WHYMUSLIMS ARE REFRAIN TO SING “VANDEMAATARAM”

“VANDEMAATARAM” IN ISLAM? AND IN INDIAN CONSTITUTION IS
COMPULSARY FOR EVERY CITIZEN?

Ans:

VANDE MAATARAM SONG
"Vande maataraM sujalaaM suphalaaM malayaja shiitalaaM SasyashyaamalaaM maataram ||
Shubhrajyotsnaa pulakitayaaminiiM pullakusumita drumadala shobhiniiM suhaasiniiM sumadhura
bhaashhiNiiM sukhadaaM varadaaM maataraM || Koti koti kantha kalakalaninaada karaale koti koti
bhujai.rdhR^itakharakaravaale abalaa keno maa eto bale bahubaladhaariNiiM namaami taariNiiM
ripudalavaariNiiM maataraM ||
Tumi vidyaa tumi dharma tumi hR^idi tumi marma tvaM hi praaNaaH shariire Baahute tumi maa
shakti hR^idaye tumi maa bhakti tomaara i pratimaa gaDi mandire mandire ||
TvaM hi durgaa dashapraharaNadhaariNii kamalaa kamaladala vihaariNii vaaNii vidyaadaayinii
namaami tvaaM Namaami kamalaaM amalaaM atulaaM
SujalaaM suphalaaM maataraM ||
ShyaamalaaM saralaaM susmitaaM bhuushhitaaM DharaNiiM bharaNiiM maataraM |"

TRANSLATION BY SHREE AUROBINDO
Mother, I bow to thee! Rich with thy hurrying streams,
bright with orchard gleams, Cool with thy winds of delight,
Dark fields waving Mother of might, Mother free. Glory of moonlight dreams, Over thy branches and
lordly streams, Clad in thy blossoming trees, Mother, giver of ease Laughing low and sweet! Mother I
kiss thy feet, Speaker sweet and low! Mother, to thee I bow.
Who hath said thou art weak in thy lands when the sword flesh out in the seventy million hands And
seventy million voices roar Thy dreadful name from shore to shore? With many strengths who art mighty
and stored, To thee I call Mother and Lord! Though who savest, arise and save! To her I cry who ever her
foeman drove Back from plain and Sea And shook herself free. Thou art wisdom, thou art law, Thou art
heart, our soul, our breath Though art love divine, the awe In our hearts that conquers death. Thine the
strength that nervs the arm, Thine the beauty, thine the charm. Every image made divine In our temples is
but thine. Thou art Durga, Lady and Queen, With her hands that strike and her swords of sheen,
Thou art Lakshmi lotus-throned, And the Muse a hundred-toned, Pure and perfect without peer, Mother
lend thine ear, Rich with thy hurrying streams, Bright with thy orchard gleems, Dark of hue O candid-fair In thy soul, with jewelled hair And thy glorious smile divine, Lovilest of all earthly lands,
Showering wealth from well-stored hands! Mother, mother mine! Mother Sweet, I bow to thee,
Mother great and free!

This song written by the “Bankin Chandra”, when its written exact date is Unknown. If we look in the
meaning of this song, that clearly against the Islam
I;e "Vande maataraM “ means “Mother, I bow to thee! “

We Muslim Don’t bow to anything or anyone in the world except Allah, The creator of the heavens and
the earth. We Muslim not allowed bowing down to our own Mother, who gives us birth in this world.
Where the matter of bowing down this earth or Country. We Love our country, if require, we are ready to
give our life for the protection of this country or for the truth but we don’t bow down to this earth.
We are ready to for everything for the up left ment of our great country. We don't ready to bow down or
worship to the earth.

Allah says in the Qur’an “do not worship the sun and the moon but worship the creator , who creator
them” [Al-Qur’an Ch 41 Verse 37]

“To thee I call Mother and Lord! “
We call Allah our lord and the sustainer.
“Praise be to Allah, lord of the Universe”
[Al-Qur’an ch 1 Verse 1]

Thou art Durga, Lady and Queen,
With her hands that strike and her
swords of sheen, Thou art Lakshmi lotus-throned,
We Muslim don’t believe in “Durga, and Lakahmi” These are the Deity of Hindus.

