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Drama, Hope, Wars, Change, Future ...

2009-03-11T19:05:00.004-07:00

Issues: India, Mr. Obama and his hope, Pakistan, Palestine/Israel conflict and possible events of future. This is a bit lengthy post but one can read selectively depending what one likes to read.

More India: Mumbai attacks almost caused a war between India and Pakistan. Some of the things:

Proofs and Allegations: Almost on very first day of Mumbai attacks, India had started to blame Pakistan although no solid proofs were there to support this claim. It showed that Indian fellows wanted it to put on Pakistan in any case. Even till today, no tangible and convincing proofs have been handed over to Pakistan. India took many twists in the course of allegations; they started with claim of involvement of one Pakistani group and went even to the extent that Pakistani state was also involved. Quite unfortunately there are few people among Pakistani rulers who are extremely loyal to the external anti-Pakistan powers, and confirm externally forged stories. Those traitors create an excuse for externals to blame and attack Pakistan!
Backing of the International Powers: Many influential countries like USA, UK etc supported the Indian versions as if they wanted to support them unconditionally. Both Intelligence agencies and Politicians of those countries almost fully agreed to the Indian shallow stories! Almost all those officials first went to India, showed them their support and then visited Pakistan to ask us to follow Indian stories and demands! This gave a kind of feelings that some of the International powers are with India supporting them unconditionally against Pakistan!
Indian fellows say that it handed over proofs to FBI, as if FBI is the most authentic authority in this world. In fact, FBI (i.e. USA) would be used to blackmail us! UK is giving statements as if he is 100% sure that it is done by Pakistani people; we, Pakisanis, know them very well as our forefathers lived under British rule! ;) By the way, has there been any neutral investigation into the matter? No, and don’t expect it either as it would show the reality!

Response of Pakistan: Pakistani response has been sometimes shaky other times courageous, occasionally stupid and sometimes diplomatic. From very first day, we denounced that barbaric act of killing of innocents in Mumbai and offered full support in collective investigations and punishment of criminals but India did not respond positively. Some of the Pakistani officials could not sustain the pressure mounted on Pakistan and they arrested few so called terrorists and banned few so called terrorist groups without any solid proofs of involvement, only because of the Indian and World pressure. That gave impression to the World as if Pakistani people were involved. Sometimes I really feel that there are officials in Pakistan who work for externals and they are the most dangerous enemies of Pakistan!
India and Co. are only concerned in making propaganda and blackmailing, you would see that they will keep on blackmailing us. We don’t have any problem in investigating, arresting and punishing if really there is any Pakistani involved in Mumbai attacks!

It could be done by anyone: It is never difficult to create a situation like that: Let us suppose country ABC arrests some person(s) belonging to country XYZ; ABC makes bombings or any other act of killings within its own territory and starts blaming it on country XYZ! ABC does not allow access to the real facts, suspects and place of act but keeps on crying that it was done by XYZ. ABC claims that the so called suspect, who might be from country XYZ, has admitted that he was supported by people or country XYZ. Suspect is tortured and few of his pictures with wounds are taken to show as if he was arrested from the place of fighting, he is made to confess all what is required and so on! Is such a drama impossible? No it is not rather it has been staged quite successfully. Some individuals can go to any limit to achieve their goals!

What do they want to get out of it? One wonders what really India and Co. want to get out of this whole issue. Some of the things that come to mind are: 1) to keep us busy and under pressure so that International (legal and illegal) demands against so called terrorism could easily be fulfilled and we do not question their acts/demands. 2) to increase the pressure on Pakistan to take more actions against so called terrorists so that we have more internal strife and get weaken internally. 3) to further divide people of Pakistan into different groups like extremists, liberals, enlightened and moderates etc and to make us angry and disappointed 4) to give further setbacks to our already weak economy and political setup 5) to keep Pakistan busy on two borders/fronts: Indian and Afghan. 6) to put character and authenticity of Pakistan in doubt and to defame and isolate us internationally 7) to prevent us from reacting and talking about International injustices and oppressions!!8) Some International powers want that there be a war between Pakistan and India and in such a case, use of Atomic weapons, is very much possible and that will convert both countries to debris. In this way, they will get rid not only of India but also of Pakistan and mission is accomplished! Those cruel forces don’t care about anyone except their own interests, hates and greeds. Now it depends upon India how wise he is. 9) to pave the way for the success of such a party/people in India that has extreme philosophies especially against Pakistan 10) to divert the international attention from the Kashmir and other similar issues where grave human rights violations are being committed 11).…

Elections in

USA

, Mr. Obama and Hope factor:

USA

had elections and a new president Mr. Obama is elected! He has been quite vocal for a change, peace and hope for the world. Well, it is great if he is really sincere in this context. It will be nice if

USA

and its people are safe, happy and progressing; I really feel for those mainly innocent American fellows who start believing and following what their leaders tell them! Most of the Americans are very innocent and nice human beings. There are some factors that are important in this context.

Mr. Obama is president of USA and not of the World!: He might be great man, a thinker and a hero but he is president of the USA only. Well, this is understood fact but sometimes American presidents try to give feelings as if they are Presidents of the World. At least he is not President of Pakistan so should not try to dictate us although he has been doing so and he will try to do so, I know! Nothing against him and his nation but his mind should be clear about what the limits are. Americans are not habitual of hearing such words at least not from Pakistanis but I hope they show some real sense and respect now! We are still in respecting and peaceful state of mind! ;)
His role in Gaza: Although he has given his excuse that Mr. Bush was President at the time when Israel was killing innocent people in Palestine, but he has been speaking about a lot of other matters even when he was not President then what happened in speaking something over this issue? He was very happy at his oath ceremony as he was standing on the dead bodies of more than 1300 mostly innocent Palestinians! I saw him; he was so happy and contended that his start has been so successful and according to plans!! Now, he can take that campaign of bloodshed further, and he would take it ahead happily! Yes we can!
His name is like that of a Muslim: Many Muslims are happy and say look one part of his name is like a Muslim. By the way, it does not make any difference rather it can be a deception. I personally feel that he will prove worse than Mr. Bush. Mr. Obama started with killing of 1300 Palestinians, huge supply of weapons for Israel, pledge of complete support to Israel, continuation of war in Afghanistan, use of same old song of war on terror and Drone attacks inside Pakistan. I feel Muslims should get ready for some real fun in his period. Mr. Bush did slaughter Muslims in the name of freedom and democracy and Mr. Obama would do in the name of hope and openness. So buddies time ahead seems to be quite tough! Fasten you seat belts please and follow instructions of crew carefully! ;)

A different person and slogan was needed: People of the world had started to hate the war and bloodshed by Mr. Bush so group xyz wanted to bring a change, so that bloodshed and International monopoly could go ahead uninterruptedly. For that purpose Mr. Obama was prepared so that he white paints the bloodshed done by Mr. Bush and then gives a new red start! Parameters were controlled in such a way that Mr. Obama succeeded smoothly in elections. In reality, internal economic, social and political situation of USA is quite disturbing but they still are being pushed for further wars by hidden hands. There is high rate of crimes inside USA but they try to show to the world as if they are the best and savior of the world; a deception. Now Mr. Obama promises that a change and hope is coming and it is really coming, be ready for that, it is coming very quickly and that red hope is crying!
A weak character: I personally consider Mr. Bush a stronger person than Mr. Obama although Mr. Bush has been very merciless. Mr. Bush had a strong family background and his father was also a President so he was able to resist some of the orders of group xyz, sometimes may be. On the other hand Mr. Obama is not very strong in context of family background so he would be able to resist very little and that makes the situation more dangerous! He has been trying to portray himself as very strong and intelligent person but this is more show than reality. In USA, President is normally a show piece but vice President is a strong and intelligent guy, who is normally fully loyal to Israel!

Mr. Obama would get better with passage of time, hopefully, although there are almost no sudden chances of any big positive change. Actually the group that works behind those Presidents is the same one, so it does not really make difference if front man is changed, that is the reason why chances of any positive change are very little. By the way, why did he take oath twice? One he took private where there were only few people, it was stated that there was so called mistake in first oath! Second oath should have been some special one where he had more fun! ;)

Some of the steps: With his arrival, he just said that Guantanamo Bay detention centre will be closed in one year! I feel that xyz group was not really happy anymore at the torture methods in Guantanamo Bay so they want to have a better place with better torturing facilities and methods! Very strangely no one is talking about why was it created at first and who is responsible for so many illegal detentions, wonderful torture and killings? But I feel that they considered everything legal, effective and total humane; it was done for national interest and peace of the world! Ohh that was a mistake of former President and we will commit better mistakes in future! Promise plus chocolate ;)

National and International strategies: It seems on national level, he will talk about better economy, opportunities and will give some facilities to his people, will keep them busy here and there, and on international level he will continue with hunts and bloodshed especially of Muslims. It is very strange methodology that some nations just want to have better facilities and peace at home no matter how many people are killed outside to attain that! It is pure shame and inhumane. I really doubt if he wants to do much good for the American fellows; Americans in general are wonderful and nice human beings.

Currently, it is being said that USA and Co. want to have dialog with moderate Talibans; it actually means that divide Afghanis and also make them internally busy so that all attention could be focused on Pakistan – which always has been their goal! By the way, what is logic behind army training of people of USA and preparation of big local army in Afghanistan? Nothing is being done without a purpose; people would be made to fight with each other to safeguard the interests of blood-drinking group xyz!

That group would use different cards like religions, cultures, extremism, terrorism, clash of civilizations etc to keep people fighting, busy and divided! I am afraid that that dirty group is gonna bring different nations in confrontation, so people need to be extra ordinarily careful. But all and other similar tricks of group xyz are ultimately bound to fail, let us see what the will of Creator is! Everyone waits for His next orders ;)

By the way Americans kill other people on the basis of doubt of them being terrorists, can others also do same against Americans and others? Why not? ;)

Not against Muslims: Mr. Obama recently said that he is not against the Muslims; well that is a very nice and encouraging statement. It, however, could possibly mean that he wants to give a nice impression to the Muslims, to calm them down, but in background stage is being prepared to teach further lessons to the Muslims and other people!

In context of Pakistan and Afghanistan, they want to take their policies further so it is also very much possible that from above offer they mean that let us first destroy Afghanistan and Pakistan, others stay relax in this period, and afterwards they will see all other one by one!!!
Such psychological games are nothing new and we have been victim of such buttery and sweat statements so people must not relax or be complacent! It also does not mean that one should not reply nicely to such offers but blind trust is always destructive! Sugar coated poisonous candy is harmful for health ;)

That 9/11 was mainly planned to divert the attention of the world from real issues and also to defame Islam and Muslims! but how long fellows? ;) If Mr. Obama is so sincere to the peace and justice then there should be an open, international and neutral inquiry into different matters like 9/11, Iraq and Afghanistan wars and many other adventures where thousands of innocent people lost lives and criminals should be brought to justice!

A common destruction trick: It is common trick that first destroy a land, force the people there to be like beggars and then throw some bread/support in front of them through different sources like ABC, DEF, GHI etc, this is a wonderful way not only to destroy lands but also a way to make people poor and slave. These international so called neutral institutes make fake hue and cry at invasions to cheat people and then when mission of destruction is accomplished then they try to show efficiency by running towards the site of destruction crying peace, peace and dialogs; they give help in the name of so called reconstruction, peace, humanitarian help and so on. This same trick has been used in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Pakistan and at many other places. What a theater! First shoot a person and then take flowers to his grave! ;)

Those countries that are attacked, their people then run for the refuge and asylum in other countries which itself is a painful, humiliating process and hard way of life! These people lead a very strange life; who would like that his/her country be ruined and he/she lives like a stranger in another country?

Afghanistan is a grave for the invaders; it proved it, it is proving it and it will prove it!!! It is a strange place, whoever attacked it, he/she got ruined there. Don’t cry, stay there, fight bravely, attack inside Pakistan occasionally killing innocents and making us angry, die there and make your way to FINAL DESTINATION! Best wishes.

And Pakistan! By the way what should we expect from new face, team and hope? First of all we should dance that at last hope is born and then drink some buttermilk to celebrate it ;)

In focus: They have just started to make propaganda against Pakistan. It is being said that so called terrorists hidden in Pakistani areas especially on the border of Afghanistan are the real threat for the world. This is in fact an excuse to take war inside Pakistan. USA and Co. feel that Pakistan is the country which could show resistance against international massacres, killings and injustices! So because of this and other reasons they would try to paint Pakistan as terrorist state and would try to collect the sympathies of the world as they did for Afghanistan and Iraq invasions.
People would hear the lectures like terrorism in Pakistan is getting stronger, USA and west are under threat of terrorists, or Al-Qaida is strengthening inside Pakistan, or we will work together with Pakistan (of course to destroy Pakistan), world needs to react to this threat, world needs to work together against terrorism, it is our shared responsibility to react to the threat etc etc. You would not need to pay for those lectures; it comes free of cost at your door steps.
They would change their statements from threats of invasions to diplomacy/help, would use India and Afghanistan as card to pressurize, destabilize and engage us. Every day Pakistanis are being killed through explosions that are being operated by angels sitting on our borders. All these and other similar methods would be used to fool people, to terrify them and to drag them into Pakistan and Afghanistan and later to other places. Whenever they say that Al-Qaida is at such and such place, it means that Al-Qaida has been ordered by them to go there and get active, to create excuse for attacks and invasions. Let us see how much intellect world shows to avoid and resist these traps and cheatings!

Leaders and Nation: Very strangely Pakistani nation, in general, is quite aware that new President of USA is not going to do much good for us rather it could be worse, although there are some fellows in Pakistan who are still living in fool’s paradise. Some of our leaders however are not taking things realistically, they still think that Mr. Obama gonna be good for us and Muslims, which is a childish behaviour and expectation. No matter what kind of person Mr. Obama is, it is internal unity and strength of Pakistanis that will help us than any external help and factors. Quite unfortunately our leaders are not as strong, bold and brave as majority of people. It is important to be diplomatic but one must not get trapped and become slave in the name of diplomacy!

Attacks: Just after few days, when new President of USA took over charge, a Drone attack killed about two dozen people in Pakistan; and this process is increasing and getting further. By the way what they want to achieve through these attacks. Some of the things that come into my little mind are:

1) To pressurise Pakistan to take action against so called terrorists so that our strength gets lost. They even have been giving some money to Government to fight those so called terrorists, which in reality is detrimental for us. The loss which this fight is causing to Pakistan is many times more than the weight of (poisonous) support.
2) These attacks cause the psychological damage besides loss of precious human lives. Most of the Pakistanis know that these attacks are more against innocent people and are unjustified but they are made angry by such repetition of attacks.
3) Through these attacks innocents have been killed that increases the anti-American feelings among people and people react angrily, that anger is then used to justify further attacks, propaganda and war. They attack those people (Taliban) who are pro-Pakistani to make them angry. Quite interestingly, mainly those groups of Taliban have been targeted by the Drone attacks who want dialogue and peace but after they are attacked, they get angry and suspicious again.
4) Such attacks create hate of people against Pakistan army as people rightly expect Army to safeguard lives of Pakistanis and if it does not happen then they start hating it! Such a situation might lead to the war among Pakistani people.
5) Through these occasional attacks war would remain alive at the borders of Pakistan so that International community could be convinced to come for help in so called war on Terrorism. That would also help in quietly planning and executing different plans at other parts of the globe!
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Friends of Pakistan: Fortunately we have got some nice and sincere friends e.g. Saudi Arabia, China and many others. We love Saudi Arabia because of many diverse reasons; it is like our big brother. Pakistan has got very good relations with Arab and Islamic world. People might not be aware but China has been very nice and friendly to Pakistan. China and Pakistan always had high level of understanding.

USA is a special case, we are friends but we are aware that too much and blind friendship with them is not good for health, just middle way is better i.e. rare tea parties are fine! UK is an extremely special country and people one day would find how real face of UK is; USA is very simple as compared to UK! We know “Gora Saab” quite well ;) Most of Indians are nice except few naughty boys! Jews are also nice people but they have got some special people among them, who are very special!! They need to be careful of them.

There are so many hidden friends of Pakistan which will be visible in special situation!!!

Tricks being used: Some tricks that are being used in Pakistan are 1) keep people away from the faith and religion and for that purpose media, greed for the money/power etc is being injected into our blood. People are divided into different groups, parties and sects. 2) corrupt and incapable leaders and people are being silently supported and imposed 3) political parties are made to fight over petty issues 4) disappointment, fear and frustration among people is being spread through rumors, media, suicide bombings, false allegations, false surveys, economic setbacks etc 5) economy is being ruined through strange conditions and loans i.e. loans are given in such a way that they prove more harmful than useful 6) country and people are being made addicted to loans and external supports 7) on one hand hunger for the luxurious life is being created among people through media and life style of selected high class people, and on other hand economy of state is being destroyed and it naturally results in chaos and frustration, an International trick! ;) 8) internal fights are being created e.g. between Army and Taliban, and both of them are being supported externally by one white hand, that is definitely one of the best and safest way for destruction! 9) An independent Judiciary is being opposed as it would be cure to the most of our internal illnesses.

A case at International level is being prepared: Currently propaganda, lies and attacks (in different forms) against Pakistan have increased. What I expect in near future are: 1) agents of group xyz would get active all around the world to plead for help in (their self engineered) war on terrorism being fought inside Pakistan and Afghanistan 2) they would try to present those two regions as the threat to the world peace although they themselves are the biggest (proven) threat to the world peace 3) international community would be made to convince to come together against so called war on terror using different ways like through dialogue, diplomacy; and slowly world leaders(and people) would be persuaded that they should strengthen those white hands which say that we are fighting against a very harsh enemy; and I fear that many people of the world would start believing them, sooner or later. 4) those nations which will deny support for blood-drinking adventures of group xyz, they would be pressurised through different means/pressures like economic, political, moral, army, trade threats etc so that they also start supporting blood-drinking adventure 5) it would be shown by the group xyz that we are respecting and working together with Pakistan against so called terrorists and we are also giving every possible support to Pakistan in this regard so everybody(i.e. International community) should join us, but in reality that support given to Pakistan is an illusion and poison! 6) at the same time attention of the world will be kept diverted from the real issues, and events possible bloody one, would be planned and executed. 7)…

Army having tough time: Pakistan Army is in one of its most difficult times ever. It is being pressed by internal and external forces. Internal pressure is coming from the people of Pakistan who think that Army is fighting for USA and Co. and is killing its own people. There was a time when people of Pakistan extremely respected its Army but its more than required involvement in so called war on terror is tarnishing its image. On the other side international forces are pressing Army to do more against so called terrorists and they time and again show dissatisfaction at the performance of Pakistan Army. So one can imagine how badly Pak Army is trapped!
It is so hurting to see that we are being made to kill each other for the sake of some greedy, liar and merciless international powers! People of Pakistan are aware of this trap but so far we can’t do much except taking more and more injuries and showing patience, because we are still weak internally and international community is also divided and under influence of propaganda!
Quite interestingly both Pak Army and so called terrorists are being supported by same hands! If Pakistan Army thinks that support which they are getting in the name of war on terror will increase their power then it is wrong! That support is a poison and indigestible! Army is probably unaware that how sacred human blood is; there is no money that can be equal to human blood!!! If Pakistani Army is really sincere in dealing everyone fairly then they should treat both USA and Taliban equally, as both of them are part of the problem! Why not?
There was very little bloodshed, suicidal attacks and killings inside Pakistan but after 9/11 and at arrival of angels from USA and Co. in Afghanistan, the peace of this land has been shattered and situation would further deteriorate for some time, especially till the time those angels stay there inside Afghanistan. Anyhow, let them dig their grave deeper with every killing of innocent!

Pakistan would not prefer a direct and traditional war; if someone will wage war against us, it will be very different one for the hidden and visible enemies. It will be mixture of all types of wars full of surprises; we will not beg for asylums rather we will fight against enemies all around the globe till our deaths, we know that real luxurious and eternal life is the one which is after death! A Muslim sells his/her live of this world for the sake of eternal life in Hereafter! ;) We will not attack innocents in any condition because only coward do attack innocent people. We will show astonishing accuracy in detection and termination of real enemies, INSHALLAH!

Let us pray and hope that peace and sincerity prevails because peace is human wish but i am feeling that they will only understand after their jaws are broken! It is our style that we present our blood to enemy and after he/she drinks it to his fill, gets fainted and then we slaughter! ;) Let the people be assured that every drop of blood will be accounted for! Last but not least, we don't fight our enemies till graves, this fight we take beyond that!!! Game on ;)

The solution: At the end of the day, it is faith in Allah Almighty and obedience of His orders that can give us strength, protection and all kinds of successes. If we will not follow the Creator then not only He will punish us but also worldly forces will crush us, so it will be a total destruction and defeat. In such a case no one in this Universe will be able to help us!!! Sooner, people of Pakistan will realise this reality better it will be!

After that it is self confidence, internal unity and strength of people of Pakistan that can solve our problems. No one from outside can help us if we ourselves are not gelled together and not prepared to plan and execute our strategies. External forces would keep on dictating and blackmailing us if we will not have self reliance and confidence. Pakistani nation has got a kind of inferiority complex from the West and that needs to be removed! We, Pakistanis, start believing whatever West tells us; we don’t take it as opinions rather take as ultimate truth. People there think that whole West is similar and there are no differences but in reality west is quite diverse; nations and people here differ in priorities and opinions. Frankly speaking most of the Pakistanis and Muslims think that whole West is ally of USA in hunts and it is time for West to reach out people there and tell them that truth is not as people do perceive!

A free, fair and brave judicial system is the solution to most of our internal problems! This is what international community should support inside Pakistan as this is treatment against cancer of corruption, lawlessness and extremism. That cancer of corruption will eat us very soon and that is one of the biggest threats for Pakistan! Without free and fair judiciary every help given to Pakistan is like throwing that help into a black hole! Quite recently Iftikhar M. Chaudhry has been restored as Chief Justice of Pakistan which is a very encouraging but challenges for him and people are still many! So stay united, brave, alert but wise. More fun is coming! ;)

It is the decision of the Creator that what will be future of Pakistan and no one can change His Will. We need to follow and trust Him sincerely and that is what we have got to do! Tomorrow belongs to us, INSHALLAH.

Palestine/Israel Conflict: Quite recently more than 1300 Palestinians mainly innocents were killed in front of the so called civilized world. Everybody knows that Israel killed the people in anyway and at anytime it liked! Starting from USA to the Muslim countries, everyone looked at it like spectators. Jews, Christians, Muslims and all other religious people were paralysed as if Israel is beyond God and he is allowed to commit all crimes it wants in the name of national security. Few significant aspects are:

Base of conflicts: I feel that this conflict is base for most of the International problems. People are not aware but to create Israel and to protect it, so many people mainly Muslims have been killed all around the World. Some of the Jew fellows, not all Jews, see Muslims and Islam as threat to their dreams so wherever and whenever they feel some danger or resistance against their motives is strengthening, they immediately try to terminate those opposing forces. Recent Iraq and Afghan wars were closely related to this objective and now attacks on Pakistan are also being done to safeguard Israel! It will go further but...!

It belongs to all: If Jew fellows say that Palestine historically belonged to them then Christians and Muslims could also claim same, as they also in history possessed the control of this sacred land so who would then have this territory? I think this matter can never be solved in this way or using force. Best way to solve this problem is by mutual dialogue of followers of three major religions. All three can live there peacefully, doing their worship with mutual understanding and respect but I feel Jew fellows would not agree to that and they would not and they are not obliged to agree to it. They think that they have might but power is a thing which does not stay at one place, so they need to think in a bit longer context! I am almost sure they will not leave their current rigidity and course! In reality, they(a specific group among them) have planned and worked so much to reach current point that it is almost impossible for them to return back, they have burnt their boats, I think! ;) Let us see what the will of God is! It is a surprise ;)

West is part of the game: Creation of the Israel was supported by the West! But that was not the end of story, West also supported Israel till today no matter what they did against Palestinians or others. I think this blind backing by West is a double crime as they not only helped in an illegal occupation by Jew fellows but also supported survival of Israel! What reward West does want to have from this worship? Is it not double standard of West? Now Israel has become so strong that it will give some real tough time to everyone! Have fun ;) Ice cream and hot coffee.

Holocaust: Can Holocaust be used as an excuse for the killings of innocent people? I think according to Jews it might be fine but I think this is totally illogical and unacceptable. Does it mean that what Jews have done to Palestinians, it could be used as an excuse to kill Jews anywhere or? Should all Americans be attacked since they killed so many people (mainly innocents) in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and at other places? Should it happen? This will open up a door for the slaughter of so many innocents!

Some nations, especially the German fellows have been in quite difficult situation. Some of them committed murder of Jew fellows but till today they are made to pay for that. Crime of one person or group can’t be imposed upon innocents or those who were not part of that crime; every child is born free of any sin or crime! Similarly those who were not part of those killings and did not support it; how can they be given blame?

