The Case for Humanity
Language, ethnicity, nationality, religion, caste and creed are all contingencies. For a person, any of these could well have been different from what they are now. We are completely disenfranchised when it comes to choosing what language will be our first, what religion will be passed on to us or what region we will be born in. These things just happened, happen and will happen to happen. What follows then is that these factors must never become elements of arrogance for us. There’s no reason they should come into the way of what we all as humans share with each other. Humanity. Before being Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus, or belonging to any other faith, or speaking any language or being born in any piece of land, we are humans and humanity is our first religion. It’s not acquired and unlike the religions we follow, doesn’t come down to us after having been passed on by our parents and social and cultural milieu we are born and brought up in. But rather it’s innate a...