14th August, 1947!
Rings any bell? yes, it was the day when our great country Pakistan was born. A great leader Quad-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah tireless and continuous efforts were materialized and this was the day he saw his dream come true. The nation which was built on three important things.
- Faith
- Unity
- Discipline
Alaaaas =(, first of all me and then my nation severly lacks any of these 3 thigns mentioned by our Quad, our Bani-e-Wattan and our great leader. Lemme discuss a little of all these things.
Faith:
Faith has many forms in our daily lives. We, being a muslim first of all should have faith in Allah. This is the most important thing is our life and should be. A hopeless and faithless man is a danger for himself and others as well. If we have faith in Allah then we can get through any trouble, any misfortune and any disaster, why? Because we believe that Allah has the greatest power over all things and is the only one who can turn bad things good, turn day into night and show us a rainbow after a storm! If we really think about this point it'll lift us up both spiritually and morally.
Now faith can also be in each other. Because our Prophet Mohammad (S.A.W) said Muslims are like a body, if one part is hurt. The whole body feels the pain. This is how we should be, we should have faith in each other and help each other our in time of trouble. If i am having a bad time, i should have faith in my neighbor Pakistani people that I've their back! If i am going outside town, i should have faith in my Pakistani friends that they'll look after my family. If i am doing a job which is for a good cause but low pay like Police, civil defense or gov. doctor, i should have faith in my Muslim Pakistani government that they'll take care of my monitory problems.
Faith can take so many forms and each and every form has its own good points, no bad points at all but Alas we are a nation with no faith at all. No faith in government, no faith in our other Pakistani brothers, no faith in Police, no faith in Army, no faith in Maulanas, no faith in Pak Ruppee, no faith in anything at all =(.
Unity:
"United we stand, divided we fall"
In class 2 or may be 3 we used to write this story where one guy has 3 kids. This guy is about to die but he is worried because his kids are always fighting with each other so he asks them to bring wood sticks from jungle. Then he asks all of them to break one stick, which they do very easily. Then he asks them to bundle up all the sticks and now try to break the bundle and they can't. The moral of the story was "Unity is strength".
Back in those time, i mean the same time when i was in class 2-3.. i had no idea about unity? all i could see was my friends all around me. I couldn't see or feel the color difference, the racial difference, the ethnic difference, the language difference, the religion difference... nothing at all. They were just my good brothers, good friends.... but because of the constant feed from our leaders, our maulanas and in some cases our friends/families and relatives, i slowly started seeing the difference. I would no more try to hangout with Punjabis because they were so called the moochers of Pakistan. I would try to stay away from Shias because they were Kaffirs as my molvis would say in their Jumma sermon. I would not eat with Christians because this is Kuffar as per Molvis!
My question is, why these so called leaders are not doing their jobs properly? Why don't they preach the unity message as our greatest leader of all time Mohammad (S.A.W) said
"All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over white except by piety and good action."
Faith:
Faith has many forms in our daily lives. We, being a muslim first of all should have faith in Allah. This is the most important thing is our life and should be. A hopeless and faithless man is a danger for himself and others as well. If we have faith in Allah then we can get through any trouble, any misfortune and any disaster, why? Because we believe that Allah has the greatest power over all things and is the only one who can turn bad things good, turn day into night and show us a rainbow after a storm! If we really think about this point it'll lift us up both spiritually and morally.
Now faith can also be in each other. Because our Prophet Mohammad (S.A.W) said Muslims are like a body, if one part is hurt. The whole body feels the pain. This is how we should be, we should have faith in each other and help each other our in time of trouble. If i am having a bad time, i should have faith in my neighbor Pakistani people that I've their back! If i am going outside town, i should have faith in my Pakistani friends that they'll look after my family. If i am doing a job which is for a good cause but low pay like Police, civil defense or gov. doctor, i should have faith in my Muslim Pakistani government that they'll take care of my monitory problems.
Faith can take so many forms and each and every form has its own good points, no bad points at all but Alas we are a nation with no faith at all. No faith in government, no faith in our other Pakistani brothers, no faith in Police, no faith in Army, no faith in Maulanas, no faith in Pak Ruppee, no faith in anything at all =(.
Unity:
"United we stand, divided we fall"
In class 2 or may be 3 we used to write this story where one guy has 3 kids. This guy is about to die but he is worried because his kids are always fighting with each other so he asks them to bring wood sticks from jungle. Then he asks all of them to break one stick, which they do very easily. Then he asks them to bundle up all the sticks and now try to break the bundle and they can't. The moral of the story was "Unity is strength".
