On the fifth anniversary of Irrfan Khan’s passing on April 29, 2025, his powerful message on terrorism from 2016 still echoes.
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00:00When I was a child, we were taught that if your neighbor is hungry, you must not eat alone without inviting them.
00:05Hearing the news from Bangladesh today fills the heart with a strange chilling silence.
00:09Because of not understanding the true teachings of the Quran, people have been killed during the holy month of Ramzan.
00:14An incident happens somewhere and suddenly Islam and Muslims all over the world are defamed.
00:19This, despite Islam being a faith whose very foundation is peace, compassion and feeling the pain of others.
00:25In such times, should Muslims stay silent and let the religion be maligned?
00:28Or should they stand up, understand the true meaning of Islam and tell the world that oppression and massacres have no place in it?
00:34That is the question.
00:36On July 3rd, 2016, as news of a brutal terror attack in Bangladesh shook the world,
00:41actor Irfan Khan posted this quiet but piercing message on Twitter.
00:44Today, 29th April 2025, is his 5th death anniversary.
00:48And today, India finds itself grappling with a fresh wound.
00:51A terror attack in Pahalgam on 22nd April killed 26 innocent people, most of them tourists.
00:55The pain is raw, the questions are urgent and Irfan's message from nearly a decade ago feels painfully, almost eerily relevant.