, too was created. Pakistan wanted Urdu as their national language but the East Pakistan will have none of it. West acted is strong manner but the East called for Indian help and the game was up. West Pakistan became or remained Pakistan and the East Pakistan became Bangladesh.

Muslims in India were and are scattered all over the country and no one in his wildest imagination should have thought that they all can migrate to, could migrate to the newly created Muslim state. As a result huge number of people were killed in the transmigration at the time of Partitions of India. Muslims of India got divided into three parts. India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Some of our brothers in Pakistan expect that we Indian Muslims should act like Rambo and create an Islamic government in India. But there is a lacuna. There is appreciable population in India who did not like the creation of Pakistan. In fact India-Pakistan friction has been the most visible foreign policy element in the two countries ever since 1947. Many of the Scholars whom we remember in these forums had decided that they shall remain in India. The reasons were obvious. What was the logic and point of en masse migration of Muslims from Kerala, Andhra, Karnataka and Tamilnadu, the South India, to migrate to Pakistan. Even Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar are distant from the then created new state.

India decided to establish a secular democratic state with equal rights to all the people. But to demand equal rights for Muslims was not an easy exercise. Logically Muslims could demand their rights in free India because they were not at all the ones who wanted the partition in the first place but in the political environment where some of the Muslims had created a new country of Muslims it was not possible to assert Muslim rights and it did not happen. The people in India who had seen participation of Muslims in the struggle for freedom from the British had a kind attitude towards Muslims but that generation slowly died. Their spiritual, social and cultural successors are there but greatly reduced in number because of the very aggressive right wing activity by the detractors of Islam and Muslims - the activity that started even before partition of India. As a result social, cultural, political, economic and religious space for Muslims of India has constrained to visible levels. And when this is pointed out to our brothers from across the border the answer is given in the form of rubbing salt on the wounds. Oh if you have so many problems then why don't you migrate. Oh no thanks. Thank you for your kind suggestion.

And brother Nahda if you say that situation in India is much worse as compared to Egypt then this is not the truth. I'll leave the elaboration to other people. Thanks for giving me an opportunity to express my side of the story.

Wassalam