I found German nation quite fair, nice and friendly, of course there are exceptions but over all they are very nice human beings, they have learned their lesson from the history and are very careful and calculated in their course of life. They are trapped in a very strange situation; on one hand they are taught to take the responsibility of those acts where they were not even part of and on other hand they even can’t raise their voice at whatever Israel does! Strange! USA and some other forces are also used to blackmail them!

In such a situation a person hurts his/her own self because of frustration, distress and compulsions. I am not against Jew fellows, I feel for the injustice done to them, but such suppression of a nation (i.e. of German fellows) is also not pleasing and acceptable, it not only damages the natural and balance growth of a nation but also one day might burst out like a volcano! Creator has created nations free and they should stay and feel free!

It has been admitted openly that Iraq war was a mistake (crime) although many other similar mistakes were committed. Anyhow, Israel was in favor of Iraq war and vice president of USA was also a Jew at that time so should Muslims demand money and other compensations from Jews?

The very similar trick, of using crime of one group/person to blackmail whole nation/community, is being used against Pakistanis and Muslims too. Al-Qaida, Taliban, Terrorism etc. are being used to justify the suppression, invasions and killings of the people mainly innocents and civilians. It would not really work in this context as Muslims don’t believe in inherent guilt or responsibility for a crime where one was not involved in!

More bloodshed and wars: I feel that Israel plans either to kill all the Palestinians or will force them to leave Palestine. This seems not to be only plan of Israel they are dreaming for much bigger milestones so people especially Muslims need to be prepared for more (direct and indirect) attacks from Israel and Co. There are many very nice and peaceful people among Jew fellows but there are some people who are really merciless, rigid and non-compromising! Such a group lives in their own world, dreams and plans; they see world only through their own glasses and think that they are allowed to do all (right or wrong) to reach their goals! That group is currently dominating!

I feel in near future Israel will show its real face and muscles to the world although for many decades they have been superpower in background, and current massacre in Gaza is starting point and a glimpse of a new direction! People of the world have been supporting Israel almost unconditionally and now Israel wants to teach a lesson to everyone! If Israel continued its current path of bloodshed, mercilessness and greed then future is extremely bleak for them; no matter how much power they gain or how many people they kill!

Yes, they have right to think that they are the best nation and have right to rule world but this illusion would be soon over, may be within next 10-15 years. I am aware that they would call me a stupid, as their religious scholars read them from their books the promises of the Lord but let us see what exactly Will and Word of the Lord is! Still there is chance of dialogue and correction but I am afraid that some of my Jew fellows would not go for that, and this will be a pity. Some of Jew fellows want that Muslims and Christians fight with each other so that things get easier for them later! ;) but they will still lose no matter what happens because their current track only leads to failure and destruction!!! Pupo yaar ;)

Muslim World: Response of the Muslim world in this issue has been extremely weak and little. Right now problem with most of the Islamic lands is that corrupt and coward rulers are ruling them who are like allies, to the extent of slavery, of USA and Co. So whenever Israel does something against Palestinians, those rulers don’t react as USA orders them to shut up, don’t cry! On the other hand, common people in Muslim world make a lot of hue and cry but their rulers slap them to shut up.

Well, currently there are not many such Muslims and also extremism is being used as a tool to defame and suppress Muslims and Islam. I feel that if unjust policies, propaganda and lies against Muslims continued in the current shape then Muslims in reality might become extremists!

It is fact that Muslims are weak in many different contexts. There is no big possibility of any immediate positive change for them. Muslims currently are weak at faith in the Creator, at knowledge and practice of Islam, are without realistic planning for the future, divided and feeble in context of Worldly power. Unfortunately so far they have not even started to realise and prepare for the future challenges. Time ahead is very tough for them and they need to show extreme patience, unity, intellect and strength in coming days.

Muslims must not expect any kind of good for themselves if their faith in Allah Almighty is weak and His obedience is not being done in a way that was told by Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). If Muslims don’t follow Allah Almighty in a way which is required by Him, then they are bound to lose at every front because if they claim to be Muslims and still don’t follow commands of Him, then it is a cheating!

If Muslims of any country tried to fight on the basis of pure nationalism then they will not get support of Allah Almighty, as His support is for those who put faith in Him and sincerely fight for His sake. So those Muslims, who prefer nationalism or any other ideology over Islam would definitely be defeated, they must be assured for that! Only security for the Muslims is their Faith and Obedience of Allah Almighty, all other things are of secondary importance.

Christian World: If some one thinks that the Christians are inactive or are not ready to show their strength then he/she is wrong. Although Christian fellows have taken heavy blow from the wave of Atheism by young generations but in background they are still in very much control and ready to teach a lesson to the world at suitable time! They have focused more upon worldly/materialistic power than religious and spiritual aspect, which is definitely not the right methodology. So these fellows can’t be ignored while looking for peaceful coexistence of the nations and religions. I feel that some Christian fellows would be waiting that there be a war between Muslims and Jews and then they teach lesson to both of them! ;) but results would be very unexpected for most of the people!

Christian fellows claim that their religion teaches peace but how many innocents have been killed, injured and made crippled because of wars by Mr. Bush and others who happened to be Christians! What kind of peace is that? I do know bad acts of Muslims too, but one should call a spade a spade!

Christian world should come forward and should sincerely put efforts to make world a better place; their aggression and war strategies would not bring any good to them, how many wars do you want fellows? Everyone needs to come out of current circles of hating each other, attacking from backs and prejudices, otherwise everybody would be repenting at the end. Be assured that wars can only be won by those who are spiritually strong!

What next from Israel? I think current massacre by Israel in Gaza is a trailer for near future. This is a fact that Israel is strong economically, has international support and weapons but real problem is that Muslims themselves are not united. They are psychologically slave, unconfident, scared, dispersed and without proper planning. They just cry for few days after every attack by Israel and then get quiet. This time however, I am feeling that Muslims are deeply wounded so they will show some emotions and Israel backed by his slaves will try to terminate them, and there would be a lot of bloodshed but at the end Israel would be a loser!!! How long can Israel hide its barbaric acts and fight the whole world? Israel would need blood so people be ready for donations! ;)

Israel has been able to control the world through having loyal leaders all across the globe but now people of world have started to understand the real facts, and young generations especially are very little biased; they prefer justice and fairness over biasing and stereotypes, so for Israel to have loyal leaders would get harder and harder. It would be nice if Israeli fellows could foresee the coming situation and could show flexibility, sincerity and cooperation.

There are many nice and fair Jew fellows and I feel that world might mistakenly take all Jews similar! That would be a pity.

and Future: My personal analysis and feelings about the near future:

Young generations are real hope but they don’t have control: Fortunately, current young generations of the world in general are quite neutral, open and positive but they don’t have control over resources of the world. Most of them are weak at religious and political awareness and practice and that is the reason why they are unable to stop the evil actions of some world leaders although they want to stop such corrupt actions!

Those young generations are the real hope for the world but as long as they don’t get the control of world resources, things would not change in positive direction. Those people who are currently controlling world order are very merciless and most of them are corrupt and biased. So young generations have got tough time in front of them, they have to educate themselves in context of religions and politics, and at the same time they have to save themselves from poisons of biasing, corruption and hate, which those current controlling old generations would try to inject into them!!! If young generations did not act now then those corrupt people will prepare and bring forth such people who will keep on ruling the world in current way, and nothing would really change!

Religious diversity: Every individual and nation is free for a choice of faith, religion and system of governance as every one is personally answerable in front of the Creator for the choices and deeds, so everyone should be respected! There is no use of hates, prejudices, conspiracies and hidden attacks; people should share whatever they believe or follow and should leave others what they want to adopt or prefer. People are free to take what they find best and like for themselves: be it Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Atheism or any other faith and religion!
Start of Problem(s): People would be thinking, by the way, what is the base of all those conflicts and wars between followers of different religions! Actually the start of the most of the problems and conflicts could be found at two junctures of the history. First when Prophet Jesus was sent down by God and most of the dear Jew fellows denied him, and refused to follow him. Second point of the conflict happened when last Prophet Muhammad was sent down by the God, and interestingly he was denied by most of the Jew and Christian fellows. Those two groups denied the natural handover of authority to new Prophet(s) of God and that is what went wrong!

Muslims on the other hand do believe and accept the Prophets of Jews and Christians rather those Prophets are our Prophets and our faith is unacceptable if we deny them; at the same time Islam allows Jew and Christian fellows to follow their religions if they think that their faiths and religions are ultimate truth. In reality, some of those fellows extremely hate and dislike Prophet Muhammad and Muslims, and this is our crime and this is basic reason why Muslims have been slaughtered, abused and tortured around the world, sometimes in the name of terrorism, other times in the name of freedom, and now probably in the name of hope! Everybody is answerable for his/her choices of religion in front of God and not in front of Muslims so why are Muslims being killed?

By the way, whom have those deniers of Prophet Muhammad damaged? To their own selves and no one else! They had cut the supply line of divine inspiration, knowledge and understanding of life/death and what follows, by this denial!

Some important points: 1) In human history many books were revealed from God but they have been manipulated so they are more harmful than useful as human thinking and writing can never reach the words of God! 2) If God says that from now onwards previous laws are no more valid rather new set of laws (i.e. Islam) has to be followed then why should one deny that order? 3) Revelation of new Book (i.e. Qur’an) means that now only that Book can fulfill all spiritual, physical and any other needs of humanity! 4) Similarly new Prophet (i.e. Muhammad (S.A.W)) means that now only he is role model for the humanity and his life is source of peace and bliss in this world and in next life! 5) Only laws of the Creator can bring peace and harmony in this world because humans can never comprehend all the parameters; if they correct one thing many other get disturbed. 6) Only the Creator has right to give laws!

This denial of Prophet Muhammad and Qur'an by those fellows has been main source of creation of atheism, many other religions, confusions, conflicts and wars. The fact is that how can anyone change the Will of God? If He has ordered that now only way of Muhammad (P.B.U.H) is acceptable to Him then how could that be changed? Even if all the Muslims are killed or all people go astray including me or leave their religion(s) or whole Universe denies this order, it doesn’t change the reality, order and Will of God; as He is not dependent upon anything but everything is dependent upon Him!

Anyhow, no one needs to yell at me, it is my opinion if someone can’t digest it then he/she should look for a digestible entity as everyone is free and personally answerable at the End!

Future and people: I am quite convinced that the future of the world belongs to the will and sincerity of the human beings. If people want to stand against unfairness and injustice regardless of national, cultural and religious attachments, then no one can dare to hijack the peace and progress of the world. On the other hand if people, because of vested interests or religious enmity or biasing or stereotypes, would not stand for the justice and fairness then no one can help people and world. Young generations of the world are quite neutral, open and fair so they really need to be active socially, religiously and politically because if they would stay away from the active roles then next generation of world leaders would not be very effective, different and fair one!

If World especially Europe stands stronger, neutral and united for the justice and peace then no one can accomplish the wrong agendas otherwise everyone would be affected by the injustice sooner or later. It is law of nature that those who remain silent on injustice and unfairness being done to others; themselves become victim of injustice, sooner or later!!!

This is defining moment for the World and if people did not react properly, wisely and bravely at this stage then things will get very complicated because many volcano are about to explode! People need to stay alert and vigilant, and this is the way to deal all possibilities. Time ahead is hard one; bear it with patience, braveness and faith and don’t cry like children. After every darkness, there is light and light is not far now! Prepare yourselves for hard tasks, this fight is inevitable ;)

Success and peace in this world and in Hereafter is only in knowing and following the orders of the Lord of everything!

Take care and keep your spirits high ;) Best wishes.

These are absolute my personal views and feelings and everybody is welcome to agree, disagree or comment.

And only Allah knows best.

Current Pakistan, USA, Terrorism, Neighbours and Positive Changes (2)

2008-12-09T12:42:00.000-08:00

Few most recent developments:
There have been few vital developments which are of quite importance in context of Pakistan.

India and we: One more time, these two nations are feeling uncomfortable. Few of the significant aspects of the recent developments.

Mumbai attacks: Few days ago, there happened attacks in Mumbai and nearly 180 people lost their lives, most of the civilians and innocents. This is a coward, cruel and inhuman attack, no matter who did it, there is no justification for that. It is common thing that both India and Pakistan blame each other for any such incidents. I feel it is not very logical and appropriate to blame blindly and defame each other. Political point scoring must not be done at the cost of the blood of innocent people, if sometime such incidents do happen then they must be solved with cooperation, intelligence and patience so that real culprits could be found and punished, otherwise such incidents could lead to the bigger losses!
Pakistan based: It is being believed that some Pakistan based elements are involved into this attack, well it is not logical to point finger at anyone without deep, open, neutral and enough investigations; Pakistan is fully prepared to cooperate in context of free, fair and open investigations. We will not, however, like to be threatened or blackmailed using any incident as a pretext. Pakistan wants to live peacefully with all people but it requires cooperation and sincerity from all parties.

Alleged Groups and Individuals: Whenever such incidents happen, there comes a long list of demands and people to be handed over or groups to be banned or action be taken against so called terrorist. Similar things happened at the time of 9/11 and many people, including Pakistanis, were arrested, tortured, handed over to other countries and killed. This is not the way to deal such things. First of all solid and in depth investigations should be made and then convincing proofs should be handed over to the country where criminal might be living! That country, in current case Pakistan, then arrests, interrogates and punishes the person according to own law. This is better and logical way to handle such issues. Every country should look into its own criminals than trying to become the international dictator and messing up everything here and there!

Take blind actions: Pakistan is asked time and again to take the stern, in other words blind, action against those who are believed to be the fighters, Jihadis or likes. But here the questions arises why should we do so without giving anyone chance to defend him/her self legally and fairly? Law is law and it applies to all. Pakistan has been under threat from many internal and external enemies and like any other country we have been planning and replying them in different ways including physical fights. Like any other nation, we deserve the right to protect ourselves. It is very much possible that Pakistan at some points went beyond fairness but it happens naturally in tough and critical situations. In current situation, our attentions are almost fully concentrated upon the internal problems and we don’t want to intervene into the matters of other people but at the same time we don’t want that others poke their noses into our affairs. Pakistan has given so much blood and bore heavy losses in this war on terror just to make external powers happy although track record of many of those international powers tells clearly that they are interested more in destructions than peace.
How to treat the so called terrorists: There are few important aspects in this context: First of all, it is right of every human being to be given chance to defend legally. Secondly, people have been involved in fights and in a need it is not a crime to fight against aggressors, these fighters have been fighting against only forces/armies and not against innocent people e.g. in Afghanistan and Kashmir. Right now, however, such fighters are well monitored and controlled so that they don’t get involved in any fights. Thirdly, now most of those people, who were fighters in past are living peacefully, and they cooperate with government of Pakistan then why should they be killed? Fourthly, invasion of Afghanistan and occupation of Kashmir have been big reason for the creation of fighters and these issues must not be seen narrowly and in one direction only. Fifthly, if any individual or group of Pakistan is involved in any killings of the innocent people anywhere then solid and convincing proofs need to be provided to Pakistan so that those criminals could be punished. It is our own responsibility to take action against such criminals because actions of those people are detrimental to both Pakistan and Islam. Sixthly, there should be fair, peaceful and quick solution of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Kashmir which is playing a major role in creation of more conflicts. Sixthly, Pakistan can’t allow the external pressures just to ignite more fire at home. We have been cooperating in fight against rogue elements within our land but every demand in the name of so called war on terror can’t be entertained; human rights of every person have to be protected. Seventhly, the best way to contain those elements is through love, dialogue and sincere friendship. They are not afraid of killing or being killed so they need to handled properly and peacefully through those people whom they trust e.g. religious scholars, fair politicians, educationists etc.

Inside India: A lot of separation movements and extremist groups do exist in India too and they do blackmail and harm the peaceful majority of the country. Such groups have been found to be involved in many disturbances and killings! This aspect should not be ignored or taken lightly while observing the over all situation and causes of the incidents.

Common People don’t want war or killings: The common people of both Pakistan and India want to live together peacefully but there are some minority groups which don’t like to see peace and understanding, such disturbing forces are both internal and external(international). Some national and international players are very smart but quite merciless they don’t really care about what common people pay. It is very encouraging sign that after attacks in Mumbai, general public of India has protested against such attacks, loopholes in security and carelessness of their politicians.

Few other aspects.

Afghanistan and Border: As usual this border is a real source of test, heat and pain for the Pakistanis. It is believed that three international countries are quite active in Afghanistan: USA, India and Israel, and there are some other players too. Those all sacred International powers are using Afghanistan as base camp against Pakistan and some of other neighbouring countries! Why? There are many different reasons. This camp is believed to be a multipurpose one; there one finds execution of a big variety of plans like physical war and attacks on Pakistan, help of anti-Pakistan elements, brainwashing of people, propaganda cooking, smuggling, drugs business etc.
It is regularly claimed that Taliban in Afghanistan are getting support from Pakistan but in reality Taliban and other fighters in Afghanistan are themselves warriors and trained for guerrilla wars. One should not forget history of Afghanistan that Afghanis have been a source of defeat for the invaders. They know very well how to make enemy tired and weak because this is their land and also they are experienced to the wars! So resistance in Afghanistan is internal one and even if there comes any unnoticed external support from Pakistani Taliban, it is not any big one although people are made to believe other way round!!
Another aspect of this story is that western media and states give very little importance to the killings of the local, mostly civilian Afghan and Pakistani people, but they cry very loudly at casualties of their own army and people. Is blood of Afghans and Pakistanis cheaper than westerners or any other nation? What are the reasons? I want to know those reasons! Even if there are any reasons for that then how is it justified killing innocent people? At the same time, we also don't feel happy at the casualties and losses of westerner soldiers and people as they are our human fellows. In fact these dirty wars are based upon a lot of lies, cheatings and hates and most of those who are fighting, belonging to all sides, are unaware of those conspiracies and hates of hidden behind! In any case western media and people should be equally aware of neutral and all-sided picture of happenings, to get fair feelings.

Increased attacks on Pakistan: In last few weeks there have been frequent attacks inside Pakistan mostly on the bordering areas along Afghanistan. Reasons are old excuses and suppositions that Taliban and Al-Qaida are quite active there. After every attack it is stated that a notorious Taliban and Al-Qaida leader was killed along many civilians, and very strangely there are people in Pakistan who hurry up to confirm that this most probable lie is in fact a truth. The fact is that there are Pakistanis who are purchased one, i don't know whether they are paid in dollars or in any other currency! Such people provide a good excuse for the illegitimate attacks on our soil and of course media also transmits the news mostly without confirming truth!
There are few important aspects in this regard. First of all what are the proofs that some Al-Qiada or other terrorists is hidden there? In reality generally there are no proofs, it is just a supposition. Secondly even if there are some extremists then why don't they(USA and Co.) inform Pakistani authorities? Thirdly why a so called extremist should be killed in such a brutal way, without giving him/her chance to defend legally and openly? Such blind killings indeed open way for unfairness and lawlessness. Fourthly, what about those innocents who are killed in such attacks? Who is responsible for their blood? Fifthly, who has given authority to USA or to any one else to cross border and attack another land? Under which laws they do so? They say that they have authority to do so and there are such laws which allow attacks! By the way, it is not difficult to make laws but not all laws are fair, logical and justified ones. Any nation can create laws for invasions, murders and lawlessness but such laws take, sooner or later, to the ditch! Mr. XYZ can issue a law anytime in the name of national security but Mr. XYZ should be aware that there are other nations too on this planet. Sixthly, world has seen time and again how much USA and Co. follow the rules and regulations and what those rules and regulations are! As far as UN is concerned, it is no secret that it is quite crippled, slave and biased!

I think after reading these points some people will feel heat and can order more attacks on us but it will not bring any good rather every new attack is opening the way to chaos for all involved in those games. Don’t test our patience or compulsions or wish of cooperation or whatever!

The ISI (Inter-services intelligence): These days, a huge hue and cry is being made against the intelligence agencies of Pakistan especially against ISI. Some people are trying to present it as the source of all problems, but in reality there are many misconceptions and theories. It is true that ISI has been involved in many different, hard and complicated tasks but this is how an intelligence agency functions. There has been many challenges faced by it and it is natural that there might have been some mistakes too.

If one will look at ISI from the perspective of those forces against which it has been fighting then one will definitely say that ISI was almost always wrong and unfair; those opposing forces have to make such propaganda; they want that their intelligence agencies should be given free hand to plot all (good and bad) plans they like and no one should stop them! By the way, which agency has got clean hands? Pakistan was almost unable to remain neutral in Afghanistan because of situation, circumstances and implications there. Many forces, national and international, have been operating in Afghanistan and it is a difficult and complex place. Right now, it is Afghanistan that is being used a place to destabilize and pressurize Pakistan. Still, Pakistan is not showing aggression against people sitting there and making plots against us. Our Intelligence agencies and all other similar forces are almost inactive in Afghanistan and Kashmir but still people are high at blames. Actually, they want this war to enter into Pakistan now. Different strategies are being applied to weaken Pakistan and highest one is the use of so called terrorism along with economic and political traps.

People do forget that the excuses used for the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan are so dubious and weak, but people are made to believe that base for all these invasions and destructions is justified; so no one should question their authority to make destructions. Currently they are admitting that there were no solid proofs for the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we did wrong to invade it. But is it enough? Who is going to be punished for that failure and killings of so many innocents? Who has really gone to the depth of the happening on 9/11? Theories, speculations and false allegations!

Actually this is a tactic that keep people focused at the narrow aspects, and repeat the false allegations so much that people are not able to think broadly and correctly, they don’t question the authenticity of the basis of actions, they see only selective aspects of the conflicts, they are made to believe in specific directions, facts are twisted in such a way that forged stories look real and so on. What about that failure of CIA and FBI in case of Iraq? CIA was fully involved in training and support of fighters in Afghanistan!

Now both in Afghanistan and Kashmir are the local people who are fighting for their causes. Pakistan does not need to support them with weapons etc, although moral and political support should remain firm; they themselves are in position to take those fights to the logical ends. Afghanistan has been almost undefeatable in history and they are proving it right now too. There is no use of putting the blame on Pakistan for failures there. This is a fact that technology and weapons can only make destruction to some extent but they can’t win a war. To fight for Afghanis is normal thing, they are so used to it and they know very well how to trap enemy in their land!

Look into history and one will find that Intelligence agencies of the so called super powers have blood of millions of people in their names! And today they are trying to present themselves as if they are the only saviors of the world and securing people from all kind of threats! What a deception!

How much cooperation and why? We have been cooperating in almost every aspect. Pakistan not only (wrongly) accepted the invasion in Afghanistan but also provided the intelligence and other support for war in Afghanistan, and against those people who were trained and supported by the Pakistan and USA i.e. Jihadis! Not only that, the basic needs of the Army in Afghanistan are going through Pakistan; not only that we have sustained heavy losses: human, social and financial because of that war. What is expected more?

Make suicide or we kill you! It is normal statement that Pakistan is not doing enough against the so called terrorists. Hundreds of humans have been killed by our Army in recent months to show to the world that we doing enough and good against so called terrorists. It is like a person comes and says hey you have to take one choice out of two: either you do suicide(in this case by killing so called terrorists as after that Pakistanis will kill each other) or I(USA and co.) kill you(through attacks from Afghanistan). But beside so many killings of those fighters by our army without any solid proofs and without any trials of them, attacks from USA and Co. are not stopping! So in simple words we are not only doing suicide but also are being killed!

If Taliban etc are convinced to stop their fight at some point then comes the missile or Drone from Afghanistan to ignite their emotions again. They ask Army and our government that why USA is attacking Pakistan beside all efforts of Pakistan to have peace; and there is no answer except anger and frustration!

These are just one or two percent: It is a normal statement that there are only one or two percent Muslims who are not peaceful. This is a very complex statement and it makes in reality 100% Muslims as doubtful, and that one or two percent is projected so much that rest of the majority is ignored. This one percent statement has been used to arrest, humiliate and kill thousands of Muslims and it seems that 99% peaceful Muslims would be destroyed but that one percent will still survive. Actually this statement is used to keep people doubtful, afraid and suspicious towards Muslims, and to torture Muslims at the same time!

Possible Intentions behind: Actually it is not about war on terror rather it is more war on Pakistan and even if we kill all the Taliban and likes then they will forge new excuses to attack and blackmail us. Actually they want destruction of Pakistan especially our nuclear weapons tease them day and night!

Those countries who are involved in the mass murders in the name of democracy, world peace or whatever, they tell a lot of stories to their own people so that people stay confused, afraid and biased. Eye of the media is kept at others especially those who disagree to their policies.

