One of my friends got married yesterday. His wedding was held at the Kashmir Lawns, P.E.C.H.S. Society, Karachi.
There were three lawns, A,B and C. His wedding was in A and B combined, while lawn C was occupied by another wedding ceremony. We could hear music playing in Lawn C but the volume was low and we were not disturbed by it.
As my friend is a Shia, the ceremony was started by the recitation of Hadees-e-Kisa. As it was in Arabic, the second gathering took it as the recitation of the Quran and turned off their music. Not that their is any difference: Hadees-e-Kisa is the account of the revelation of the verse of purification (read this).
When it was over, a kid went up on the stage to recite the famous ‘manqabat’ or poem:
Ali Ke Saath Hai Zehra ki Shaadi
He had barely recited three stanzas when the neighboring party turned on their music and raised the volume to a deafening high.
While we looked blankly at each other, I was thinking whether these people had any respect for the Prophet’s family, or for the Prophet (S.A.W.W.) himself and Allah for that matter. The manqabat has many references to the Prophet (S.A.W.W.) and Allah, as below:
Larka hai Khuda ke ghar ka
Larki hai Nabi ke ghar ki
Are our sectarian differences so strong that we can’t even respect Allah and the Prophet (S.A.W.W.) while dishing out hatred towards others? And it’s a manqabat about the marriage of Hazrat Ali (A.S.) to Hazrat Fatimah Zehra (S.A.), both close to the Prophet and undisputed personalities throughout the sects. There is nothing to disagree upon here, then why did the second party raise their music volume? Just to anger Shias? Was it really worth the disrespect they showed towards their own Prophet and their god? Before our actions, do we really think and ponder over what consequences or implications our actions may have?
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