A familiar name, at least till our generation – Frontier Gandhi, as he was popularly known in India. When he received the Bharat Ratna, I was in school probably and we knew him as a Pathan Gandhian. A contradiction? Not according to him -
“There is nothing surprising in a Muslim or a pathan like me subscribing to the creed of nonviolence. It is not a new creed. It was followed 1,400 years ago by the Prophet all the time when He was in Mecca.”
How many of us are aware that he was not someone who was influenced by Gandhi? That his principles of non-violence were shaped through his own experiences and independent of the Mahatma? In these troubled times of Islamist extremism isn’t it befitting that such a man be remembered? And let it be known to the world that this is Islam and not the televised beheadings…
Do your bit here. And to learn more about him here are a few options…
1. Wikipedia
3. This is interesting since it is an Afghan website. If you are as interested as me to get as many sides to every story as possible…