Economic Situation: Pakistan is not a rich and developed country; it is rather among the poor countries if compared in context of economy and progress. We have to pay back a lot of money, billions of dollars, to the International banks which are controlled by the big powers. In reality we have been paying back the interest on the credit we took, leave alone the real amounts. The situation even got worse when loans taken by the international banks were not used properly. There has not been any clear strategy to get out of this situation and every government has been taking more loans just to pass the time and difficult situation.
I don't see a solid solution to the current economic problems of Pakistan except that we plan something solid and work hard to get out of it. Actually, these big economic powers and banks use such situations of poor countries to dictate their policies and conditions. They ask for increase in prices of goods, increase in taxes etc. which sometimes makes the life of common people even difficult. It is strange that International powers, instead of giving relief to the common man, make life difficult for them.
Currently, life for the poor people is so miserable that they are even not able to buy the basic needs of life like bread, electricity, medicine etc. They have limited and fixed income but prices of basic commodities/needs are increasing regularly and speedily.
On the other hand those people who are already strong financially they are not affected much by those conditions dictated by the International banks/institutions! It is strange that most of the leaders in our country are very rich and it is strange that ruler his/herself has so much money, luxuries and facilities but his/her nation does not even have enough to eat. A true ruler is the one who eats at the end when all his people eat and he has facilities equal to the poor people, then he/she will be able to understand the problems and situations of common man.
This is not the only thing; those leaders spent most of their time away from the common man among their luxurious homes, offices and palaces and main excuse is security! A ruler must live within common people.
Most of those International loans go to the pockets of the corrupt and higher class people and very little reaches to the common man; it is the common man who bears most of the effects due to interest on loans, conditions attached to it and corruption of the authorities; what a wonderful situation. Such international supports/loans become counter productive instead of bringing positive.
May be it is part of International System that make rich more rich and poor more poor. They use these rich elite/rich class then to control the big majority of poor people and most of these rich class people are selfish, addicted to luxuries, stupid and greedy; i think much money and its love makes the heart of a person hard and unsympathetic.
The difference between the economic status of poor and rich is quite big in our country and that is an international situation too. If rich people will sit on their money like snakes and will keep on increasing their money, as they have contacts and influences, then how can money and other resources reach the lower class?

Law and Order: This is no secret that law and order situation is quite unsatisfactory within Pakistan. Financial crises get double folded by the suicide bombings and other crimes. People feel insecure at public places and there is state of fear and disappointment. Current Judicial system is a crippled and corrupt one, and most of judges sitting there are the slave of the rulers, they are not able to do justice in its true sense.

Coward leaders or coward nation? After every new attack of USA and Co. on the soil of Pakistan, there come the coward and rubbish statements from our leaders like we don’t have enough technology to stop the attacks, or we have to pay a lot of loan of USA, we can’t fight against USA and Co, or we should bear this bloodshed until Obama takes charge etc. I wonder if this is the opinion of leaders or of the nation in general but it reflects the psychological slavery and defeat. Human blood is extremely precious; thousands times more precious than money etc and it can’t be allowed to shed in this way!

This is one of the tactics of the USA and Co. that they like to keep people psychologically under pressure and if someone starts accepting this pressure then they increase it continually, but if they are replied strongly and boldly then they start realising their limits and their own selves! When we ask them to stop attacks on our land then they say yes we will not do that again but then go to their office, laugh at us for sometime and then comes a new attack and then they smile at us once more! These laughs and smiles are not new; many people gave such satanic smiles for sometime in human history! No nation stays at top forever, and especially those who commit injustice and oppression, sink very quickly!

Best way, Pakistan can stop all this, is through strong and brave stance. We must talk to them in strong and clear way and ask what actually they want? Why are they not stopping attacks after so many requests and warnings? Drones entering into Pakistani areas must be targeted and if Pakistan does not have enough technology, although we do have, then they should be warned that we will hit those Drones inside Afghanistan too and even if after that it does not stop then there should be an appropriate and exact reply. They see and get happy every day that their technology and weapons can win them war, which is just an illusion! We know how much have they won in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan! They used full strength in Afghanistan against fighters there but still today could not win against them!

It is good sign that Pakistani people have started to question things happening around them, especially the doings of the rulers.

War should not happen: In worst case if a war happens between Pakistan and India or other nation then it will be a very destructive one. Few aspects in this regard; first, Pakistan is a nuclear power, equipped with strong weapons and has strong army, people ready for any sacrifice for self defense so a battle will be a very complicated one. Second, people do underestimate Pakistan and Pakistanis, but actually we are very well prepared and strong in case of a war. Third, no fear of death!!! Fourth, everyone is ready to defend Pakistan including Taliban and other Jihadi/fighter groups and it will be a nightmare for the world! Fifthly, this war will spread out especially till those countries which will be directly or indirectly involved against Pakistan; if our land and peace will be attacked then we have every right to retaliate against aggressors except civilians and innocents as innocents can't be harmed even in war. Sixthly, if someone thinks that weapons or technology can win a war or protect someone then it is an illusion. If human beings decide to retaliate then they can reach anywhere and break all barriers!!

War is not our wish: Pakistani people don’t want to have war with any other country including India. There are a quite a few aspects in this context. First of all, Islam does encourage preference to the peaceful means to settle issues and asks to live peacefully and with understanding. Secondly, Pakistani people want to have friendship and cooperation with all the people of this planet although this desire of ours is being misused. Thirdly, Pakistan does not have intentions to attack and conquer other countries; we want to see other nations as happy and prosperous including India. Fourthly, common people especially the young generations of almost all countries are quite friendly to each other. They are not hostile to each other like previous generations; they understand that wars are not solutions. Fifthly, both countries are nuclear powers and a war in such situation will be extremely destructive for everyone. Sixthly, we don’t want to see innocent people of the world in trouble. Already, so many people especially civilians have been thrown into fire of wars. Seventhly, we know that people of many countries don’t get the real picture of happenings and plans; they don’t know the real facts and hidden intentions! Eighthly, we know that more than 90% people of this planet want to have peace then it is total rubbish to let small rogue minority create war and problems for such a big majority.

Diplomacy but how much? Every nation and individual has to show some diplomacy at some stage of life but if it leads to closing of eyes at the killings of innocents and injustice then it is no more diplomacy rather it is cowardliness. Nations do have their vested interests but interests should not come in the way of justice and fairness.

West must prosper and have freedom: Muslims and Pakistanis are very happy that people of west make a lot of progress, they have all the facilities of life, they stay happy and as free people. Why should we be against the progress of the world and West? We don’t have jealousy; we don’t want to snatch freedom of anyone. We hope and wish that new president of USA does a lot of good things for his people and his time results as a peace and happiness of the world. Pakistan feels happy at progress of the world; we are very contended what we have. Our religion asks us to be involved in friendly and objective dialogue with all people including Jew and Christian fellows and all other religious and no-religious groups/individuals, and as Muslims and Pakistani we are ready for the dialogue with everyone.

It is ok but: Pakistan is under a lot of internal and external pressures and threats but it has got great potential to come out of difficult situations. It has got everything to stand strongly on its feet as there are so many positives and potentials in this nation; the things that we need are stronger faith, self confidence, planning, sincere international understanding/cooperation and positive efforts. Our desire for peace and cooperation must not be misused because if we left that frame of mind then it would get too late and complicated!! Peace is our preference.

More comes…

Feel free to agree, disagree and comment.

Recent Pakistan, USA, Terrorism, Neighbours and Positive Changes (1)

2008-09-10T10:23:00.000-07:00

Right from the start, Pakistan has been living under a lot of challenges ;) Thousands of people migrated to reach the lands they wanted to live in i.e. India and Pakistan at the time of separation in 1947 and thousands were killed in this process. We got Pakistan with a specific goal and that was the Muslims could live in a separate land as they do differ in context of philosophy and life style to Hindus. We could have been living together with our Hindu fellows but I personally think that it was a right decision since it was better to live in separate land instead of fighting over petty issues. One can bring two good reasons against this idea: firstly there are still millions of Muslims who are living in India then why some Muslims did prefer a separate state? Secondly Pakistan could not reach the goal it was created for. Both of these reasons are strong and logical ones.

Well, as far as first point is concerned, I feel it is almost impossible to bring a solid result that what could have been better i.e. one land or two lands? At the time of Movement for the separate land i.e. Pakistan, Muslims were of both opinions, there were those who were in favour of separate land and they had their strong reasons and there were those who were not in favour of separate land. I am personally in favour of the separate land although it was a difficult choice and it took a lot of sacrifices; choice of a united land was also fine but I don’t feel good at it. Today, Muslims of India are living fine but I think Indian society was not that open and liberal at that time (i.e. around 1947) so things were more complicated and harder on that stage.

Second question is that why Pakistan could not reach its goal of being a strong and prosperous Islamic state? Well, it is also a hard question, I feel that there have been some natural reasons for that failure and there also have been some reasons due to fault of Pakistani nation. We have been up against both internal and external challenges. Internal challenges have been struggle for a system of state, we have been following a system which is mixture of Islamic rules and other ones and people have been divided over the choice of a system; I think this one has been our biggest problem till today. In addition to that there have been problems like instable political system, weak economy, weak educational system, class system, weak judiciary, corruption, unfair division of resources among provinces etc. Our external challenges have been wars with India, Kashmir issue, wars in Afghanistan and of course our marriage with USA and engagement with UK ;). Some of our international enemies like friends have been fantastic and we will never forget their wonderful contributions towards Pakistan ;)

Anyway, we somehow survived many difficult times, conspiracies and illnesses during last sixty years. I would like focus now upon the last decade of the Pakistan and current situation of it. I feel that last ten years have been of special importance for us since this is the period when we really started to change.

Last 10 years

A coup

Pakistan has been living under Army rule during much part of its life and one commando named Gen. Pervez Musharraf came on the scene like a Hollywood hero and he took the control of Pakistan in end of last century. He gave his own reasons for this brave coup and in reality there has been no neutral and open investigation that what actually happened: stories and fairytales are spread here and there. People of Pakistan felt happy that they have got a new saviour who will do magic for them e.g. he will make all the mountains of Pakistan of gold and all people will be happy and rich, in reality it was start of new fun!

Actually Mr. Musharraf is a very cunning guy since his childhood ;). I don’t know whether he was sincere towards Pakistan or was something else; as no one can read the heart of anyone. It has been hard to exactly judge him and his goals as he has been under different pressures and situations but I personally feel that he got two big problems first he tells lies shamelessly; lies sink a person and his credibility and secondly at times he has been too much diplomatic to the extent of cowardliness. In addition to that Mr. Musharraf has been living among friends who are very corrupt and cunning so he had been misused and misguided. One more thing is that Mr. Musharraf is kind of person who can lose their sanity if flattered; he starts thinking that he is very special, intelligent and brave person to the extent of exaggeration which is the problem with many people. In addition to that he has been trying to do all alone and how much a person can do alone? One has to depend upon others too and his colleagues made a lot of corruption. He did not try to take his nation into confidence at important issues and it is so hard to survive if own people are not backing up! He must have been clear that International Powers in general withstand as long as they have their interests and then they scrap anyone mercilessly. Anyhow, Mr. Commando himself is not free of fault.

Our nation is so simple and they could be cheated so easily and this coup was start of new deception.

September 11

After few years, when Mr. Musharraf was the sole power in Pakistan, happened the big bang i.e. September 11 incident!

USA has been riding on our necks rather on the necks of whole world. They made a lot of hue and cry that we have been cheated and destroyed by the Al-Qaida. Ok, whoever this Al-Qaida is and what ever they did, it was extremely wrong, no one must be allowed to kill the innocents and civilians and no one must attack other countries but those dear American fellows went too far in their hunts. They took this incident as a ground to justify all what they did, right or wrong and world was like a scared goat! No one really asked them to make a real open investigation and bring the real solid proofs so that one could look for the exact and real criminals and punish them instead of running and killing people madly. This is in no way justified to invade countries, detain people, kill them and label them as criminals without clear and solid proofs and without fair and open trial. Even the worst enemy must not be punished without solid proofs, open and fair trial.

Anyhow, Mr. Musharraf also joined the group of scared goats and did not question the doings of blind elephant and this was a start for the fun for us. People of Pakistan were detained, tortured and killed in Pakistan on the basis of allegations/assumptions of so called terrorism and handed over to the USA for further treatment/fun. They were hospitalised in X-ray camp and likes and they had a lot of fun there and world became a better place now: king and queen are happy. I don’t know how many more terrorists are there in this world? May be USA knows better and it is also possible that God is also not aware of it as only USA knows better; may be my name is also there in the list ;) If really my name is there then they don’t need to forge any story against me, come to me simply and I will go with you. Don’t put pressure on your precious minds for more plans.

Here, let me make it clear that I hate Al-Qaida, if there is any such group as it is more a virtual/media and mysterious group, and those Muslims who think that Al-Qaida helped the Muslims or Islam are wrong. First of all what they (Al-Qaida) did (if they did it) is not Islamic as Islam does not support such brutal and unjust acts; this is not Jihad it is sickness, secondly they don’t have right to be self claimed saviours of Muslims/Islam, did they took Muslims especially the scholars into confidence? No, they did not. Thirdly they provided excuses to USA for the invasions, killings and detention of Muslims! What was contribution of those innocents who were killed in this dirty war? Fourthly, it is strange if people like Usama bin Laden are not arrested beside so much advancement in technology and intelligence; but they will say it was fault of Pakistan; it is easy way to end the story and people nod their heads in affirmation like stupids and say yes yes it is fault of Pakistan without finding real factors! Fifthly, it is responsibility of the Muslims themselves and not of USA or others to detain Al-Qaida and likes and punish them for their wrong acts. Reality is that this Al-Qaida thing has proven too costly, painful and source of shame for the Muslims.

Army intervention and control of the state

Anyhow, we lived under Army rule for almost 7-8 years during last decade and it was lead by the hero of the world and champion of lies Mr. Musharraf. He used the resources of the country in the way he liked and we had to obey him. There were no chances to investigate freely what he has been doing; his main song was we are fighting against terrorism that he sung day and night; even while he slept. What does it mean the fight against terrorism? Does it mean to do all what a person likes! He received a lot of money and support in the name of this war and also got total free hand to do all what he liked: humane or inhumane. Pakistanis were not safe even in their own land as anyone could be anytime labelled as terrorist, detained and handed over to masters. We received heavy support from the USA against terrorism but we did not realise that we were actually being fed with poison!!

International pressure for the cooperation in so called war on terror

There has been immense pressure to cooperate in the war against terrorism; it was like the highest sin if a person even dares to question the things being done in the name of war on terror. Anyone who dares something against it is labelled as terrorist, fundamentalist, Taliban etc. As it was supposed that enemy of USA was mainly sitting both in Afghanistan and Pakistan so Pakistan has to cooperate in this sacred mission against terrorists. Pakistan has to shed the blood of those people who were once trained and supported by the USA and Pakistan along with blood of a lot of innocents. Those children, women and other civilians who even did not know where USA is were killed using the latest weapons. Yes, it is best use of the latest technology to kill civilians; it is nothing against human rights if people are killed by advance technology as billions have been spent to make the latest weapons! The whole war mainly has been based upon assumptions and statements. People of the world and especially Americans were taught day and night that we are fighting for your security and our enemy is very brutal and strong; and people believed everything blindly as if angel Gabriel was telling them the message of God! It was thought that every missile and bullet of USA only kills the enemies or potential enemies!

Internal divide of the people over the issue of fight along USA

Well, the Pakistani nation got divided over the extent of cooperation to the USA in this war. There have been four groups: first one was of the opinion that we should totally/blindly cooperate with USA and even fight against so called terrorists; second group was in the favour of realistic and measured cooperation; the third group was in favour of no cooperation at all and last group was of the opinion that as Afghanistan has been invaded so we should fight along with them against invaders i.e. USA. Well, every group had its own reasons and views. Some people even went to Afghanistan for the war against USA and Co. In any case, there appeared different poles at every level and in every institution. It has been a tough phase for the people. There occurred many casualties in this process to contain different groups. Some groups who thought that government was favouring the oppression and unjust of USA so they even went to the extent of suicide bombings against own people. There has been opinion that it is allowed to kill own people and it was not based upon the opinion of scholars of Islam. It has always been problem that the scholars were not consulted in the difficult issues as they are the people who can judge the situation in broadest possible context. It is opinion of majority of the scholars that suicides are forbidden and it gets even greater sin if committed against innocents/civilians. Personally I feel that first and fourth group, who were in favour of blind cooperation and fight respectively, have not been the right in their approach.

Difficult border along with Afghanistan and complex nature of the relationships of both people and countries

The border along Afghanistan is a difficult one. On both sides of this border are living those people who are historically and ethnically connected strongly. They share the faith, tribes, languages, history and ethnicities so it is very hard to keep them unconnected and unconcerned from each other. There are those people who even want to fight against the invaders in Afghanistan as they feel that its occupation is unjustified one. Pakistan Army and other security forces have been fighting to contain them and there have been efforts through the dialogue too. It increases the irritation and anger of the people in Pakistan especially of the people along the border after occasional attacks in Pakistan from Afghanistan and regular flights of spying planes of USA/NATO on the borders of Pakistan. Such acts of the USA and Co. are extremely irritating and sometimes they are clear invitation for all out war but we have been trying to be patient and I wish that war does not happen otherwise it will be very costly one for everyone. They know very well how much they are winning in Afghanistan and like to put blame of failures on Pakistan. The oil is added to the fire by the regular allegations by the USA and puppet sitting in Afghanistan that Pakistan is not doing enough against terrorists and that much support is coming for the fighters and bombers from Pakistan. Even Indian fellows also sometimes join the song of allegations which are more allegations and theories and of course there is no limit of allegations. Anyone can come for the press conference and say a lot of words!

These days new theories are coming that terrorists are threatening bigger cities of the Pakistan so they in other words want to follow and attack the invisible electric mouse of Al-Qaida and terrorists in Pakistan. These are the same forces which were used as an excuse to destroy the Iraq and Afghanistan. They say that Iraq is doing fine now! the reasons is that mission there is accomplished as it has been destroyed; Afghanistan is now current destruction point and then they are looking to destroy Pakistan. Wherever they go they leave the destruction and fires behind!!!

Here I would like to mention that Pakistan does not need to support people fighting in Afghanistan. We had been interfering there in past and many others also did so but it is almost zero now. Pakistan wants to see Afghanistan standing on its own feet as both countries have paid a lot in the wars. There are still thousands of Afghan refugees in Pakistan although thousands went back and it has been a huge challenge for the Pakistan.

Situation in Afghanistan itself is not satisfactory. There are many internal and external powers which are still operating there and it is really hard to get a clear picture of the happenings and involvements. Occasional attacks from the Afghanistan side are also a source of worry! Who does it; Afghanistan, USA, NATO or someone else? Opium is big business in Afghanistan and many hands are involved in this business; who are those who are earning millions out of it?

Al-Qaida factor and Mujahidin

Al-Qaida factor and Mujahidin (religious fighters) have been two big problems for the Pakistan. These people were bred during the fight against Russia by the USA and Pakistan; as I said our marriage with USA has been an old and interesting one but the problem is that they knew us more than we knew them. We have been the people who could be easily played with in the name of friendship, cooperation and help and that habit of ours brought us a lot of miseries and difficulties. The fact is that the international powers only care about their vested/greedy interests and all other things like peace, human rights, cooperation etc are generally of secondary importance to them. They show one hand and attack with other one; they give statements in the favour of peace but don’t forget to attack from back if got chance; they give support but never enough that others could be strong enough to stand on their own feet.

Anyhow, we had to give a lot of sacrifices and blood to contain those people who were created for the war against Russia; that was a holy mission at that time of war but now it has become terrorism; this is USA and their masters and not God who have right to define what is holy and when!!. The problem is that USA and others don’t want that we make any talks with those fighters; they want that we remain busy in this endless war so that our wonderful Army is destroyed and divides among Pakistanis bring Pakistan to the ashes; in this way their mission is accomplished but this mission is almost impossible to be accomplished!

In any case if peace comes through the peace talks then we will first go for this option no matter what others say but if this does not work then we will definitely use force against those in Pakistan who challenge the peace; we have been doing it and we will do it in future too. We can’t allow the Taliban, Al-Qaida or any other person to dictate us for their version of Islam; Islam is Islam and it can’t be in the way Taliban, Mujahidin, Al-Qaida or Liberals want it to be; it can only be in the way God told. These are the scholars of Islam and Muslims who qualify to decide in this context and not any other group (like Taliban, Mujahidin, Al-Qaida or Liberals etc) can dictate us that what we have to do! One of the best ways to contain these fighters especially Taliban is to show them the broader picture of the Islam through the scholars so that they could know the real factors!

These so called Mujhideen are sometimes stupid people who in the name of religion are easily misused. They get ready easily to make suicide attacks and even don’t try to confirm what the real commandments of the Islam are and even don’t try to judge the person who incites them. They think everyone who has long beard and talks about Jihad is right and all other are wrong. It is also very much possible that person who incites for Jihad is playing in the hands of enemies; intentionally or unintentionally.

These so called Jihadis always keep the weapons along with them and their minds are so volatile and their blood is so hot. They bring weapons so quickly even at the minor disagreement. This is not the way a person should behave; peace comes first and not war but they see things other way around.

Red mosque issue

This was one of the big incidents which happened in the recent past of Pakistan. It was one indication of the fight between two groups who posses the hard stances. Both parties showed the rigid behaviour and who paid at the end? The innocent children, women and others who did not had to do anything to the terrorism. Both parties who fought are till today defending their act but there had been no neutral inquiry into this matter and this is a pity. This incident was a big shake up for Pakistanis and Army had to pay a big price for this brutal and ruthless operation. I think both fighting parties played in the invisible hands but they didn’t realise that.

Issue of nuclear weapons and their spread

Pakistan has been alleged to be an active player in the spread of the nuclear weapons. It is hard to know the real facts in this regard as things happened at different levels and in many different circumstances. It is however clear that if something like that happened then many people was involved into it. It is also very much possible that many international forces are involved in such spreads as it is no secret that international powers do sell the weapons and earn a lot through it. There are big players in the international market who do many things which common people don’t know. People think as if all atomic weapons around the world are spread by the Pakistan; which is just a supposition and no reality. Those people who cry day and night of their innocence are in no way angels!

We had to make our defence strong as we had been under threats most of the time. India did the Atomic test first and we had to do it; not because we want war rather because we did not want to be blackmailed and threatened. It is also fear of the people that Atomic bombs of Pakistan might go into the wrong hands but this is more a fear than reality. We have extremely strong protection system for that but there is no limit of assumptions that what can happen in future; there can be thousands of theories about possibilities. It is also no secret that Atomic and other weapons were mostly used by someone whose all acts are justified! Big brother ;) and also their Masters!

Political inability and corruption

It is true that our political system has been quite bad. There is a lot of corruption and even the party system is not democratic. Those people who are influential are the heads of the parties and power is the main criteria to sustain in the politics. In last ten years; Mr. Musharraf supported those politicians who could be easily bought with money; who are with everyone who has power; they don’t care about principles and to tell lies and to cheat is as easy for them as brushing the teeth; in simple words people without feet and faces. So they used their training of grabbing the resources and filled their pockets. Money in the name of war on terror came like flood in Pakistan and Mr. Musharraf distributed it among his companions (thugs) like a king. What did get the common man from that money which was obtained by selling and killing people like animals? Very little and they are lucky that they did not get share from that poison!

Unfortunately there are few people in Pakistan who sell their faiths and loyalties for few coins and this is natural for every society. These corrupt agents can do anything for the sake of money, power and other benefits! They are however being defeated as the common man is awakening and positive forces are getting stronger.

Judicial issue

Actually some people in the judiciary started to challenge the doings of the Mr. Musharraf and his companions. Mr. Musharraf and Co. had just started to enjoy their comforts, luxuries and non-stop corruption. No one was challenging their authorities but all of a sudden Chief Justice of Supreme Court Iftikhar Muhammad Chauhdary started to disturb their enjoyments. He started to give verdicts against the corrupt and uncontrolled companions of Mr. Musharraf. In addition to that he started to ask about those who were missing and were illegally abducted by the security agencies in the name of war on terror. That was a difficult, new and unacceptable reality for the fake commando and his masters. So he ordered to the Chief Justice of Pakistan to resign by calling him at his Army headquarter. Luckily Chief Justice got the courage to deny his orders.

This lead to difficult time for the Chief Justice; he was humiliated by the security forces, was put under house arrest along with his family; even his children were not allowed to attend their schools. A new chief justice was appointed at his position; what a great work by the fake commando; is it not? That lead to the some anger among the dieing nation of Pakistan and people started to feel a bit humiliated and they started to protest against this act.

