Eid Mubarak everyone!
The recent Ramadan month was great not only because of the five interfaith Iftars I attended—including the one I hosted—and my apparent love for food. Also, because it gives people of other faith traditions a platform, an opportunity, to know Islam and the Muslims, dispelling in the process misunderstandings surrounding both.
What happens as a result is that non-Muslims like these two become admirers of the faith and its followers.
First, Kunwar Mohinder Singh Bedi “Sahar” (a descendant of Guru Nanak’s family), an eminent Urdu poet, famous for many ghazals (aaye hain samjhane log), said this about Islam:
Ishq ho jaye kisi se koi chara to nahi
Sirf Muslim ka Mohammed pe izara to nahi
(When you fall in love with someone what can you do
Only Muslim doesn’t have exclusivity over Mohammed)
Who needs introduction to Khushwant Singh. He was a man of many turbans: humorist, writer, journalist, satirist, syndicated columnist for 40 years, and lover of wine and women. However, he was equally renowned for his love of Pakistanis. He met none without appointment but Pakistanis.
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