Sindh was only the centre of Rasool Bux Palijo’s focus; the area of his struggle and the mirror of his dreams for revolutionary. Humanity was his faith; he saw religions as humane and mutually supportive mass of beliefs and not as classifying and antagonising dogmas spilling blood of the adherents of each other. He had made a comparative study of the main religions and came to the above belief.
He respected all the religions, and one could not discern any derogatory remark about a religion or a religious figure of any faith from his speeches and writings. He was above all the shallow thoughts and poisonous prejudices promoted by the narrow nationalism and dogmatism of pseudo scholars and intellectuals either in their arrogance rather ignorance or at the behest of their masters pulling their strings from power corridors within the country or from far off shores. I have come across his lament over the loss of human lives devoured by the sectarian bias and hatred in the evolutionary history of nations and religions – may it be the thirty years of religious wars in Europe which destroyed many countries, the historic hostility between Arabs and Persians, the mayhem caused by the Sunni-Shia clashes.
He preached all his life against this dogmatism to save Sindh from this menacing threat. He battled against such forces at all fronts – political, cultural, social, and literary. Rasool Bux Palijo was a scholar, intellectual and political activist of high integrity with a construc.
