Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh
From: zmhasan@db.toronto.edu ("Masum Z. Hasan")
Subject: Re: Religious Tolerance and Muhammads battles (Now Poem etc)
Followup-To: soc.culture.bangladesh
Keywords: Religion, Poem, Tagore
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Date: 19 Nov 92 18:12:23 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.223616.14508@ee.rochester.edu> alam@ee.rochester.edu (Sheikh Kaisar Alam) writes:
|: In article <1992Nov18.133352.11180@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM> indu@iss700.Columbia.NCR.COM writes:
|: 	[Anis Shorrosh and Ahmed Deedat described]
|: 
|: Don't you get it, Indu? Please move your discussion to one of the religious
|: groups, or continue it on email.
|: As many others have already expressed, we don't want your religious discussions (?)
|: on SCB. This is for discussing issues related to Bangladesh.
|: 
|: Shuja
|: -- 
|: Those who can, do.
|:     Those who know, teache.
|:         All others become administrators.


	Sorry Shuja for redirecting this message to SCB. Followup
	to this particular article should have been put to SCB,
	since these people are not discussing this on SRI. I wonder
	whether they would pay any heed to your request.
	One more thing, this message should have been directed 
	not only to that Indu guy, but to our dear Shakil too
	(sorry Shakil). Shakil, don't you think this sort of discussion
	(about Ahmadiyas etc) that you're now carrying on with others,
	should be moved to SRI?

	As an aside, recently I've noticed that a bunch of Indian/Pakistani
	morons are picking on poverty in Bangladesh. They are talking like
	as if they are the citizens of 8th/9th most developed nations. 
	I really get pissed off (my apology) when I hear these 
	a-couple-of-cents-richer BEGGERS calling us beggers or something.

	Ok enough of it. It's been long since a poem was posted on SCB.
	So where are those all literate people, oops :-), I mean literature,
	poem lovers who used to post.

	So let me start it........
	A poem by Tagore, translated I guess by Protima Bowes.
	I don't know its Bangla version, anyone?
	More (romantic, patriotic ones) will follow.


			False Religion

	Those who in the name of Faith embrace illusion,
	kill and are killed.
	Even the atheist gets God's blessings-
	Does not boast of his religion;
	With reverance he lights the lamp of Reason
	And pays his homage not to scriptures,
	But to the good in man.

	The bigot insults his own religion
	When he slays a man of another faith.
	Conduct he judges not in the light of Reason;
	In the temple he raises the blood-stained banner
	And worships the devil in the name of God.

	all that is shameful and barbarous through the Ages,
	Has found a shelter in their temples-
	Those they turn into prisons;
	O, I hear the trumpet call of Destruction!
	Time comes with her great broom
	Sweeping all refuse away.

	That which should make man free,
	They turn into fetters;
	That which should unite,
	They turn into sword;
	That which should bring love
	From the fountain of the Eternal,
	They turn into prison
	And with its waves they flood the world.
	They try to cross the river 
	In a bark riddled with holes;
	And yet, in their anguish, whom do they blame?
	
	O Lord, breaking false religion,
	Save the blind!
	Break! O break
	The alter that is drowned in blood.
	Let your thunder strike
	Into the prison of false religion,
	And bring to this unhappy land
	The light of Knowledge.


	Masum
	zmhasan@ois.db.toronto.edu
	zmhasan@neumann.uwaterloo.ca

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