That protest was joined by the Lawyers of the Pakistan; it was like a change in the way of Pakistan. Protest became so successful and intense that dismissed Chief Justice got reinstated but as he again started to do his brave job the fake commando again got up in problems. Now authority and position of the commando as president was also challenged there in the court. At that point he felt that verdict of the court will be against him; he dismissed more than fifty judges and imposed state of emergency in Pakistan. That was not the only thing; he also put many judges under a kind of house arrest but actually his ship had got irreparable damage; now he had to sink in any case. Anyhow, this forced Mr. Musharraf to leave his position as Army Chief and he was left with one authority of being a President only which he got because there were no neutral and brave judiciary and parliament otherwise it also could not have been possible.

Unrest in the provinces

In some provinces of Pakistan people are not quite happy towards the government of Pakistan and Army. Their aggression and dissatisfaction is natural and justified as they did not get the rights they deserved. There was no clear definition of the rights of the provinces and also if some rights were defined they were not given to the deserving people. The problem has been that top authorities were corrupt and they did not care about the people in different areas. This suffering did not confine to any particular province; almost everyone got affected by it. At times when people started showing the resistance; they were also crushed by the security forces which further increased the aggression. This divide and unrest was also fuelled by some external fellows of Pakistan who are from the very first day unhappy with Pakistan!

Indian factor

Our relations with India have been tricky from the very start. Pakistan and India were born like twins but we are quite different and our goals are not similar. We also have fought quite a few wars with each other. Anyhow, luckily during last ten years we did not had any big war. There was not any major conflict recently between two countries but the issue of Kashmir remains unsolved and that issue could be a flash point at any time. Quite recently things are happening quite awkwardly in Kashmir!

There has been intervention by the both countries in each others country and matters but recently Pakistan has reduced it almost to none. It has, however, become a fashion to blame Pakistan for many things what happens in India e.g. explosions and violence. They always try to prove themselves as the angels! And sometimes I feel as if the whole world is full of angels except Pakistan. Some of our Indian fellows day and night try to prove to the world that Pakistan is a problematic and rogue land and they themselves are the sacred cows! We, however, know very well that how sacred they are! ;) Yes, we know that they (Indians) never tell lies, they never cheat, they always think sincerely for the world and all other positive what a person can think of is present in India. On the other hand Pakistan and Pakistanis are the most brutal, stupid, unethical, terrorist, liars and all other negative what a person can think of is in Pakistan. People of the world are free to believe them; we don’t have any objection to that as people are free! ;)

As far as people of Kashmir are concerned; they are free to take any way they like for themselves. They can live independent or can side with India or if like can come with Pakistan. We respect and support their right of any choice they like.

I would like to mention it that no matter what happened in the past wars; who was right or wrong but this time if India did mistake of attacking Pakistan then they will know what it does mean because this time we are ready to reply. Yes, we want to have peace with India and all others but it does not mean that we will tolerate their aggression and propaganda.

American intervention

It has been impression that America has been quite active and influential into the internal matters of Pakistan. They supported some special political and other forces which could safeguard their special interests. They have been against the restoration of Chief Justice as they have been afraid that it will open up many hidden acts of theirs if he started to investigate the people who went missing during so called war on terror. They have been till recent Past supporters of the undemocratic authority and dictator i.e. Pervez Musharraf although people of Pakistan in general hated him. They also have been active to buy people among our army and there have been other hidden activities too although statements from the American administration have been different and very beautiful ones most of the time. It is also quite interesting that whenever there are elections in USA some Al-Qaida dirty frogs appear in some part of the World!!

Sometimes USA and Co. talk about the plans of the Al-Qaida and terrorists in such a way as if they do lunch together with them! By the way, USA uses the pretext of Al-Qaida to attack other lands what if others also start thinking in the same way against USA? why not?

Suicide killings

Pakistan has been big victim of suicide bombings although people think that these people just kill non-Muslims but if one would analyse who were the victims of these suicides then it will be clear that they are mostly Muslims. We have been shattered by these acts of suicides. Our people don’t feel secure even in their own country. So one thinks that who are committing such brutal acts? There quite a few factors as already mentioned which are playing role e.g. Army action against Militants, attacks from Afghanistan, Pakistan’s support of USA in Afghanistan, brainwashing and misuse of Jihad with possibility of external hands etc.

Here I would like to mention one more point: Islam is against the suicidal attacks especially against civilians but it should also be kept in mind that if a person goes for such an extreme act where he/she even kills own self then there should be some big reasons behind it. There are the circumstances like injustice, anger and feelings of total helplessness which might lead a person to such an extreme action; so circumstances are also big reasons along brainwashing, ignorance and misguidance which cause suicide attacks! In any case such acts must be fully condemned as they generally take blood of civilians and lead to chaos.

My personal views and every one is free to agree or to disagree.

In next post i will present some positive changes which have been happeing in Pakistan.

Muslims of the West(Europe) (Last Part)

2008-05-13T05:17:00.000-07:00

As I wrote few things about migrated Muslims of the West; now I would like to mention few points which I feel migrated Muslims especially in the West should take care about. Well these are just suggestions nothing more than that; everyone takes his/her own way and must disagree to me if required.

First of all, Muslims of the West should show respect, love and care towards the fellow local people. Local people have great right upon us; they have right on us as creation of God, as Human beings and many of them follow the same God that we do. In addition to that they support us in different forms e.g. moral support, educational support, health facilities, financial support, accommodation, security and so on. So in response we are obliged for all possible cooperation, care and respect. Above all Islam instructs us to be cooperative to all human beings.
We should keep in mind that the lands of the West are not Islamic states so laws and philosophies there are different than so called Muslim lands. People here were grown up with different culture, philosophy, society and priorities of life than what we do have at native lands so it is illogical to expect and demand all what we have at home lands! Respect for the local systems and people, is the base for the cooperation. Well, respect for the local systems and people doesn’t necessarily mean that one also follows their faith/philosophy or religion rather respect means that we should accept their right of choice of faith, religion or system for their lands. I personally feel that it is Islamic rule too that we respect and maximum follow the rules of the lands we migrate to; one should not take measures bypassing local laws. This point is a difficult one but I am quite optimistic that if locals and immigrants are sincere to cooperate then things are easy to settle and manage! One should never terrorise peaceful people.
There are many ways and places where one can have chances of meeting, acting and understanding with locals. Yes, there are things and limits which one can’t cross, and everybody has some limits, but there are so many things which one can do together with local fellows. There is not much use of staying all the time back and away from the local people. If one is at new land then one should also try to integrate, share and learn , this is how life is, we learn from everyone and everything we come across. Personally I learnt a lot during my stay, I even feel that many things might never could have been grasped by me had I not migrated. So instead of making this stay burden and stagnant, one should use it positively. One, however, is free to take a way where he feels most comfortable according to personal nature and priorities.
Local people are normally very nice, cooperative and show great respect and understanding. I found people of the West especially of Europe very sensitive, wise and respecting one. Yes, there are few exceptions which one finds everywhere as natural phenomenon. So if a person behaves so nice then there is no reason of replying badly or rudely. I even think that if someone behaves with anger or hate, we should reply with love since it is very much possible that that person has some misunderstandings especially when people see a lot of negative things about Muslims on media. A good person is the one who replies the bad acts of others with good acts.
One should stay stronger at one’s faith and religion since a person without clear and decided faith in long run is not useful for anyone. If someone thinks that by leaving his/her faith and values, he/she can better help people then he/she has either misunderstood faith and religion or he/she is following some incompetent and wrong faith/religion or its form!! In any case people are free for any choice.
Muslims should stay united and respecting towards each other. There are different sects and different schools of thought among Muslims; it is a reality so all Muslims no matter what their sect, land, nationality, colour, language, race be, should be respected by each other. I feel at some times that Muslims of some nationalities take themselves superior over others only because of their national attachment although in the sight of Allah, superior is the one who is better in HIS obedience and the one who is Obedient to HIM, stays humble! When Muslims fight with each other it creates strange situation for all. Others also start thinking that what kind of followers they are and what kind of religion they do follow! So this thing brings double negative effect; first it divides and weakens Muslims and secondly it causes suspicions about Islam which is very bad.
One should regularly learn about religion and great efforts should be put through worship, reflections, learning etc. to purify and strengthen faith as faith does not stay at one constant level, it goes up or down, so its care can’t be ignored. One should make sure, however, that everyone tries to improve him/herself first instead of correcting or preaching others first. Everyone is first of all accountable for his/her own acts and then for anyone else. This is our normal problem that we point finger at others’ fault and consider ourselves right and pure; I feel it is a natural human problem ;)! Great care should be given that one does not force anyone for anything! If God has left human beings free for a choice then who are we to take due freedom of others away. Yes, I do agree that one should sincerely and wisely try to convince and care fellow Muslims and others. We must understand that choice of faith and religion can’t be forced; God does not allow it. One should however share his/her philosophy with others in best way.
Muslims should be very sensitive towards faiths, philosophies, priorities and religions of local fellows who are different in these contexts. We must respect their right of free choice of any faith or religion they like or prefer. We should share our views with great care and respect. Even those fellows who are Atheists must be respected and cared; I personally found these fellows extremely sensitive and nice.
We should not try to snatch or misuse the resources of the local people. These are their right bestowed to them. Every nation is owner of resources given to it by God and Muslims or any other should not try to grab resources of others through cheating or force.
Those Muslim fellows who think that all Non-Muslims are against Islam and Muslims and they must be badly treated; I will with due respect totally disagree to them. There are few very important points in this context.

It is against law of nature that all the people in any group be corrupt!
It is consensus of almost all the scholars of Islam that one is not allowed to harm innocents belonging to any nation, religion or group.
Common people are not fully aware of what people at higher ranks do plan and why? Common people in any society don’t have access to all information and factors of higher ranks(rulers) so they normally don’t know about plans of their leaders. In addition to that common people have to work hard for their survivals so they can’t afford to monitor and know everything what their leaders do. Also, people can’t stand against all wrong acts of some of their leaders all the time; of course a state has power and resources to press commoners. In addition to that it is totally illogical and unfair to harm a person of any religion only on the base of assumption that he/she is our enemy. One should try to know first what exactly a person is before making any assumptions, it is very much possible that that person is very nice, innocent and friendly one and does not posses any enmity against Muslims and Islam!! And Islam does not allow harm to others only on the basis of assumptions or differences of religions/philosophies. Here let me make it quite clear that I am not saying all this to prove myself so called liberal, pro West or to get support/reward from Westerners or anyone else. I try to follow the Creator and I am obliged to stand for what I find as right and stand against what I find as unjust; no matter who in front me might be; a Muslim or other. At the same time I also expect from my own self and others that they stand against any of my wrongdoings/mistakes if they are really sincere to me ;)!!
It has been my personal experience that Westerners especially of the area where I have been living are very nice and fair people. I sometimes even find them better in context of behaviour, treatment with others, sincerity and responsibility better than big majority of the Muslims. Majority of them are not enemies and don’t want to fight against us. Islam does not allow fight with anyone who wishes and offers peace!

So those Muslim fellows who still want to harm innocent people in any part of the World are sincerity and humbly requested to reconsider their opinions and approach keeping in mind above factors. Just imagine that one Muslim harms an innocent person and on the day of Judgement he/she can’t defend his/her act and is doomed to Hell!! Then?? Similarly those who commit suicide in the name of religion, need to keep in mind that they have to justify their act in front of God at the end and if they could not justify then they would bear double loss; first loss in this world and the second one in the life after death if punished by God! So what profit one gets out of it? So dear fellows! be extremely careful and wise as Islam does not allow injustice! One should be clear whether he/she is following his/her own egoism or will of Allah!!! A believer serves the people and does not rule or harm them or!
Injustice against anyone including Muslims should be stopped otherwise this process of action and reaction might never stop! If a person is put in awkward situation then he/she might react awkwardly. Every person belonging to any group who commits crime must be equally punished after due, open and fair trial. It is however not fair to make investigations, decisions and verdicts behind the wall; it creates strange situation. Investigations should be as clear, open and neutral as possible.

Everyone feel free to agree, disagree or comment. Respect and love.

I take break from thinking and writing and i need it badly:-)

Few thoughts, observations and reflections

2008-05-13T04:26:00.000-07:00

Some of mine thoughts, observations and reflections; open to agreement or disagreemnet:-)

For those who are sincere to find, truth is very very near but for those who are not serious, it is at infinity!

Patience, love, peace, braveness, respect, fairness and justice are the best ways to take revenge.
Doctors can't treat some invisible wounds of the heart and the soul !

More Faith drifts away from the heaven to the earth, more things get complicated.

A couple of cuts on the heart are source of strongness!:-).

A Faith and religion can't be forced and it must not be.

If someone claims that he has fully understood females then he has not understood them indeed.:-))!

There is no limit of faith and there is no limit of denial, there is no limit of truthfulness and no limit of untruthfulness, there is no limit of love and no limit of hate, there is no limit of knowledge and no limit of ignorance, there is no limit of intellect and no limit of foolishness, there is no limit of peace and no limit of chaos, there is no limit of fairness and no limit of cheating, there is no limit of braveness and no limit of fear, there is no limit of care and no limit of cruelty...
Souls are immortal...

Justice and Truth are the ultimate winners.

Right and Wrong are not similar !!

Climax of atheism is start of real faith :-)!

Human rights and peace are for all human beings belonging to any nation, group, country, faith or religion ! Protect human beings and do not kill them.

Human blood is extremly sacred, don't make it so cheap!

Every human is special and important - don't underestimate yourself but please don't overestimate too :-).
Human beings are the most precious creation on earth.

Females are as much important and necessary as males; without females everything will be deserted, empty, tense and sad.

Females are beautiful and surprising creation!!

Women are surprisingly sharp at understanding and judging!!

We forget HIM but HE does not do so !

HIS love, patience and mercy prevails over HIS anger, no one could/can dictate HIM but HE decided to be like that HIMSELF ! Should we not be grateful then? :-)

One can't know all realities but one should know what is most important to know.
Fear, disappointment, hate and prejudice are few of the big obstacles in the way of real learning.

Creation can be defeated but the Creator can't be! Ok, make another failing attepmt if you don't believe it :-)

Satan and Co. plan their best but their plans are stupid, weak, empty and rubbish.

Terrorism in the name of peace is hypocricy :-)!

Peace comes through peace and not through cheating! We must struggle unitedly and sincerily for it otherwise blood-drinkers will get free hand.
Heart, mind and soul should work together!
Natural belief is part of us; now it depends upon us whether we protect it or crush it. Humans are free for a choice.

If there is no Creator then why do we think, feel and talk about HIM? Do we think/feel about anything which does not exist?

Those who are planning any conspiracies against humanity and peace must stop otherwise they will be doomed.

Any religion which supports harm/killing/damage of innocent people must be thrown into sea.
We must free ourselves of hates and prejudices if we want to know reality.

Will HE throw me into Hell or bestow me Paradise? this i don't know; I have to follow HIM sincerily in all conditions and times, this i know however.

Any damage to innocent people is against orders of the Creator then who will like to commit such a blunder to become an eternal loser?!

Religious corruption is one of the worst form of corruption because it may create distance between the Creation and the Creator!

Personally i prefer a nice atheist person over a corrupt religious one.

The Creator must not be blamed for misuse of freedom of choice by the people.

Shame on some those who plan conspiracies against humanity and peace of the world in the nights! Can't they think anything positive for the people! Shame on blood-drinkers.

All religions and their followers should be respected and cared.

No human being can give a faith to or snatch a faith of anybody! It is out of human authority and capacity!

Very few nations and people have been able to digest Power! Most sink along with it.

Positive thinking leads to positive actions and vice versa.

Disappointment and frustration must be defeated. One should treat them like enemies.

A person who can't respect own self, can't respect others.

Few clarifications

2008-05-09T12:17:00.000-07:00

My next post comes soon.

I just want to say few words: if someone at any level, in any country or in any group is unhappy by my words, actions or writing; he/she should contact me directly and share his/her reservations openly. I never claimed to be ultimate truth or champion of truth. I like to stay humble but confident. It is my right, however, to voice my innerself and that i do fearlessly but in respected way. Even then if someone gets hurt by it or does not feel good; let me know. I will take care for his/her wishes. No one needs to plan any dirty plans or conspiracies against me; be brave and fair. I don't like to hide things and like to express openly so i expect similar from others. No one is obliged to agree to my words or thoughts; everyone is free. No one can force someone for a faith or religion nor can anyone snatch faith or religion of someone; it is beyond human authority and capacity!!! So people should stay relax especially the religious fellows.
I know i speak a lot of things and some of them might not be easy to digest for some fellows. What can i do for such people, they should let me know. I respect all religions and their followers and even i respect atheists but at the same time i respect my ownself too. I have right to take a way of life as anyone else on this planet do have. Don't i?
Why am i writing these words?
Well, sometime i feel that some people are not comfortable with me but they can't stop me directly so they might try some silly, ill and dirty conspiracies and plans against me! I am not scared of it however as i know that no one can harm me if the Creator does not wish so !:-)
Here, let me make it clear also that i am totally against terrorists belonging to any nation, group, religion or country. Terrorsim is against the orders of the Creator and that is the highest reason why i am against it. No one is allowed to kill/harm/damage innocent people of any religion, faith, nation or group and i don't have any doubt about that in any part of my body. If i will commit such a crime then i will not only lose in this world but also will be punished in the next life so can i be such a stupid who will fall so low and non-sense? I don't have even faintest of such wish.
It also is not a good way to blame people for crimes without giving them chance to defend themselves legally. Every criminal, belonging to any faith, religion, nation or group, must be punished but after due open and fair legal procedures otherwise things could be manipulated!!
These were few things which i liked to share; my next post comes soon.
Be happy and keep others happy too.
Zaheer

atlast: Muslims of the West (Europe) (part 3)

2008-03-19T10:35:00.000-07:00

After a long break, today I try to write about those Muslims who migrated to the West, a very difficult topic really. As, I have already mentioned my writings are based upon my personal observations, talks, exposures, reflections, views and experiences and everyone is naturally free to agree or to disagree to me. In addition to that I would express myself in context of Germany as example since I have been living here. Please do correct me if there would be something incorrect.

I think there are four major categories for the immigrants in West. 1: Workers 2: Asylum seekers 3: Employees 4: Students. First two groups are in majority and are living for a longer period of time while the last two groups are mainly temporary immigrants with exceptions.

Although Workers and Asylum seekers are quite close to each other but still there are quite a few distinctions among them. How do I differentiate between Workers and Employees? Well, I think major differences among them are education and skills although both could be termed as employees, however, I would take both of them as different to figure out their characteristics and lives. Here are few of my observations of four groups of Muslim immigrants, please do bear in mind that it is almost impossible to draw clear boundaries between different types of Muslim immigrants and they do posses many characteristics in common too. Some things are common among all immigrants also.

1: Workers:

They are among the oldest immigrants of the West (Europe), there is big majority in Germany for example. Male immigrants do dominate in number.

Majority of them is not that skilled and educated especially if weighted in Western standards. They posses just the simple education and simple rules of how to work and earn money. Here I must make it clear that being not that educated is not a bad thing if one could not get education due to any reasons. Well, frankly speaking I have seen many bad examples among so called educated people also; so I feel a sincere, uneducated and poor human being is much better than a corrupt, educated, and rich one. However, I feel an educated person, in any field of education, feels much more comfortable, confident and open in handling matters of life.

Quite unfortunately as I mentioned in another post also; a big majority of Muslims is not properly educated about their own religion i.e. Islam. I personally take it as root cause for big majority of internal and external problems of Muslims. In the same way, those working fellows did not posses that standard/type of Islamic education which could help a person in dealing matters at different land and culture. As most of them arrived in West at their young ages and at that time of life many people don’t take religions very seriously. Again, here I am not degrading anyone rather it is what I experienced and observed. Yes, it is true that there have been exceptions and quite well educated individuals also do exist.

These fellows faced a tough working routines and different social, political and economic environment; different rules and regulation waited for them as compared to their own lands. Social order was influenced by the philosophies which were different than those at their own lands. In addition to that they faced a hard problem in context of communication since at start they did not know local languages, very nice:-). They were mainly expected to work and fulfil their duties and not much else; it makes sense however and I think that they did it to a good extent. Fears of unknown outcomes and unexpected decisions about their fate kept them in a state of uncertainty for much time.

They faced hard situation of being away from their families e.g. wives, parents, children, sisters, brothers, friends etc. It never has been an easy situation for anyone. I personally feel that there is no alternative to the natural love of our close ones no matter how many other sources of care we might have!

These fellows could not integrate well due to following main reasons

language barriers
lack of education
tough working responsibilities
uncertainty about future
shyness and cultural hesitations
social differences
not much awareness about system; rules and regulations
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So they have been kind of separate group and this situation seems to be quite hard. It becomes even harder when one is not able to express and to follow what he/she feels from inside; I personally can’t stop from expressing myself. I, however, feel that situation at that time was naturally hard due to factors and parameters of that time.

These fellows have been scared of hard questions about religion and religious beliefs by local fellows. The main reasons for this kind of fear had been lesser religious awareness, language un-competency, lack of religious guiders, strong philosophical and logical capabilities of locals, religious differences, few unhappy experiences about religion by the locals and secular trends etc. This was never easy job; so these fellows had to take one out of two choices; either they fight for the survival of their faiths at different fronts like philosophical, logical etc or just become part of the normal flow of life at new place. Most of them took the second choice as they did not have many capabilities to fight and also they were living in a challenging system. As it is never easy to sacrifice personal faith but sometimes few compromises one needs to make, which is part of life. Few make more compromises while others make lesser:-).
Different effects which this situation has left on this class of immigrants are e.g. they have become more materialistic in priorities which is an obvious thing; their brains revolve mainly around their survival and ways to gain more materialistic benefits. They have learnt to good extent how to face local people, cultural differences, strong systematic rules and regulations, religious differences, home sickness etc. They are healthier now, are able to speak local language, their families back at home are economically better which is source of attraction for others also and they want to go abroad at any cost, have gained some sense of local logical and philosophical trends and standards etc. One thing however has been damaged and that is spiritual and religious aspect since it was time and again crushed. Many of them have lost many religious values, practice and do contradict to religious values although they do have great respect/love for their religion, faith and homelands. These fellows also have to make it sure that they are loyal to the system they live in and the people they live with, this is a natural responsibility. They have to fight for a comfortable place as a personal identity between native nationality and new nationality, native culture and new culture, native religious values and the ones at new place. Such a situation might leave many internal conflicts/contradictions inside a person but also might help in thinking more and getting stronger/patient. As immigrants are able to compare two systems so they are able to think with more parameters and choices, how do they use this facility?, it depends. Well, I am personally in total respect to everyone what he/she takes as way of life since humans are free and they have different challenges.

Immigrants in general face different types of people in new country and it is natural that one feels a bit shy and afraid of new personalities and things get even more complicated when immigrants see that locals do posses different values, priorities and philosophies of life etc. These things naturally increase shyness and some fears. What results out of it? Immigrants try to restrict themselves to their own people; they miss their homeland and family even moreJ and their thoughts go back time and again to their homelands:-). In addition to that for a person who has spent a good part of life in a different (native) country, it is never easy to be comfortable if he/she gets a very different environment suddenly. It is natural for human beings that past events/things do remain in our brain so this factor also effects. To get trust of locals is never easy and bad acts of some immigrants make it even harder.
Many of these fellows don’t have good exposure to the international happenings and developments. They feel happy at some work , money and watching TV for example. They are interested normally in work, money, native country, family back at home etc. I think pain they take at start of their journey makes them so.

Many of them do have wives from the home lands who joined them later while few have local wives too which is an interesting aspect attached to the immigrants in general. Local girls and immigrants have created many interesting stories:-). I have come across quite a few people who got married to local girls mainly for survival at new place and to get nationality etc but frankly speaking this has created mess in many of such cases, why? Some of the reasons which I could figure out are as follows:

I strongly believe that a relationship based only upon greed and materialistic benefits and not based upon humanity, love, care, respect and mutual understanding is a weak and narrow relation!
lack of religious education/values, lack of practice of religion, contradiction to own values and resulting internal/external conflicts etc create many strange situations. I feel that a person who is his/her self not on a strong and clear faith will most probably create many problems!
differences of backgrounds, cultures, religions, life priorities etc which are normal part of life and which should be source of learning in life, in many cases result in chaos due to lack of understanding, some egoism and exaggerated national prides!!!
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Wives of the Immigrants: Well, those who brought wives from the homelands, they lead a different life than those who have locals and this factor plays role in lives of the children also. Non-local wives are mostly house wives:-), they are mostly not as highly educated as local ones and also don’t get that much exposure to the local society. Their main tasks are to run the matters of house and children; they also let their husbands decide about matters not related to home. This is due to both religious and cultural values although sometimes this situation results in abuse of women which is never a fair thing. However, perception of force or oppression of women by the Muslims is not always true either! Many problems to women occur due to lack of religious understanding, wrong cultural norms and human corruption.

