Choice is yours



Most rather all of us want that all the happenings around us should be controlled by us. I think its human instinct that he always wants to remain in commanding position. To fulfill our desire to command the world we at times become irrational, Forget that others are also as good or bad human beings as we are. They also breath like us, think like us and feel like us. Irrationality in our attitudes lead us to certain wrong doings, we start acting abnormal, unbecoming, indecent. We create ill feelings, our seniors develop disliking for us, our peers start distancing from us, and our subordinates start avoiding us. If such attitude prolongs we become isolated, aloof, detached.

I assure you that is the time when you need a friend, a sympathizer, a sincere pal who could help you discharge your stress, share your grief, pat you on your back and all the more make you understand about your follies. The very reasons which brought you to that point of aloofness, solitude, seclusion.

A friend who discusses your mistakes with you, bearing all the harsh attitude of yours, shows you the right path, becomes a beacon, and finally convinces you that your solitude is result of your own behavior, your own dealing with people surrounding you. My all time favourite poet Allama Muhammad Iqbal said "A person is because of society the way a tide because of river. A person or a drop of water alone is nothing".

Allah has created us and given us the status of His caliph on earth. He has bestowed us with wisdom, a thinking mind, sense of differentiating between right and wrong and to act freely upto some extent. It's all because we are best of His creations. So we should prove it from our actions, our deeds, our living that we are the best.

And

Whenever your day gets interrupted by an unexpected annoyance due to someone like you, you have a choice to make. You can let it poison your whole attitude, or you can actually use it to make you more positive and powerful. Those who chose the second option are the people who win, win the day, win the love and win the person who interrupted you.   

Phoenix Syndrome

By Abu Shazil

Pakistan is my pride. I love it the way a baby love his parents. The way mother loves her kids. Many a times I thought of settling abroad and had skill set which could earn me a very handsome living. But I always discarded this option and never gave it importance. Over the past few years my country, my love has become a bleeding wound because of the reason that my state administrators are playing in the hands of foreign powers. My fellow Pakistanis have forgotten the teachings of Islam. My mothers are not grooming their toddlers on the sunnah of Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him (PBUH). My fathers have lost the sense of distinguishing between hard earned money and ill-gotten money. My kids have disregarded the lessons of respect for elders. My elite have stopped giving Zakat. My white collared have become self centered and my poor have lost faith. We all though claim that we are followers of Muhammad PBUH but it does not transpires from our actions, from our living, from our deeds. It is eminent that foreign powers are all out to destabilize my homeland but this is also a bitter fact that they are getting full support from within us. My astray country fellows are selling their services in the greed of few bucks and getting their names written in the list of traitors.

The attitude of my own people has incurred unbelievable loss to my land, my society my values, my ethics, my traditions and my religion. All the society norms have lost their true meanings. Change is eminent, change for the bad rather worst.

But I am sure that the land of pure was created in the name of Allah and He is going to take care of it. When I think about the ongoing situation I am reminded of a term Phoenix Syndrome.

Phoenix is a mythical bird that burns itself in the flames of a fire so that it could be reborn from the ashes. The Phoenix is resurrected to embark on the next phase of its life journey. The process of burning of Phoenix into ashes and taking rebirth from the ashes to live another life is called Phoenix Syndrome.

I believe that Pakistan is suffering from Phoenix Syndrome.  We are sitting on haystack of fire about to burn ourselves into ashes and to take rebirth from the ashes to start a new life. New Life, free from external pressures,  foreign intervention and fear of unknown. A life based on the teaching of Islam, our religion,  a complete CODE OF LIFE.

I am sure Pakistan, a country born on Islamic ideology has a role to play, role of a leader, leader of Muslim world. It is eminent, it is crystal clear, it is written on the wall.  

Mother

By Abu Shazil

Mom!

What a Beautiful word!

