Muslims doing Pooja, much less reciting Vande Mataram, is not un-Islamic

Friday, September 1, 2006
Muslims doing pooja, much less reciting Vande Mataram, is not un-Islamic.
Muslims' justification in refusing to sing Vande Mataram is that Islam does not allow worship of any other than Allah and by bowing to the Motherland they would be breaking the Quranic injunction.
This is illogical because the Quran has prescribed the ritual of worship of Allah and any other form is not recognised by Islam as worship of Allah. Therefore even if a Muslim goes to a temple and performs puja, since it is not worship of Allah in the prescribed way, it is, according to Islam, no worship at all. Then where is the problem? He is asked to worship in the prescribed manner 5 times a day and only if he fails to do this is he breaking any injunction. If this be so, then reciting Vande Mataram would not make a Muslim any less a Muslim.
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