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[Amey Kulkarni 🇮🇳 @AmeyKulkarni_21]

Just two sides of the same world

Indians vs Westerners

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Dear Mr Javed Akhtar. Alhamdulillah. The quote is from Maulana Azad's Calcutta Speech. The speech was published in Khutbat-e-Azad. Here is the link: https://t.co/yXkvYTTW1j

The Maulana is exhorting the Indian Muslims to unite with Muslims around the world and save the Caliphate. He begins by stating that all relationships in the world can break down, father can turn against son, brother against brother, mother can shun her child but the relationship of a Muslim with a Muslim can never be severed.

The Maulana then continues: if even a grain of the soul of Islam is still alive in its followers, then if a thorn enters the foot of a Turk on the field of battle, I swear by Allah that no Muslim of Hindustan is a Muslim until he feels that prick in his own heart. For the Millat of Islam is one body, and Muslims, wherever they are, are its limbs. If a finger of the hand is cut, the rest of the body cannot remain at peace until it has felt the blow. This is not rhetoric. It is the plain meaning of the well-known hadith which Imam Ahmad related: the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said that the likeness of the believers in their mutual love, mercy and compassion is that of one body: when one limb complains, the whole body responds with sleeplessness and fever. And there is the other hadith, related by Abu Musa al-Ash‘ari: The believer to the believer is like a building; each part supports the other. This is the first and last distinguishing mark of the people of Islam, to which the Qur’an itself has pointed.

Then, to reinforce Muslim unity, Maulana Azad provides his commentary after quoting the Quranic verse 48: 29.

The Messenger of Allah and those with him are severe against the Kafirs, merciful among themselves.

Whatever hardness they have is for falsehood and unbelief; whatever love and tenderness they have is for truth, sincerity, Islam and Tawhid. So be extremely hard against disbelievers but extremely sympathetic and kind among ourselves; take heed, then, and do not pass over this as if you had not heard it.

P.S. This is the second time I am enlightening you on your heroes and their lifelong sociopolitical stances. The first time was when you refused to believe that books were banned, editors sacked, films blocked, and Majrooh jailed, under Nehru's rule. Please don't ask me about Gandhi next - the Mahatma, not Rahul, though both are probably your heroes. Cheers, WDTP

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Dear @Javedakhtarjadu. I'm afraid your response is as boring and overloaded as your similes and metaphors. When countered with facts, you shift the goalpost, bring in the RSS, berate the right wing, take refuge in context, cushion the bigotry, and claim Kafirs were Colonialists not Hindus.

I know countering you again is like watering a cactus and praying for leechis, but in the hope that all that knee massaging with Doctor Ortho would have sprouted some neurons, here goes:

You asked for a source because you said the quote was “quite unlike” Azad’s “lifelong sociopolitical stances.” I gave you the source: Calcutta, 27 October 1914, published in Khutbat-e-Azad. The words are his. That should have ended the enquiry. It did not. So let us walk through your new script, line by line.

1. “The khutbats were about Khilafat and British colonialism.”

Yes. That is what I wrote. Maulana Azad was telling Indian Muslims that a Turk’s battlefield thorn must be felt in a Hindustani Muslim’s heart; that Millat-e-Islam is one body; that friendship and enmity are for the religion of Allah. Then he quoted Quran 48:29 and added his own gloss: be extremely hard against disbelievers, extremely kind among yourselves, and do not pass over this as if you had not heard it. You asked for the when and where. You received both. “It was about Khilafat” is not a rebuttal. It is the context in which he said it.

2. “To claim he was quoting this about the Hindus of India will not be true. The Kafir here was the colonialist.”

I did not say the 1914 speech was a municipal circular against the Hindus of Howrah. I quoted what Azad quoted: a Quranic verse about kuffar, and his commentary on unbelief, Tawhid, and hardness toward disbelievers. If Azad had meant “kafir = only the British officer,” he knew Urdu enough to say Angrez. He did not. He used the Book’s word, then told his flock not to skip it.