On the other hand local wives (Westerner) do lead a different role. They like to have much more independence and like to have their own careers and decisions which is not bad either. I have already mentioned above few reasons for problems in such relations. However, there are few very good examples of this type of relationships, it depends upon individuals. I am personally in favour of all due independence and rights of women no matter where they belong to. Force is not good for any kind of relationship but in case of wife it is even more detrimental. My imagination says that if females are forced to do something against their wish then they teach such a lesson at which one simply starts crying:-), they know many ways to do that:-) .

Children: Children born or those who were brought to new land at their early age might have following characteristics.

Normally are more active, confident and comfortable as compared to their parents as they find the new land like homeland, familiar and natural. They are normally quite liberal and might have sometimes differences of priorities with parents. Parents, as in general, want children to be similar to parents but children want to take their own ways, it is also a typical generation gap problem. Here again the lack of worldly and religious education of parents does follow them and they are normally not able to handle children very nicely! Personally I find this situation very painful; I can understand pain and compulsion of parents due to natural love towards children but very unfortunately due to change of time and space and other factors of life, things get complicated. I personally feel that parents should understand that faith can’t be necessarily inherited so children should not be forced rather advised with care and love.

As these children normally find themselves quite free and independent due to open environment of the West, they make a lot of experiments themselves. They don’t feel bound to those limits which their parents had faced or still do feel. Many of these youngsters try e.g. current fashions, alcohol drinking, parties etc, which is a natural inclination and phenomenon in West. Quite a few of them are able to stay focused upon their faith and are able to handle fairly their immediate society at the same time too; this could be due to following reasons; a: they get a balanced and proper guidance through their parents; b: they themselves have strong inclination which makes them quite strong faithful; c: some worst/best experiences/people do lead them towards being strong at their faiths etc.

I have noticed that most of them are quite intelligent as they have different sources of information and views of the life although get confused sometime. They try to understand advice with great attention if done so with care and love. They don’t like to be forced especially in case of religion which is a good thing. I personally think that two things are total personal choice of a person and no one can force them for it; first is choice of a faith and religion and the second is choice of selection of a life partner for marriage.

They, in general, do have love, respect and inclination towards religion and country of their parents which I take as natural phenomenon. However, winds of the time and space and lack of proper guidance strongly effect their inclination. In addition to that they also have to face all confusions arising due to sects, differences among Muslims, International happenings, propaganda, and silly acts of some Muslims etc. In some cases they find mother and father having two different religions which is an interesting situation.

Beside all their inclinations and love for the land of parents they love their current land (i.e. West) too. I came to know about few cases where parents took their children back to their homelands because they felt that their children are not sticking to their religion/values and drifting away. I can understand feelings of such parents and I respect their choice but I personally feel that if parents can give proper attention, love, care and guidance to the children then normally things don’t get messy. If children get more friendship, care and respect at home then they will be lesser influenced by the other attractions they find outside otherwise children will drift away and get bad no matter where they do live!!!

I personally feel that these young Muslims are like an asset for the Western societies since normally they are very open, neutral, confident, flexible and show great understanding so they should be encouraged and guided to play role for bridging gaps and making integration/understanding easier. Here it should be kept in view, however, that efforts to misguide or misuse or confuse them from ANY SIDE might create awkward situation!!

2: Asylum seekers: Well many things are similar for the Asylum seekers if compared to Working immigrants, however there are few differences. Some of the things which belong to this group are

They are normally very ill informed about the realities of the West when they start their journeys. They even don’t know where are they going and what will happen to them. Their journey is normally a blind and dangerous one. There are quite a few factors which force them to move at new place which I might mention sometimes later. Many of them even lose lives while crossing borders or due to extreme weathers or due to other calamities etc.

They don’t know where will they live and who will take care of them. They don’t have those skills which one might need to survive in new country and language skills are also almost nil initially. These fellows are not quite educated ones. They don’t have support of friends or family at new place in most of the cases.

These people do face quite a few fears and pressures although local systems try their best to accommodate them. There might be cases of crimes committed by the people of this group as they have to survive somehow. Most of them try to get married so that they could get some kind of protection, however many such marriages result not that positive as I mentioned above. Personally I am not that much in favour of such blind, unplanned and dangerous journeys by anyone; it is a kind of suicide. These fellows do have to face extremely tough challenges in religious, philosophical and logical aspects and the difficulty gets even double folded due to insufficient local language skills. They do have great love for their religion inside but are incapacitated by their lacks and normally are unable to defend their faiths/religions. They also can’t speak all what they have in their hearts as they are at the mercy of local system which can thrash them out any time. This situation might bring quite a few strange characteristics in a person e.g. one gets good at pretending, telling lies, some cheating, huge differences between faith and practice might occur etc. There are both good and bad examples as naturally among this group.

After few years of extreme hardships and training, they are able to understand life at new place. They are able to learn local language, might have a local partner, find few friends mostly from their homeland, find some places of work and earn money etc. Their life is not that social normally and just stay within restricted circle.

3: Employees: This is the class of Muslims which consists of educated and well skilled individuals if analysed in context of Western views. Few examples are researchers at universities and other institutes, at higher posts in big companies etc. These people are not in big number normally. What are they? Of course human being:-)))), let me think.

More educated, skilled and aware of current setup of the world; again here it does not mean that they are better than other people; good and bad people do exist at every level and in every group. These individuals are normally above 30 years so are quite experienced ones about matters of life.

These people normally don’t have to pass through all those tiring formalities which are faced by two groups mentioned above as they come to new land with proper contracts, understanding of responsibilities and do get protection and guidance through their employers. These people normally live a managed, focused, rich but a bit limited life. Their working responsibilities make it hard for them to be quite socialized or to get to the roots of the local cultures. Too many bosses are also not good sometimes:-). In addition to that they normally have limited and predefined period of stay and then fly back.

They, in general, are already married or engaged and have their families back at homeland which they miss extremely at start:-) as they can’t go for dating and waiting and have to stay faithful to their wives:-). However, more they see openness of Western society more they miss their wives and try to control themselves in this difficult situation! They face few hardships, sometimes, in context of family reunion as visa formalities for their families take a good period of time and it is getting even harder now because of current international situation. Anyhow…

This group though is in general not able to get to the roots of the local culture but they contribute positively in following forms:

They create goodwill for the Muslims and local people observe and think that some Muslims are also skilled, educated and peaceful too and not all of them like to terrorise:-)
They are able to enhance their professional skills and knowledge and contribute both to their land of current stay and homeland.
They earn capital which helps them in fulfilling their financial needs.
...

These fellows normally are able to defend their faith/religion at logical, philosophical and scientific fronts as their education and skills help them greatly in this context. If one would like to analyse them in context of religious believes and practice then one would find different types among them; quite secular, medium religious and strong religious. Majority of them is, however, good at theoretical aspects of religion.

4: Students: ohh here comes the group of cows:-) including me myself… what about them?

In general poor, solo and wandering cows:-)

They also face great cultural shocks at start but gradually do improve because they are normally at their early youth which is period where one learns and is not that fixed in habits; also at that time one does not have many burdens on shoulders which helps in looking at life with a bit relaxed mind. Moving to a new place is normally like a second birth for them. They leave their parents so look for a similar love which they can’t find unfortunately. Now they have to live in a society which is fortunately/unfortunately quite individualistic/materialistic in nature so don’t cry mama papa dear child and be ready for the challenges yourself. Ok, Uncle Tom.

They do get good support and guidance through their Universities/Institutes so System at new place does not scare them a lot although some fears they do have naturally. They themselves don’t have great know how of the local System; they try to know it through test and trials like children:). No baby this is wood one can’t eat it. Ok, Aunty Lena.

Most of them are normally bachelor, miss their parents, sisters, brothers and friends they have been living with together. So try to contact them through chat and phone calls and tell them their situation and difficulties and makes them also sentimental.

Here starts the difficult part of the story; a twist. Poor student is now in a society where dating and waiting is very open, girls and boys are so free, there are not many restrictions from society and parents, ahhhaa, is it really so? He never dreamt like that although he/she heard a lot about openness of the West. So now Student starts taking his chances and gets many smiles in response which are not normal by girls in his homeland. So he thinks that he is going to find a beautiful girl quite soon and will be successful:-). Poor student is so simple. Actually he doesn’t know that a person who is more open is also more aware and confident. If girls smile at you in West, it is due to courtesy and necessarily doesn’t mean that she is in love with you. Also girls are not easy to convince, they are normally extremely careful about having a permanent partner. In addition to that Youngsters in West normally don’t like to get into permanent relationships at the early part of youth; they say that we want to have so called enjoyment first then we will see whom to take as life partner if we felt any need of it; well nice philosophy but… Anyhow, poor student gets into a difficult situation; he finds so many options which look so close but are so far in reality.

Very interestingly most of them don’t get a life partner at new place! Why? I could figure out few reasons which play some role

Shyness and fear of losing their identity/philosophy
Differences of cultures and religions. They normally get strong instructions from home that don’t try to go too deep into new culture and stay focused.
Uncertainty about careers and futures
Lack of mutual trust and understanding
They want to have some kind of serious relationship but locals don’t like it so early
Current engagements, though weak normally, of both parties
Reservations and fears of the locals towards Muslims and Islam
Atheistic trends
Sometimes they themselves don’t have strong values which sooner or later causes distrust and lack of interest
Distrust which is normal part of life and it is true that people do cheat
Well, matter of relationship I find very tricky, it is beyond my little mind to solve this equation since there are so many factors which do play role here. I have personally left this matter to God:)

Well, very few of them are able to have good relationships; very few sadly.

Students are normally average at Islamic knowledge and practice with few exceptions but in general are not that bad. Normally prefer to stay with their own friends and people which is a general but natural problem. There are few reasons which hinder from getting social e.g. study burden, earning burden, shyness, laziness, cultural unawareness, social unawareness and coldness of locals sometime, materialistic and atheistic trends of the West and fast and demanding life pattern etc.

Let me share some of their routine of life, it consists of e.g. study, part time jobs, cooking, sleeping, praying (some are regular while others not and few don’t pray at all), internet surfing, online chatting, movies watching at home, chit chat with other friends, political and religious discussions sometimes hot ones, calling back family and to watch local girls from a distance only:-) etc.

This group could contribute to the local society since in general they are young, more flexible and open.

As they have spent their previous lives in a different culture and society so can’t be expected to be totally like Westerners. Past experiences of an individual do play role in his/her decisions and actions consciously or unconsciously. So this bunch of cows needs to be handled carefully keeping in mind their history, culture, experiences and philosophies. I have found them in general quite peaceful and cooperative. They are also not that bad at logical and philosophical fronts.

There are few businessmen and few others like female students which i could not cover here. May be sometime latter.

So it was what I could observe and think about different types of Muslim immigrants, my views and observations are open to any agreement or disagreement. What next? Let me think first.
Keep on enjoying your lives and be happy.

Muslims of the West (Europe) (part 2)

2007-12-16T11:35:00.000-08:00

In privous post i mentioned my analysis and observations about the European converted Muslims. Now i would like to write about some of my suggestions that how these brothers and sisters could better meet the challenges of life.

Few humble Suggestions:

1) There should be a group of dedicated (preferably Muslim) people who takes care for the converted Muslims in context of learning, practice of Islam and also in other matters of everyday life. This would make sure that their journey of life remains smooth, positive and on right track.

2) Converted Muslims should learn openly but should stay controlled! They should learn gradually about all the aspects of Islam and Muslims including sects etc. However, it should be made sure in this process that one does not lose him/herself and also does not get permanent confused neither one should make absolute fixed ideas at start rather stay open to learn but be careful, vigilent and selfdecisive. A general study should be made first and then some conclusions.

3) One should not leave for others to come forward and teach rather one should be self active and go for the active learning even if others are passive. It is matter of extreme importance so one can't sit and wait for others always.

4) There should be regular learning and also improvement in practice with every passing day since we get a bit lost if we stay away from Islamic (or anyother) teachings for longer period of time. Our current setup of life is quite busy and we might forget important things if we don't turn to them regularly.

5) Islam should be learnt and judged with eyes and thinking of a Muslim and Human being and not with glasses of a particular nation, group or sect otherwise we get limited in our perceptions, knowledge and decisions. There were and there will always be differences among people so if we want to follow people then we will remain confused. One should listen to all but decide ownself at the end of the day.

6) We should not be worried or disappointed of sects, divisions or bad practices of Muslims. One should stay focused, positive and spirited and in case of confusions one should turn to basics i.e. Quraan and Sunnah. We should not be worried about minor differences of interpretations, it is part of test and life, after some time we start understanding the reasons and facts.

7) One should neither be too suspicuious of others nor should be over relying, we should stay open but vigilent and cool.

8) One should move forward gradually and positively and there should be times when one could reflect with free mind from all pressures and worries.

9) If we can't understand or decide something then we must neither get disappointed nor should be frustrated rather stay calm and keep one learning and praying from Allah almighty for the guidance and help. Those questions which seem answerless to us, get solved after some period of time if our efforts are sincere.

10) Our faith should increase with passage of time, through our observations and reflections. It should be followed by positive actions.

11) Ibadah(worhsip) and spiritual aspect must be made quite stronger since it is battery for our positive actions. It was practice of Prohpets and other Pious people that they have been praying in the nights and during days were able to stay stronger for the obedience of orders of Allah almighty. This is very very important aspect( i.e. worhsip), it not only helps in cleansing of ill effects coming to our brain, spirit and body but also gives us energy and focus. Focus during prayer must be made as pure and good as possible.

12) Arabic langauge should be learnt as quickly as possible since translations are not equal to original content. However, in this context one must not get lost to only cultural aspects of Arabic world or other countries! Goal is not Arabic world rather Islam. There are many non Arab scholars too who have been fantastic in their reasearch and contributions so they should also be read.

13) It is very important that we stay in contact to the Muslim community, it helps greatly in learning, staying focused and getting motivation. After sometime, we start feeling familiar and good but if we stay shy and away from community then things stay similar.

14) One should be very patient and caring towards those fellows who don't share the same philosophy of life. One should neither force them nor tease them. Here it should be made sure that others are not resulting in deviation from the goal of life!!! since we normally trust our friends very easily.

15) Logic and philosophy is only one way to analyse and judge things and not the ultimate way. So one should not remain limited to specific tools in thinking and analysing.

16) Islam is combination of faith and intellect so one should use fairly and rightly capabilities of both mind and heart. There should be maximum and fair coordination between heart and mind!:-)

17) Very importantly one must try to be as humble in front of Allah as possible. This does not mean self denial rather it means realism and understanding. Please, never try to curse Allah or feel dissatisfied from HIM, never ever!!! Sometimes we can't understand the true reasons, since our knowledge is limited so one should not get angry on that occassions.

18) We should not mix actions of Muslims and Islam itself. There can be actions of Muslim followers which are contrary to Islamic teachings so this is fault of people that they don't follow Islam correctly. Islam is religion of peace but generally people are unaware of it so we should be very patient, caring and aware of their sources of information and perceptions of Islam, during our dealings and conversations.

19) Keep in mind that Allah knows best.

20) and Allah knows best.

I hope that i was able to convey something useful to you. These are just my observations and views and one naturally can agree or disagree.

May Allah help and Guide us. Aamin.

In next post i would write about those Muslims who migrated to West/Europe.

Muslims of the West (Europe) (part 1)

2007-11-28T10:27:00.000-08:00

Every nation and culture do contain some people who belong to minority or groups which have a different identity than majority. These people do lead a different and interesting lives, which are sometimes quite challenging too.

West has a good number of immigrants and other minority groups including Muslims. I would like to give some insight into the lives of Muslims living in West especially in Europe. My views are based upon my personal interactions, discussions and reflections etc.

There are two main groups of Muslims living in Europe. 1) the ones who are native to the West: most of them converted to Islam, 2) migrators (permanent and temporary). In this and next post i would write about Native Muslims of the Europe then i will write in context of migrated ones.

Native Muslims could be divided into two main groups: First Group the generation which entered the world of Islam somewhere between 1930 and 1980. Second Group the ones who converted to Islam after 1980.

1) First Group: I did not had good chance to learn about this group of Muslims but still some of the things i can share. There are quite a few such people who belonged to different nations in Europe and converted to Islam at some stage of their lives. Some of the points attached to this group of people are as follows.

Their main sources of conversion to Islam had been books, rare contacts to Muslims and visits to Muslim states
They had to fight quite hard to sustain with a faith and religion which was not of mainstream. It is never an easy task to take steps in opposite direction of masses.
they had not many sources for the information about Islam since resources of information and individuals were not in great number at that time. Muslims also were quite feeble and unfocused in those days. So these converts had to fight very hard to learn and also to practice their religion. If those converts had come across a practicing Muslim in Europe, it was like a surprise and gift for them!
there were even those who converted to Islam but due to many factors, like lack of knowledge, social challenges, lack of guidance and contacts etc, could not hold strongly to Islam. It resulted either abandoning of Islam by them or very weak practice of it.
The level of the prejudice was naturally higher in that period of time since world was not quite open and networked at that time, in addition to that religious authorities were stronger than today.

2) Second Group: These are the ones who have entetred the world of Islam in last two decades and most of them are young. Some of the important factors about this group of people are

They have many diverse sources of information and guidance e.g. books, internet, other media, migrated Muslims, easy access and traveling to Islamic states etc.
they also face similar social challenges as have been faced by older generation of converted Muslims but intensity and nature has been changed.
main challenge for this group of people have been recent happenings at International level where Muslims are supposed to be part of problems. So this group has to face the normal treatment of suspicions and hate. To face pressure due to such happenings is a bit hard for the ones who are new to the Islam!
Another big challenge for this group of people has been too much and diverse information. They have to deal with heavy flow of information coming from different diverse sources and it is even hard for the born Muslims to analyze and judge that flood of information. They have to deal against different sects in Islam and sometimes get confused whom to take as true:-)
they really need to be quite active and alert to withstand many challenges of modern and fast life i.e. career, earning, education, social trends etc. This makes it harder for them to learn and practice Islam. They also get into troubles when environment and needs around them seem to be in conflict with their faith, although in my opinion it happens in many cases because of yet not complete picture of Islam. One needs to learn and reflect well to be able to make connections between Islam and realities on ground.
Lack of understanding and practice of Islam by born Muslims makes it difficult for them to stay focused and motivated. They sometimes get disappointed when they see Muslims being divided, careless towards Islam, lacking confidence and having inferiority complexes! How a new person will feel if he/she observes that the Muslims are themselves destroying their religion?

Few more Challenges for Converted Muslims and their Characteristics:

Social dealings: They have been facing difficulty to deal with social setup which has a bit different direction and philosophy of life. In general European societies are not very strong in spiritual aspect and trends are generally materialistic oriented. However, Islam and other religions do give very high priority to spiritual aspect and belief in Unseen. These Muslims have to face opposition and hard questions from their family, friends and other fellows. which is a natural phenomenon. It is one of the biggest challenge to find a life partner(wife/husband) having close/common philosophy of life. Here, females are a bit lucky that they find partners(from a big number of Muslims coming from other countries) but for the males is a bit harder.
Learning and Patrctice: As mentioned earlier, it is quite hard for the converts to learn and parctice due to many factors. This leaves them into a state where they confess in a new faith but find it difficult to know and follow demands of the faith!!!
Some Prejudices: As a natural phenomenon, it is always hard to believe and follow a philosophy which majority of a society does not follow!!! This naturally brings them to face few prejudices.
Question of attachment: It is hard for the converts to find a social belonging and balance. They have to make a good/right balance between national attachment and religious attachment. It is hard task.:-), i know it very well.
Practices of other Muslims: They get a bit confused and disappointed at some points when they observe the attitude of many Muslims who show ignorance towards Islam and strange behavior. This is definitely an irritating factor. However, fortunately there are quite a few good Muslim examples too which keep people moving forward.
Suspicious: Converted Muslims don't rely upon born Muslims(mainly migrated ones) and show some sorts of suspicions towards them, it has been my personal expereince too:-). Some of the reasons for it could be

contradicting actions of Muslims
differences of cultures
sects
lack of Islamic knowledge and lack of broader exposure of it
greed and cheating by Muslims e.g. in business or marriages etc. There have been cases where Muslims did get married only to get nationality etc and then left their partner after fulfillment of vested interests, it creates bad feelings.
Muslims expect the new comers to be as much dedicated suddenly as an ideal Muslims should but it is hard for a new one, and sometimes he/she feels overly pressurized since he/she can't be immediately like an Arab or Asian Muslim!
backgrounds and nationalities do play a role in getting familiar and trusted. Naturally, one feels best with a person belonging to same nation or group.

Contended, Ambitious and Sincere: They are normally quite contended at their decision to accept Islam and feel quite satisfied internally at it. In addition to that they are ambitious and sincere in learning and practicing new religion and if find proper and correct channels in this context then make very fast and good progress. However, if they stuck in a bad group then might lose track.
Intelligent: Are normally quite intelligent because, firstly they come to a big decision and it needs a lot of reflection and courage, secondly they learn many cultures and get diverse knowledge.
Are not Blind followers normally: Converted Muslims normally follow things with maximum understanding, reflection and self conviction. This might not be the case with a born Muslim who takes things as granted ones and normally correct but for a new one it is hard to digest things without understanding. Although it is quite important habit to analyze and understand but sometimes might create problems also. One can't go beyond a certain limit of exploration in case of faith(not because God is afraid of it rather because we get confused there) and for a person having been and thinking in a dominant materialistic world, it is sometimes hard to digest the unseen things or which he/she can't understand e.g. a person who sees only external factors will not easily understand existence and working of Angels.
Language and Culture: Quraan was revealed by Allah(God) in Arabic language and in Saudi Arabia to the Prophet Muhammad(PBUH), he then taught, explained and demonstrated Quraan to the people. So the best way to learn Islam is to learn Arabic language and Arabic history first. However, this takes time and efforts, Arabic is much different from most of the currently used European/Western languages. Some people also get a bit worried by the huge differences between current Arabic world and teachings of Islam or history of Islam!
A bit weak at Worship: I observed people (including born Muslims) with different concentration and dedication levels while making worship especially prayers including five obligatory ones. I could not find the exact reasons for it that why some of the Muslims, who are even very logical, knowledgeable and good at practice of Islam, do struggle in getting concentration and strength in their prayers. May be it is because of strong belief on the seen things, system where we live is based upon external and visible factors, prayers are not considered to be very important since one visibly doesn't see loss if not performed, one does not see strong rationale behind it etc.

However, beside all the challenges faced and due to their strong/special characteristics there is a big number of converted Muslims including women who stand firm and confident at the path of Islam. There are those who left far behind even the born Muslims in knowledge and practice of Islam. After facing initial challenges and difficulties, which are natural, they really emerge as strong and balanced personalities.

I hope, i was able to give some useful information about the native converted Muslims of Europe. In next post, i would try to mention few of the solutions to the normally faced challenges by converts.

Feel free to comment.

USA and Europe in a special context...

2007-10-26T03:16:00.001-07:00

There were few questions raised by one Muslim brother living in USA about the activities/phenomenon of 'home grown' terrorists in Germany. His opinion is given below followed by my point of view on this subject. He writes

“I wanted to ask your opinion on why you think that Muslims of German Origin would think that Islam requires them to commit indiscriminate murder by setting off bombs and how that is likely to attract more Germans to become Muslim? The same question applies to English Muslims doing the same thing in UK!

The strange thing is that here in USA where Muslims have been discriminated against, profiled and the administration is the strongest supporter of

Israel

and waged aggressive warfare against Iraq, there is hardly any so called 'home grown' terrorist threat so far. Of course I don’t know how long that will remain so if the administration continues on the same path.

What are your thoughts on this and how can we prevent people from making these attacks which are clearly un-Islamic and make life worse for Muslims?”

My point of view goes as follows

“I don't think that any sensible and knowledgeable Muslim will try to attract people towards Islam by any act which itself is against rules and spirit of Islam i.e. the act of harming innocents.

I think we need to look at things in a bit different way.

I feel that people in Europe are freer, logically strong and also more informed about the international happenings than in USA! American media is very intelligently controlled and focused in desired direction(s) while in Europe it provides relatively diverse, neutral and free information. I feel this factor makes people well informed about what injustices are being done across the world.

Here in Europe especially in Germany police is normally very friendly but focused and effective, social benefits are good, life is not as competitive and hard as in USA, people normally are not pressed if they utter truth, judicial system is fairer, crime rate is lesser, political activities are open and well monitored, politicians don't have much chances to hide their agendas and activities: they are much accountable etc. These factors help people in thinking and acting more freely/bravely, so when they come across unjust happenings, they could easily act and sometimes in unexpected/unjustified ways.

