Srinagar, May 06: Vice-chairman Muslim Waqf Board Nizamuddin Bhat said that situation obtaining in Kashmir calls for a collective action to save society from further dissipation and distress.
He said every conscientious individual and each institution owe it to upcoming generation to take note of their anger and find a way out for their wilful involvement in a peaceful and reconciliatory activity.
Bhat, in a statement issued here, said prominent individuals and groups have so far reserved their role to issuing statements which do not mean anything than an abdication of actual obligation to inspire, lead and guide.
He said day-to-day happenings and the response these evoke also reflect kind of helplessness to hold back the young and budding from committing to self-annihilation.
“Conflicts at global level offer examples to emulate where resolution is made workable without causing huge loss to society or its beholders. This could happen in our case if we would be able to organise our own potential towards a common ground,” he said.
Bhat said, unfortunate, as it may appear we have shifted the onus from ” us ” to ” the other “. “Islamabad, New Delhi or any other power can hardly be able to help us out of the perpetual morass till we do not get to a consensus within. All our potential, strength and resource is pitted against one another. We lose in the sacrifices we make and it is an irony that we are not salvaged to stability so that we could move forward to an acceptable goal.”
Bhat lamented that in each phase of unrest and upsurge youth were made to suffer the worst. “The current phase is turning more dreadful and worrying as on one side our sons and daughters are on the path of total revolt. But on the other side, the elders seem to be clueless about their own role,” he said.
He said this reflects a dangerous trend which can lead to chaos and ultimate helplessness. “The vicious circle of violence serves the purpose of only those who want Kashmiris to be rendered to total dependence and subjugation bereft of any ethos or edifice to live as an identity.”
He made an appeal to Imams and ulemas, intellectuals and the influential to come forward for guiding the people, particularly the youth to a collective, practicable and purposeful activity which can lead us securing the society and the future.