And if “kafir” in Azad’s mouth was a temporary colonial nickname, kindly explain the 1920 Hijrat fatwa, published in Ahl-e-Hadith of Amritsar, in which he said Indian Muslims had no choice but to migrate, and that those who stayed and kept connection with “the enemy of Islam” would themselves be counted as the enemy of Islam. That is not a lecture on income-tax collectors. That is a theology of the land.

3. “When Ataturk took over, Azad called it a closed chapter and condoned the secular government.”

Men change. Texts do not. If later Azad made peace with the death of the Caliphate, good for the later Azad. It does not unsay 1914, nor the Khilafat years, nor Masala-e-Khilafat, nor the call that any government hostile to Turkey was hostile to Islam, not the belief in the Quranic verse damning the Kafirs. You began by saying the paragraph was unlike his lifelong stances. Lifelong includes the years he spent as a pan-Islamist firebrand. Evolution is not an eraser. It is a timeline.

4. “Read his Calcutta High Court statement. An honour no member of the Mahasabha or RSS was ever given.”

Sedition charges from the Raj are not a unique family heirloom. Tilak got them. Aurobindo got them. Savarkar was given two life terms and sent to Cellular Jail, where the honour included the oil mill, the lash, and years in a cell the size of a cupboard.

And of course, knowing your pitiful knowledge of Indian History, I guess you would not know legendary RSS names like Devipad Chaudhary, Jagatpati Kumar, Anna Saheb Deshpande, Ramakant Keshav, Vasantrao Oak, Narayan Singh, Chandrakant Bhardwaj, Dada Naik Chimur, Baburao Begade, Lala Hansraj, Balaji Raipurkar who participated in our freedom struggle and were jailed or shot.

5. “Azad was in British jails for nine years. Name one from your right wing who can match that.”

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar: roughly a decade in Kala Pani, further years in mainland jails, then thirteen years of internment in Ratnagiri. Sentence on paper: fifty years. Conditions: not Ahmednagar Fort with time to write Ghubar-e-Khatir.

By the way, you might know that your great-great-grandfather Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi was also incarcerated at Kala Pani. What you might not know, or would want to hide, is that he wrote a grovelling mercy petition to the British, pleading to be released.

6. “In 1946 Jinnah refused to shake Azad’s hand. He hated Azad for his patriotism.”

How does this turn “be severe against the kafirs, merciful among themselves” into a sonnet about communal harmony? A man can spend 1946 refusing Partition and still have spent 1914 telling Indian Muslims that their first body is the ummah. Fairness is holding both pages open. What you are doing is hiding the 1914 page and waving the 1946 one like a flag.

7. “Your reference to Rahul Gandhi was unnecessary, I expect decency and class.”

And I expected you to have some sense of humour. The PS was a reminder that this is the second time I have had to fetch your hero’s paperwork. Last time it was Nehru’s India: books banned, editors sacked, films blocked, Majrooh jailed for a couplet.

You lecture me on class after moving from “this cannot be Azad” to “it is Azad but you must read kafir as colonialist” to “anyway he went to jail” to “Jinnah was rude to him” to “please don’t mention Rahul.” That is not class. That is a guided tour of every exit except the text.

Look, Javed sahab, let us end this here. I like you. Doubtless a lot of your work is incredible, truly it is. So in that spirit, permit me to pen an ode to you:

Javed Akhtar ko dekha toh aisa laga, jaise chhal ka nawab, jaise jhoot ki kitaab, jaise dhong ki kiran, jaise adambar ka van, jaise kapton ki baat, jaise pakhand ki raat, jaise janpath mein ho ek jalta diya.

Alvida, Shabba khair. WDTP

[Ajmal Zadran @Ajmalzadran18]

Winning a trophy happens on the field, not through political drama. The Indian team returned to Delhi empty-handed because true champions win matches, not egos. If you are so desperate for that metal piece, you can melt it down to pay off your IMF loans!

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

Uniform Civil Code will be implemented by 2029 in the 21 States where the Bharatiya Janata Party and the NDA are in power, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said in Mumbai on Sunday (September 13, 2026). He said the government was committed to deporting every illegal immigrant from the country.

✍️@vinivdvc
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[SUDHIR @seriousfunnyguy]

Sabka Vikas to kar diya Modi ji Sabka Dimag kaise thik karoge?