There is another factor and that is history. European people experienced many wars in Europe(i.e. at home) and wars make people more careful, sensitive and foreseeable but USA did not had many such experiences. As a result people here in Europe have better feelings for those who are in problems due to wars etc. In addition to that European people have faced many problems in social and religious contexts and they are able to judge to a good extent the misuse of religions, religious feelings and nationalistic feelings etc but still there are chances that individuals could misuse sincere feelings of innocent people and can brainwash them in this environment.

When people have more information and free Will, it could sometimes become a side-effect but on the other hand it is very much necessary for free societies. I think fault is not with freedom, it is injustice which is normally the initiator of bad happenings. So instead of pressing freedom, injustice must be stopped! Secondly people must be educated more about true spirit of Islam. Thirdly, black-sheeps who brainwash people must be identified and punished.”

Every nation has its strengths and weaknesses including people of USA and Europe so everyone should be respected but should also be accountable. What i have written is my personal view and open to any agreements or disagreements by anyone.

In addition to that, in my opinion, there are three big groups who are involved in extremist activities.

1: Those who deliberately want to plan/commit brutal activities against innocent people due to their negative nature, biasing and hostility against others.

2: Those who are not much intelligent and could be easily brainwashed in the name of religion, nationalism, humanity, benefits etc. Such people don’t know themselves about real facts and are misused. This group is quite big since any ignorant could belong to it.

3: Those who play double games i.e. they act as hypocrites. They, for example externally belong to community B, can take money and other benefits from community A and can incite and brainwash people of community B, why? They create an excuse for the attacks of community A on community B, create bad picture of community B and also weaken community B!!! Such a group is almost invisible but is very intelligent and effective normally.

Questions, comments? Feel free.

Pakistan and Extremism (part 2)

2007-09-28T08:50:00.000-07:00

Here are few more factors which have direct or indirect connection to "Pakistan and Extremism" factor.

4): Educational System including Madrasahs:
There has been no clear goal of our educational system like our political system. People who plan for the educational system are very few and also incompetent, curriculum is quite old fashioned and schools and colleges are not enough. There is no overall plan and execution strategy. A lot of private and costly educational institutions are spread here and there without a clear goal.
Religious schools(Madrasahs) have a quite diverging goal, their students and teachers normally don't interact much with other people. People normally admit those children in such schools which they think as not very competent and intelligent ones. In some Madrasahs, teachers are themselves not very competent and educated but since here too there is not much control and check and balance so such people could sometimes work without interference. These religious schools are very important for an Islamic society but they need to be managed and controlled in better way.

Solution: Educational system must be freed of politics and incompetent people. An overall goal of education must be decided and executed. Religious schools must be given true attention and should be encouraged to interact more with society and their students must be educated in such a way that they could be more active, confident and productive for the society after finishing their education and they should be trained to have a good level of patience:-)

5): Media: Media is very tricky agent. It has capability to show only those aspects of life which it likes to show e.g. if a city is quite clean but one small part of it, is dirty and a TV shows that dirty part everyday and not the major clean part of the city then viewers would start thinking as if the whole city is dirty.

People normally don't have enough time and resources to judge and confirm all reports coming right in their homes through media and they also can't move to the physical locations to know reality as result media has to be relied upon.

In case of Pakistan, media especially the International media sometimes does not show the real and neutral view. Definitely there are problems in our society and no society is free of problems but it is cheating to keep the focus of the eye of camera only at problems without showing the broader and balanced picture of the society.

Solution: I feel that media should get more positive and neutral. It is not going to bring much positive for anyone if a society is mostly represented as negative and extreme one! People should themselves try to explore real facts and situation through personal contacts and even by visits.

6:) External Invasions and Dictations: Right now, there is tricky situation in those areas of Pakistan which are along the border of Afghanistan. These areas are focus of International community. As i mentioned earlier, Pakistan was a key player in the war of Afghanistan against Russia and people have been fighting there and now these fighters are living on both sides of Pak-Afghan border. Now Pakistan is pressurized to control those old heroes(Mujahidin) of International powers mainly through power and weapons; in case Pakistan does not act upon the orders of "all clean and all wise International powers", they sometimes blackmail and sometimes even invade those Pakistani areas.

This creates much anger among the people of Pakistan due to following reasons: 1) Why do International powers want to only kill those who were once trained and supported by them? 2) why must these people be killed if they would want to live peacefully now, 3) what is the credibility of the intelligence reports of so called all clean and all reliable International powers who made quite a few mistakes in judging situations e.g. in case of Iraq invasion, 4) why should we kill someone without giving him/her chance to defend legally, 5) Muslims are strictly forbidden to kill any innocent person so why should we kill anyone who is not proven guitly in a court, 6) No one is allowed to invade our land or to dictate us like God!!!

I don't defend anyone who is guilty of any crime but everyone must be fairly tried in court without national/religious attachments before being punished. It is basic human right!!

Additionally borderer with Afghanistan is quite lengthy and area is quite rough. It is hard to control 100% movements and filtration there. Situation in Afghanistan is also quite volatile which makes control even harder.

Many of our political/army leaders and bureaucrats have weaknesses which might be misused e.g. some of them have inferiority complex, some of them have record of gross corruption, some of them come as dictators, some others have criminal records, some others are not educated, some others have lust for the power etc. All these weaknesses are sometimes misused by the external and internal powers to get their vested interests.

Solution: Tribal people along the border and the fighters should be handled fairly, intelligently and with sincerity. These people are simple but dangerous machines, they are fearless and volatile, they also have been cheated/misused many times so they don't trust much the all clean all wise powers. I think this issue could be solved through reliable people and dialog. These people greatly respect religious individuals so they should be used. Occasional invasion into Pakistani areas from International forces must be stopped since it makes dialog and peace efforts null!!! Fair, educated and brave politicians are required.

7): Kashmir conflict and India: Many people know Pakistan through Kashmir conflict. This is an old and complex conflict. We are thankful to the Britishers that they left something behind for us which we could permanently enjoy:-). Pakistan has fought quite a few wars with India over this issue. There always have been tussle between two countries. Pakistan became atomic power in this process of winning the race. This kind of permanent state of rivalry has made people quite emotional.
Intelligence agencies of both countries have been quite active to plot interesting games in opposite countries. Politicians and other people with vested interests have been using volatile situation for their personal greed and benefits. People of the Kashmir are really unfortunate ones, they are just between fight of two elephants.

Solution: ..... ???...!!! It is hard to find a good solution to this problem. May be a neutral and reliable International group of individuals must be allowed to analyze the situation and make its recommendations about Kashmir Issue. Don't blame Pakistan for it please, we are not the only ones responsible for all these conflicts :-).

I hope you got some familiarity to few real connections of Pakistan and Extremism.

Although current situation of Pakistan is undoubtedly not very pleasing but it is a transition stage for Pakistani society. There comes to every nation a bad patch and we are currently having our share of tough time but such periods make people more intelligent and strong.

I am quite optimistic that Pakistan is going to play a very positive, important and productive role in International community. The things which we need are patience, time, sincerity and realistic behaviour from others. People would be positively surprised if they knew Pakistan and Pakistanis in a bit more depth and broadly.

Feel free to ask anything you like or comment.

Best wishes,

Pakistan and Extremism (part 1)

2007-08-28T06:22:00.000-07:00

During last few years, Pakistan has been in the news in context of extremism. People somehow feel that our society is a radical and extreme one. I feel that this perception is partially true.
I try to figure out some of the factors which have been playing some role in giving our society current shape. Please go through them patiently to have better understanding of Pakistan and Pakistanis.

I think that all the perceptions which are made about Pakistani people are mainly based upon the information gathered through few resources like media and selected individuals which might not be true representative of the reality. Sitting thousands of miles away from a society and making guesses is not the real method to judge it, best way to know about us would be direct contact and not total reliance upon media and allies:-)

Following are the few major factors which have been contributing to the extremist philosophy and actions in Pakistan.

1): Lack of broader knowledge and practice of Religion:-

Right from the creation of Pakistan in 1947, we have been facing this dilemma that not many people had broader and realistic picture of Islam. It is true that many people in Indian Subcontinent accepted Islam quite quickly but only this step was never enough. Islam is a broad, deep and diverse source of information and it requires a good amount of study and research to be understood to a satisfactory extent.
It was never going to be easy to understand and to follow a System and i don't see that there was enough research made about how to make connections between religion and ground realities of Pakistani society. I think we always tried to follow Islam strictly and in the form in which it was revealed in Arabian Peninsula about 1400 hundred years ago.
It shows love and sincerity of our people towards Islam. However, I think that unfortunately we ignored four important factors in this context: first, ground realities (culture, society, educational system, language, history etc) in South Asia were quite different as compared to Arabic culture; second, Islam was about 1400 years old so there were naturally changes due to time difference; third, dynamic aspect of Islam which helps in adaptation to the new challenges, lacknesses and needs; fourth, Islamic sources of guidance i.e. Quraan and Sunnah are in Arabic language. not many people tried to learn Arabic language and relied upon translations. There is always a chance of loss of information while translation from one language to another. In addition to that there could be intentional/unintentional manipulation in the meanings by the translator.

Here, I don't mean that Islam was/is unpractical in our society or at any other place; it is a universal and dynamic religion but still with change in ground realities and with time, it itself provides flexibility to adapt but people somehow ignored it and as a result made their lives difficult.
When a person does follow a belief but is unaware of the system which must be followed due to this belief then it creates a lot of conflicts. That person is going to struggle in real life when he/she can't find solutions to his/her problems by the help of his belief. He would quickly turn angry and emotional when he can't defend his belief; reason is simple, he does not know what he has to say and to do due to his/her belief.
The half baked scholars so called Mullahs did not let any chance to misuse the sincere intentions of people towards Islam. There are many ill traditions and theories which ignorant people attach to Islam e.g. in some areas people make a marriage of the girls with Quraan, just to deprive them of their legal share in wealth of father/mother etc, women are forced for the marriages sometimes, many murders happen in the name of protection of respect etc. All these and others similar forms are forbidden in Islam but people are unaware mostly. They prefer their cultural and inherited customs over rules of Islam.
In this case, problem is not with belief rather problem is due to lack of understanding of system attached to the belief. It is very much possible that ignorantly a person is doing something which is totally detrimental to his/her belief.
A simple example: Suppose that a belief is like a very strong racing car which could win a race if used properly but if driver of that car, who loves the car(belief), is unaware of the system of the car, doesn't know about driving rules and regulations then what might be the result? That driver will not only lose race but also will be a big danger for other participants of the race.

Similarly our society is a heavy racing car(having strong belief in God) but there are many illiterate drivers. This not only lead to many different groupings of Muslims but also divided society into extreme poles.

Solution: To make more research about Islam and to increase its awareness among people in Pakistan. Any other solutions would be short lived!!! If people will not get enough education of Islam then their love and sincerity towards it would always be used/misused.

2): Misuse of Concept of Jihad(Physical war):

During the war of Afghanistan, it was needed that a lot of people should be trained to fight against Russia. Since this war was an urgent need and true scholars of Islam were not taken into confidence for the decision in this context. Half baked so called scholars of Islam(Mullahs) were used to propagate the message to prove to the innocent people that this war was a holy mission and Muslims must participate in it.

I feel that both the Mullahs and Fighters for this war were brainwashed(by powers and intelligence agencies) and used for this temporary task and direction! I think it was not planned that what to do with such brainwashed individuals after war is over. These Mullahs and Fighters did not had enough capabilities, education and skills to integrate into society, they mostly knew how to fight since they were trained for it. Today, Pakistan and Afghanistan are reaping the results in the form of group of individuals who see physical fight only way out from problems. I personally feel that it is not true Islamic methodology i.e. to talk in the language of fights/threats only, it creates uggly and difficult situations for everyone!

Here i will say that Pakistan, USA and other powers must have been wise enough to plan how to integrate these Fighter Machines(Jihadis) after war is over! I can't understand that when these people were fighting against Rushia they were supported, cheared and trained but after war was over they and other civilians were killed like animals and branded with all possible dirty tags!

Solution: These brainwashed individials need to be treated very carefully, intelligently and sincerily. Killing and cheating these people would increase problem further! One needs to talk to them and build trust, these people must be shown the real and broader picture of reality. Love, care and respect can win hearts and not the missiles and guns can do it!!! Intelligence agencies and powers must be requested to stop from plotting dirty tricks to further misuse innocent brains.

3:) Diversity, Corruption and Dictatorship:
Quite unfortunately true goal and system for the Pakistan were never clearly decided and followed. This country was created in the name of Islam and this was wonderful achievement but later this objective was somehow lost. At the start of the creation of Pakistan, this baby state was very weak in economic, social, defence, political and management sectors. Pakistan was not given even agreed shares in money, weapons and other resources at the time of division. Although things gradulally improved but still a lot needs to be done.

Our society is quite diverse in many aspects e.g. there are quite a few religions and sects(e.g. it contains Muslims(more than 90%), Christians, Hindus, Sikhs etc and sects like Sunnies, Shias, Wahabies etc) , there are those who are native in Pakistan and there are those also who migrated to Pakistan at its creation time, people have contrast in context of wealth, there are many communities(e.g. Balochis, Sindhis, Kashmiris, Punjabies and Pathans etc), there is difference in context of educational qualifications(starting from PHDs to total illiterates) , in context of political influence etc. Such a diversity required individuals who could keep people together but it was not realized.

Political,religious and other forms of corruption have been common and uncontrolled. We had to bear many dictators mostly from army. They were not the only people who made lives of Pakistani people difficult; politicians, religious people and bureaucracy also did not forgive poor people.
To run the affairs of state, is not the business of Army men, they are trained with different view and methodology. Their brains are normally not very flexible and broader to fix delicate political problems. Although sometimes they sincerely wanted to help Pakistan, they miserably failed and brought many problems to us. They mostly tried to use methodology of divide and conquer like sometimes they supported one party, sometimes other one, sometimes created religious fronts etc just to control things.
Politics has been mostly revolving around only few families who possesed resources, had contacts and influence. Most of them were illiterate. This small bunch of politicians only fought for personal gains at any cost to society, politics in our society mainly meant to tell lies and to cheat people.
Bureaucracy has been like a wild horse since normally no one asked them what they were doing and why? They were used by the Politicians and Intelligence agencies for the vested interests and vice versa.
Judiciary also has been servant of Army and Politicians! People did not have any place to get comfort and compensation. As a result society became a place full of crimes and there were no rules and regulations except the rule of power.
Most of religious people obviously lacked the competence and they mostly escaped all kind of accountability and control. They learned and propagated normally only that part of religion which suited their personal interests.
So all these factors lead to a society full of despair, corruption and aggression.
Solution: Religious, human and national attachments are the main factors which can keep people united so they must be used. Army must avoid politics and politicians must be sincere and educated ones, Bureaucracy should be controlled through a good system of check and balance, Intelligence agencies should be brought within rules and regulations, Judiciary should get responsible and must lead from the front and religious people need to learn more and practice themselves sincerely first what they learn.

In part 2, i would mention few more reasons e.g. educational system, Media, external invasions and Kashmir conflict etc.

Love affairs...(part 2)

2007-07-10T06:50:00.000-07:00

In last post, i tried to mention some of the factors which affect love affairs(negatively). I hope that i was able to mention correct and enough factors!
The matter of relationship between opposite sexes is core for the smoother functioning of a society so we should take it a bit seriously, i think. As far as solutions to the problems(mentioned in last post) are concerned, i feel they should not be that much difficult to pinpoint. I would try to share my perspective in this context, you may yourself decide better about logical strength of my views.
Few of the things which could help for a positive, happy and strong relationship.
A bit sacrifice: If we are not ready to sacrifice something for a healthy relation then how could we expect positive results. To take every step in life one needs to put some energy and how could a relation start and move without putting energy?
Goal of Life: This factor alone could be one of the strongest factor in keeping the pair sticked together. A true, positive, balanced and higher goal of life can not only help in paying rights of each other but also can make life much open, dynamic, balanced and tolerant. Just think!!!
Commonalities: We all are human beings. We are different from each other in some aspects but we also posses so many common aspects. I have observed in multicultural groups that after some time we start thinking and acting amazingly unitedly and positively! So apparent differences must not win over unlimited commonalities. Our appearances, histories and philosophies might be different but our souls and consciences are very much similar. We should use these aspects to strengthen relationships.
Checking Priorities: These are priorities in life which decide about our dedications and direction of life. If money is first priority then we struggle and plan for it, if it is human welfare then we plan accordingly, if it is business then plans/actions are different and so on. I will again say that money is a one need of life and not the ultimate goal, it is slave of man and not the other way around! We need to give true priority to our relations, social needs and spiritual aspects! There are many examples where people have little money etc but they are very happy. It us up to us!
Stay a bit stronger: Not all the things happen according to our wishes and plans, one has to show some strength in difficult times. Pairs have to be patient and sincere at the time of natural difficulties. One should not hang between two decision and in worst case should get separated instead of hanging in the middle. I feel that females are normally stay more dedicated and stronger for a smooth relationship.
A Marriage: A marriage is the best way to have stronger relationship. It has many good aspects e.g. it reflects a firm decision, people clearly get to know about the firm relationship of the couple, couple pays good attention to mutual rights, couple gets focused/united and it is normally source of beautiful kids. Children play a very vital, positive, pleasing and strong role in keeping the relationship between the couple smoother. One should not be worried much about religious, economic and political hindrances. By marriage, one gets a partner who stands firm with a person in all situations of life, what else can one expect? A partner is not a burden, it is there to help you.
A controlled integration: We are created in society and it has some logic and sense behind. We should neither be so individualistic that life gets extremely narrow and becomes a burden nor should we be so much open that we lose our own selves! A good relation requires a controlled integration.
Stability: Stable relations lead to stable life. If we are always changing partners and looking for better ones then where and how can we stop? What will be the stopping criteria? Frankly there is no universal criteria. If a partner is sincere and caring then we should stop, get focused and try to take it further.
Controlled external involvement: We should allow some external involvement from the sincere fellows e.g. parents, relatives, friends etc. There is no alternative to the natural love of parents, no matter how many differences we do have with them. We must take benefit from their love, sincerity and experiences. Same is the case with relatives and friends. Yes, final decision should be our own, but a wise one.
External Bond: We can't ignore the effects of religion, society, culture etc on our relationship and life, so instead of fighting blindly against these effects one should try to take positives from them.
Don't only expect rather try to be initiator: Sometimes we sit and want to be good to others only after others show good behavior towards us! I don't agree to this strategy. Imagine all people are having such expectation from others! what will happen? It will be a deadlock, no one will be able to be good to others:-). We should think about being initiators of sincerity and dedication, we will be amazed by the good behavior of others then! Don't be disappointed by rare unexpected results:-)
Externalities: One should not always be affected by the externalities since there are always different views and examples, so one should try to make relation stronger with consideration of personal situation, goal and needs.
Leaving some things open: Planning can't be done 100% correctly. After our best planning, we need to leave some things at coming situation and future. Pair should go for firm relationship with sincerity and braveness then future will be much easier.
Steps: I think first step to establish a good relationship is to get maximum mental compatibility then should be firm decision(e.g. marriage) and not sexual testing:-). In subcontinent (Pakistan, India etc) people normally don't get into sexual relationship before marriage and it is working quite well. There is very low divorce rate and also people are able to have children i.e. they are able to have sexual satisfaction too:-)
As early as possible: This relationship is for young age and not for the old people. Earlier we get into stable and permanent relationship, stronger and focused we do stay. What is better: a stable, reliable and sincere relationship or an uncertain and temporary one? First one is much better, i feel. At later stage of life, one does not have much energies(physical and hearty) and flexibility to establish an ideal relationship.
Best Match: A best match is not an Angel or special creation or hidden at some special place:-). We don't know about it, we should search it but we should also not let this search continue forever. One should also try to avoid sharing feelings with those whom he/she does not find compatible. Decision should be made and executed bravely and intelligently. Personally i feel that females can much early judge about nature of men so they could play a good role in this context.
Media should play positive role: Media should encourage and give proper coverage to those people who stand as role models for the society: those who have strong relationships. If day and night it shows those celebrities who have no stable relationship, no family life and no children then people would also start taking them as role models.

Encouraging established bonds: One should encourage those who are together and should respect their unity.

Clear Intentions: One should be clear about the nature of the relation and should express it clearly to the expected partner at start.

Be natural: We should be natural, caring and straightforward in our relationships and artificiality should be avoided.

At the end i would say that it is intention, sincerity and goal of life which play a vital role for a healthy relationship.

If you find some point(s) unclear or unsatisfactory then feel free to express.

Over to you.

Best wishes

Love affairs...(part 1)

2007-06-11T04:26:00.001-07:00

Today, Let us talk on a different but interesting topic of life:-).

Almost everyone wants to have a partner (from opposite sex) which could play a vital, supportive, caring and trustworthy role in life! This is the relation which is required for many reasons: social, physical, mental, spiritual etc. I feel this is one of the toughest decision and challenge in life i.e. to find and convince a partner of life. Please bear in mind that what i write is my personal view and observation, you are free either to agree or to disagree.

What does mean love(between opposite sexes)?
Is it name of only few kisses and exchange of few beautiful words etc or is it something which goes beyond these aspects and needs of life? Should not loving pair help and support each othert through thick and thin of life or this is not part of modern love affairs? What does happen when people seem to be deeply involved in love but all of a sudden get separated why...? What could be the reasons behind such heart breaking incidents and who is responsible for it, boys or girls? How could the situation be improved? No way! No, there is always a way!

Personally i feel that if one really claims to be a true lover then this relation should be eternal one and based upon maximum possible care, understanding, respect and very importantly upon mutual tolerance and patience. What kind of love is it which breaks down with even a weak wind of problems? Yes, i must not be an idealistic person since there are many things which effect our life but still we should be optimistic, realistic and brave.

Personally I could figure out following few reasons which effect love cases negatively!

obligations: I feel that most of us are afraid to take responsibility and obligations which are required to have permanent and trusted relationship
lack of a common goal(priorities): it is true that everyone is different but when two people come closer they need to agree on some points of life to make a shared journey of life
lack of a bigger goal of life: If goal of life is too narrow e.g. only restricted to few financial and social status milestones then this makes life quite restricted and also life gets boring after some period of time but in opposite case if goal of life is much bigger then one thinks and acts in much bigger perspective.
busy life: yes, life is getting faster, demanding and competitive with passage of time and it is getting harder to keep the social relations and promises. It is really a pity.
localities: People do live, study and work at different locations and in this age they even have to move in another country which makes a big difference. It is human nature that he/she starts getting interested in what is in front of him/her and might forget other important things. Well, it is very hard to fulfil the demands of such relation from a different location. Again this is a sad aspect!
individualism/materialism: Individualism when goes beyond certain limits could result in lesser interaction and interest in people and things sorrounding us. On the other hand total materialistic approach may result in change in priorities and lesser interest with people and society. Personally i feel that material things (money etc) are not goal of life rather they are needs of life! When a need becomes itself a highest goal then it disturbes the balance and direction.
partners, partners, partners: Although this might be a difficult pill to swallow but i feel it is one of the big hindrance in having long term and trustworthy relationships. I think whenever one changes a relationship it does effect our feelings, it makes us colder, weaker and suspicious. It is never easy and without side effects to leave a person with whom one was feeling quite good few days ago! We even start loving our places where we live, our pets etc then what would be the case when we break our relations with a human being?!!!
lack of a trustworthy arbitrator(Family, relatives, friends etc): When two people live together then there is always a natural possibility of having few disagreements, disputes etc and although the source of dispute might be a petty one but in flow of emotions and sometimes egoism they can break their relations due to such natural problems/conflicts. So if there is not a common and trustworthy arbitrator then they may not realize the situation but if there is such a person(or persons) then it can definitely help in keeping the relations smoother and continues! Unfortunately our life has taken such courses that we don't benefit much from such important arbitrators e.g. parents, relatives!
lack of an external source of bond(religion, society, persons etc): There are different sources which help in keeping the relationships of pairs stronger and smoother although sometimes such sources themselves become unduly oppressing. I feel relationship of the pair should be stronger but in case there is no way to live together they should be allowed to get separated. In any case external wise bond is very helping and effective.
these are opposite sexes:-): It is even harder for the same sex people (i am not talking about gays and lesbians) to live together happily for longer term then how challenging it would be to live together with someone from opposite sex? In this case there are not only differences of emotions but also physical and mental ones so it is a big challenge. However this challenge is very interesting, positive and necessary one, it makes life balanced, focused and stable.
social trends: Direction of society has a deep effect upon a family life. There was a time when most of the people have been living together after having marriages but gradually trend of the society has been changed. It is harming or benefiting, we need to think realistically based upon broader perspective!!
too micro level calculations: No one can calculate exact details what will come in future so when we start thinking that we must be in total control of future then we put ourselves in pain since future is not fully in our control! So those who start thinking like e.g. it will be hard to sustain relationship in future due to such and such things, they may never have permanent relationships. If intentions are pure and dedications are strong then future is easier otherwise... Plan is very necessary but the parameters for the plan in this case are enormous and very divergent.
testing each other in all aspeccts: Another hard pill, i personally feel it marginally decreases interest for a permanent relation in future if we test each other almost in all aspects! A relation should be a much broader and durable one instead of consideration of only few temporary aspects(e.g. emotional, sexual etc).
lack of guidance at early youth age: When one takes his/her first steps into youth then he/she is very anxious, excited and hot. This is learning period for the young ones. At that period of age their blood is very hot and their mental maturity is quite low so at that point of life they do need intelligent, realistic, friendly and sincere guidance. I think many people don't get that guidance due to many reasons e.g. due to their lack of maturity, excitement and generation gap etc.
i am too young!: Many of us think ooh i am too young, i should not get into any serious relationship, i should enjoy first! Well, as i mentioned earlier every broken relationship(even the one taken as not very serious) weakens our emotions and trust so i feel that such adventures can very easily transform us into individuals who have very little energy to sustain a caring, long term and trustworthy relationship. There is another important aspect: as we grow older our habits get fixed and it becomes harder and harder to accommodate another individual in life!!!
search of best match: what is best match and where he/she is? How could one know who is the best one? we don't have any database where one could see all the candidates and their priorities, habits, characters and intentions! So if one will keep on searching in this way then he/she might end up spending whole life in this search. If one is really serious to have best match then he/she should avoid sharing feelings with non-ideal ones otherwise it looks as a kind of cheating!!!
political/economic/religious reasons: There are rules and regulations which hinder people from getting into permanent relationships i.e. marriage.
media: as usual Mr. or Ms. media has got a very pivotal role in our life. It can very easily show only those aspects of life which it wants and can hide what it does not like, it can propagate which it likes, it has somehow power to prove white as black and vice versa. Now role models are changing, everything is just available at home at our screens. I don't say that media is a bad thing but we should not leave everything on it. Media is just a virtual life not complete or real one.
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So these are few of the reasons which i could understand and observe that effect negatively most of love affairs. There will be others which i will learn from you and others in future:-).

