Today we are passing through extremely precarious situation mainly because of paradoxical psychology prevalent in our society. We long for something and our actions completely negate our requisitions. Males in our society virtually want to have promiscuous relationships with almost every women while they want wives possessing completely different characters, that is, wives should be very noble, august and such that they are never touched by anybody else in our society. We want see free of corruption, nepotism and graft but never try to apprehend our own characters which are stained with unremoveable stigmas of corruption, nepotism and bribery. We want the traffic to sustain order but never obey the orders ourselves. Vast oceans and seas are formed with drops of water, if these drops of water are removed one by one then even these large oceans and seas cannot maintain their huge volumes and eventually they will perish as if they were never present there. So little things do matter. If we remain paradoxical towards every field of life, we will remain where we are now, beset with anguish, grievances and sorrows.
What about Malala Yousufzai? In my eyes she is a lifeline for our patriarchal society. Once Holy Prophet said:
"Acquisition is knowledge is incumbent upon all Muslims."
This Hadith utilizes two words, first is Knowledge and the second one is Muslims. By knowledge he didn't mean religious education neither worldy education, rather he meant both. Human being was sent to this world to obey the Orders of Allah and this is narrated by Holy Quran, and nobody actually doubts the veracity of this Holy Book.
Muslims ruled the world and took the flag of leadership of the whole world because they excelled in the field of knowledge. They obtained both the materialistic as well as religious knowledge. Why did they acquired materialistic knowledge in addition to religious knowledge? It was so to obey the orders of Allah. Allah gave orders also about the worldly affairs and it is incumbent upon all Muslims to obey all of those orders.
What about the impoverished and innocent Muslims of Palestine and Afghanistan? Enemy forces sailed these nations with tanks, jet fighters and missiles while they fought with rocks and guns formed from worn out technologies. Battles are not won in this world with gallantry rather through better technology and harnessed minds. How can we defend this Holy religion unless we obtain this worldly knowledge?
By pursuing the retrogressive approaches, we are moving nowhere. We are producing a nation of illiterates and bigots who do not accept any kind of arguments hence the extremism is rampant in out society and this is the sole cause of violence.
Other part of the Hadith was about the word "Muslims". Muslims include both Men as well as Women which means women possess equal right to get educated as men but in our patriarchal society women are kept bereft of this right. It is so because man is powerful here and he wants to perpetuate its rule over women. Men and women are equal, in some fields of life women are best and their work cannot be imitated by men vice versa for the other fields.
Many of our so called honor guardians try to keep women bereft of education because they think that education will women independent and they will try to do something which is completely antagonistic of so called their versions of Islam. How can we progress and get prosperity when more than fifty percent of our poppulation remain at home in dormant condition. Is there any country of this world which progressed while keeping women of its population illiterate. If we do not remain Muslims according to their versions of Islam then how can they remain Muslims by disobeying the orders of Holy Prophet.
Malala Yousufzai is an intriguing phenomenon today. Our society is now divided between two hordes. One group says that Malala Yousufzai incident was nothing but a conspiration against our Pakistan hence we should not pay attention to this incident while the other horde possess the antagonistic view about this incidence. Regardless the truth behind this incidence. Is it not right that she was conducting a blood drenched struggle for the education of girls in Pakistan and especially in swat. It was incumbent upon us to obey the orders of our Holy Prophet and assist her in her noble goal. Isn't it in the favour of Pakistan that we obtain a well educated society which will usher in an era of prosperity and progress? I don't know whether this was an incident which was the result of connivance or it was a real incident but her goals were noble.
I think we must pursue her goal to confer quality and good education to every girl in Pakistan as our survival dependent upon this goal. We have been pursuing previous retrogressive attitude towards education and got nothing but this sorry state of economy, peace and development.
Similarly, we have always been proud of our glorious and illustrious past when we touched pinnacles of prosperity and progress while the whole world beholded us with envious sight. We reached such an envious position through hard work, moderation and enlightenment through knowledge of materialistic as well as religious aspects of life.
We can achieve the same by 100% educated and literate population. May the Allama Iqbal and Quaid e Azam's dream of a Happy and Progress country for the Muslims of Subcontinent gain reality! Ameen
What about Malala Yousufzai? In my eyes she is a lifeline for our patriarchal society. Once Holy Prophet said:
"Acquisition is knowledge is incumbent upon all Muslims."
This Hadith utilizes two words, first is Knowledge and the second one is Muslims. By knowledge he didn't mean religious education neither worldy education, rather he meant both. Human being was sent to this world to obey the Orders of Allah and this is narrated by Holy Quran, and nobody actually doubts the veracity of this Holy Book.
Muslims ruled the world and took the flag of leadership of the whole world because they excelled in the field of knowledge. They obtained both the materialistic as well as religious knowledge. Why did they acquired materialistic knowledge in addition to religious knowledge? It was so to obey the orders of Allah. Allah gave orders also about the worldly affairs and it is incumbent upon all Muslims to obey all of those orders.
What about the impoverished and innocent Muslims of Palestine and Afghanistan? Enemy forces sailed these nations with tanks, jet fighters and missiles while they fought with rocks and guns formed from worn out technologies. Battles are not won in this world with gallantry rather through better technology and harnessed minds. How can we defend this Holy religion unless we obtain this worldly knowledge?
By pursuing the retrogressive approaches, we are moving nowhere. We are producing a nation of illiterates and bigots who do not accept any kind of arguments hence the extremism is rampant in out society and this is the sole cause of violence.
Other part of the Hadith was about the word "Muslims". Muslims include both Men as well as Women which means women possess equal right to get educated as men but in our patriarchal society women are kept bereft of this right. It is so because man is powerful here and he wants to perpetuate its rule over women. Men and women are equal, in some fields of life women are best and their work cannot be imitated by men vice versa for the other fields.
Many of our so called honor guardians try to keep women bereft of education because they think that education will women independent and they will try to do something which is completely antagonistic of so called their versions of Islam. How can we progress and get prosperity when more than fifty percent of our poppulation remain at home in dormant condition. Is there any country of this world which progressed while keeping women of its population illiterate. If we do not remain Muslims according to their versions of Islam then how can they remain Muslims by disobeying the orders of Holy Prophet.
Malala Yousufzai is an intriguing phenomenon today. Our society is now divided between two hordes. One group says that Malala Yousufzai incident was nothing but a conspiration against our Pakistan hence we should not pay attention to this incident while the other horde possess the antagonistic view about this incidence. Regardless the truth behind this incidence. Is it not right that she was conducting a blood drenched struggle for the education of girls in Pakistan and especially in swat. It was incumbent upon us to obey the orders of our Holy Prophet and assist her in her noble goal. Isn't it in the favour of Pakistan that we obtain a well educated society which will usher in an era of prosperity and progress? I don't know whether this was an incident which was the result of connivance or it was a real incident but her goals were noble.
I think we must pursue her goal to confer quality and good education to every girl in Pakistan as our survival dependent upon this goal. We have been pursuing previous retrogressive attitude towards education and got nothing but this sorry state of economy, peace and development.
Similarly, we have always been proud of our glorious and illustrious past when we touched pinnacles of prosperity and progress while the whole world beholded us with envious sight. We reached such an envious position through hard work, moderation and enlightenment through knowledge of materialistic as well as religious aspects of life.
We can achieve the same by 100% educated and literate population. May the Allama Iqbal and Quaid e Azam's dream of a Happy and Progress country for the Muslims of Subcontinent gain reality! Ameen
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