People look towards the
political parties, leaders and workers with much hope and great expectations but
mostly face terrible disappointment on being fooled and cheated. Yes, fooled and
cheated. They either fail to understand or ignore the fact that mostpolitical
parties and their cronies all do, dupe and die for their vested interests and to
serve the same masters or corporations. They are two faces of the same coin.
The dirty game of hypocrisy is played in the name of democracy and peace. People
are the only losers. Their sufferings and frustration keeps increasing. Every
budget acts as a sharp knife on the throat of the people, ready to cut slowly
and painfully. Blame game is played to keep confusing and fooling the people and
to find excuses to raise prices and taxes.
Such political parties, their leaders and cronies stop fearing accountability or
punishment. This makes them both cunning and cruel. They think that only the
rich ones have the right to contest elections and rule the people. They suggest
framing of such draconian laws and conditions so that commoners would not dare
to raise his head or afford to think of joining the leadership race. They start
considering people as their servants and slaves.
In order to face such challenges, people need to change themselves and stop
fearing and being fooled by the bad parties and leaders. They must fear but the
one whom they should i.e. God only and choose, select, elect and promote only
good people and true leaders.
Those who never fear anyone or anything become cunning, cruel and cold-blooded.
It is the fear which controls us, corrects us, makes us brave and helps protect
us from sin, crimes and cruelty. The fear of being seen, caught and punished
keeps us on track.
There is a vast difference between the fear of tyrants and fear of God. Tyrants
make us helpless, slave and robot. They act as god and keep the remote in their
hands and play with our lives. God gives us the freedom to live, think and act
properly and makes us good human beings. He commands us to fight only to protect
right, rights and humanity and not to just control or kill.
I too used to think that when God likes and loves us the most then why we are
asked to fear Him. Why always remain scared and in terror and not like and focus
only on His love? This generated bad imagination about Him as Cruel and Unjust.
I was wrong. Yes, totally wrong.
There are many others including of all religions who keep thinking, imagining
and propagating that God is Cruel & Unjust. Thanks God I was never one of them.
I did lack the proper knowledge and understanding of why we should fear God and
remained confused and kept arguing with those saying and warning us to fear Him.
It is the FEAR which helps us know Him, bow before Him, worship, like, love and
remain close to Him in the real sense. It is the fear which makes us good human
beings and gives us the knowledge and understanding that God is good and not
Cruel & Unjust. It is His Wrath and Punishment due to anger and not cruelty for
those who are cunning, cruel, tyrants, terrorists and hardenedcriminalsbut God
can never be UNJUST. NEVER EVER.
Those who start fearing God start to like and love good, become loving, caring
respectful and ultimately good and pure. Those who truly fear Godbecome pious
and true believers.The Divine Messages in the original holy books including
Bible, Torah and Quran are common in this connection and point towards the
following ways of life in order to have a perfect lifestyle, good character and
God with us---1) Patience or self-restraint or steadfastness (Sabar)
2)Thankfulness (Shukar) 3) Praise (Zikr) and 4)Thinking (Fikr). This is the
combination that holds the key to success. Let’s see what the Holy Book (Quran)
says in some chapters (Suras):
Chapter (Sura)#2 Al-Baqara (Madina): Verse 45: “Seek help in patience and
prayer; and truly it is hard save for the humble-minded.” Translation: Eng-Pickthal-Audio.
Chapter (Sura)# 11Hud (Makka): Verse 115: “And have patience, (O Muhammad), for
lo! Allah loseth not the wages of the good.” Translation: Eng-Pickthal-Audio.
Chapter (Sura) # 14 Ibrahim (Makka): Verse 1: “Alif. Lam. Ra. (This is) a
Scripture which We have revealed unto thee (Muhammad) that thereby thou mayst
bring forth mankind from darkness unto light, by the permission of their Lord,
unto the path of the Mighty, the Owner of Praise.” Translation: Eng-Pickthal-Audio
Chapter (Sura) # 14 Ibrahim (Makka): Verse 5: “We verily sent Moses with Our
revelations, saying: Bring thy people forth from darkness unto light. And remind
them of the days of Allah. Lo! therein are revelations for each steadfast,
thankful (heart).Translation: Eng-Pickthal-Audio.
Chapter (Sura) # 14 Ibrahim (Makka): Verse 8: “And Moses said: Though ye and all
who are in the earth prove thankless, lo! Allah verily is Absolute, Owner of
Praise.” Translation: Eng-Pickthal-Audio
Chapter (Sura) #14 Ibrahim (Makka): Verse 37: “Our Lord! Lo! I have settled some
of my posterity in an uncultivable valley near unto Thy holy House, our Lord!
that they may establish proper worship; so incline some hearts of men that they
may yearn toward them, and provide Thou them with fruits in order that they may
be thankful.Translation: Eng-Pickthal-Audio.
Chapter (Sura) # 14 Ibrahim (Makka): Verse 39: “Praise be to Allah Who hath
given me, in my old age, Ishmael and Isaac! Lo! my Lord is indeed the Hearer of
Prayer.” Translation: Eng-Pickthal-Audio.
Chapter (Sura)# 41 Fussilat (Makka): Verse 35: “And no one will be granted such
goodness except those who exercise patience and self-restraint none but persons
of the greatest good fortune.” Translation:Eng-Yusuf Ali.
Chapter (Sura)# 50 Qaf (Makka): Verse 39: “Bear, then, with, patience all that
they say and celebrate the praises of thy Lord, before the rising of the sun and
before (its) setting.”
Translation: Eng-Yusuf Ali.
Chapter (Sura) # 83 Al-Mutaffifin (Makka): Verse 4: “Do they not think that they
will be called to account? Translation: Eng-Yusuf Ali.
Chapter (Sura) # 89 Al-Fajr (Makka):Verse5: “There surely is an oath for
thinking man.”Translation: Eng-Pickthal-Audio.
Chapter (Sura) # 90 Al-Balad (Makka): Verse 5: “Does he think that none can
overcome him?Translation: Eng-Dr. Mohsin.
Chapter (Sura)# 90 Al-Balad (Makka): Verse 7: “Does he think that none sees him?
Translation: Eng-Dr. Mohsin
Chapter (Sura) # 103 Al-Asr (Makka): Verses 1-3: “By the declining day, (1) Lo!
man is a state of loss, (2) Save those who believe and do good works, and exhort
one another to truth and exhort one another to endurance.(3)”Translation: Eng-Pickthal-Audio.
So let’s pledge to choose only the right people for our bright future. We must
never allow the bad ones to play with our future or lives and harm the country
in anyway. We must never allow any bad ones to make Canada a poodle or puppet of
any big or small country or their leaders. Every community must think the same
way about their country of origin and people as well. I can never leave Pakistan
and Pakistanis alone and would continue to act as their voice and strength. All
communities must live and work together for the common cause.