Europe is an attractive place, particularly Italy. Surrounded by water, every metropolis has its distinctive taste and story. In my nine-day keep there, I walked a lot I couldn’t really feel my ft anymore. With a clean thoughts and an intention to discover Italy by myself, I fell in love with the deserted buildings, slim streets, the meditating trip on a gondola within the muddy water of Grand Canal, and the outdated deserted water broken buildings of Venice; the place every brick, laid centuries in the past, now within the ruins narrated historic adventures and the victories and pains they went by means of. The plush inexperienced meadows, miles of sunflower fields, and olive bushes proper subsequent to the wineries, may be seen in every single place within the lovely metropolis of Siena; even when you’re crammed up in a squat place in a bit of Kermit inexperienced convertible traditional Fiat 500, in a forty five diploma climate, listening to a talkative native tour information for eight hours, making an attempt to feed each piece of historic data to you, in regards to the medieval castles and wars.
One thing he mentioned caught with me and can be the rationale behind this piece. He mentioned that though he was a believer, he didn’t go to the place of worship. As a substitute, he went to a medical or remedy heart for the aged and volunteered his time and power to assist the sufferers out on his off days. He mentioned that related him to the people and that’s how he’s related to God. Prayer is to not an entity, prayer is out of your coronary heart and your thoughts, your ideas in the event you might and how are you going to declare to be related to God in the event you can’t connect with human beings, created by God. Now don’t get me unsuitable, as a few of my humble readers may assume that I’m asking to exchange the prayer. I’m not!
However it obtained me considering, when will we people truly join with others? Particularly Pakistanis, what will we do to attach with one another? Many of the occasions it’s a race to be nicely knowledgeable, well-known, being proper or proving different individual unsuitable. Even after we go to the mosques for Friday or Eid prayers, it isn’t to attach with different individuals; it’s to carry out the obligatory non secular responsibility of bowing earlier than God and sunnah of paying fitrana adopted by the customary hug with Eid greeting.
Actually, by no means! Besides when it’s time to unhealthy mouth Qandeel another time even a 12 months after her homicide, when it was time to lynch Mashal, when Pakistan was taking part in cricket towards India in ICC, and that too, solely when the boys’s staff was taking part in. Are they connecting with one another for his or her staff or towards the Indian staff? Additionally they join on the very best degree when the ladies’s cricket staff is being shamed and mocked.
How about on Independence Day? Sure, all of them come out and present their patriotism with inexperienced coloured clothes, automobiles painted in inexperienced, motorbike rallies and face paint. Now all that may be very candy however what about that 1/third white portion of Pakistan’s flag? Being a Pakistani is robotically translated for almost all as a Muslim, regardless that Bhagat Singh gave his life combating for freedom from British Raj, and was executed proper there in the midst of Lahore in Shadman. The efforts of the Ahmadi scientist, Dr. Abdus Salam, whose grave was desecrated not too way back, are unmatched until date however how and why did we select to disconnect with these individuals? Why did we deserted Mukhtaran Mai and let Farkhandeh get mauled by the native non secular goons? Why couldn’t we embrace Qandeel and her alternative to seek out her personal path? None of those individuals had been hurting anybody and thoughts you, God didn’t “punish” them himself or ask anybody to take action.
We aren’t truly connecting with different people; we’re simply pushing them away. You may really feel the sheer inconsideration simply by stopping at a visitors circle for barely 15 seconds. Nobody appears to be like to see the place anybody else goes or coming from. Everybody drives as in the event that they had been the one one there and it’s the different riders’ job to clear the way in which for them. Motorbike riders need to lower into each tiny little house between automobiles, small automobiles rush to drive earlier than everybody and God forbid when you’ve got a Land Cruiser! Don’t even get me began on the horn rampage persons are normally on. Poor bike riders! No marvel 80% of the inhabitants is partially deaf. Honking is nearly a prerequisite to driving. Wait! Would THAT be a connecting floor?
How can they declare to be so pious and non secular, and on the next ethical floor than another nation, and disrespect different people and their lives on the similar time? Aren’t they presupposed to be humble and well mannered? How do they declare to be related to God once they have a grave disregard for God’s “creation”?
Neglect about people, what about animals or higher, nature? How many people truly respect her and attempt to join together with her, mom nature that’s. Ocean, rivers and lakes, forests and jungles, glaciers and deserts, mountains and valleys, you identify it. We throw trash wherever we please, stain partitions and rocks with betel spit; we don’t plant bushes however don’t suppose twice earlier than slicing them down. Heck we don’t even take 5 minutes to sit down down amongst the luxurious inexperienced valleys up north or on a seashore in quiet hours.
Planting a tree, placing trash within the trash bin not the bottom, loving the animals, feeding a poor man – as a result of he’s hungry not as a result of it will rating you factors in heaven – treating different people with respect, not hating them or being disgusted by them as a result of they’re darker in complexion, making lesser cash, driving a smaller automobile, cleansing our homes or being in love with different people – from the identical or reverse intercourse:all this stuff are presupposed to deliver us nearer to God.
All this competitors of scoring divine factors has turned the people into aggressive egocentric gamers, not people, and in a approach they’re disconnecting with God, though they might suppose that’s not the case. Think about a Maulana sahib reciting God’s identify on the prayer beads but additionally pushing a lady away in disgust as a result of she is a poor intercourse employee who has nothing to eat begging for charity. What number of divine factors do you work he’s scoring? Who’s nearer to God, the girl or the pious man inflicting her misery by insulting her? What number of gold factors for Qandeel’s brother? Or for Shah Hussain’s lawyer making an attempt to pull Khadijah down within the disgrace entice on her cross within the courtroom not too way back?
“You could say I’m a dreamer, however I’m not the one one. I hope sometime you’ll be a part of us. And the world will stay as one” – John Lennon
