The recent Lallantop debate drew widespread attention and was followed with keen interest.
Moderated ably by Saurabh Dwivedi, the discussion brought together two composed and intellectually engaged voices—Javed Akhtar Saheb, a public intellectual I have long admired, and Mufti Shamail Nadwi, whose scholarship was new to me.
Despite the subject being deeply contentious, the exchange remained largely civil, owing to both participants’ respect for the debate’s structure.
Mufti Saheb appeared well prepared; his opening remarks and reasoned rebuttals reflected theological depth and clarity.
My observation : The entire debate except for the last 30 min of open house, was gripping. The moderator had to intervene and bring order and decorum at the open house.
In my personal opinion Mufti sab had come well prepared and his erudite opening statement and rebuttal seemed to be working in his favour.
However, once Gaza Genocide came into discussion Javed Sab came into his elements and was all pecked up addressing the audience more than his opponent in the last counter argument section.
Indeed Gaza Genocide is a difficult topic for theist to explain. I also personally find it difficult to comprehend.
WHY ? ALLAH ! WHY ?
Mufti sab did manage to put counter arguments like the martyred children will receive rich rewards, God Knows etc: but it did not have that impact and Javed Sab felt he had managed to score a brownie point, after having been in the woods. Although he did manage to put forward some thought provoking arguments.
Here I would like to pause, reflect and share my thoughts.
In Islam, suffering is not without meaning, and sabr is not quiet surrender. Sabr is the strength to endure with the firm belief that injustice will not last and that every wrong will be answered.
The children of Gaza are not forgotten by God; they are honoured as martyrs, while those who caused their deaths will be held fully accountable.
“Where was God in Gaza?”
This question, repeated with moral urgency, has become the atheistic mic-drop in contemporary debates. It was no different in the much-watched Lallantop discussion, where the genocide in Gaza was presented not merely as a human tragedy, but as decisive evidence against the existence of God Himself.
But this way of thinking completely reverses what is right and wrong.
It does not indict God; it indicts humanity. Missiles do not fall by divine decree but by human choice. Islamic theology has never claimed that God suspends free will to prevent cruelty—only that He records every act, honours the innocent as martyrs, and delays justice not out of absence, but out of wisdom.
The sabr of Gaza’s mothers is not blind faith in silence; it is conscious trust that tyranny is temporary, martyrdom is eternal, and no spilled blood escapes divine reckoning.
These suffering Palestinians have more faith in God. Just this I have to say to all the ethiest out there, to please scroll thru the thousands of Insta feeds and videos and see for yourself the fortitude, courage and accepting the 'isness' of things and standing against inhuman oppression and insensitivity.
Have written two posts on the fortitude and courage of the oppressed Palestinians.
Gaza is a definite proof that God exists.
His existence is felt in the strength of those who endure without hatred, in the sabr of mothers who bury their children yet do not lose faith, and in the unshakable certainty that no injustice escapes His knowledge.
If God did not exist, Gaza would be nothing but broken bodies and forgotten names. Faith refuses that finality. It tells us that oppression has an end, that martyrdom has meaning, and that divine justice—though delayed—is absolute and inevitable.
Alhamdolillah !
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