I have been witnessing this for quite a long time now ;how much happiness we as nation derive from anything horrible happening to people who don’t share our beliefs or are different from us in one way or the other.
It is really strange that how we at once assume the role of one united nation whenever it comes to something against those very people anywhere in the world on any scope, while it is extremely sad that apart from this we rarely ever are a nation!
I’ve seen this feeling many times now and at several occasions. Take for instance the recent Sandy storm that hit the US. Many people I myself know were really happy about this. They claimed that it was God’s punishment on the infidels because they had made the blasphemous movie. And such disasters when it came upon us, they were Azmaish (test) and when they hit them they were Azaab.
This is just one incident which serves the example of what I’ve tried to point out at the outset. And then there is our hatred for people different from us that we can’t see anything good happening to them. We can’t see them win, can’t see them prosper, can’t see them progress.
But that’s not everything alone that disturbs one. What is worrying is that what do us really from this rancor and contempt? Do we as a nation progress by this useless activity? Do we get ahead by our hatred? Does this even have an iota of effect on their accomplishments or achievements???
My point is that why are we so happy by finding faults in others and then spreading hatred??? What satisfaction do we get by hating the ones who we cannot compete; the one who have works harder and got ahead of us? Much ahead indeed.
The problem with most of us is that we neither have the will nor the courage to see our own face in the mirror. (for we know that what a horrible and ugly face we are going to see.) We don’t want to pause and reflect at we have done? Where we ourselves stand? What are our faults and short comings? What crimes and immoralities we have committed?
And then we very easily blame and criticize others and find solace in this. For we have cleared our conscience. We find so much satisfaction in hating and rebuking them as it is the easiest way out.
But this is not just related to achievements and faults; rather it questions our very sanity. That how much humanity do we have in ourselves? Or is there any left at all or not?
What is the point of being happy if something bad happens in any part of the world inhabited by a people who don’t share our beliefs? Have we forgotten that those people too are human beings; like us. Humans, who eat, love and pray as we do. And have mothers and fathers; sons and daughters. Expect the fact that they live in a different part of the world, believe in a different faith and have different values.
I’ve no idea that what kind of thinking are we actually nurturing and evolving? Again doesn’t it link to our extremist tendencies which can be easily aroused by this rhetoric of the reactionary forces so widely present in the society?
This is an extremely dangerous trend which is vividly visible the way we treat our minorities; both religious and ethnic. We have crossed every limit in our fanaticism in the past few years in this regard.
Point of the matter is that how much zealously religious we may become, how much die-hard we may become, how much we take this an obligation to adopt bigotry and hatred; one thing is for sure. We have totally forgotten the essence and spirit of our great religion. We have mutilated its face and disregarded the principles of tolerance and humanity with utter contempt.
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