My Mother and The Hereafter

My mother died on 14th Jamadi-us-Sani, 1434 H, 25th April, 2013. The day was Thursday. It was the beginning of Zuhr prayer time.

My mother had been severely ill for the last three years. Each year saw her condition getting more severe than the previous year. For the last one year, she had been totally bedridden and secluded to a room. It was a psychological pain to play with the children in their playroom, to sit in the lawn or to go out for a walk, knowing that my mother was lying all alone in her bed.

We fed her all kinds of soups, milkshakes and fruit-punches. Only, she could not taste any of them, because she was fed with an NG-tube. One day, I tried to please her with some honey drops, but to my despair, she choked over them as her food canal was occupied by the NG-tube.

When we bathed her and creamed her and dressed her, she looked like a doll and smelt like a baby.

We shifted a computer and a television into her room, so that we could schedule some useful entertainment for her. We played her recitation of the Holy Quran in the morning. It was followed by a two-hour Dars of the Holy Quran. She slept in the afternoon. We put on some current affairs talk-show for her in the evening. We played her some lovely and faith-inducing Nasheeds after that. At night, we caressed her to sleep and completed the day with recitation of Surah-e-Mulk which basically says,

“Blessed be He in Whose hands is the Kingdom of the universe and has power over all things. The One Who created death and life, so that He may put you to test, to find out which of you is best in deeds. He is the All-Mighty, the All-Forgiving.”
[The Holy Quran, (67) Surah Al-Mulk, Verse 1,2]

Obviously it is a coincidence that my mother died at the age of sixty-seven, that is the number of this Surah of the Holy Quran. However, I focus on this message of the Holy Quran very, very hard now when faced with her death. It helps me stay composed and not holler my sorrow.

Whenever sorrow, sadness and depression wells up inside me, I recite some sweet prayers for my mother and divert the depressing emotions into the will to do something great in life which I pray would become Sadqa-e-Jariya for my mother and me. Prayers and good deeds are the only two things by which I can benefit my mother now. Our prayers and dedicated good deeds reach our bygone beloved-ones as gifts wrapped in brilliant colors and shining ribbons.

I feel remorse too. Yes remorse, because after her death, I felt again and again that I did not do enough for her. There was so much more that I could have done. There were things that I had planned but never got round to them or did not have the resources to do them. Sometimes, I was unable to simply follow her scheduled routine. She could not even call out and remind me that I had forgotten to do something for her. I divert this remorse too, into willpower and action.

My mother had stopped walking, stopped eating and then stopped talking. Then one day she stopped breathing as well. I do not think I will ever forget her last moments of This World. And I am grateful to Allah Almighty that He gave me the chance to be with her in those moments.

On that day, I came upon my mother as usual in the morning after sending the children to school. I saw her breathing with a little difficulty. I called the nurse around. She also confirmed that this breathing was not normal. My mother did not seem in pain but her breathing was a little forced. We contemplated for a few minutes. There had been some false alarms a couple of times previously as well. We wanted to take her to the hospital only if her condition grew hazardous.

At the same time, I felt that if this was her destined time of death, I did not want her to die amid doctors, machinery and a chaos. I wanted her to die in the comfort of her home and the love of her family around. I wanted her to die in my arms.

She was breathing but the stethoscope could not locate her heartbeat. As my sister-in-law rushed around to have the ambulance number ready-at-hand, the nurse whispered, ‘It is no use going to the hospital. She is going now. Her feet and hand are already cold. Her Ruh is just in her breathing now.’

I think it was one of the most poignant moments of my life. I was already bent over my mother as I listened to the nurse. I turned and looked at my mother in a daze. The world around us seemed to disappear. It was only my mother and me now. I slowly started reciting the Kalimah, over and over again. My voice was thick and my tears were falling. To my amazement, my mother found the energy to vehemently nod three times to the Kalimah proclamation. She could not speak, and she could hardly move, but Al’Hamdo li’Allah, she asserted her faith in La illaha illallah Muhammed ur Rasoolullah in her last moments of life.

I quickly turned on her morning recitation, which I had gotten late to do so today. It comprised of Ruqiya for the ill, Surah-e-Yaseen and Surah-e-Rahman. Surah-e-Yaseen is said to ease the pangs of death. After a while, I saw her forceful breathing calm down. It was a surprise and a relief. She seemed drowsy from the effort of stressed breathing. She seemed to going into a restful sleep. Good, I thought, let her sleep and get some rest.

