TORONTO: People keep
asking me curiously as to why I chose the motto ‘Serve Humanity In Reality’ and
how I am serving humanity. Today I will explain as to what made me change my
motto from `Dedicated To Serve, Create Awareness’ to a better and the best one:
`Serve Humanity In Reality’ (SHIR). In short, SHIR taught me to think and act
positively, live and work freely and nicely and worship and serve truly.
Indeed, the revolutionary and inspirational change was a tremendous blessing of
God and if understood and implemented properly would greatly benefit and
amazingly change lives. The change is inspirational because it improved and
totally changed my life, thinking, approach, vision and mission and would
definitely help change the lives of others.
SPIRIT: It is the spirit of the motto which brings the great change in lives: To
become and remain normal, sensible, responsible and practical. What makes the
spirit extremely powerful is its nature of spirituality and humanity
combination. This power helps make us good human being.
The credit for the change goes to My Lord and Creator---the one and only God
(Allah The Almighty)---who always showed love and showered His great blessings
on me despite my big, small and grave sins and mistakes committed mostly
deliberately under the influence of evil temptations and also unknowingly.
Do we all really worship and obey God and serve humanity in reality? The answer
is NO. The factual position is that over 98 percent of the people in the world
claim to like and love God but are not faithful and loyal to Him in reality and
I am one of them. This is the truth. Still God loves us, keeps forgiving us and
giving us innumerable chances to regret and reform and showers His tremendous
blessings on us. This is His greatness.
MY LORD: It was My Lord who chose me for the writing job and blessed me with pen
power and such nature, conscience and parents who trained and made me to think,
become and always TRY to remain positive, nice, good and responsible.
Now I am over 62 years of age and during all these years the combination of
trio---nature, conscience and parents--and their qualities, influence, impact
and impression guided and helped me to remain positive and have the vision to
serve humanity.
Evil temptations do keep disturbing, distracting and challenging me every
second. It is definitely not easy as it seems to `Serve Humanity In Reality’.
My both mottos were powered by The Divine Blessing and made me a part of The
Divine Mission. People cannot imagine and I cannot explain in words the
satisfaction I get from my work and results.
My nature, conscience and The Divine Blessings helped me form the
policy---Always try never to harm or hurt anyone. Although there are tough
challenges, difficult times and extremely painful moments in following this
policy but thanks to God and help and support of good people and friends I never
stopped following.
CANADA: I migrated to Canada in April, 1999. It was in Canada that the
transformation from the previous motto to the present motto `Serve Humanity In
Reality’ (SHIR) took place. Canada provided me everything best including
opportunities to live freely, serve and pray. People are very nice, loving and
caring. I visit Sunnybrook Health Sciences three times a week for dialysis. The
staff and doctors there are like fairies and angels. Not only here but at most
places I get best attention and quality of services. They are serving humanity
in reality.
Instead of engaging in pointless, senseless and useless arguments, debates and
discussions with mentally sick persons and wasting precious time of all, I
always felt the need to properly prepare myself for positive replies to the
various queries and points raised. This way I made friends and we learnt a lot.
QURAN: The need to prepare myself turned me towards the Holy Quran. I began to
study and seek guidance from the Holy Quran to properly understand and balance
the religious-political-social relationship.
The study of Quran revealed to me the extremely important relationship between
spirituality and humanity. The divine messages and mission of God’s all original
holy books and scrolls including Quran, Bible and Torah pointed towards one
common thing for us to do as our duty and responsibility and that is to
understand and practically implement the Divine Message and command: `Serve
Humanity In Reality’(SHIR) and worship only God. All those claiming themselves
as champions of humanity must understand this.
I came to understand the fact that only through the motto `Serve Humanity In
Reality’ (SHIR) we can ensure and practically bring into the homes and lives of
people true happiness and peace and protect them from all kinds of Shar (Evil).
Only SHIR can effectively protect people from Shirk (Worship of other than God).
It is a protective shield against all Shar (Evil).
Only through proper understanding and implementation of the motto `Serve
Humanity In Reality’ (SHIR) we can achieve the following:
1) We can understand and reform ourselves and others and properly perform our
duties and responsibilities as a good human being and follower and believer of
God.
2) We can recognize and choose good people for true leadership and right path
for positive results and success including real democracy, stability, progress
and prosperity.
3) We can truly unite to protect and serve all people and practically and
effectively fight all evils including temptations.
4) We can build a good family, community, society, system and country and learn
to live and work together and love and respect all.
GOD’S MESSAGE: So the motto `Serve Humanity In Reality’ and its spirit is the
God’s most important message for human beings to understand and follow. Because
of its spirituality and humanity nature and combination it is connected and
related to all fields including politics, religion, daily life, work and
worship. Its beauty is that it keeps you connected with people, politics and
religion. This is why I chose SHIR as my motto. It has given me great
satisfaction and respect.
SHIR TEAM: My SHIR Team includes team leaders are experienced, respectable and
recognized personalities, who believe in serving humanity in reality and try
their best to do the best possible in building bridges and helping people.
The SHIR Team includes Shahid Hashmi, Chairman, Canpak Chamber of Commerce, Syed
Muhammad Iqbal, President of Pak Seniors Forum (PSF), Hameeduddin Ahmed, former
editor & publisher of Urdu newspaper `AWAZ’, Hashim, a professional personality,
and many other like-minded persons. We may be many but in reality are one
because of the common cause, understanding, vision and contribution.
POLITICS: Coming to politics, the motto SHIR helps us to understand the
difference between democracy and demoncracy. In democracy, people enjoy real
rights and freedom and happily live and work together.
In demoncracy, people are cunningly preyed and trapped in the web called groups
and parties, cruelly treated and mercilessly used and abused. Only the vested
interests of the parties and their lobbies are served. People are made helpless
and treated as slaves.
Most of the leaders and parties play the Blame Game and keep confusing the
people. The issues are used as baits to attract and trap people. Before
election, every leader talks, acts and looks a prophet but once elected most of
them show their true colour and start playing with people. This is how it keeps
happening. This is why we need to help and support the innocent and helpless
people.
In all elections including municipal, provincial and federal, people must choose
and elect those who not only promise but can practically help bring real
happiness and peace in the homes and lives of all people by improving the
quality of life and removing poverty, stress, tension and disappointment through
good policies and positive changes.
There is no dearth of good people but we have to find, support and promote them.
Never become a prey and get trapped by hypocrites and exploiters. They will
definitely create mess and make lives miserable.