My eyes are flooded with tears today. Sitting on the 20th
floor of Sky Bella hotel with a beautiful view of Copenhagen from the windows
and the daily jasarat newspaper in front of me on my laptop, I am nearly lost
for all words and feelings.
The top headline is of a person claiming to have paid huge
sums in bribery to the different elite class individuals of my beloved country.
Favours, sleaze, corruption, laundering, cheating, visits to Monte Carlo,
treason by a top diplomat, MQM walking out of senate on the basis of bad law
order in Karachi, PML – N dishing dirt on PPP, others taking their own dig at
their opponents, 2500 million rupees corruption in defence contracts, lawyers
protesting in favour of judiciary, the apex court hearing petitions in a soap
opera manner, William Hague meeting the ‘President’ of Pakistan Zardari, Dr
Arslan Iftikhar walking in the court like a conqueror or a sovereign of the
country.
And just beside all that, a big captioned image of Malik
Riaz holding the holiest book on the human planet ‘The Quran’!
This is the state of the country which was established by
people who sacrificed their lives, their love, their properties, inheritances,
bungalows, families, relatives and God knows what else for a single purpose.
The purpose of distinguishing themselves from the rest of the nations around
them on a single point of difference – the difference of their beliefs!
They believed that those who believe in the unity of Allah
almighty and the Prophet hood of Muhammad (P.B.U.H) live differently and
independently from those who do not believe in this. The simple term referred to as the ‘Two Nation
Theory’ was in fact the combination of dreams, aspirations, wishes, feelings,
spirits, hopes and desires of hundreds and hundreds of individuals who were
only on a single platform due to the only one thing that was common amongst
them all – their religion!
But woe on us all! This is how we the following generations
have paid the debt of their efforts. These European countries which fought for
more years and decades with each other are now on a single platform just
because their race/region is in close proximity to each to other, and now they
are reaping the benefits of that by taking long strides in every field of life.
Law and order, environment, technologies, transportation, quality of life,
architecture, social stability and all benefits that Allah has promised to all
those who follow the basic human system of life (irrespective of their
religious or social beliefs).
And we ‘Muslims’, the only land on this plant which was
created for Muslims, the only land where
the masses made a choice of following
the ‘Islamic System’ are plunging in the depths of religious and human mire.
Our teenagers are becoming increasingly suicidal with every
following day brining in news of teenage suicides, our social values are
hitting new lows and we as complete idiots are accepting this in the name of
‘modernisation’. Our politicians are playing a musical chair with us fools
singing loudly to provide with the music, the apex court of the country is busy
snatching their own share of the media limelight with a ‘lucky Irani circus’ of
corruption cases without any final acts to ensure that the audience remain
engaged in the ‘show’, the religious fraction of the society loudly pronounces
every un-religious act by saying ‘Astaghfirullah Tauba Tauba Kaisa Zamana aa
gaya hai’ turn their heads around and get busy with their own lives.
I think
Musharraf made a joke few years ago that if you don’t like the nudity on the TV
then just close your eyes and we so loyal a nation to our leaders have taken it
religiously and regularly close eyes in-front of TVs, in streets, in markets
and everywhere else whenever we see something which is against our beliefs,
values or traditions.
One of my friends recently told me that he was walking
through the main sadder area in Karachi when he saw a guy snatching a mobile
from an old lady in-front of him on a gunpoint and the lady started shouting
for help.
I asked him what did you do?? His reply probably defined the
attitude of our whole nation:
‘Kuch nhn yaar, I instantly checked my pocket – my mobile
was there, I said ‘Alhamdulillah’ and walked away’
In here, I can’t stop wishing; praying, hoping – that one
day, some day – my country will be as beautiful and peaceful as they have made
it. These people here only focus on building a society, a country which lasts
until one is alive – without any sense or belief of life after here. But we, we
Muslims, we the nation of Muslims, we the land of pure, we the ummah of
rahmatulil alameen (P.B.U.H) have the knowledge, the guidance, the pathway to
build a country, a society, a human culture which can give the world most happy
and prosperous model of a country and society catering for life not only within
this world, but also for all the worlds to follow!
The sooner we realise this the better it will be!