When touches the lips, fragrance of roses engulfs the surroundings

When pronounced, ambiance is filled with songs of esteem

Mom!
Your imagination is virtuous, fills heart with light and blesses with vitality
Your touch rejuvenate the trust in Allah

Mom!
Your extended arms are always neurotic to cuddle your children
Your fluffy lap is full of tranquility, Heavens are beneath your feet

AND

There are no impediments in between Allah and your prayers

A Father's Prayer

By: Abu Shazil

Allah, as I go to bed and lay my head on the pillow tonight, what shall I pray for? My prayer for my children's saftey, heaven for my departed wife and other loved ones, perfect health, pardon for my known and unknown sins seem out of place as my heart fills with sorrow, guilt and distress knowing thousands will not be able to sleep tonight becuase their loved one, inocent angles, are not with them. Only ricochets the heart wrenching murmers of those departed loved ones. My prayers should be for the brave and shaheeds, for the families left alone, for the kids waiting for bed time stories and for the fearsome times to come. Oh! Allah what should I pray for tonight.

What shall my children's prayers be today, Allah? Do they pray for their bygone mother and be grateful for all they have? Should they pray for Mom's who lost their babies, Father's who will keep waiting for thier young ones who are lost in the wilderness of human jungle, little babies who can't hold finger's of their mother while taking feeders. Should they pray for those young boys who fell pray in the hands of handlers of suicide bombers.

Allah, bless my heart with a prayer full of wisdom and acumen. A prayer seeking Your blessings for others while cherishing what belongs to me. A prayer that will fetch peace in my world, keeps it away from the horrors that await.

Allah, give me the words to satisfy my young boys that the world is becoming safe with each passing day and terror is going to be a story of days buygone, turning my face to hide the tear stained eyes.

Allah, show me the right path and the light through the darkness. Give my children hope. Help me as I convince my children about the bright future and happy life and tell me WHAT SHALL I PRAY FOR TONIGHT, ALLAH?

Revival

By Abu Shazil

We, the inhabitants of LAND OF PURE (PAKISTAN), have become immune to impurities. We have also lost sense of differentiation between pure and impure. It's not known that how we adopted this social evil but it clearly indicates deteriorating moral fiber of our society. In fact it will not be out of place if we call it moral disaster. This shift rather drift has changed meanings of many terms indicating social environment of our society. When I analyse this drift I find that the root cause of the change is illiteracy. Illiteracy includes social as well as religious illiteracy. Drift from teachings of Islam, which should have been adopted as CODE OF LIFE, is the root cause of mushroom growth of evils driving us away from the very purpose of creation of mankind. Everyone of us must ask ourselves a question "How far we practice Islam?". Truly speaking the percentage of population, practicing Islam as CODE OF LIFE is much less than 50%.

I believe that is the reason for our poverty, high crime rate, ever increasing number of drug addicts, killings and deteriorating moral values is distancing from religion. Elite class of our society separates religion from daily life and thinks that old teachings of religion do not match with present day living norms of society therefore have become redundant and need evolution alongside ever evolving social habits of modern day nations/societies. Poor class has no time to think about religion as they are always striving for the basic necessities of life (Food, clothing & Shelter etc). Even if we take elite, middle and poor classes equal in number, we find the 2/3 of society is not concerned about religion therefore the mothers of these classes do not bring up their kids as per teachings of Islam. Elite mothers build the character of their kids as per principles of so called enlightened modernization, which has actually been injected into our minds by the WEST. WEST, which itself is astray morally and ethically. Poor or Delete class mother's foundation to bring up their kids is beg, borrow or steel the basic necessities of life.

What a petty that most of us are following astray cultures, satanic teachings and evil principles. Naturally the result will be an astray nation, WHICH WE ARE.