I checked in on her after a while. She was deep in sleep. Or was she? I touched her cheek to respond some movement. None. I looked at her chest to see some movement. None. I panicked. I opened her eyes. Thank God there was light in them. Nonetheless I called the nurse to confirm that she was okay. She opened her eyes and observed her and started sobbing. ‘She is gone, she is gone…’, she said, and started pulling out her medical insertions.

‘Wait!’, I said, ‘Her eyes are still alive…’ ‘No, you don’t understand. Her soul has left. The body shuts down gradually…’ ‘No, don’t hurry so. Let me check…’ ‘Let go, she is gone…’ And then I noted that her eyes were still shining but they were absolutely still…I pushed her chest and it grunted one last time.

My mother’s soul had departed from This World into the Hereafter.

When I was young, I used to sleep cuddled with my mother. I lied down with her once again and held her close, knowing that this is the last time I will be able to do so in a long, long, long time. This is the last time I will be seeing her, touching her, smelling her, feeling her, lying with her, in This World. I kept lying with her for about three hours.

I am a Muslim, and I have always been taught that the Hereafter is the real world, which will live on forever and ever. This World is only a short stay and an examination hall for the Hereafter. Yet, This World was very beloved to me as it had all the people I love and all the things I enjoy.

Today, however, the Hereafter has become much more beloved to me than This World, as my mother has gone into the Hereafter.

I cannot wait to go to the Hereafter, where I will see my mother again. I cannot wait to go to the Hereafter, where I will kiss my mother again. I cannot wait to go to the Hereafter, where I will hug my mother again. I cannot wait to go to the Hereafter, where we will laugh together again. I cannot wait to go to the Hereafter, where we will eat fun food together again. I cannot wait to go to the Hereafter, where we will be together again. That is, hopefully, if Allah Almighty places us both in the Illiyeen and Jannah.

Although my daughter is a striking image of my mother, both in looks and personality, and I am grateful to Allah Almighty for this strange solace that He had planned for me, yet, I want my mother herself too.

It must be terribly sad to be an atheist and not believe in the Hereafter. How do these people cope with the death of a loved one?

Allah Almighty, I thank you today, for creating the Hereafter. You created us with feelings of such love which never die. It was only fair then, for an Eternal World to exist, where people never die.

Religion Dropouts

Religion should be a celebration of God-man relationship and not just be focused on a few religious rites and rituals and symbols. Islam should not be about keeping a beard, wearing the veil or saying the five daily prayers. It should be about being ‘good’ as a human being, being ‘kind’ to humanity and not to object to someone singing the Holy Quran over the guitar.

With such a liberal, abstract and immeasurable definition of religion, I wonder why Allah Almighty revealed not one but four plus holy scriptures; Zabur (Psalms), Torah (Bible – Old Testament), Injil (Bible – New Testament) and the Quran, with the Quran alone having six thousand, six hundred and sixty-six holy verses. In addition, there are at least six major books of Hadith comprising of at least four thousand Sahih Ahadith which serve as one of the four sources of Islamic jurisprudence by which Islamic injunctions are derived. Could not Allah Almighty have revealed just one paragraph about nobleness and virtue such as the one written above?

The problem is that some of us find religion a nuisance because basically we ourselves are a nuisance. Just like classroom backbenchers hate rules and regulations and discipline in studies, we too hate rules and regulations and discipline in life. The prophets and monitors irritate us and we speak ideas and dialogues which make them and their followers appear unintelligent, uncool and not fun.

And we strive to get the rest of the crowd, who are half-baked Muslims with an unsure ideology, on our side by appealing to their sense of ‘complete freedom’, whereas this entire universe and everything within exists, balances and is running because of mutual bindings and rules and regulations. We are able to walk on this Earth because our body and this Earth mutually obey the divine rule of gravity. The rain falls because the seas and the winds obey the divine rule of evaporation. We live because our heart works tirelessly round the clock pumping blood in and out of our veins. But, we human beings, being the highest and most honored creation as said by Allah Almighty, feel ‘too tired’ to pray only five times a day and have the audacity to speak our opinion in opposition to Allah Almighty’s Commandment and deem prayers as unimportant and useless. And so on with the rest of the commandments of religion.

