“Mere Allah Burai Se Bachana Mujhko” Prayer Gets UP Principal Suspended
The foremost of a government-run college in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district has been suspended with the aid of using the state’s training branch after right-wing businesses reportedly complained to the police approximately a prayer tune sung with the aid of using the youngsters. The police have filed a case. No one has been arrested yet.
The suspension got here after a video clip of the youngsters making a song a famous Urdu language prayer “lab pe aati hai dua banke tamanna meri” withinside the morning meeting turned into broadly circulated.
The clip indicates the component wherein the youngsters are heard making a song the lines “mere allah burai se bachaana mujhko”.
The police stated they filed the case due to the fact the prayer isn’t a part of the every day prayer agenda of presidency faculties and has to do “with a religion”.
“The prayer turned into now no longer a part of the permitted listing and pertained to a community,” stated a senior police officer of the area.
The training branch stated the foremost has been suspended on foundation of preliminary records and they’ll behavior an inquiry into the matter.
The tune in query turned into penned in 1902 with the aid of using Urdu poet Mohammad Iqbal, who additionally wrote the well-known lines “Sare jahan se achcha Hindustan hamara”.
In 2019, a headmaster withinside the state’s Pilibhit district turned into additionally suspended after the scholars have been heard making a song the tune. Following a grievance with the aid of using the neighborhood unit of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, the government had taken action.
At the time, reviews stated the Pilibhit District Magistrate had claimed the headmaster turned into suspended due to the fact he turned into now no longer making the scholars sing the countrywide anthem.
Last month, right-wing activists in Karnataka’s Udupi held protests in opposition to the government of a personal college after the scholars staged a overall performance of “Azan”, the Muslim name to prayer at a sports activities event. The Mother Teresa Memorial School at Shankaranarayana city needed to apologise after the activists faced the college government.
