To change caste, one must change religion.
Where there is caste, there is only caste.
Caste discrimination has merely been given the name "religion." Where caste exists, there is no religion that guides precisely and clearly along the way, gives a path for life, and ensures social justice and social welfare.
Without changing religion, caste cannot be changed.
Or else, if caste can be changed without changing religion, prove it.
For this very reason, religious conversion in India has always happened very easily, without any compulsion being necessary.
Though they ruled for a thousand years, no Muslim king ever had to convert anyone by force. Conversion was not part of their administrative agenda either.
To realize a caste-free India, what must be encouraged most in India is religious conversion.
Then the question will come:
Even after conversion, reservation is given based on former caste, isn't it?
What does that mean?
Doesn't it mean that caste does not change even after changing religion?
The question seems valid.
But the question is not valid; rather, it is easily misleading.
Perhaps this is how fascists mislead innocent people.
Reservation has to be given even after conversion, not because caste doesn't change on conversion, nor because they haven't escaped caste discrimination.
It is not because casteism persists in the new community after conversion, nor because their caste doesn't change on conversion, that reservation is given, or has to be given, after conversion.
It is not because the division and discrimination they faced earlier on account of caste do not disappear on conversion that reservation is given, or has to be given.
Nor is it because they fail to get equal status in the community they converted into.
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Then why does reservation have to be given, and why does it continue, even after conversion?
The answer is clear.
The reason reservation has to be given even after conversion is clear.
Those who became backward became backward not because of religion, but because of historical caste discrimination.
Reservation is meant to uplift those who became backward historically because of casteism.
Reservation is not based merely on their present, changed religion.
Religion is not the basis of reservation.
The backwardness of any community is the basis of reservation.
Their present backwardness has a historical root, a cause.
That root and cause is entirely historical: historical caste discrimination, denial of justice, denial of opportunity.
That is, they became backward because opportunity was historically denied to them.
Therefore, the backwardness of those who became backward for historical reasons cannot be changed or resolved overnight merely by changing religion.
What conversion can achieve:
Only that, in their lives from now on, they can escape caste-based segregation and untouchability.
And if the conversion is to a religion like Islam, it would also mean moving not merely to a faith-religion but to a comprehensive way of life.
The marks and weariness of historical denial do not end immediately upon conversion. For them to end and be made good, special consideration and treatment must be given to them.
Reservation is a program intended to give special consideration and treatment to the weary, knowing the causes that made them weary.
Moving house today is no remedy for the thefts from a home over many years and the damage thieves did to it.
If one moves to a new place today, it is true only that from now on there will be no theft and the house will not be damaged.
But compensation must be given for what has been stolen and destroyed so far.
That is what reservation is for.
For a patient, reservation is the treatment and special consideration given with an understanding of the illness they have had until now.
Reservation is to remove the weakness caused by the illness they have had until now.
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Isn't caste just occupation?
Aren't there higher and lower positions in jobs?
Aren't there people who are higher and lower in their jobs?
Isn't that same high-low difference in jobs what exists in the caste system too?
The question seems very innocent. It seems right too.
This is another method and question with which Sangh Parivar people deceive innocent people who understand nothing.
The answer is simple.
Jobs exist everywhere in the world.
A job is a choice.
A job changes and rises according to qualifications and as qualifications and experience increase.
A job can be learned or acquired, done, changed, and changed over, as convenience and need dictate.
But caste is only received by birth.
Caste cannot be changed or raised.
Caste is not a choice.
Caste cannot be changed or altered through learning or acquisition, according to convenience and need.
Casteism was created by colonizing powers to keep a people enslaved for their own purposes.
The belief and practice that caste is merely an occupational identity received by birth is a belief that arose as part of the casteism created by colonization.
No one can become a believer of a religion by birth, nor a believer of Islam.
No one becomes a true Muslim or a believer of Islam merely by being a communal "religion member" in the Indian register.
Only if he practices what he must practice to be a Muslim who believes in Islam will he be a Muslim who believes in Islam.
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Groups arising from differences of opinion are not castes.
The BJP, the Marxists, and the Congress are not different castes.
Groups arising from differences of opinion are not a permanent stamp received by birth, as caste is.
Groups arising from differences of opinion can be chosen.
The sects within Islam and among Muslims are only groups arising from differences of opinion, like the BJP and the Congress. One can move to any of them; they can be chosen.
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Even if someone's claim that there are castes among Muslims in North India is taken to be true, that is a story of ignorance in North India. It is not the story of Islam and Muslims.
All that arose from ignorance, and was merely the Indian caste system carried over wholesale.
There is no caste or casteism in Islam, and none among Muslims who believe in and follow Islam.
In any case, that there is no caste or casteism in Islam and among Muslims is something anyone clearly knows, or can know.
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Note the very phrase "among Muslims in India."
In India…
In a place full of filth, the filth will creep into everyone there if they are not vigilant.
Just like the smell of fish clings to someone who has gone to a fish market. The influence the surroundings create.
The filth of birth-and-lineage pride and of high-low hierarchy, which crept in that way, exists among Indian Muslims.
But those high-low caste filths are not in the articles of faith of Islam; they do not belong to it.
The Hindu belief in past-life sin and merit.
The belief that each person's birth is based on the sins and merits of a previous life.
The belief that each person's birth is nothing but a rebirth resulting from the sins and merits of past lives (the belief said to belong to Hinduism).
The Chaturvarnya belief, endorsed by everything from the Manusmriti to the Puranas and the Vedas.
This produced high-low caste filth among those who have recently come to be called Hindus in India.
This made those who have recently come to be called Hindus in India feel no pain whatsoever in practicing high-low caste filth.
Islam, which did not contribute such a belief in past-life sin and merit and rebirth, did not produce any hierarchy based on it among Muslims.
Instead, Islam established only that all human beings are equal, alike before one single God.
That is to say, in the lives and world of those who became Muslims by believing in and following Islam, there is no caste stamped by birth and no caste-based hierarchy, and there will not be.
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If governments in India decide that there are castes among Indian Muslims, will caste exist in Islam? Can it be said that Islam has a caste system?
Isn't the basis of Islam only Islam itself, only the Quran together with the example shown by Prophet Muhammad?
The basis of Islam is not the Indian government and government records, is it?
The castes among Muslims determined by the government are not castes that Islam permits or prescribes.
Islamically, there is only one human being, one earth, one God, and one system.
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