Ponder upon this and start a reverse journey towards your culture, your values, your traditions and LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST YOUR RELIGION. Because Islam is the only religion which is complete rather super set of all the old religions. Let it be known that the first messenger of Allah was also blessed with the Islam as a religion but that Islam was subset of Prophet MUHAMMAD PBUH's Islam. And thereafter all the 1,24,000 messengers brought new/enhanced version of Islam. The honour of completing Islam and making it a complete CODE OF LIFE was bestowed upon Last Prophet MUHAMMAD Peace be upon Him. We being the followers of MUHAMMAD PBUH, if go astray, it is our bad luck.

Lets revive our believes, ask for forgiveness from Allah, and mend our bad habits. Let's start following the TRUE religion ISLAM and make our lives SUCCESSFUL in the world here and hereafter.

BE ALLAH WITH YOU.

Social Fiber
By: Abu Shazil

Societies are made of religious believes, ethics, values, culture, traditions and morality. We the Pakistanis (known as PAKYS as an abusive terminology) are Muslims at times hardliners but have we ever asked ourselves a question "Do we practice Islam in our day to day life. I am sure the answer of most of us will be "PARTIALLY" or "NO". Now coming to rest of the elements of society ethics, values, culture, traditions and morality; these all are measured with different scales, by different societies. When we analyse our society we find the meanings of each element are changing with every passing day. And in fact are deteriorating or melting down with each new generation. The reason mainly is globalization, advent of cyber space, electronic media and digital divide which has exposed us with foreign/alien cultures.

When we analyse the society we come to the conclusion that we can divide our society into three clear bands. One, Tip Top/Elite Class; Two, White Collared/Middle Class; Three, Down to earth Poor/ Delete Class.

After evaluating the characters, dealings, and moral fiber of these three bands we find that only the middle class possesses some percentage of ethics, rules, morals and traditions whereas these qualities are absent from the dictionary of other two classes. The only value which ROCKS in the elite and delete class is money. To the elite class religion is fashion, relations are measured with the yard stick of bank balance, ethics, rules, morals and traditions, if at all they exist are imported from western societies and still we are proud to be Muslims, proud to be Asians. To the delete class religion exists but in books because in real life they are faces with hunger, poverty, ailments etc. Day in and day out they are haunted by discrimination, injustice and denial. Deprivation of basic necessities and continual struggle to satisfy the physical needs, they remain least fretful about spiritual needs thereby making religion irrelevant for them. So they believe in money not in religion, because it, if available, has the power to satisfy their physical needs. They even do not understand the meanings of ethics, morals, culture, traditions and are exonerated of all these jargons. Day long struggle only fetches them may be nothing or one time food.

Its only and only the Middle class (white collared) which host fear of ALLAH in the hearts, try to follow the religion, stick to the traditions of their ancestors, have morality and take pride in traditions/culture. They believe in life after death, pray for Allah's mercy and are not ready to do the wrong or follow the wrong willfully.

Now see that only 1/3 of your people try to follow Islam and Asian culture and rest 2/3 of US are astray as for as religion and culture is concerned.

Judge yourself and ask! "In which band you fall in?". If in the heart of your hearts you feel that you belong to 2/3 of society then:-

CHANGE YOURSELF

Change for the best so that you are blessed with EMAN and become a true Muslim.

BE ALLAH WITH YOU so that you lead a successful life (Aameen).

The Vision

Moral Binding deals with securing a position where distinction between right and wrong becomes eminent and one feels like fastening himself to the principles of right conduct. Since I am here to point finger on the wrongs of society with the aim and purpose of generating support and collecting the courage to convert the wrong into right by changing the mindsets, adopting the evolutionary approach, using logic and reason as the main tools.

I am sure you were looking for a podium where you could express your concern on the wrongs of societry with the sheer purpose of putting them right. The vision is elimnation of wrongs and creation of a society woven by the threads of morality, virtu, justice, honesty and righteousness. We need to be steadfast in our efforts, belligerent in our attitude and persistent in our pursuite only then we are going to WIN.

And I am not of the type who accepts anything but WIN WIN.