LOVE IS UNIVERSAL

Love is universal.

According to Islam, love has to be enlightened. A sacred love is the love which is realistic and insightful. The minimum expectation from believers is that Allah should have the first place in their heart, in the sense that no other love may override one's love for Allah; Allah should be the highest and foremost object of love. After love for Allah then comes love to human, plant and animals. Allah S.W.T created human beings with huge diversity in color, language, ethnicity and culture with the purpose of getting to know one another to enrich the human experience and to cooperate in the development of the world.

   Islam was adamant on eliminating any type of racism, discrimination or superiority which any ethnicity might feel over the other through establishing the universal rule summarized in the Prophetic tradition which says, " All humans were created from Adam and Adam was created from dust…no Arab has any superiority over a non-Arab and a non-Arab has a superiority over an Arab…no white man has a superiority over a black man and no black man has a superiority over a white man except by the virtue of piety.

  So, from this movie we can see that Pawan Kumar Chaturvedi a.k.a. Bajrangi (Salman Khan), a devout Hindu Brahmin who tries to get Shahida (Munni), a mute girl from Pakistan lost in India, with no way to get back home. After Bajrangi knew that Munni was Islam he still wanted to help Munni return to her mother. Munni reveals she is from Kashmir, a disputed territory between India and Pakistan. Kashmir is a metaphor for India and Pakistan. It represents the history of something that used to be whole. It is the Maulana who tells Pawan that Munni may be from the Pakistani Kashmir. He also houses them in a Mosque, and helps hide and protect them from the cops- Pawan’s mission is a noble one regardless of his Hinduness. Pawan is reluctant to stay in the building after passing the night there, when he finds upon waking that it is a mosque. He demonstrates a pathetic Hindu fear of pollution- this is similar to the treatment of lower castes in Hinduism (a now abolished form of governance). The Maulana and Munni both help him overcome this. For Munni, Pawan is willing to go into the mosque; his love for her trumps all Hindu-Muslim ignorance. When parting ways with the Maulana, Pawan’s Hinduism is confronted yet again. He offers the Maulana a hand to shake, and in turn the Maulana envelops him in a hug. When the Maulana offers the parting words “Allah Hafiz”, Pawan nearly raises his hand to reply in the same manner- but he checks himself and joins both hands in prayer. The Maulana takes a second, and then asks what the Hindu parting is. He says “Jai Shree Ram” to Pawan with ease. The story teaches that the differences between them do not define the relationships they share. Pawan slowly learns this as he sees the way Muslim people interact with his Hindu religion without hurting their faiths. So, Muslims should show good morals towards non-Muslims and not racists  each other.