In next post i will try to present some answers and solutions to questions and problems. In meantime you may reflect upon the authenticity of my presented reasons and also upon possible solutions. Sorry if there was something annoying.

I will be back soon so stay tuned:-)

Best regards and wishes,

A Goal...!!!

2007-05-10T04:56:00.001-07:00

In every human being rather in every living thing there is strength which helps that entity to survive in different situations and environments of life. Every one of us is able to defend in one or other way his/her identity and uniqueness. Although there are different roles, characters and abilities of the people but still everyone makes one special and necessary part of the life.
Our exposure and strengths always do need to be increased. There are human beings on the same planet that we never see or talk to in our whole life but they are still part of our world! There are places on the Earth which we never explore but they are part of our planet! There are books and knowledge which are written for human beings but we never get chance to read them or even to know their titles! Every day thousands of events occur on the earth which we don't reach. There are many people who cry for the help every day but we even don't hear the faintest of voice of them. There are people who sleep without eating enough, there are people who die without getting medication but we don't know!!!...
Sometimes we are so much busy in our lives, in our jobs, in our survivals, in our luxuries, in our fun that we even don't get chance to know that what is going on next to us! Yes, it is natural to strive for the self survival, it is blessing on man that he has built in characteristic for self survival otherwise people might have not been caring about themselves! Yes, it is true that when we live in an environment we automatically start thinking and acting according its needs and motions. When a person is in library, he/she would think and act differently than when he/she is in sports club! This is our nature and strength but it can become very easily a hindrance for broader thinking and actions. I feel there should be a balance, openness and control in our thinking and actions it should be neither too local nor too global! At the end every human being at one time can't think and act beyond certain limits but these limits should be appropriately understood, sometimes we might underestimate them while sometimes we might overestimate!:-)
The setup and flow of life is very interesting and challenging, there are different nations, there are different tribes, there are different philosophies, there are different arts, there are different cultures, there are different histories, there are different climates and so on. Even in every nation people have different physical and mental characteristics. There are different ways of living a life, everyone makes his/her own priorities and takes a way of life.
There could be different ways which lead to a goal, there could be different solutions to a problem but not all of them could be necessarily the correct ones. There could be different levels of difficulty and accuracy of different solutions and ways. I feel that an intelligent is the one who gets clear about the goal and does not deviate much from it!
Goal! Which goal? Well, everyone has a goal in life and everyone has right to have anyone he/she likes. It depends upon personal experiences and priorities. I would just like to mention that we don't feel good without having a goal, a sense and a purpose in life. We do look at others and try to think why it is so, what is the purpose of doing it etc? I think this is our natural instinct that we ponder and try to figure out the causes and reasons. A child is normally more curious about small things around him and he asks a lot from the parents. With our growing experience and exposure our questions and sources of information do change. This process of curiosity and exploration continues. For some questions we might get immediate answers while for some others we need to learn and experiment more. But we always like to have sense, purpose and goal(s).
In this process when we observe for example the mechanism and system around us, we definitely feel why, what and how? We observe and try to explore the universal system, it is simply awesome. There are planets and galaxies which are so big, there are even planets which we never knew before and there are which we still have to know about! Creation and control of this mighty universe is out of our hands and its working is very complex and delicate. If we compare our Earth with the Universal system, comparatively it is very small. But our small planet is also full of wonders and beauties. Sun, moon and earth make a beautiful coordination. There is wonderful balance of gases on the earth according to exact human needs. Sun provides us required light and energy and it is doing its job strictly and punctually since a long long time! Moon is also not late and lazy in doing its job! We have wonderful system for rains which brings life to earth! Water and other resources are wonderfully made and placed according to human needs! Water is fitting wonderfully to needs of human body! Trees are playing there roles! Human body is itself a wonder, there is brain, there is heart, there are limbs, there are eyes, there is stomach, and there is skin and so on. All these things work together with a wonderful coordination! Life on earth speaks loudly and clearly!
All these things ask questions and encourage for exploring and finding more! There are people who look only upon the external setup but there are also those who try to find reasons, purposes and strategy behind what looks external! It is our nature that we look for the sense and logic then what is the sense and logic for this whole setup and life?
If we work in a company, we get all resources and money and we are obliged to work well with a direction and purpose then is it possible that we have whole setup and resources of life without any direction and purpose? If we are answerable to the owner of a small company for his/her provided resources and money then is it not the same case with life and all resources? :-)
Every one of us is blessed with unique intellect and life then should we not be responsible personally also? Well, i feel it is not very appropriate and logical to blindly ignore all the signs around us and within ourselves and to decide without any efforts and dedication that all this is happening itself and without a purpose! Yes, one should make decision her/him self but at least one should try to know more and enough! We spend a lot of time to have fun, money, comfort but why do we not invest time to know the purpose of life(if there is one)?
There could be excuses e.g. lack of resources, wrong behavior of believers, variety of religions etc. but all this does not free us from responsibility of self exploration. There will remain all the time both good and bad examples and it depends upon a person what he/she takes as an example for his/her self. It depends upon a person what he/she wants to have in life, he/she will find people and philosophies according to his/her needs.
I feel that we should make our goals neither too static nor too dynamic. For those who want to reach at goal there is definitely a way but for those who want to make excuses are complexities and problems. Humans are very capable and precious but sadly many of them don't know it or may be they don't want to know!!!

Balance, patience, care...

2007-04-10T05:21:00.000-07:00

We are neither the first inhabitants of this world nor are we the last ones. There have been people before us and there will be people after us but few questions come into mind time and again: Is our way of life natural? Is our age the best one? how and why? is there no need of improvement? Is technical advancement solution of all problems? etc.
Well it's difficult to define that what the natural way of life is but at least we should be somehow critical to our way of life. May be currently we are leading the best way of life but still we should not leave it uncontrolled and unanalyzed. I also don't mean that we should question each and everything taking as wrong and should also change things completely and should have new start. This is neither possible nor feasible. We have to move forward from the current point where history has naturally brought us!
Although i have already mentioned in my previous writing of clarifications that i am just one individual and not the ultimate truth so if i say something it does not mean that it is kind of final word or there is nothing beyond it. I don't want to be like an individual who pretends to be as the best one or the Savior. I don't need any kind of authority, i am just happy with simple life but i would definitely voice my feelings. Anyway...
Current systems in the world have taken their natural ways due to all what went on in their long history. I feel for any system to work, it is important to put belief into it. We need one system at a time to run our affairs. In the market of world many has been introduced and many would come, all of them were fine according to circumstances and requirements. Here i would like to mention that i feel that no system could be perfect since man who is partially involved in the working of any system himself is not perfect. But it also does not mean that there can't be any improvements! We have to move forward positively and sincerely wherever we are, whatever our situations are.

Currently there are many poles in the World; people are living at different places with different ways of life: its a natural case and beauty of life. Some of them are inclined more towards economic benefits, some towards social one, some are more inclined towards religions, some are more secular based etc. Every system is working fine according to its needs and it should keep working.

As i said earlier we should also be positive for improvements. I am not pointing finger at any particular way of life, i respect all of them. I feel that we should not try to hide if there is any need of improvement and one should also not try to look at deficiencies of others all the time to prove them inferior or to prove ourselves better. Every nation is capable, every human is capable, its use of their capabilities in negative or positive way and difference of priorities which makes contrast. But in any case respect of others and patience is very important.
It's is a bit worrying that there are few huge contrasts on our planet. For example in one society people are even struggling for enough basic food for survival while in another one people are looking for variety of foods: where super markets are full with new products and flavors. In one society they have very good system of law and order while in another one nothing is safe. In one society they have best system of travelling while in another one they are even struggling to find something to reach to the destination. In one country people have best health care facilities but in another one they even are not able to get treatment against minor diseases and so on. Contrast is quite visible in many ways, areas and aspects.
Well all this does not mean that i am cursing those who have enough or are leading comfortable lives, comfort should be enjoyed but i feel it is also important that we think about those who are deprived even of basic needs of life. We should feel that those who are dying due to hunger are also human beings and have been living on the same planet. If one has facilities of life and other one is deprived of it then how this gap will be filled and who will do so? Why should we think only about ourselves although we can do something good for others too? Why should not we look beyond our personal materialistic interests although we can look beyond? Survival of the fittest is a good slogan but it results in a lot of conflicts, anger and disappointments! If all people would like to have maximum then situation would become hard and complex!
A person who is strong if he is not ready to help the weak one then how the problems of weak will be removed, how will he get comfort and confidence? A person who is strong he can very easily get stronger since he has resources, experiences and contacts while a weak will keep on getting weaker! where will this stop? what is the limit of materialistic gains or greed? what is limit of technical gains and advancements? THERE IS SIMPLY NO LIMIT! I am not sure if it is justified that we make projects worth of billion of dollars to conquer other planets while our own planet is full of hunger, problems and corruption. If we can't take care of our this planet then what is the guarantee that we will be successful on new planet?
Definitely we can't know each and every detail of happenings around us but at least we should give some thoughts that where life is heading to? Yes, trust should be put on others and we need to trust to some extent but its true that at the end of the day we have to face in one or other way what comes as a result of ours and others actions! World was always a global village, people have always been connected to each other, there was always influence of happenings on each other but it was a slow procedure and i feel currently due to fast movements and communication facilities these connections and influence have strengthened!
It is not logical just to keep on running blindly, we should be clear about our goals and also should take care of people behind and around us i.e. so that we don't leave them too far behind! There should be plan and balance. Social values, spiritual needs, economic and technical advancements, political goals etc all should be combined together. It is not very appropriate to stretch one aspect of life too far while ignoring other important aspects! Balance, patience, care dear fellows.

Over to you :-)

Few clarifications...

2007-03-31T08:34:00.000-07:00

I would like to clear few questions which might cross minds of the people about me and my writings.
First, like any other person i have a faith and goal of life so my thoughts, words and actions are definitely influenced by it. It is a natural phenomenon: every one moves according to his/her beliefs, knowledge and priorities. I don't know how to remain totally neutral or if it is possible to be so?! I think it is not possible, we all are inclined to some philosophies and beliefs. So it is something we have to live with but i feel main thing is to remain open, fair and positive.
Second, my thoughts might look like preaching! which is true. But i would like to add that every human is a preacher: whatever he or she believes, he/she tries to show it through his/her words or actions. Even a person who says that he is an atheist, he does preach his belief. Again preaching is neither a crime nor an unnatural thing but it is intention behind it and also its effects on others which need to be analyzed instead of labeling something as preaching and closing minds towards it.
Third, i definitely respect the faith, beliefs and religions of other people. Everyone is free in this regard but i feel it is also important that we share and analyze our faiths and philosophies in best possible ways to judge and improve them. This is definitely one of the most difficult things to do i.e. to question the strength and authenticity of our beliefs since we normally take them as right. We help each other in finding the truth. So please never get feelings from my writings that i only want to prove others wrong and right to all my opinions. I am not the ultimate truth and i am a simple human being who learns on the way of life. Let me assure you that i will support and follow truth wherever it might be!! It is my responsibility.
Be happy.
Best wishes,

Muslim Lands, extremism & co. and West

2007-03-10T08:07:00.000-08:00

Almost everyone of us comes across issues related to this topic regularly so i decided to have a bit broader and deep look at it. Please do keep in mind that these are just my views and are open to agreements and disagreements from everyone. Any additions and corrections are most welcome.
No doubt about that currently Muslim World is marginally fragile, exhausted and in disarray due to many internal and external factors. Most of the Muslim lands are bearing dictators; these dear rulers have strange goals and philosophies. There is a lot of corruption in Muslim societies including religious one. Economic, educational and technical advancements are very slow. Majority of Muslims are neither practicing Islam with understanding and dedication nor are they ready to follow secular ways:). Muslim societies are mainly divided into two main groups: 1. those who show very little flexibility on religious affairs/injunctions; this group somehow ignores the dynamic part of Islam 2. those who don't care much about religion and they try to become so much modern and dynamic that they lose their identity, goal and get confused; these people normally don't have feet to stand on:)! There are quite a few sects also and they just like to criticise each other normally in an emotional way.

Well, personally i could find few reasons for this situation. First, i think the main reason for the current down situation of Muslims is their lack of understanding, dedicated practice of Islam and self confidence: i feel this is true for any people and religion, whenever people lost connection with Creator they were caught up in problems. Second, Muslims did not work much during last couple of centuries: they enjoyed a lot since they were blessed with natural resources, power and wealth etc and they did not appropriately move with the pace of time and changes. Thirdly, there are always ups and downs for all nations and powers and last couple(or more) of centuries have been down period of Muslims:) . But all this does not mean that the whole Islamic world is similar and they don't have ability anymore to live normally or to contribute positively to the World. Things are changing and as i wrote earlier changes need continues struggle, time and patience!:) So stay tuned please:)

As far as so called terrorism and extremism is concerned; i feel these terms and other similar terms have been both misunderstood and misused. Almost all of the Muslim scholars do agree upon the concept that Muslims should fight for self defense only and also there is no room for the casualties and harm of civilians and innocent people anywhere and anytime. Sadly, these rules have been ignored by quite a few Muslims. I feel that response of the Muslims have not been very strong against wrongdoings of their fellow Muslims who might be involved in such acts. Real test comes when one has to accept and punish wrongdoings of his/her own people! How a Muslim could be hero for Muslims when he/she clearly violates the commands of Allah by harming civilians and innocent people???

As i wrote earlier, i am not a scholar but i have right to convey my opinion. I think term of Jihad is also sometimes misused. It means to strive and this striving is not restricted only to physical fight rather it has many different areas and ranks. Few of these higher ranks are e.g. to strive for personal correction, to strive for getting rid of personal evil habits and thoughts, to strive for sacrificing personal benefits over help of others etc. One of the best forms of Jihad is to raise voice against wrong doings of a cruel ruler and i feel currently Muslims do need to concentrate on this form of Jihad to have just rulers in their lands. Also Muslims do need to control their habit of having short temper and anger while anger is strictly forbidden in Islam.

Physical fight is the last option after all legal(positive) options for peace, self defense and cooperation has been exhausted but unfortunately many of my Muslim fellows like to go for this last option immediately almost giving it first priority which i feel is not the right and intelligent way. I can understand their natural emotional feelings after losing close ones and property but a Muslim should show maximum patience and restraint while he/she obeys God; and there is simply no room to damage civilians belonging to any religion.

It is natural that if back of a person is continuously being burnt then it will be very hard for him/her to behave logically and with patience all the time, he/she may lose rational thinking sooner or later! So such a practice should be stopped if we are serious about having peace in world. Wars, invasions and double standards can't bring peace in world; if lasting peace and cooperation is required then we will have to win hearts and minds of the people by being good, fair and open to them. No human being likes to be cornered or to be mistreated!

It is stupidness and hypocrisy to first destroy a country and then to do its development; this way not only many innocents sustain casualties but also the expenses are doubled(both for weapons and development). Casualty of a single person in war creates many angry minds since his/her family, relatives, friends and other nearby people naturally don't feel happy over it!

It is also a strange way to arrest people due to suspicion and to put a suspect in detention without giving a chance of fair trial! Behind the wall unfair activities/measures in the name of national/international interests can create mistrust, suspicions and problems in long run. Hidden measures could easily be misused. All criminals (belonging to any group) must be punished but after fair and neutral trial !

I see it as hypocrisy and shame if we support wrongdoings of someone due to religious, national, economic and any other attachments/reasons. I firmly believe that Justice and fairness are the real ways which lead towards a lasting peace.

At the end i would like to mention two important points: 1. A united and happy nation(belonging to any religion and ethnicity) is in benefit of ALL and opposite situation is not good for ALL. In this age communication and movement is so fast that ill effects of any problem in any part of the world spread out very quickly. So i feel right now world problems need to be solved very carefully, fairly and quickly. 2. Islam and majority of Muslims are not threat to the West(Or World) rather i feel real problems are lack of mutual understanding, trust and communication. In addition to that problem are those few individuals in all groups of people who have vested interests, greed and have a lust of harming others.

I feel it is very important to stop the never ending process of violent actions, reactions and blames by joint, open, peaceful and brave efforts. How long innocent people will have to pay for the lusts, greed and egos of few Big Fishes?! Everyone of us needs to join hands together so that we have maximum peace and unity in the world. Every human is precious and this world is home of all human beings! It is, it is.

Over to you.

what are the causes?

2007-02-10T03:56:00.000-08:00

Why do really religious people fight with each other? Why can people not live peacefully? why do they have egos? why are they so short tempered? Religious people say that we have Common God but still they fight with each other! Why? So does the problem lie in the religions or?

These are things and questions which are quite disturbing for many people. People want to look inside religions but when they observe the theories and actions of the religious people they think it is better to stay away and they feel better by calling themselves 'NOT RELIGIOUS'.

what and where might be the problem(s) by the way? :).

I feel that the main reason behind inter-religious conflicts is lack of understanding and practice of respective religions by the followers. I wonder that most of them really don't even get the basic concepts of the religions e.g. justice, respect, tolerance and care of others. They are familiar with these terms but don't know what it means for them and what it requires from them. It is pity that instead of being the best people on the Earth, religious people currently are not even at the level of being satisfactory. They must be the most caring and tolerant but reality is somehow different.

Many of the religious followers don't have deep and enough knowledge and they just feel proud at belonging to a particular religious group there is nothing beyond that for them. What religious authority says is the final word; they normally don't try to confirm and learn themselves, leaving themselves at the mercy of religious authorities who may intentionally or unintentionally misguide! But from this it should not be concluded that all religious people in any group are not good, such a conclusion will not be true. We should respect all of them especially religious authorities/scholars since we can't judge intention of anyone fully and they are quite important for us too.

Yes, most of religious people know that they have common God and they know that they have common enemy: Devil, but still they are failing miserably at being sincere, caring and open towards each other by forgetting this reality very easily very quickly. How could we be religious when we even can't look beyond our personal egos and destroy the basic religious values of sincerity, justice, love and respect? No religion allows damage of innocent people and injustice but unfortunately it is being made lawful by some. All religions do recognize the right of free existence and respect for other religions but it is being made unlawful by few.

I think in every group of human beings there are three types of people: 1. a small group which is strongly positive, intelligent and fair about life and people, 2. a small group which is strongly negative, clever and corrupt, 3. a majority which is moderate, passive and doesn't like to get involved in complicated issues of life, they like simple and straight forward life. I think the main contest happens between first two groups and they try to win not only over each other but also try to win sympathies of majority i.e. 3rd group. Majority normally has to follow the winner:).

So in religious groups same contest occurs. Unfortunately currently, some negative fellows are dominating in almost every religious group, they keep people unaware about reality and like to keep them divided otherwise how will they sustain:)! But it will not stay like that since other groups of good people are not sleeping, they are not strong enough so far . Changes need time, patience and struggle. Justice and truth can't lose, it might be temporarily pressed though!

I think, it is human nature that he/she feels good at belonging to a group and nation. All of us do need to have friends, family and national attachment otherwise with whom will we share? We feel comfortable with the closest ones and the place we were born at. People are divided into many groups on the basis of religions, families, nations, colors, sects and other philosophies and factors. This diversity makes life interesting but the problem starts when one starts losing fairness and respect for others due to such attachments.

Here i would also like to describe that fight between good and bad does not happen only outside, it also continues inside of every human being. Everyone has some negative germs and sometimes they appear from our thinking and actions too e.g. in the forms of lies, cheating, deceptions, biasing, undue favours, laziness, violence, anger, hate etc. I think these negative germs can not be completely destroyed but could be minimised. It is up to everyone of us which dimension: negative or positive, we want to grow! For those who can win inner fight, outer fight becomes easy!!!

I am quite sure that problem is neither religious diversity nor national diversity; it is something else! It is due to lack of religious understanding and its practice by us. In addition to that it is due to that small negative minority in every group of people which can't look beyond their personal greed and interests, they have to keep people divided, fighting and abusing each other. This way they can win easily and get their interests. They even don't care about using religions as excuses/means to get vested interests. I pray that they could see and act positively, realistically and farsightedly not only for the sake of others but also for the sake of their own selves and next generations. How much they do need and what will they do with it?

Everyone needs to win internal fight(between good and bad inide us) by making positive aspect stronger, i feel that is the real, permanent solution and success. It is not very hard to discriminate between good and bad, between justice and injustice, we have strong inner instinct(conscience) which is quite good at such judgments, we just need to use it properly, fairly and regularly. Why should we crush it for petty things and benefits? Do we not love ourselves and others naturally? WE DO, we do!!!

Best wishes,

What are we searching for?

2007-01-10T10:20:00.000-08:00

In this writing, i tried to explain what kind of experiences one might have in course of finding answers to different questions of life. Enjoy reading...

A Child is born in Europe; other in America, another in China and so on. Some of them are born to a Christian family, some to Jew one, some to Muslim one, some others to Hindu and so on. This is a random process out of our control but there must be some logic behind it, there is some balance in it, there is some overall plan! There must be one :)! I think everyone who gets a chance to live in this world is special and important one since he/she got this privilege of coming into existence.

At the starting age a child is curious, he/she tries to put things into his mouth to test/taste them; he/she is not able to discriminate between harmful and harmless.

Does this process of learning for a child proceeds like that? Does it mean that a child born to a family will inherit the faith of his/her parents? The answer could be "yes" if we consider short period of time, as long as child is unconscious about the realities of the life since a child does not have many choices, he/she does not have much knowledge, he lacks physical and mental powers so it is almost impossible for him to decide about a big thing like philosophy of life. So a child has to stay to the philosophy of his family and parents and there is nothing wrong in it, i feel, it is natural. But...

Will a person follow the way of one's family all the time? Even after one gets choices, even after getting knowledge of the different realities of the life! If it could have been the religion of parents to be followed and there could have been no other way for the new generations then most probably people could have been following only one way of life: parent's way. There could have been no generation gap, there could have been no disagreements among people but reality tells a different story. There are not only many religions; there are even sects among specific religions; not all family members may follow one faith/religion; people of new generation both agree and disagree either partially or fully to the philosophies of their parents/family. People convert from one way to the other! So it shows that religion adopted by a family could or could not be followed by the next generation.

I personally think that a belief, which requires a religion(way of life) afterwards, does not come from the family or society! There is no doubt that surroundings do affect our learning process and decisions but to say that a belief will be imposed by others is not true. I think that even if all the people of world will try to force one single person among them to change his/her belief, they will not be able to do it; only that specific person himself can convince his inner self. There is a very good chance that one can pretend to be a believer after being forced but one can be convinced internally by himself or herself only.

