ZabaAn- an Issue
ZabaAn ka pher-matters of the words
(Linguistic Communalism-An Issue)
(Linguistic Communalism-An Issue)
Beyond language you can see the limitless
& the crux of the words. Often meanings get dissolved in the ocean of linguistic
hatred. I still remember my mom said once while she was losing the warmth of the
life on the cold beds of the hospitals is that “ Beta Bhagwan tu ek hai bas saAmaj
ke saath rehne ke liye USE alag-alag namon se bulate hain; mar ke sab ek jagah
jane wale hain phir wo swarg ho ya narak” ( my child, God is one, we have to
live in the society that’s why we call “IT” with the name; that we are taught
from our childhood; otherwise after death we all have to go to the same place
be it a Heaven or a Hell)
I now realize after 20+ long
years of her death that she was beyond the language limits.
I have been hearing from my
childhood a religious couplet “Tum
bin aur na Duja;…..aas karun main jiski”. This is what I have learnt in
my successive years “La Illah ILLalah”.
Look at the irony; people say
this is a result of conversion into Islam. Am I converted? Was I not the same person then;
when I used to recite those couplets? What has changed now? I see the language
only.
On the contrary if one use
English; it’s considered “posh”. Anyone saying “GOD” is okay . there is no religious
association as such; no body reacts. Instead it is called high class, posh
language to use in today’s contemporary world.
Accept it or not I have experienced
the secular status that English has acquired over the years. Is it not a
planned move of the world to push certain languages in to the darkness of ages
like Sanskrit and Hebrew?
continue…………………
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