♥️🌞ka Secularism 🤦‍♂️

[Bangladeshi Hindus Community🚨🇧🇩 @Hindubd49346]

Never FORGET AND Never Forgive..🇧🇩🙏

[Aditya Raj Kaul @AdityaRajKaul]

Hindu Monk Chinmay Krishna Das Prabhu touched the feet of Radha-Krishna in Pundarik Dham temple of #Chattragram before being taken to jail yet again. He was given merely few hours of parole to see mortal remains of his mother for one last time.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Hindu monk Chinmoy Das has been jailed in Bangladesh on fabricated sedition charges since leading an Oct 2024 rally for Hindu safety against genocide following Sheikh Hasina coup.

Recently, his mother requested on her deathbed that the Bangladesh grant her son bail so she could see him one last time, but the plea was denied. She passed away with her final wish unfulfilled. Chinmoy Das was granted a brief five-hour parole to perform her last rites, he is now back behind bars.

India, as a natural civilizational home and moral refuge for non-Abrahamic populations facing systemic persecution in the Indian subcontinent, cannot afford to watch this unfold in silence.

[Dr. Vikram Sampath, FRHistS @vikramsampath]

That we watch this in silence & merely outrage on social media, with the government of India not pushing (visibly at least) the Jehadi govt of Bangladesh, says a lot about us as a nation, civilisation and people sadly !

[KJS DHILLON🇮🇳 @TinyDhillon]

Bhai uss Defence pact ka kya hua?

Ya woh sirf kagzon mein hi tha?
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Lol! Grown up people faking a full-blown emotional breakdown on camera over an eloquent letter written by an accused in a terror conspiracy case.

Umar Khalid isn't sitting in custody because he's a misunderstood poet. He is facing charges under the UAPA, including terrorist acts, terror funding, and criminal conspiracy, alongside IPC charges for murder and rioting in connection with the 2020 Delhi riots.

His regular bail has been rejected multiple times by the judicial system. Courts from the lowest trial level all the way to the Supreme Court have looked at the evidence, witness statements, WhatsApp group logs, call records, and repeatedly concluded there is a clear prima facie case against him. The Supreme Court specifically pointed out that he stands on a completely different footing as a prime orchestrator, refusing to let him off.

But apparently, multi-tiered judicial rulings, evidence, and national security charges mean absolutely nothing to instagram performative artists the moment a smooth-talking, English-speaking accused drops some poetic lines from his cell.

[Major Gaurav Arya (Retd) @majorgauravarya]

You don’t sign a defence pact to condemn. You sign it to defend. Saudi Arabia is under attack. Where is Asim Munir hiding? Where is your “azeem fauj”?

Pakistan signed a mutual defence pact with Saudi Arabia in September 2025. After that, Saudi was attacked relentlessly by Iran. Even then Asim Munir was hiding.

You guys are basically freeloaders who just want Saudi money. That’s it.

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijitmajumder]

Al Jazeera doesn’t mention that the mosque was built on district collectorate premises which is govt land.
You cannot demolish a temple or encroach govt land and build a masjid. You can’t take over roads and parks to pray.
You cannot piss anywhere and mark it as your territory.

[Lt Gen DP Pandey @LtGenDPPandey]

Crazies. Reminds of scary movies. Just scent no evidence can drive them mad.

[Swaksh Tripathi @SwakshTripathi]

The real oppression is the double standard.

[amit kilhor @amitkilhor]

Fun fact: Pakistan has its origins in modern day India, created out of thin air by Brits.

And this horned seal from ancient Indus valley is the strongest proof of Pakistan's bankruptcy of history.

[Arihant @haryannvi]

This is built by Centre, CM Saab. As soon as we get down from this epway, we have to deal with the shit roads that fall under your responsibility. Why don't you post videos about those roads? For a size of its economy, Gurgaon has the worst roads in the country.

[Meru @MeruOnX]

I don’t bend over, and neither did my Hindu ancestors at the tip of a sword. That’s the difference between you and me, Usman: you inherited submission; I inherited the spine to stand up.🤫