The seculars and the atheists and the half-baked Muslims say, ‘Does Allah Almighty need our prayers, our fasts, or Hajj?’ They say, ‘Does Islam lie in the folds of a beard or a veil?’ They say, ‘It is human rights which really matter…’ While it is they themselves who are at the heart of imperialism, capitalism, weapon industry, agriculture control, abortions, usury and such viles. These social, political and economic systems grossly violate human rights and ethical values, but because these systems suit their base desires, they turn a blind eye to the cruel consequences of these corrupt and unIslamic systems.

Yes, it is true that human rights are very important and Allah Almighty has Himself proclaimed human rights as more important than Allah Almighty’s Rights, but that does not mean that Allah Almighty’s Rights become totally null and void. Secondly, Allah Almighty has said that I might forgive unfulfilled Divine Rights but the forgiveness of Human Rights will rest on the aggrieved human alone. Mind you, for the first part, Allah Almighty has said ‘might’ and has not made a binding promise of forgiveness. Finally, forgiveness in for the one who beseeches forgiveness and not for those who assume forgiveness or make a play out of sin and forgiveness.

Since we do not want to practice religion, we have come up with this brilliant theory of Bill Gates of Religion. Bill Gates is a genius, a computer wizard and a brilliant business tycoon of the 21st century. He is the innovator who has brought about the revolution of personal computers in every home worldwide and for years has consistently ranked among the richest people of the world. However, the punch-line is that he was a college drop-out!

He did not complete his Harvard University studies, yet he has been able to make it big in this world both in terms of money as well as professional knowledge. As seculars and atheists and half-interested Muslims, we aspire to become the Bill Gates of religion.

We want to be a religion drop-out. We want to drop-out of religious formalities and bindings and do’s and dont’s and yet achieve raving success in this world and the Hereafter.

We take a religious sanction on it from religion itself through narrating rare Ahadith such as the follows.

There was once a prostitute. She came upon a dog that was very thirsty. Its tongue was lolling out in thirst. The prostitute felt pity. She took off her sock, climbed down a nearby well, filled it with water and brought it up for the dog to drink from. The dog drank his fill. Allah Almighty admitted this prostitute to Jannah for her rare kindness.

It is true that despite immense sins, Allah Almighty might admit us to Jannah for one simple act of kindness. On the other hand, it is also true that despite immense religiousness, Allah Almighty might throw us in Hell for one stray wrongdoing. But we do not want to think about that. We want to focus on the first part only. We want to think of Allah Almighty as being Al-Gafoor (The Forgiver) and Al-Raheem (The Merciful) only because this one-sided theory is very comfortable and gives us a free hand to do as we please.

We take examples of such people who never bothered to study the Holy Quran and Ahadith and do not act on religion in the conventional sense, yet they are good human beings and benefit humanity.

Whereas it is also a point to ponder what we mean by ‘good’ human beings? For us, a woman who aborts her baby because she does not want another child and is a social worker who helps other people ‘live’, is a very good human being. The fact that she chose to kill her own baby is her personal decision.

The point is that definitely we have brilliant instances like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein, who dropped out of school and college and yet they were able to make it brilliant in the world. So will you allow your child to drop out of college hoping that your child might also become a rare success? Will you?

I do not think so.



It is not wise to take chances which occur less than one percent in life. It is not wise to live an unreligious life hoping that we might become the Bill Gates of the Hereafter. It is not wise to risk the Hereafter from where there is no return and no second chance ...

Ayesha in Wonderland

Ayesha is to get married, but who will be the lucky guy? Uh-oh, Ayesha has just fallen down this rabbit’s burrow and her life adventures, or misadventures, are about to begin…

From the grandmother, to the mother, to the aunts, to the neighbors, to the house maid, everyone has a suggestion and an option to propose. The only ones not giving any names are the girls’ close friends, because they understand, that the most important opinion-holder right now, is Ayesha herself. We need to ask Ayesha, who she wants to marry.

Make no mistake, the grandmother, mother and all the other ladies have the best of intentions at heart, although there can be a few exceptions, but the problem is that they are suggesting what they think best, whereas sometimes it is not about having the best but what touches the heart.

The mother should be, the girl’s best friend, and she should have been the one asking her daughter with discretion, ‘Ayesha, who would you like to marry?’ Yes, Islam is not against it.