There are many outer coated believers; limited to smiles and reading beautiful verses but hearts are just cold. Having a long beard or wearing certain religious symbols does not necessarily qualify a person as a believer.

So i think all of us have equal chance and have to put equal struggle to reach to a particular faith. All of us are born with almost empty brain (in the sense of worldly experiences) and we learn and fill it with experiences. Even if a person agrees to the faith of one's family or society; one can't do it blindly, he/she can't inhale it without processing it. To reach to a particular satisfactory level of inner conviction one will have to make a lot of experiments and learning. If self conviction of a person is weak or not enough then that individual will struggle even if the faith he/she follows will be the best one! That person will face both internal and external conflicts. His/her own body and conscience is going to tease him/her.

Our inner self is hungry for something; it is not going to let us remain contended or happy all the time if it does not get the food in the form of a belief :). People try to satisfy their spiritual hunger by many different ways; of course depending upon what is available to them :). For example in few countries, they visit shrines, visit places of worships, consult some spiritual authorities (which could be fake ones too :)), visit graves of pious people and so on. Here in Europe too, people adopt different ways to fulfill this need; some visit Church, some believe in Buddhism, some believe in some kind of Nature, some believe in themselves and there are those who try to convince themselves and others by being Atheists(how far they are satisfied by it, we can't say, they themselves know better :) ) etc. Everyone is going to try something to fulfill or get rid of this spiritual need but which one is going to be satisfactory?

It depends upon an individual, i think! Life is open chance for everyone :). To reach to a convincing belief is important for everyone whether he/she is born to a strong believing family or to atheist one or to a tribe in the forest of Africa or to the royel family of a country.

I feel that the most important role to reach a good decision is played by our intentions; if they are correct and are followed by sincere dedicated efforts then everything is possible. There is no use of pretending to be a believer or nonbeliever; one must be natural. It is not something which we have to prove to others, it is something purely for our ownself.

Something about the religious people: we should be clear that not all religious people necessarily are good or bad. There could be corruption, both intentional or unintentional, by them. Let me share with you that those who understand religions they understand the human psychology quite well since it is clearly described in Scriptures. They can hit at very sensitive feelings of human beings either positively or negatively. If you will try to figure out, you would find religious people at the core of control of the World Order. Those who are good of them they are very nice, extremely nice and vice versa :).

Surely this challenge of search may not be met only in one day or by one experiment but there should be efforts. We must not be answerable for something which remained out of our reach/comprehension even after best of our sincere efforts but we must surely be answerable for things within our capacity!!! If we want to keep ourselves busy here and there and want to suppress internal voices by only limited and insufficient means then things will remain complicated. This is not a matter to be postponed or to be put into a dustbin; i think we simply can't afford doing so.

I firmly believe that only a true and natural belief will fit to our internal needs; our body and soul are not going to accept something unnatural so we should not be afraid of making experiments and learning. One can stay to a belief, whatever it could be, which he or she has presently and can compare information to it to test its strength in a controlled way. Its not a boring search; its pretty interesting one.

We should be active instead of being passive; Even miracles happen for those who prove themselves worthy of it.

Best Wishes and over to you :).

P.S: As usual feel free to agree or to disagree and for comments to my personal views. You can give comments directly here(there is no need to have a gmail account) or can write me an email at zaheer.abbas@hotmail.de

Questions, questions and answers :)

2006-12-19T07:22:00.000-08:00

Few days ago, we had a discussion about religions and god etc. and as usual there were questions. This discussion resulted in following queries (from a friend) and aswers (i tried to explain things according to my capacity and knowledge :) ). Have a look into it, there are some very interesting points in it.

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Q: This is not to offend you, this is your chance! Give us a peace of your mind and get back many more. Share with us your thoughts about the one thing which drives the world, millions and billions of people. Is there a god??

Ans: Well the answer is not easy and it is the most important and the most difficult question to answer, i feel. I think everyone ponders over it; be it a person in East or West or in a far distant forest of Africa or in a village in most poor country. This is important for everyone: a President, a judge, an economist, a philosopher, whatever the status of person is :).
I personally feel that there is an answer and there must be one :).
I think that there is not a specific shape or way to find the answer. Everyone is different from other in one or other way e.g. in regard of face, thinking, history, intelligence, confidence, exposure, family, etc. We make our decisions based upon our previous knowledge, our exposures, our capabilities etc. so to expect that everyone is going to agree to one decision is almost impossible.
At the end this is a belief; a tricky one :). Neither one can 100 % prove God nor can anyone disprove Him totally. This is an interesting but challenging task and the one which i take as the most important one in life. I think we simply can't afford to lose in this challenge but how to solve this puzzle is both very easy and also very difficult :), it depends and is left open to everyone. Do you not enjoy it? :). Life could have been dull without a fight, without a task to find and to reach a goal!

Q: This was not the topic we thought of when we started the discussion regulars table yesterday. But if you start thinking you never know where you gonna end. I promise you will be surprised by the life changing effect a simple discussion can have.

Ans: we always learn and we learn from everything:) be it good or bad, be it pleasant or bitter, be it logical or illogical! We start with almost untrained and empty brain in our childhood and then we increase our learning from our experiences. Fear of failure and deception must not hinder in the way of our learning; these things are bound to come along good things.

Q: So here is the project. We wanna collect your thoughts. Tell us all the arguments you've got for and against the existence of a god. Tell us your theories about religion. Challenge yourself and share your spiritual opinion with us! We will collect them and put them all together to a final paper. Arguments of 10 people? Arguments of 30 people? Arguments of 100 people? It's up to you!

Ans: I will share my thoughts with openness. Although there already have been given hundreds/thousands of arguments and have been millions of discussions on this topic and this will continue but we are we :), this is our time, our life. We are also as important as any other generation before us and those which will follow us. I am not a scholar but i think only scholars are not bound to find the true answers, all do have this power/capabilities to find the answer(s).
As i wrote earlier, no one can fully prove or deny God but we should go for the search. I will not write arguments separately rather generally I will try to answer queries of others but surely I will also try to write extra things according to my capacity and knowledge.

Q: To avoid spamming the list please send your ideas directly to me and not over the list, we'll give you an update about the arguments from time to time.

Ans: I think no one should feel stress, shyness or fear. I can assure one thing: NO ONE CAN FORCE ANYONE FOR A BELIEF, IT COMES PURELY FROM ONE'S OWN CONVICTION. EVEN IF ALL THE PEOPLE EXCEPT ONE PERSON DECIDE ON ONE SIDE, THEY CAN'T PULL THAT SINGLE PERSON ON THEIR SIDE FOR A BELEIF:). So please be open but surely in a way where you feel comfortable. We must not be answerable for what would be out of our comprehension/capacity but we must be answerable for the efforts which we did not put although we were able to put them.

Q: Afterwards we can have a discussion regulars table about it, maybe a panel discussion, maybe we can write a book, maybe change the world?? It's up to us!!

Ans: Since this matter is quite sensitive one so i think not all people would like to take single way of exploring it. This topic is much broader and the learning is not bound to one meeting, country, society, discussion, experience or few days, it is open and gradual process. But we should not stop, should not be disappointed after bad experience or even after good one :).

Q: I wanna share a few of my personal thoughts with you to make a start and to give you an idea how it could look like:
If there is an allmighty god, then he could create a stone which he cannot carry himself??

Ans: :) An interesting question. No one of us knows exactly God's powers, attributes and way of working. There could be many similar questions. May be there would be a solution to this problem but we can only guess and guess and would be nowhere at the end. I don't mean that God's powers should not be analysed but what we want to achieve by putting such questions: to put us in a helpless state? :). Such question would simply stop us from learning further so before we could think about such questions, we need to learn about the characteristics of God and the religious philosophies in a bit more depth.

Q: If there is a god, why is there so much evil in the world? Some people say, for good things to exist bad things also need to exist. If we all were exactly half a meter thick there would be no corpulent or thin people. It is the availability of both opposites which allows each other to exist. So maybe for moral good to exist also moral evil needs to exist. And if moral good is such a great thing, maybe it is worth allowing also the existence of moral evil. Or maybe our brain is just to small to understand god's ways??

Ans: Well, it is also an interesting and very often asked question. It is a source of discomfort for many believers and non-believers too :). Being realistic i think it is beyond our strength to judge the true purpose of everything which is created! Anyway, i try to explain within my capacities.
There could have been many many different ways to design the system of life by God; we could have been tested for our intentions and deeds in some other ways than this specific system! But i think that this particular system must be the most appropriate one for us, according to our nature, according to our needs and to the best of our benefit since God is the Most Wise and the most Caring towards us . There is no doubt that God allowed evil to exist, just to test us. Evil can't be out of His control otherwise He is not a true God :).
People might say that why did He not made the test easier :), well, i think this system might be the easiest one for us. God gave us both options for selection, Good and Bad, and left the system work in some natural way for a specified time, with firm and sure promise of ultimate justice and compensation at the end. It also does not mean that He left us totally at the mercy of Evil - not at all. He provided us with the appropriate protection against attacks of Evil. He is always there to help His Creation: Man, beside that there have been thousands of Messengers and Prophets from Him to guide and help mankind. Holy scriptures have been there to clear the things (although one may debate problems attached to them). These are not the only things; we are also blessed with instinctive power to recognize good and bad!!! So if there is a test, there are also very strong means to clear it.

Q: Is god just a god of the "week and sick" (Nietzsche)? Have you ever wondered why people start praying to god when they have problems or are sick and ill? Is god just something which is needed for people who are not strong enough to live on their own? Isn't consume a much better god? Isn't enjoying the moment an adequate equivalent?

Ans: God is the Creator and Sustainer of everything. I don’t think that healthy or rich people are able to deny Him or they can avoid the calamities and problems using their wealth or power. Even president of richest country can’t stop his age and can stay healthy and happy all the time. He/she can’t claim for the creation, sustenance of the Universe or even of World. Can that president make the Sun to rise from the opposite direction? Can he/she control the weather of the world totally?...
Yes, it is true that man’s nature is such that he forgets many important things for some time when he is happy and contended :). Man can’t feel and think about many aspects of life at one time but when he is in pain and can’t find solution then he turns to the reality which is always there no matter we gave attention to it or not. There are many very rich and healthy people who are firm believer of God!

Q: If you look at the history of the catholic church, do you really think that these people could have been chosen by god? Popes having sex with multiple women, killings of witches in the name of god, crusades, getting your sins forgiven for money?

Ans: It is a bit complex issue. I would like to say that no one else is given the authority from God of being the role model except the Prophets and those who fulfil the certain strict criteria. First of all not all the people of Church have been bad; it is against natural law. If some religious authorities have been misusing their authorities it does not put all on the negative side. It also has been partially mistake of the followers who blindly take all the words of religious authorities as sacred one and supposing it to be from God. We are ourselves lazy to know about religion(s) and when we are cheated in the name of God or religion then we cry foul :)!! There is no room for unfairness, no matter what religious authority of a person could be: even Prophets were not allowed to be unfair.
We just need to understand and compare core of religions by minimising effect of personalities or followers since one can always find right and wrong people in every group.

Q: If there is a god and you don't believe in him you will go to hell, if there is no god and you do believe in him doesn't matter. So why not just believe in god, then you cannot go wrong!??

Ans: Sounds very interesting! Is it not? :). If someone will believe in this way, his/her approach would be very limited, insufficient and unrealistic. I think believe can’t come with such thinking, it requires much more efforts, knowledge, sincerity and reflection.

Q: The world is so beautiful, things are fitting together perfectly, could that be done without a god? Evolution theory sais yes. There are evolutionary algorithms in computer science taking some thousands of random pieces of programming code and mixing them, then selecting some which are the best according to a quality factor and then mixing these again. After doing this several times you get a program which is doing something meaningful. So is that a prove of evolution theory?

Ans: hoooo. Ok, let us suppose that Evolution theory is true but what does it say about the starting point? Who has given a system where evolution could take place or in other words who defined the rules for the evolution? What does Evolution theory says about purpose of life? Who will give justice to those who have been killed unfairly, for example? I feel this theory just gives some hints about how a mechanism could work but it falls far short for giving answers to major questions of life and also it is nothing which could claim to be an Intelligent Creator or Initiator in any sense.

Q: What about science and church. If church is positioning itself against science, every step science makes forward, church makes backward. Church was claiming that the earth is flat, science proved it to be wrong. If religious people say humans are made by god in opposition to evolution theory, more proves of evolution will prove the church wrong. But what about if church goes along with science, f.e. claiming that the human ancestors were indeed apes, but that this was part of the process of making them. Who says that the creation of mankind couldn't have lasted longer than 7 of our todays days? In the bible god says: "One day for me is like a thousand days for you" (roughly summarized). So, who knows how long creation of mankind really took?

Ans: Before we really could try to find an answer, we should know that man is limited in its abilities. We don't know exactly why we were born at a particular place, to a particular family, at a particular time? Why we have this specific shape? Why we have only one Sun near the Earth? What will exactly happen to us next day? Whom exactly we will meet on the street, what is happening on the other side of the wall which we can't see? Why we have oxygen as breathing source why not any other gas? Why we have two eyes why not one or three etc?
May be we can find answers to some of these mysterious questions but to know and control everything is just our dream. We even can't totally control our thoughts, our dreams, circulation of blood, and our mood so far, for example. Well someone can say that may be one day we can find and control everything with the help of science but this is just a theory/dream. It is quite possible that at the end we might find out that everything is being controlled by God; and that science is as weak as a creation could be! So should we just go behind one source of information e.g. science and close our brain towards all other sources of information? What is the guarantee that science will win at the end? What if we miss some other important sources of information due to undue reliance upon Ms. science? :)
I don't mean by all this that we must deny science and logic etc but i want to stress that we should not rely only upon one source for discovery rather search should be broader but controlled one!! By the way, God should not be afraid of science and technology and He is not as far as i have read the Qur’an; it rather encourages the discoveries and pondering upon things around us. There are many scientific facts described in Qur’an and most of them (according to some people all of them) are not in conflict to well proven concepts of science. But this matter should be left to individuals to decide themselves.
I think science is going to be a very important factor in distinguishing the reality from ambiguities so stay tuned :) !!!

Q: What about if God and Allah are actually the same god, and Jesus as well as Mohammad were both his prophets (together with all the other ones)?

Ans: It is in fact true from Islamic point of view. As I wrote earlier Prophets have been main source for the guidance of people on the earth. All of them came to build the connection between God and Man. All of them are important and very respected. They did not had dispute with each other.

Q: Why are there so many different religions? Doesn't that look like everybody makes his own god? Or does that express the natural need for humans to believe in a god? Or is it depended on your developing stage?

Ans: I think this difference of thinking and perception is part of the system. If one has to make some perception of something which he/she has not seen, then different people will have different one, based upon their own thinking, experience and knowledge. One will find variety of different perceptions of God among the Believers of even one group. It gets better with knowledge and practice. If one has to try to imagine someone who is unlimited by the help of a limited brain, how it will be?. But one should not forget to seek help from the heart in this context. This uncertain perception does not apply only to God; there are many things which we may not know fully e.g. Human character and nature, universe, how exactly a person will behave etc. There is always our natural interest in finding the hidden things :)…
Just enjoy the variety of religions; it makes things interesting and challenging :).
One thing I would like to share also; there are very strong and almost undeniable facts proving God. Only thing where we have to stop is that we can’t see him at the end but provided facts (everything we observe around us) are more than enough to prove Him.

-->happy thinking!!

What I wrote is my personal thinking and analysis and it in no way means that others are obliged to take it as ultimate truth. It is open to objections, disagreements and questions.

Best wishes,
zaheer

Poor king of East; and West :-)

2006-12-16T16:19:00.000-08:00

Hello Dear friends,

I hope that you will be quite well: healthy and happy :-).

Ok, today let us have a short meeting with a refugee(an asylum seeker): so called a king and also have a short look at the social setup here.

Situation in East is not very promising but not many people know about it here. I have good observation that there is very strange thinking of people in so called poor countries: they want to come to Europe, USA etc at any cost. Some of you might know that every year quite a few people are killed unnoticeably on the borders of European countries, many die during their journeys. They sometimes have to swim across cold waters to enter a country and some of them are also gone for ever, quietly with flow of cold and cruel water. Then from these survivors there are some who are deported back while others get a chance to live here. Well these survivors are also not VIPs anyway :-).

Those refugees who get a chance to live in West do lead very hard lives, really. I have met many such people. They lead quite strange life: first of all they enter into a country illegally so are not given status of an honoured guest and they should not expect it. They don't have much money to survive, most of them don't know language of that country, they don't have proper skills for work, they don't have families, they live in different culture and they have to sacrifice in general their beliefs and philosophies of life for the sake of survival and this is one of most difficult thing to do since a belief (in anything) is base for all of human actions/plans/thoughts.

Well you might be wondering what these people after so many hardships do get? I think they don't get too much. They have to live under new rules and regulations. They live with many unknown fears and uncertainties. After sometime, some failures, some traumas, they get some know how of realities of life at ganz neu platz (completley new place). King and Queen (refugees) are happy at last(normally after 10-15 years of test and training). Some of them get some female partner, some get small job, some get little support from their already experienced (those who somehow already recovered from trauma :-)) and life keeps on moving. One special thing about these kings and queens, they become very intelligent after all and they must be so, i think :-)

But this story does not end here :-). Let us take forward king alone while queens (female refugees) are few and i had more interaction with kings :)... Generally King has sustained so many physical and psychological hardships that he has lost, to a good extent, his identity, preferences of life, sense of love for family( e.g. his mother, sister, brother etc) and after such a wonderful experiences of life he does not like to go back permanently. He is part of a flow which has strange lust in it, which has strange addiction in it. King is physically healthy now, he has some money, he has some business, he has a so called gooree (white :) ) wife and some times kids also in new country and he sends money back at home and a report saying everything is OK with him!!!

Now King is in a society which wants to move in a direction for which everybody is running and i ask these dear fellows what are they are running for? and they reply; come on man, time is so short, we have many termines, run and have fun otherwise you will lose but i say sorry sir/madam i don't want to run for a GOAL which ends with end of life on earth. My brain and heart does not admit that a building could be designed, built and sustained itself without a builder then how this Universe could do so?. I can't ignore my origin, my Creator, my accountability- i am creation not a Creator. They say what Creator; where is he; why does he not stop problems of man on earth; why are there so many religions, why not only one; why are differences among people; why???; did God create Satan (evil); is evil stronger than Creator as we observe from the setup of the world; is Creator against our fun, does he want to disturb our lives/fub??? Oooooo...These questions are obvious, logical and can never be ignored but without exploring facts, answers and without making efforts to know about religions, how will we get answers?

No one has authority to force someone for a particular choice of faith but how can we make a right choice without exploring available choices? :-) How can we say that our diamond is the best one without analysing other's diamonds? How can we decide about the contents of a picture if we only look at few dots of it and not the whole one?

Did you like my King and my thoughts?

Please feel free for comments, queries and objections on my views and observations.

Put your comments right over here or in my diary at Ikus (user name is "zaheer") or write me an email at

zaheer.abbas@hotmail.de

Be happy and take care,

Zaheer

How is that? Life with and without a Religion!

2006-12-01T10:15:00.000-08:00

Hello everybody,

I hope that all the people are happy and healthy:-).

For many many days i was planning to write something different, interesting and challenging:-). I hope that this piece of text will not be a boring one for you and will not make things complex and hard:-). This is just my opinion and is absolutely open to discussion, xobjections and comments. I don't have any plans to spread anything bad against any body, everybody is free to adopt the way of life he/she likes of course.

Some of our religious people sometimes get too emotional and want that everybody should follow what they follow, and you know it is not possible to follow others fully. Every body has its own experiences, history, knowldge and preferences of life so how people could be photocopies of each other, impossible. But i think we should! respect and listen to all the people who are making efforts from their sides.

I don't know that what are the experiences of Western people about religion and religious authorities but my experiences with Islamic religious authorities not have been very pleasing with few exceptions:-). It was my own decision and research which helped me to reach somewhere.

I think questions abou life are somehow familiar to everybody. One such question is: Are we ourselves supreme controller?

I feel that man is limited in his thinking, in his control. He has never been able to avoid death, or cross the limits of this Universe: even going outside world,s boundary is hard for him. He can't think more that what he knows, he can't concentrate upon many things at a time. He is not able to give justice and equality to all in all aspects. There are people with different financial status and different shapes. why? i think that they should be equal:-). No body can claim that ! he/she was born at a particular place with own wish or had face or body structure with choice :-). I would have liked to be born at the time of any Prophet but i was made to born in 20th century why?:-).

Let us have some discussion with Mrs. Sceince. She is very nice, very helping and facts finding although she also creates some deadly things. She has her own limitations: Examples: No answer to the purpose of human creation, no clear idea about the vastness of Universe, no clear idea about the exact types and number of creations in Universe, even no idea about the exact number of humans on earth then how can she take care of all human beings? :-), why have we certain level of gravity why not more or less, why certain gases with specific proportions, who calculated and implemented such difficult parameters of life, What after having lunch with Mrs. death:-) and so on, list is not short. So she is confused also:-). then who???

I think that every body needs a faith, it could be in money, in social status, in justice, in man itself or in other things: one can't have motion in life without a belief! but which belief and why? Question is hard! But this is the crunch of the game:-).

I have observed that we are given two kinds of Information from God (whatever definition you would like for God): 1st Category: facts which are made clear e.g. how to live, how to deal with variety of matters(e.g. how to deal with parents, relatives, neighbours, brother, sister, teacher, fellows, wife etc and how to manage daily life: earnings, knowldge gaining etc ) 2nd Category: facts which are not disclosed fully, why we were made to born on earth or at a certain place or family, why we have two ears, why oxygen as breathing source why not any other gas etc. I think important Category is the 1st one: why are we created?, how to deal with life matters? and so on. First category has long term effects. While Second category is not that important for us (atleast for me) to explore, Most of us are happy with two ears(hopefully:-)), our place and time of birth, with the family we were born to and so on although at some occassions we get a bit angry with our setup :-) but it is temporary state. I always try to spent my energies on the 1st category: this i consider as the most important finding.

My little mind says:-) that man has two needs: 1: physical(eating, drinking, sleeping, money, house etc) and spiritual (about the things which are out of his control e.g life, death, complete justice to all, need for an extremly powerful helper,an ever lover, a problemless eternal life etc).Personally I have found religion as a wonderful balance provider for both kind of needs: it is life fulfilling, ever encouraging and dynamic one with all guarantees but ofcourse it demands possible dedication from me:-). IT DOES NOT IGNORE REALITIES ON THE GROUND ALSO(eating, drinking, sleeping, money, house,marriage etc). Then where is the problem? I feel that main prob starts with misuse and misunderstanding of the religion. we have not gotton enough time, resources to go into all details of issues, religion is a complex matter, but it is not impossible one, for sure.

Purpose of this writting is to give some initiatives for thinking about such an important matter:-). I don't have any personal gains out of it, for me if all the people don't believe in God i still have to follow Him or if all start believing Him, i have to keep on following the same way:-).Because God never allows me to kill any innocent person or to do injustice to anybody. God doesn't allow me to force anybody to change his/her faith. God has left free choice to all. God allows me all the necesities of this life: eating ,drinking ,education, money (earned with positive self effort), social interaction , social welfare, justice, marriage, sports, car, house and so on and above all provides chance for preparation of the exam in next life (sory if you don't believe in it).

Best findings are self findings which are long lasting and permanent. Everybody is different with different thinking, background so on, so same preception from all is impossible. It looks quite injustice to me that if we were left without telling how to deal with matters of Life. Example: when car is built then it is told how to use and drive it, if a person, who doesn't know how to drive, is allowed to drive a car then results could be very dangerous, similarly i think to drive the life(car) there should be rules and regulations!! which rules and who can give rules? car itself, driver or...!!.

It seems also injustice if there are no clues to find the reality. There are clues and tools (religions, science, philosophy and most important tool: our heart and brain) . There are also many hurdles (religions, science, philosophy, suspicions, fears, vareity of thoughts, fast life, deadlines, social setup...). Strangely some clues/tools are also hurdles:-). THESE CLUES/TOOLS AND HURDLES TOGTHER MAKE THE WHOLE GAME AND FIGHT OF LIFE :-). This is hard but possible puzzle to solve within time. Everybody has been bestowed with ability of fact findings: by using our barin, heart and by brave and analytical analyses, and by making comparison between different tools and hurdles: things will be clearer and open. If there is a Will, there is a Way:-).

Over to you:-).

With extreme apology to those who don't believe in God(or believe in something else) or did not like anything in my mail, these are my personal views and open to all kind of criticism,disagreement and xobjections. Pls. feel free and open to comment.

Best wishes, Take Care,

Zaheer

P.S. It was one of my writings which i wrote one year ago, it is still quite interesting i think but structure of the text is not very nice, i suppose :).