Woe Unto You, O' Mother

Who raised this child? Who gave him this criminal ideology? Or rather, who gave him this lack of ideology? Who taught him the idea of ‘country-ism’, which is not recognized by Islam? Who taught him that we are a nation divided by geographical boundaries and not an empire of Islam? Who taught him that Muslims on the other side of the ‘border’ are another nation? Who taught him that to support war against ‘them’, if it earned you some International Aid, was national interest? Who taught him this covet materialism? Who taught him that it is okay to sell some of your brothers and sisters, in addition to national integrity and dignity, in order to increase the national GNP?

A child’s first school is his mother. Did his mother teach him that, or was she ignorant herself? A child’s second school is school. Did his teachers teach him that, or were they ignorant themselves? A child’s third school is the society and media nowadays. Did they teach him that, or were they uninformed puppets of the anti-Muslim lobby themselves? Or were they so greedy in the gut that they bought the luxuries of their luxurious life by paying the price of the nation’s ideology, identity and freedom?

When Emal Kansi was handed over by the very same people who had been sheltering him, in lieu of the multi-million dollar bounty offered, Emal Kansi is reported to have said, ‘These people are such that they will sell their own mother for ten dollars’. Someone might object to this brash statement, but the objection might be valid on the amount of ten dollars and not the prospect of selling one’s mother.

For this is pretty much what has happened in the NATO supply-lines case. There was great lamentation upon the killing of the twenty-four soldiers on the Pakistani border. The NATO supply-line was cut-off in retaliation. It was repeatedly said that the retaliation was for the honor of the soldiers killed. However, six months down the line, it all boiled down to negotiating a higher price and taxation upon the land route offered to the trucks carrying NATO supplies against brother Afghanistan.

So the blood of the twenty-four Pakistani soldiers has been settled for a higher land route rent?

Who raised those truck drivers who are celebrating the reopening of NATO supply-lines because their stoves will come alive at the expense of some Muslim lives flaming out? Who raised the person who took this decision? Who raised the person who delivers this decision? Who raised the person who defends this decision?

Indeed, they were once babies in a mother’s lap. Indeed, they were once children in a teacher’s classroom. Indeed, they were once teenagers and onwards; listening, exchanging and forming opinions with their peers, elders and media.

Indeed, this is the result of a criminal upbringing and each one of thy shall be held responsible one serious Day of Judgment.

‘Lo! Each one of you is responsible, and each one of you will be questioned for those under your responsibility…’
[Hadith: Mishkat, Book of Commandment and Judgment]

Imagine. Empathize. Will you be able to defend yourself?