Only, Islam gives guidance to mankind, both boys and girls, as to how they should make intelligent decisions regarding all important matters of life, including marriage. Let us see what Islam has to say regarding selecting a life-partner.

“When a man of good manners and sound religion gives a marriage proposal, accept it.”

[Hadith of Timizi]

“A woman is sought after for four reasons; her wealth, her family, her beauty and her religion. Woe unto you, choose the one of sound religion.”

[Hadith of Bukhari and Muslim]

Is this the criteria that you had in mind, Ayesha? Is this the criteria you had in mind, Ayesha’s mother?

Sadly, in today’s world, even most of the parents, who are supposed to be the embodiment of wisdom for their children, have lost the true criterion by which they should advise and seek life-partners for their children.

Much crookedness is rampant in our society while seeking marital matches. We lie through our teeth about the girl’s age and have the audacity to insist that the ID card is lying. We give false appearance impressions with heavy makeup and other accessories like high-heels. We tell tall-tales about the girl’s housework capabilities. And so on. Girls are forced to nod their agreement to these lies, else, do not underestimate; the girl may be poked, pinched or even kicked under the dining table over which the very same honored guests are presiding.

In the first place, it is our duty to train our daughters appropriately to know, manage and supervise housework. It is also the duty of the daughter to accept this training. Next, we should not lie about her housework capabilities. Lying about housework capabilities is as unethical as holding a false academic degree for which our politicians are today being chucked out of politics and facing humiliation.

Sometimes, the marriage options become a tug of war between the parents themselves. The father wants his nephew as his son-in-law and the mother wants her nephew as her son-in-law.

Moreover, close to the marriage, the girl is probably than not at a maturity level that she knows her strengths, weaknesses and aspirations of life. She should try and see if they match with the will and circumstances of the husband-to-be. It is dishonesty if she has some aims and objectives of life other than family life, but she withholds the information for fear of rejection and intends to pursue them when the marriage has been secured. Aspirations developed later on are an exception.

Getting back to the criteria issue, the biggest tag officially looked for in a boy is money and then good character, and in a girl is housework capability and then beauty or vice versa by the boy. Compare this with the Ahadith above.

Even the ‘good character’ looked for in a boy these days is simply that he should not be a womanizer and will not look for a second marriage after he marries our daughter or will not indulge in extra-marital affairs. No other character feather, such as gentlemanly behavior, sense of social responsibility or bravery and valor for the Muslim nation, is looked for in his hat. What kind of children will such a boy father, who is devoid of the real qualities of life? Crude, selfish and useless Muslims, what else? That is exactly what we have around us today.

Let it be noted that Islam highlights the importance of good manners in a boy separate from and prior to mentioning religion, although good manners is itself part of religion. This is because it is extremely important for the boy to be amiable and a gentleman, for if he is not so, everyday of the married life will become a living hell and the girl then cannot do much about it short of divorce.

Then, there are two other criterions recommended by Islam when selecting a life-partner, that is, physical appearance and social status.

Reports Syedna Mugheera bin Shoba RA: I told Prophet Muhammed Pbuh that I have sent a marriage proposal to a woman. Prophet Muhammed Pbuh asked me, ‘Have you seen her?’ I replied, ‘No.’ He said, ‘Then have a look at her, for it will be a source of love between you two.’

[Hadith of Tirmizi]

Secondly, Islamic jurists have derived, in varying degrees, the principal of similarity of social status between the boy and the girl when contemplating marriage.

[Al-Fiqah Al-Islami wa Adillataho, V. 7, P. 240, 241]

Yes, for the good news of the youth, appearance does matter, but are you sure that it is all that matters to you?

For why is it that mothers and other grown-up ladies, who have gone through the early phase of marriage, place so much importance on financial resources being an important criteria for marriage? When marriage is being discussed, and a mother speaks of looking for a ‘settled’ guy, the poor girl’s heart sinks in distaste as her mind conjures up the image of a fat, balding man coughing his way through his middle-ages. Stereotyping! We can very well put at least half of the blame of this stereotyped impressions in our minds on our fictional novels and dramas.