Back in those time, i mean the same time when i was in class 2-3.. i had no idea about unity? all i could see was my friends all around me. I couldn't see or feel the color difference, the racial difference, the ethnic difference, the language difference, the religion difference... nothing at all. They were just my good brothers, good friends.... but because of the constant feed from our leaders, our maulanas and in some cases our friends/families and relatives, i slowly started seeing the difference. I would no more try to hangout with Punjabis because they were so called the moochers of Pakistan. I would try to stay away from Shias because they were Kaffirs as my molvis would say in their Jumma sermon. I would not eat with Christians because this is Kuffar as per Molvis!
My question is, why these so called leaders are not doing their jobs properly? Why don't they preach the unity message as our greatest leader of all time Mohammad (S.A.W) said
"All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over white except by piety and good action."
Why can't we just erased everything as see each other just as muslims? Why? why? why can't we?
Discipline:
My mamoo came back from a trip to China, he showed me a pic. In the picture, there were many people standing in line on a factory gate. I was like "Mamoo, yeah kia factorty keh andar ja rahe hain?" Mamoo smiled and replied, "Nahi baita, inhe chutti hogaye hai aur yeah line bana kar factory seh nikal rahe hain". This is discipline. In America or Europe, there is no lock on newspaper stands, or no one guarding it. You just throw in a few coins and the box opens. If u want to, you can take as many as u want but they don't.
Last night i was having dinner at my friends apartment and there someone was telling us a story of his friend who was working in Japan. He said that there was a vending machine outside their building, once he was trying to take a juice from it. He inserted a coin in it and the coin came out from the lower pocket and so did the bottle. He was like woohooo, jackpot. He tried again and another bottle popped out also returning the coin. This guy went berserk and popped out a dozen bottles. This was not enough, he went to his shared apartment and told his other friends as well who did the same and popped out a couple of dozen bottles. This Pakistani guy's greed was not over yet, he thought of going again and getting some more bottles. As he went back to the machine he saw a japanese guy standing near the machine. He stood there and watched him. The japanese guy tossed in a coin and the bottle came out but so did the coin. He was a little confused, he placed the bottle on the top of the machine and tried again and same thing happened. Confused as he was, he went to the nearby phone booth... went through the yellow pages and called somewhere. Then leaving the bottles on the machine he left.
The Pakistani guy stood there waiting for the area to be cleared when a van came and guys wearing company outfit came out. They were the people from the company who owns the vending machine. They pulled out the machine from the place and took it away with them.Discipline:
My mamoo came back from a trip to China, he showed me a pic. In the picture, there were many people standing in line on a factory gate. I was like "Mamoo, yeah kia factorty keh andar ja rahe hain?" Mamoo smiled and replied, "Nahi baita, inhe chutti hogaye hai aur yeah line bana kar factory seh nikal rahe hain". This is discipline. In America or Europe, there is no lock on newspaper stands, or no one guarding it. You just throw in a few coins and the box opens. If u want to, you can take as many as u want but they don't.
Last night i was having dinner at my friends apartment and there someone was telling us a story of his friend who was working in Japan. He said that there was a vending machine outside their building, once he was trying to take a juice from it. He inserted a coin in it and the coin came out from the lower pocket and so did the bottle. He was like woohooo, jackpot. He tried again and another bottle popped out also returning the coin. This guy went berserk and popped out a dozen bottles. This was not enough, he went to his shared apartment and told his other friends as well who did the same and popped out a couple of dozen bottles. This Pakistani guy's greed was not over yet, he thought of going again and getting some more bottles. As he went back to the machine he saw a japanese guy standing near the machine. He stood there and watched him. The japanese guy tossed in a coin and the bottle came out but so did the coin. He was a little confused, he placed the bottle on the top of the machine and tried again and same thing happened. Confused as he was, he went to the nearby phone booth... went through the yellow pages and called somewhere. Then leaving the bottles on the machine he left.
The point is, we have no discipline at all. We honk as soon as we see the lights turn green. We park our cars right infront of NO PARKING boards. We through our trash outside the trash drums. We try to get at the head of the line by pushing and yelling. We don't leave our seats for elder people to sit in. We don't pay our taxes. We don't have a single drop of disciplinary material in our blood.
"Our duty is other guy's right". If we do out duties on time and properly, the other person will get his right. If everyone keeps doing work in this manner, the whole society will be a tranquil place which requires no police or army to control like Switzerland!
I end my blog with Allama Iqbal's shair,
"Firqa bandi hay kaheen aur kaheen zatein hain
kya zamane mein panapne ki yahee batein hainTum syed bhi ho Mirza bhi ho Afghan bhi ho tum sabhi kuchh ho batao ki musalman bhi ho"
Pakistan Zindabad!
3 comments:
kiya baat hai jee!!! poori ki poori pak-studies ki book likh dee appnay to... hehehe :-) waisay likha buhat fit hai , good job!
Shukran jazeelan ya habibtee ;)
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