Quran versus Indian Constitution?

I had a conversation on YouTube comments where somebody asked me if I consider Quran over the Indian Constitution.  I gave him the following answer, which I would like to share with you.

Q.  Do I consider Quran superior than the Indian Constitution?

A.  When India got freedom and became to be known as a secular country, the Indian Muslims were informed about the article “Freedom of Religion.”  The choice to stay back or leave for Muslims was made on the basis of whether an Indian Muslim would be allowed to practice Islam with complete freedom or not.  It took a couple of years for the Muslims community to understand that indeed India either has “no religion” or is an incorporation of all religions, and that is why we have Freedom of Religion.  Subsequently, our forefathers began to accept India as their country.  The basic fundamentals in the Indian Constitution have never contradicted the basic principals and fundamentals of Islam, and above all, Hinduism preached Sarv Dharm Samaan and we were told about it.. and so we chose to stay.

India is a country, not a nation, which means we got diversity not only in culture, traditions, religions, etc, but in mindsets as well.  I have a right to disagree with the majority mindset and yet I may be right.  You may hate Pakistan, and I may address the common Pakistani as a brother.  The question is, “how can I hate over 90% of Pakistan’s population who do not hate me or my country?”  I may hate Pakistan’s politics as I may hate the politics of my own country, but a country having bad representation does not make the country bad.  So, “I don’t hate Pakistan.”  And I don’t even care if I have to face an army at my door for that.  I will continue not to hate Pakistan the way I don’t hate Nepal.  We have our political differences, but we can always hope for good.

It is not the land, the rivers, the mountains, the valleys, etc, that form India.. It is the people.  When I say, “Jai Hind,” it is to praise the people first.  My country starts from myself, then my family, then my neighbors, then my relatives, then my security, and only then it extends to the police who protect us, and then to the institutes that develop us as a society, then courts, and only then the leaders.  I love my home more than the parliament.  I respect my society security personnel more than the army.  In short, "my nation starts from my home and not the other way round."

The Indian constitution gives our society the criminal and civil codes.. but the Quran gives me more than that.  It gives me my “MORAL CODE,” which no other constitution on Earth can substitute.  It is my moral ethics that rule the majority of my time on Earth as a human being.  How can there ever be any sort of comparison between the Quran and any other constitution?  The “Right to Religion” in the Indian Constitution is “Not a Favor,” it is a “Right.”  The same right given to a Hindu, where it says you can remain a Hindu and yet be an Indian.  It is not a favor.

The Ram Bhakts who chanted Jai Shree Ram and took down Babri had actually “thrown the Indian Constitution out of the window” at that period of time.  They have violated the Indian Constitution several times in the Ram Mandir issue.  Nobody asks them if the Ram Mandir is greater than the Indian Constitution.

Quran is my constitution and it compasses an article that tells me to follow the laws of the land until these same laws does not violate the teachings of Islam or forces me to abandon my religion.  Come Uniform Civil Code or Hindu Rashtra, at any given time and place, Quran will remain supreme for me in comparison to any other constitution or law.

So, if anybody asks me to compare Quran to the Indian Constitution, then I tell them that my moral codes encompass the majority of my life’s time and I get my moral codes from my religion.  There is no comparison..  that I am a Muslim and if a country does not permit me to remain a Muslim, I will be left with two choices..  leave it if I can.. or fight in all available platforms to bring back my Right to Religion, which my forefathers have brought me after sacrificing their lives for the lands, rivers, mounts, etc, I dwell on.

I am a Muslim first and I own this country as much as any other Indian regardless of his/her belief system.. Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Hindus, Bahais, etc..  And nothing makes my any less patriotic than any anybody belonging to any of the mentioned belief systems or beyond.

And even if somebody does not get this information through their heads, it doesn’t matter.  For me, no matter what the consequence may be.. Quran remains supreme till the end of my time, and I remaining a true Muslim only helps my country.

Peace