POINT TAKEN : The Pulpit and the Policy: When Faith Steps Where Governance Has Faltered
There are moments in the life of a society when the most powerful institutional actor is not a government building, but a prayer hall. Across Jammu and Kashmir, imams have stepped forward without incentive, without mandate, and without political instruction, to name the drug crisis for what it is: a moral emergency consuming the generation that every family, every community, and every institution exists to protect. That act of conscience deserves more than a press release acknowledgement. It deserves a policy response proportionate to the trust it represents. One million people in J&K live under the shadow of drug dependency. Behind that number are mothers who stopped sleeping, fathers who emptied their savings, children who watched siblings disappear into addiction before they understood what addiction meant. No enforcement drive reaches that depth. No government circular speaks to that grief. The imam who names this from the pulpit on a Friday morning reaches precisely where the state has not. But moral courage from civil society cannot substitute for institutional architecture. Rehabilitation centres must be built and staffed. Prosecutions must be fast-tracked. Reported tips must be verified and acted upon with the seriousness that the community’s trust demands. The pulpit has extended its hand. The state must now meet it.
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