An ode the Clerics!

The problems of religious fervour and zeal in our beloved country,have been one of the major reasons of my depression since like,forever.
However,in the post 9/11 scenario,the issue has intensified and transformed the reverence towards Islam,of the masses,into Fanatacism and bigotry.Which is corroding the society to its core.Or I don't know if I should say,the society's core has already been mildewed by this all.
The thing that has infuriated me further,is the incoherent misinterpretation of the Holy Book by such Self acclaimed clerics,to mould everything to their benefit.I came accross a lucid example of the same act,a while ago,when a TV channel interviewed the Taalibaat and the adminstrator of the malicious Madrassah Hafsah.Now everyone knows what these fanatics are upto,and claim their taking the policemen hastages,a revenge.Some eye for ane eye and tooth for a tooth ritual.
Supporting the same stance,a taaliba said with all her religious zealot,thus slandering the Holy Book,That The Quran says"if someone does some wrong to you,you have to do the same wrong to them seven times more".Wow!I know my Quran!
Taking over the Law in the name of religion,this fanatic woman slanders the Holy Book.We all know,that during the wake of the religion in Arab,Quresh were at their worst whenever it came to Holy prophet and his companions.They used all kinds of tortures and extortions,ones that we can't even imagine.Even then,The Holy Book always taught The Prophet and the companions to be patient and steadfast,and to forgive.However,The Quran also has given some space to take revenge,cosidering human psychology.
Quoting Surah Ash-Shura,42:40-43:
40. The recompense for an injury is an injury equal thereto (in degree): but if a person forgives and makes reconciliation, his reward is due from Allah. for ((Allah)) loveth not those who do wrong.
41. But indeed if any do help and defend themselves after a wrong (done) to them, against such there is no cause of blame.
42. The blame is only against those who oppress men and wrong-doing and insolently transgress beyond bounds through the land, defying right and justice: for such there will be a penalty grievous.
43. But indeed if any show patience and forgive, that would truly be an exercise of courageous will and resolution in the conduct of affairs.

Now this is what our bloved Lord has to tell us,and this is how we misinterpret the message of love.
Avenging oneself seven times more,according to Quran,is oppression and transgression.The said fantic lady misinterpreted The Holy Book in all her orator's zeal,and we all heard it!
what is the reason for all this?The reason for this is merely the fact that,in the modern times,our association with our religion,is not because of the divine message that it gives us.but an emotion produced in retaliation to circumstances.
In this kind of a religion,sending the true message of the religion by becoming a practical example of its teachings to the masses is not considered enough,but they are forced to change to the whims of the so called self acclaimed proprietors of religion.In this kind of revolution,theres no sympathy for the masses to prevent them from eternal hell fire,but an aversion is in practice which gives license to the clerics to burndown all the shops with their alleged "Haram"businesses.In this kind of a struggle,theres no strival to guide people to the road to Heaven,but they are being led astray committing suicidal attacks,thus becoming hell's fuel.In this kind of religious trade,a wrong political statement is corrected in an instant,but a wrong interpretation of the Holy Book is not!
The salvation of the humanity is in the religion,the true message that the Holy prophet brought us,through the divine Holy Book!Not in the self-created and adultrated,political religion that is being presented to the masses through The Proprietors of Islam!

The siren's dead,with all her bohemianism!