“Mother I kiss thy feet”
We Muslim are not allowed to kiss our own biological Mother or anyone its harram .
There are many stanza which against Islam, We are not allowed to song that . It’s Harram in Islam and
Shirk the biggest crime in Islam.

Allah says in the Qur’an “Allah never forgives those who associate other false god besides Allah but he
can forgive anything else whom he pleases “
[Al-Qur’an ch 4 Verse 48 and 116]

BASE ON INDIAN CONSTITUTION:-

In Bijoe Emmanual Vs State of Kerala, (National Anthem) AIR 1987 SC 748- In the instant case, three children belonging to the “Jehova’s witnessess’ of the Chirstian community were expelled from the
school for refusing to sing the National Anthem. They Challenged the validity of their expulsion on the
ground that it was violative of their fundamental right under Article 25. They had stood up respectfully
when the National Anthem was being sung every morning at their school but refused to sing the National
Anthem as according to them it was against the renets of their religious faith. The Kerala High Court
held that it was their fundamental duty under Constitution to sing the National Anthem.
On appeal, the Supreme Court reversed the High Court Decision and held that there is no legal
obligation in India for ta Citizen to sing the National Anthem. Ther right under Art.25 (1) cannot be
regulated by executive instructions which had no force of law.

FREEDOM OF RELIGION [Arts.25-28]

1) Freedom of conscience and the right to freely profess, practice and propagate religion [Arts 25]
2) Right of a religious denomination to manage religious affairs[Arts 26]
3) Freedom from payment of taxes for promotion of any particular religion [Arts 27]
4) Freedom from attendance at religious instructions in certain educational institutions [Arts 28]

FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE AND THE RIGHT TO PROFESS, PRACTISE AND PROPAGATE
RELIGION [Art.25.(1)]:- Clause 1 of Art.25 secures every persona)

Freedom of conscience; and
b) Right to
i) Profess religion;
ii) Practice religion; and
iii) propagate religion.
The expression ‘freedom of conscience’ means “the inner freedom of a person to mould his relations with
his God in whatever manner he likes. The word ‘profess’ means “to allow publicity or to declare openly
one’s own faith or belief in’. The ‘practice of religion’ signifies acts done in pursuance of religious belief.

IT NOT MANDATORY

It’s very clear that, it’s not compulsory or mandatory for the every citizen to sing that song, the
completely freedom of religion has been give to the entire citizen to practices and propagate this religion.
There is no violation of any article of Indian constitution or going against the Indian constitution if any
citizen of India don’t want to sing the song,

FORCEING:-

If anyone or people forcing Muslims or any other community to sing the song, in fact that act OF forcing against the Indian constitution, against the Fundamental rights.

PROHIBITION OF SINGING ACCORIDNG TO THE HINDU
SCRIPTURES.

“na tasya pratima asti” “There is no image of Him”
It further says as “He is unborn, He deserves our worship”

“There is no image of him whose glory verily is great. He sustains within himself all luminous objects
like the sun etc. may he not harm me, this is my prayer. As he is unborn, he deserves our worship”.
[Yajurveda, Chapter 32, Verse 3]
(The Yajurveda by Devi Chand M.A. page 377)

It is mentioned in Yajurved,
“He is body less and pure”
“He hath attained unto the bright, bodiless, woundless, sinewless, the pure which evil hath not pierced.
Far-sighted wise, encompassing, he self existent hath prescribed aims as propriety demands unto the
everlasting years”
[Yajurveda, Chapter 40, Verse 8] (Yajurveda Samhita by Ralph I.H. Griffith page 538)

