Alhamdolillah, we are NOT Mushrik! and Muslims of India are not Mushrik either. The ones who deviate from the lines are Islam are simply not following Islam. what is ambiguity in it? People who Chant Vande-Matram are committing sin and that according to Fatwa of Muslims of India
Graphican, I am surprised by your unnecessary secretarian rife and calling Indian muslims mushrik.
There aremany threads on Vande Mataram on this forum but you choose only to create a situation in which to make a Hindu Muslim issue.
Those who want to say Vande Mataram with the intention of meaning it to say Salam or salute. They are not saying it with the intention of praying to Bharat Mata. That is 100% clear.
There is also an opinion not just among Muslims, but other Christians and Sikhs scholars that it is not so and they do not choose to sing it. It is also their right as Supreme Court judgement has made it clear. According to the body that interprets the Indian constitution, this is the stand so by not singing Vande Mataram. No one is doing anything illegal. Jana Gana Mana is the national anthem of India and no one has any problem to sing that.
Now those who call Jamiat Ulema i Hind anti-national just because they don't agree with singing it are wrong. They have long history in the freedom movement, opposed the divisive Islamist policies of Jinnah to the bitter end and campaigned for a united India even in the face of the most hostile time then. This took real courage in the face of fanatacism whipped up by the muslim league in the 40s and JUI used the basis of the Quran and Sunnah to show how unIslamic these actions were. The explained from Quran and Sunnah why muslims should lovetheir country and be loyal to their motherland. And why even if a muslim country invades India, they are bound by their belief (because of the constitutional promise) to defend India. This is nationalism
Singing Vande Mataram does not make someone nationalist automatically. Then all those politicans who do corruption in billions worth will say Vande Mataram and become nationlist. At the same time, they do not oppose anyone else who wants to sing it. The point they have made isthat do not force everyone to sing it whichthe SC judgment makes it clear. And like I mentioned there are some Sikh and Christians group who agree.
Then you have other muslim groups who insist that in this context we take it to mean salute. And it is only inthis context that they sing it. Where is the shirk when I say "I salute you". That is where AR Rahman came with Maa Tujhe Salaam. Watch the videos and see if he is making pooja to any diety. He is not. He is also a devout muslim as well as bait with a sufi order. Moreover he is a convert to Islam so he knows about both hinduism and Islam. Similarly there are religious scholars as well who based on the translation of the word Vande to Salam or Salute from Sanskrit scholars have said it is permitted as long as this is the intention. But if the intention is to worship then it is not. Hope you got your answer.
I know all you wanted to do was create a flame thread which you have been successful in. So Congrats