The blame game is on for years now and we should have been sick and tired of this dirty drama depicting the negativities around us and not showing and revealing the positive side of issues around us.
We blame the government is not anything and simply forget our role in the scenario. We cannot get a much needed change of attitude if we keep on holding other people responsible for all the problems of the world. A famous saying “If you are not the part of the solution, then you are part of the problem in the first place”.
Bold TV Anchors, Straight forward Journalists, so called honest Politicians, Talented industrialists, Leading religious activists, Famous lawyers, Truly good poets, Educationists, all seem to condemn the system and have their own views to fix the Problem. We as common Pakistanis are by negative grounds, forced to confined our life in the walled circle of basic survival which is a rented place, house hold expenses, kids Education, Kids marriages, Utility bills, safety of all family members and many more problems that we do not have time to discuss the core issues or take some revolutionary steps as a Nation on the whole to fix the problem. We need to show our own sincerity to our home land by surviving in the limited means of income, we have made our life so troublesome cause of the fact that a worker wants to adopt the life style of a Super visor, A super visor wishes to match his spending with a manager, Manager will follow footsteps of a Senior manager and cycle goes on till we reach the stage when some big shot is trying to match the life style of the President of Pakistan.
That compels people to take the short route of corruption to excel in life, this short route could start from not paying taxes, frauds in business and with people, mis-using the talents of people by paying them less, not returning loans, not re-investing the profits in to business and sending earning abroad in the foreign accounts, taking bribes at all levels, making sure that honest people do not grow or are placed at positions where they can be a stumbling block in the way of corruption and that includes electing the people to rule us, begging from an ordinary street beggar to a level of a Head of the State asking for loans, then comes the evil of Credit cards, that has made every one addicted to enjoy the money which is not earned by hard work, the interest free business dealings system given to us by our religion is still the best way to survive within our own sources.
Some people regard certain kinds of work or professions as contemptible. However, the Prophet (peace be on him) denied the validity of this notion. He taught his Companions that the whole of a human being’s dignity is tied up with his work—any sort of work —and that real disgrace and humiliation consist of depending on other people’s help. He said, It is better that a person should take a rope and bring a bundle of wood on his back to sell so that Allah may preserve his honor, than that he should beg from people, (regardless of) whether they give to him or refuse him. (Reported by al-Bukhari and Muslim.)
Allah will inflict a disgrace upon you which will not be removed until you return to your religion. (Reported by Abu Daoud.)
We are still having the fate of being disgraced by the people who control us all cause of our lust and greed for wealth, in order to fulfill our wrong desires we can go to any extent starting from dodging own family members and friends to the level of looting the resources of our home land when and where given a chance.
But when they see some business or amusement, they disperse to it and leave thee standing. Say: ‘What is with Allah is better than amusement and than business; and Allah is the best of providers.’ (62:11)
We got to learn to survive in the available means and we must pursue our basic right of having equal opportunities in life as there is absolutely no restriction of pursuing better life backed up by fair means efforts. We start playing our part and keep on pushing the decision makers that they got to move in the right direction.
It is not necessary to have a 1300 cc car when we can hardly afford an 800 cc one, it is not needed to spend a lot on marriages just to show off, it is not needed to rent a bigger house when we can’t afford it, bank loan is not needed when we can gradually build our business, it is not needed to wear expensive brands when we can survive in equally good clothes but at less than 1/4th of the price, we can survive with a cheaper cell phone rather than spending thousands on it just to show others that how expensive mobile phone we have got despite the fact that we do not even use its full features that make it expensive, and there could be hundreds of examples. We adopt wrong means of earning when we exhaust every limit of available financial means and then we make our life miserable in the rat race of earning. The biggest problem of all is that we start in the company of Elites who are filthy rich and become complexed and we ruin ourselves by matching their spending pattern, their life style etc and make a bad out of a good life we were enjoying before our interaction with them.
It is a fact that our leaders and rulers are a true representation of what we are these days as a Nation but we keep on denying the fact that we need to mend our ways first, if we become honest at individual level, then a chain reaction will start which will purify the system and over all out of us as a Nation will certainly improve.