The siren's been killed!After eons of looking for a sailor who would transform her into a humanbeing,from an incomplete and unfathomable creature,she did find one!She said,she doesn't belong to his world,she's not from among the permitted species,that he's supposed to know and be with,but he wouldn't listen.He said,try me,I'll be your knight in shining armour.she told him,you are a sailor,you've got unchartered oceans to explore,and that there are going to be wonders in it for him.But he said,let me try,i promise,i'll always be with you,will never leave you.Trust ME!She said to him,I'm sick of being incomplete and undiscovered.He said,I'll discover you,Trust ME!She said,you'll be tired and soon give up.He said,never,for you are the one that i'd been searching for since eons.A fellow cog in the wheel of fortune.A missing link to spiritual completion.Someone,that i've always dreamt of being with.She said,thats kind of you,but dear sailor,Its a tough road that leads to me.He said,i'll face it.she said,if you leave me,I'll die,not to be resurrected ever,undiscovered,meaningless;for i m fragile.i've suffered too much to suffer again.every time i try to venture into your world,i'm walked over,stoned,murdered and strangled,cos i don't belong to your world.and your world is too perfect to let a misfit be a part of it.if you leave me,I'm going to be a zombie,which is worse than being a siren.remember that.He said,TRUST ME,I'll be your knight in shining armour.She thought she found everything,didn't want more.however and whatever she got of the knight,she was satisfied.Until the time,when to her agony to be resurrected again,she discovered that she'd been lied to.she was not,to the sailor,what she was promised to be ,to the sailor,by the sailor,anymore.And that,the sailor had unchartered oceans to discover,brilliantly and materialistically beautiful women to meet.Who were like he was,and came from the same world that he did.She did not blame him for that,for she already knew that.but what had been decreed,was decreed!one little sign,and she knew,that the sailor had grown bored of her.had too much of her.and that she was too simple to be understood.too obvious to be discovered!And too different to be a part of his world!She did not blame him.but the dark that had started to creep into her life,wouldn't cease,as he left her to rot into her own blood!The sordid darkness,swallowed every single flicker of light from within her.She though she's finally going to leave this hideous cage of an imperfect body.But she wasn't that lucky.she got herself tethered and chained,her tongue cut,her heart snatched away from her chest.but still she'd breathe.her mind shred into pieces,but still she'd breath.blinded to death,but still she'd breathe.She'd breathe and breathe and breathe,but wouldn't die,despite all the death that had become her!And the sailor's gone,onto the oceans of color and beauty.with someone who's exactly like he is.After all,He was a humanbeing!

Of commuting through a public bus...

It takes an entire hour for me to get to my work.Leave at 8:00 o clock.Not to surprise me,theres always a new spot for the buses to stop,everyday,as ordained by the traffic police.I love my country regardless..Anyway,bus comes after 15 minutes of waiting,I get on it,and my ordeal starts.To my pleasure,I always get a tiny place to stand on the gate of the bus(too much for my adventurous nature).On my way to the office,we have Jinnah Hospital,so most of the commuters,are those going there,with thier sick children(and there paralyzed minds).
You see,Pakistan,is one hell of a cosmopolitan country.Which keep adding color to this beloved country(or i don't know if they are discoloring it).So those people,from God only knows what corners of the country,rather,are always on a picnic when on the bus.Eating ganderies and throwing the residue possibly everywhere that they can,incosiderate of my fragile office going attire.or anyone like me for that matter.Banana peels,ignorant of the fact that someone might fall,drinking water and gargling it from every window.
Too much for a fragile mind as of mine,yesterday,I saw two women,eating coconut.And I must say,it was one hell of an innovative way of eating coconut.Although they looked fine,as in they were wearing considerable amount of jewellery,which confirmed that they came from well to do families,their clothes neat and clean.So i was talking about how they ate the coconut.Took a bite,chewed it and chewed it and chewed it.and suddenly,there was a blast of white all around.They spat the chewed coconut all over the bus,utterly ignorant of the people sitting around.On my glaring at them,they chose a new spot to spit it.This time it was out of the window,on the road,or any vehicle beside the bus.
Boy oh boy,this is my country,and these are my people.And this is how we love our country.We love to derive pleasure at someone else's expense always.Be it our country,or be it another humanbeing.If we keep turning a blind eye to the ignorance and the lack of civic sense of the masses,where will this country go,and how will it come out of the claws of indifference?A question to which theres no answer.Idealists,are doomed,they should all commit suicide!


Song of the week:kabhi hum khoobsurat thay
Book of the week:deception point
Movie of the week:A.I
Discovery of the week:another face of deception!