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Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Governor Ram Naresh Yadav has said that Sufism propounds love for entire
nature by construing it as love for God. He said that it is also
the gist of all the religions.
Governor Ram Naresh Yadav was delivering inaugural speech at
the three-day 40th International Conference on Sufism which got
underway at Bharat Bhavan here Friday.
He said that at the
spiritual level, Sufism is the voice of human being's inner self.
The quest of soul to attain God and rituals undertaken to achieve
this goal are the basis of Sufism. Its main principles include
lofty spiritualism, peace of mind and soul, secularism and
equality among human beings. Sufism does not encourage religious
hypocrisy, casteism, racism etc. He said that due to Sufi
philosophy, universalism casts a deep impact on human existence.
Earlier, the Governor inaugurated the conference by offering
flower petals to water as per Sufi traditions. About 56 scholars
from Turkey, Iran, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Tajikistan ,
India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nepal are attending the
international conference. The conference is being organised by the
Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature (FOSWAL), New Delhi, a
SAARC Apex body in collaboration with Public Diplomacy Division,
Ministry of External Affairs- Government of India, Arpana Cour,
Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) and Bharat Bhawan.
Murshed Cemal Nur Sargut of Turkey, who was the chief guest of the
inaugural function, in a spirited address in her Turkish language,
which was translated into English simultaneously by a colleague
sentence by sentence, repeatedly stressed the love, compassion and
mercifulness qualities of Allah Almighty which echoed in the
auditorium as the assemblage listened to her in pin drop silence.
She said that the world becomes very beautiful place through the
spiritual love. Everything starts with love and one who is in love
with Allah will worship nothing else but Allah. Allah's real face
can be seen only by getting rid of hatred and negative thoughts,
she added emotionally.
“We should be able to forgive and love others then Allah will not
leave us alone but shower His choicest blessings on us”, Cemal Nur
said philosophically
She ended her address by appealing: “Let us unite and let us be
one committed to spread the message of Allah of love, compassion,
peace and tranquility to humanity at large which is reeling under
hatred, violence, wickedness etc.”
Delivering the presidential address, Dr. Abid Hussain said that
this is the age of hate, terrorism and separatism. People are
opposing each other in the name of religion. The terrorism of
politics with fundamentalism of religion has created a havoc in
the world and the irony is that those who are witness to these
aberrations in society join the fundamentalists, he averred.
Dr. Hussain Sufism seems to be the most appropriate solution to
these problems during these testing times for mankind. He quoted
late Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India,
who believed in the ethics of morality.
He reiterated that Sufism was the song of the soul. He said Sufism
is not religion but does not dismantle religion. It opens windows
and shows that there is Oneness in multiplicity. He said Sufism is
a way of thinking of poor and removal of inequality in society. We
have to keep people united despite diversity like a bouquet of
flowers of different colour and smell, he added.
"When the soul is dead, the music is dead inside. When the soul is
alive, we open our hearts to all human beings”, he remarked.
Earlier, in her welcome address, organisation's president Mrs.
Ajeet Cour threw light on the objectives of the conference. She
said Sufism is a great philosophy of deep, infinite, feelings, but
it is not religion. One can be a Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Christian,
Jew, yet be a Sufi too, because Sufism is an exalted state of mind
where love and peace resound like a soft melody, echoing and
re-echoing in the depth of one’s soul, creating a new ideological
state of mind overflowing with love. The message of Sufism
transcends all boundaries, and not only goes across, but negates
racism and religious fundamentalism."
Mrs. Cour said: “In this age of rat-race of self-gratification, of
our thousands of never-appeased hungers for amassing wealth, of
being surrounded by beautiful bodies and cars and posh bungalows
and land much beyond our need, in the age of globalization and
consumerism, the lyricism of Sufism brings us peace, because it
takes us across to the nowhere land where peace and love and
selflessness reign supreme.”
Continuing she said that it is only through love that we can reach
the heights of self-evolvement and enlightenment. Love with the
Creator of this Universe, and with the universe He has created,
and with all the living beings which are ordained to share the
bounties of this Universe: the planet earth and millions of
planets in eternal rotation in infinite void, without any
accidents; the days merging into nights, and nights giving to
glorious, sun-drenched days, in an eternal cycle of merging and
re-emerging, like the cycle of Death and Life.
“This is the Universe we human beings were placed in, to
comprehend the meaning of Love and Compassion, not only with other
human beings, but with all His Creations too!”, she opined.
(pervezbari@etc.net)
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