“Andhatma pravishanti ye asambhuti mupaste”
“They enter darkness, those who worship natural things” For e.g. air, water, fire etc.
It further continues and says,
“They sink deeper in darkness those who worship Sambhuti i.e. created things”, For example table, chair,
idol etc.
“Deep into shade of blinding gloom fall asambhuti’s worshippers. They sink to darkness deeper yet who
on sambhuti are intent”
[Yajurveda, Chapter 40, Verse 9]
(Yajurveda Samhita by Ralph T.H. Griffith page 538)

ii) Atharvaveda
It is mentioned in Atharvaveda,
“Dev maha osi”
“God is verily great” its further says;
“Verily, surya, thou art great; truly, aditya, thou art great. As thou art great indeed thy greatness is
admired: yea, verily, great art thou, O God”
[ Atharvaveda, Book 20, Hymn (Chapter) 58, Verse 3 ]
(Atharvaveda Samhiti Volume 2, William Dwight Whitney page 910)

BHAGWAD GEETA

“Those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires worship demigods” that is “Those who are
materialistic, they worship demigods” i.e. besides the true God.
[Bhagwad Geeta Ch 7 Verse 20]


According to the interpretation given by “Swami Dhrupadha” means ‘they worship false god, Idols
worship.
I am undetermined, invisible to sense organs, the one who has unthinkable shape, the one who is beyond
the weaknesses, the constant and the one who spread everywhere
[Bhagwad Geeta Ch 12 Verse: 3-4]

“I am All-Knowing, Ancient, the Lord of the worlds, so microscopic than atom, the origin of the
Universe, the one who has unthinkable shape, the self-shining”
[Bhagwad Geeta Ch 8 Verse: 9-10]

Upanishad are also one of the sacred scriptures of the Hindus.

(i) Chandogya Upanishad, Chapter 6, Section 2, Verse 1
It is mentioned in the Chandogya Upanishad, Prapathaka(Chapter) 6, Khanda(Section)2,
Shloka(Verse) “Ekam evaditiyam”, “He is one only without a second”.
The principal Upanishad by S. Radhakrishnan, page 447 and 448(sacred books of the east Volume 1 the
Upanishads, part I, page 93)

(ii) Svetasvatara Upanishad, Chapter 6, Verse 9
It is mentioned in the Svetasvatara Upanishad, Adhyaya(Chapter) 6, Shloka(Verse) 9,
“Na casya kascij janita na cadhipah”
“Of him there is neither parents nor lord”. Further says;
“na tasya kascit patir asti loke, na cesita naiva ca tasya lingam, na karanam karanadhipadhipo na casya
kascij janita na cadhipah”.
“Of him there is no master in the world, no ruler, nor is there any mark of him. He is the cause, the lord of
the lords of the sense organs; of him there is neither progenitor nor lord”.
(The principal Upanishad by S. Radhakrishnan page 745 and in sacred books of the east Volume 15, the
Upanishads, part II, page 263)

(iii) In Svetasvatara Upanishad, Chapter 4, Verse 19
It is mentioned in Svetasvatara Upanishad, Adhyaya(Chapter) 4, Shloka(Verse) 19,
“Na tasya pratima asti”
“There is no likeness of him”.
“nainam urdhvam na tiryancam na madhye na parijagrabhat na tasya pratima asti yasya nama mahad
yasah” “There is no likeness of him whose name is great glory”.
(The principal Upanishad by S. Radhakrishnan page 736 & 737 and in sacred books of the east Volume

15, the Upanishad, part II, page 253)

(iV) In Svetasvatara Upanishad, Chapter 4, Verse 20
It is mentioned in Svetasvatara Upanishad, Adhyaya(Chapter) 4, Shloka(Verse) 20,
“na samdrse tishati rupam asya, na caksusa pasyati kas canainam”
“his form cannot be seen, no one sees him with the eye
“nasamdrse tishati rupam asya, na caksusa pasyati kas canainam. Hrda hrdistham manasa ya enam, evam
vidur amrtas te bhavanti”
“His form is not to be seen; no one sees him with the eye. Those who through heart and mind know him
as abiding in the heart become immortal”.
(The principal Upanishad by S. Radhakrishnan page 737 & in sacred books of the east Volume 15, the
Upanishad part II, page 253)

Bow down to the country or earth is also prohibited according to the Hindu scripture : We should bow
down to only Our Creator and no one else If anyone still want to sing that song most welcome but no
one can force to anyone to sing the song .

Reference: 


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