Allah bless Pakistan and move us all in the right direction!
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Revolution?
We talk a lot about a revolution, a major change in the system and seeing a new Pakistan with in no time. We vote for the same people, same parties, same culprits again despite the fact that the media is highlighting their true character in front of the readers and viewers.
70 percent of our voters are illiterate, most of them are in bonded labor of Feudal Lords in Sindh and Punjab and Sarhad. The so called lords discourage education of the labor class to keep intact their vote bank and get elected every time by building a fear factor, forced voting and often buy votes at the price of a decent meal.
Majority of the Pakistanis belong to a struggling class, they spend 16-18 hours in work to earn two decent meals a day for their family, they cannot judge the cruel acts of the politicians and always vote blindly on the basis of clans, tribes, communes, family and native area and at times out of peer pressure as well. They are so badly crushed in the struggle of life that they see vote casting as an opportunity to earn some money or to get false promises of farm land ownership, better health facilities, roads and infrastructure development and jobs for them and their kids. They don’t have the ability to reason and convince anyone if they had made the right choice while voting. On the other hand what choices do we have? It’s the same party system bringing in mostly corrupt people having forged documents and educational certificates and degrees, so they just choose the one culprit from the group of cheats.
You cannot educate them, because they listen and only see their needs because they have been seeing deprivation for decades which includes hunger, no shelter, no health facilities, no education and no right to be treated as a human being even.
We are expecting a change and a revolution from them who are blinded by the circumstances around them, they see the remote chances of their betterment only, they are made silent by the powerful feudal Lords and they can hear only the promises of their future.
Imran Khan and Sheikh Rasheed is hinting a bloody revolution in the coming months, again Politicians will bring people on the road for their own vested interests to grasp the power to rule Pakistan and then forget them as soon as they will be in Power.
If we want to see a real revolution, we must provide good and quality education to the people of Pakistan, their basic needs should be fulfilled which are food, health, security and justice. People cannot make judgment with an empty stomach. Millions of displaced people in all provinces due to flood who hate their ruling elites for some time and then get back to their own routine for struggle in life and will forget what these mean buggers had done to them. We understand that floods are far bigger a problem than the available resources for government to tackle the situation but the question remains that for how many times we will give people of Pakistan an excuse that “WE WERE NOT READY FOR THIS “. For a change the focus should turn to the people of Pakistan, years effort would be needed to re-build the infrastructure but before that people need love, affection and care from all of us including the so called leaders.
It’s about time that politicians and we as Pakistanis stop playing with the emotions of poor and troubled people around us and do some real time effort to help and support them. Every effort counts, every act of kindness has it effects. Poor people of Pakistan are not only an opportunity for having votes from them but they are human beings as well who should be treated well and remembered even after the elections. Common man dies on the road for politicians attempt to bring revolution to take them to the government. We are not yet fully ready to handle democracy because we attempt to loot Pakistan when ever given a chance even by electoral process to rule Pakistan. It is a sad thing that western media calls our head of the state as Mr. Ten Percent, again a democratically elected head of the state by the people who are blinded by their needs and hopes, and are deaf and dumb cause the law and justice is not made for them so they do not raise their voice and do not even listen to the words of wisdom by anchor persons in TV channels cause all of them know deep down their hearts that their life style will not change and they are born to suffer.
Let’s join hands in an effort to do justice to our motherland, our jobs, our families and to our next generation to change our mean life style to caring and helping and also by working honestly. Poor people are least bothered if a shoe is thrown at Zardari Sb, or if some MNA’s degree is fake, or if Umar Gul is not playing the next cricket match, or if Reema and Javed Sheikh are making a movie together, or if a new season of Coke studio is being shown or if Justice is silent, all they need is just enough chance to make enough money to merely survive in these rough and tough circumstances.