Young and good-looking boys can be financially settled too, so at least let your mother speak, listen to what she has to say and think about it. Why? As young girls, we are unaware of the financial struggle of our fathers that exists behind the food we see on the table, the clothes we wear and the cars we move around in. When we say, ‘I am not materialistic, nor a gold-digger. Love is all that matters to me’. The first part of the claim is very good but the second part is unrealistic. If love is all that matters to you, and you are insisting on marrying a guy way below the lifestyle you are used to, then first try using the public transport for about a year instead of using your family car, quit sleeping in the air-conditioner one summer and take baths in the winters using only a saucepan full of hot water which has been heated on the stove because there is no geyser. When the husband would not be having money to buy diapers, and the babies wet over you in the night, all the love you felt will fly out of the closest bedroom window.

That is why Islam too recommends marrying close to your social status; neither too below, nor too high. Yes, nor too high. Many a times mothers, and sometimes girls themselves, are very interested in marrying into families of very high social status. That can be a disaster too. For every class have their own norms. It can get difficult, irritating or suffocating for the girl to follow them and if she is not able to pick the new lifestyle in time and comfortably, it can get uncomfortable or embarrassing for the boy and he might turn harsh and humiliating towards her. Imagine a middle class girl being told to eat her daily breakfast of omelet with a knife and fork. She might do it for a few days but in due time she would feel like throwing the fork, the omelet and the vase sitting primly on the center of the dining table, hard on the wall across.

Having said all this, I have to put in that as it is with all principles, exceptions do exist. It is not impossible that you can marry across class, profession types and such social barricades. However, such decisions need to be taken with much thought, dry-run analysis and consultation with family, any relevant experienced person and most importantly Allah Almighty.

Yes, consultation with The Creator, The All-Knower and The Most Wise, Allah Almighty is most important of all decision factors, because it is a decision of the unknown. This consultation is known as Isthekhara. It should be done by the girl herself, the girl’s family and should not be sought in the ‘holy market’.

Consultation with the family is important because, first of all, it is their right, for you are their child; they brought you up, care for you and love you. Secondly, God forbid, should your marriage get into trouble, they are the ones who will assist you. And, God forbid ever, should your marriage breakup, you will return to them.

Got it? It is good manners and sound religion, totality of religion, physical appearance and similarity of social status that you have to think about.

And if you are a person who has aspirations in life in addition to family life, then be vocal about it. You will be told to keep quiet, but it is unto you to be honest. Have faith in Allah Almighty; He is the one Who inspired you with your aspirations and gave you the talents to fulfill your aspirations. He must have created your match accordingly. All you have to do is pray and wait for Mr. Right to come along.

Dear mother, if there are two people befitting the said criteria, with some plus and minus here and there, but one is your choice and the other is your daughter’s choice, then let it be your daughter’s choice, because, it’s her life and Islam gives her the right to make this decision about her life.



If the boy is not too well-off, but seems responsible and promising to do well in the future, then give him a chance, because wealth is something which can come and go, but good manners and religion and physical appearance stay more or less the same.

A Sahabi once asked for a Sahabya’s hand in marriage. She refused. He went to Prophet Muhammed Pbuh and asked him to intervene on his behalf. Prophet Muhammed Pbuh did so. So the Sahabya asked the Holy Prophet Pbuh, ‘Is this your order or only a suggestion?’. He said, ‘It is only a suggestion’. A suggestion of the blessed Prophet Pbuh to any Muslim is something of a reverence, something to cherish and something to be proud of, yet, the Sahabya, was allowed to make use of her human right of personal choice in marriage as stated by religion, and stood by her refusal. Then why, as parents, do we make our children’s personal choices and happiness an issue of personal ego and family dishonor when the Prophet Pbuh did not do so ?

Our National Language

“You are the best nation which has ever been raised for the guidance of mankind. You enjoin good, forbid evil, and believe in Allah.” [The Holy Quran, (3) Surah Al-Imran, Excerpt from Verse 110]

I know, I know. This verse is presently not applicable since we as a nation, now, enjoin evil, forbid good, and believe in America instead of Allah. Consequently, we have become the worst nation possible.

But the point of contemplation is, who is meant by the word ‘nation’ here?

Pakistanis? Afghanis? Saudis? Iranis? Iraqis? Which of the fifty-seven Muslim ‘nations’ of the world is the Holy Quran addressing?

