There is a famous quote that
respect is for those who deserve it, not for those who demand it. Because
respect is earned that is not gained by power or money. Earned by soft image.
Earned by KHUDI. By knowing your strength, your rights, dreams, courage, velour,
and patriotism. It is improved by giving respect to others, making good
relations, distributing love, peace and humbleness. Self dependency, unity,
discipline are the characteristics respected by the nations of the world. When
you are taking stand for your cause, caring about your people, and protecting
miserable instead of cruel and powerful you will definitely be respected. Today
we have lost our self respect as a nation. Terrorists, Jihadis, international
beggars, honor killers of women, and champions of child labor are the few awards
we have been awarded by the rest of the world. This is not the propaganda
spread, but the reality which is crystal clear from internal conditions of
Pakistan. The story of ethnicity, cruelty, cultural conflicts, lust for power,
crushing poor and awarding rich is face to face to all of us. The loss of
values, self centeredness, thirst of blood, hunger of money, distances from
religion, forbidding the laws of Allah are the root causes which has bring us
down as a nation.
As Allama Iqbal said, that Allah had never changed the conditions of those
nations which had put no effort to change themselves. So if we want back our
self respect. Then we have to improve our character individually which will then
lead to make us a respectable nation in the world. We have to start it from the
grass root level, by making our education strong, spreading love and peace and
make a soft image of our country. We need leaders to lead us. We need volunteers
to serve for our country. Patriotism should be the main subject and aim of our
education. Cooperation, help of poor, respect of elders, and tightly holding the
rope of Allah should be the main objectives of our people. All the stake holders
should be sincere to this country or forced to do so. Mullahs have to teach
humbleness, love and peace instead of putting oil to the fire. Standing together
as one nation for a cause, making our foreign policies better, friendly
relations to the neighbors, all these will boost our self respect. When we will
be united as a nation no one will have the courage to disrespect our sovereignty
and dignity.
As Julie Garwood once said “Respect was earned, not demanded, but dignity was
taught by example”.