What he said and how the industry reacted

Amid the growing backlash, Rahman’s children — Khatija, Raheema and Ameen — stood firmly by him. They shared messages urging compassion and humanity over online hate.

Raheema posted a series of notes calling out toxic discourse, writing, “They don’t have time to read the Bhagavad Gita, the Qur’an or the Bible — the sacred words that teach love, peace, discipline, and truth. But they have all the time in the world to argue, mock, provoke, abuse, and disrespect each other. This isn’t religion. This is what blind society, half-baked education, toxic politics, and broken parenting have created — a generation more loyal to hate than to humanity. Bhagavad Gita and Quran never fight in a library. But, ironically, those who fight over them are those who never went to a library.”