Although, Hajj is an obligation upon every affluent Muslim, it is Allah who endows the craving in one’s mind. Two pilgrims from India who proceeded to Haj this year must have seen quite a different world when they had joined three million pilgrims at Makkah. The Bollywood actor Aamir Khan accompanied his mother Zeenat Husain who is reported to have expressed her desire to perform Hajj. The other instance would certainly raise the eyebrows of one and all…because he chose to come out from the shackles of an ideology which is wedded to atheism. Abdur Rezzack Mollah, a CPM stalwart who worked as land reforms minister in the erstwhile Left Front government in West Bengal, chose to differ his party’s stand on religion, saying “My faith in the Almighty was always hundred per cent. That’s the way it shall be.”
Syed Sultan Mohiddin
Kadapa, A.P.