Democracy means rule of majority and unfortunately there is a majority of ignorant and illiterate people as compared to educated ones, so the poor condition of the people is being manipulated with false promises in every elections and people do not have any choice but to be betrayed again cause they don’t have a sense to judge the right from the wrong as most of the times they have to chose from the available “WRONGS” in elections.
70 percent of our voters are illiterate, most of them are in bonded labor of Feudal Lords in Sindh and Punjab and Sarhad. The so called lords discourage education of the labor class to keep intact their vote bank and get elected every time by building a fear factor, forced voting and often buy votes at the price of a decent meal.
Majority of the Pakistanis belong to a struggling class, they spend 16-18 hours in work to earn two decent meals a day for their family, they cannot judge the cruel acts of the politicians and always vote blindly on the basis of clans, tribes, communes, family and native area and at times out of peer pressure as well. They are so badly crushed in the struggle of life that they see vote casting as an opportunity to earn some money or to get false promises of farm land ownership, better health facilities, roads and infrastructure development and jobs for them and their kids. They don’t have the ability to reason and convince anyone if they had made the right choice while voting. On the other hand what choices do we have? It’s the same party system bringing in mostly corrupt people having forged documents and educational certificates and degrees, so they just choose the one culprit from the group of cheats.
You cannot educate them, because they listen and only see their needs because they have been seeing deprivation for decades which includes hunger, no shelter, no health facilities, no education and no right to be treated as a human being even.
We are expecting a change and a revolution from them who are blinded by the circumstances around them, they see the remote chances of their betterment only, they are made silent by the powerful feudal Lords and they can hear only the promises of their future.
Imran Khan and Sheikh Rasheed is hinting a bloody revolution in the coming months, again Politicians will bring people on the road for their own vested interests to grasp the power to rule Pakistan and then forget them as soon as they will be in Power.
If we want to see a real revolution, we must provide good and quality education to the people of Pakistan, their basic needs should be fulfilled which are food, health, security and justice. People cannot make judgment with an empty stomach. Millions of displaced people in all provinces due to flood who hate their ruling elites for some time and then get back to their own routine for struggle in life and will forget what these mean buggers had done to them. We understand that floods are far bigger a problem than the available resources for government to tackle the situation but the question remains that for how many times we will give people of Pakistan an excuse that “WE WERE NOT READY FOR THIS “. For a change the focus should turn to the people of Pakistan, years effort would be needed to re-build the infrastructure but before that people need love, affection and care from all of us including the so called leaders.
It’s about time that politicians and we as Pakistanis stop playing with the emotions of poor and troubled people around us and do some real time effort to help and support them. Every effort counts, every act of kindness has it effects. Poor people of Pakistan are not only an opportunity for having votes from them but they are human beings as well who should be treated well and remembered even after the elections. Common man dies on the road for politicians attempt to bring revolution to take them to the government. We are not yet fully ready to handle democracy because we attempt to loot Pakistan when ever given a chance even by electoral process to rule Pakistan. It is a sad thing that western media calls our head of the state as Mr. Ten Percent, again a democratically elected head of the state by the people who are blinded by their needs and hopes, and are deaf and dumb cause the law and justice is not made for them so they do not raise their voice and do not even listen to the words of wisdom by anchor persons in TV channels cause all of them know deep down their hearts that their life style will not change and they are born to suffer.
Let’s join hands in an effort to do justice to our motherland, our jobs, our families and to our next generation to change our mean life style to caring and helping and also by working honestly. Poor people are least bothered if a shoe is thrown at Zardari Sb, or if some MNA’s degree is fake, or if Umar Gul is not playing the next cricket match, or if Reema and Javed Sheikh are making a movie together, or if a new season of Coke studio is being shown or if Justice is silent, all they need is just enough chance to make enough money to merely survive in these rough and tough circumstances.
Democracy means rule of majority and unfortunately there is a majority of ignorant and illiterate people as compared to educated ones, so the poor condition of the people is being manipulated with false promises in every elections and people do not have any choice but to be betrayed again cause they don’t have a sense to judge the right from the wrong as most of the times they have to chose from the available “WRONGS” in elections.
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