By a worldly definition, a nation is a tightly-knit group of people which share a common culture. Also, by a worldly definition, a culture is a set of shared values which does not evolve from biological inheritance but rather from ideology and behavioral patterns. Our biological structures are more deeply connected to us than the soil we walk on. If biological inheritance does not form a culture, what makes us think geographical soil, terrain or boundaries define culture and thus nations? It is certainly an error.

Well, ideology it is then? Choosing between human ideology and Divine ideology, Divine ideology would definitely supersede the human ideology for humans may err while God certainly does not err. Another word for Divine ideology is, yes the fashionably most disdained word and discarded guidance, religion.

Let us think critically once again. In our current frame of mind and definition of nationality, a person belonging to Pakistan would be recognized anywhere in the world as a ‘Pakistani’. No matter which part of the world s/he lives in. Even if he has obtained the formal citizenship of another country, s/he is still referred to as ‘of Pakistani origin’. Then, why cannot a Muslim living in any part of the world belong to the same Muslim nation?

The answer lies in the conditioning of the Muslim minds under the divide-and-rule policy of the non-Muslims and the dismemberment of the Muslim Caliphate after World War I. However, the scope here is not world politics but rather identity of a Muslim, his/her culture and language.

Hence, religion, being the most authentic ideology, is the most apt parameter to define a culture, and hence demarcate a nation. That is why the Holy Quran refers to the Muslims as a nation, and Jews, Christians and the pagans as other nations. Having chosen religion as the deciding factor between the different nations of the world, we can now talk about national languages.

All languages are the creation of Allah Almighty as said so in the Holy Quran,

“And yet other of His signs are the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the difference of your languages and colors; surely there are signs in this for the knowledgeable.” [The Holy Quran, (30) Surah Ar-Rum, Verse 22]

Many a times, I have seen talk-shows debating about English being the official language of Pakistan with national indignation. The programs question as to why we cannot have Urdu, our ‘national’ language as the medium of communication for offices and academics? It is possible because China, Israel and some other countries are practically doing it with respect to their national languages and are progressing very well.

Also, when I travel down roads and highways and see most of our billboards and shop signposts written in English, I am strongly reminded of the British colonial rule of the sub-continent and how we are still enslaved to them in so many ways. It also is a glaring reminder of the current American supremacy worldwide.

I understand that it is a necessity to have an international language. Yet, the fact that English today is an international language is an everyday reminder to us of our lost glory. However, we have none to blame but ourselves. For they are a nation who have worked hard and achieved much, and the victorious deserve and naturally get to decide the rules of the game.

However, for us the key question remains, is our immense pride in Urdu being our ‘national’ language justified? And the effort to shift towards it as the single official language of Pakistan, to be used in offices and academics, worth it?

Why? We have just brainstormed and realized that we are unknowingly ignorant of the real boundaries of nationhood and are blindly following the nation-demarcations as instructed by our colonial masters, while the Holy Quran demarcates nations by their religions. It has been sixty-six years since Pakistan gained independence. It is about time we gained mental independence as well. We need to break the shackles of foreign thinking and start thinking by the Holy Quran.

Then, by definition of the Holy Quran, our national language becomes Arabic.

While Urdu, like other regional languages such as Punjabi, Sindhi, Balochi, and Pashto, would be viewed as a regional language.

What? How can we switch to Arabic in our official, academic and personal lives?

Well, have we not made that transition from Urdu to English already? Yes, we have. It has taken us only about fifty years. For there was a time that the Muslims of the subcontinent stopped sending their children to school in resentment of the British taking over the school systems and replacing the in-use Persian language with English. After the initial resentment and rejection, Muslims at length accepted the use of English, and today in our country, it is a sign of being educated, up-to-date and fashionable to be able to converse in English fluently. Not only that, people consider it really cool if anyone knows some other European language as well, like French. The determination of the Muslims does stop just here. If Muslim students today find admission, scholarship or job in countries like China, Spain or Germany, they quickly take the pre-requisite language course and equip themselves with language of that country too.

No objection. As said afore, all languages are the creation of Allah Almighty and there is no sin in speaking any of them. However, just like all fruits are the creation of Allah Almighty, but some are more delicious than others, and just like all colors are the creation of Allah Almighty but some are more flashy than others and just like all personalities are the creation of Allah Almighty but some are more charismatic than others, accordingly, all languages are the creation of Allah Almighty but the most eloquent language, the chosen language and the national language of the Muslim nation is Arabic.

It is the language of the Holy Quran. It was the language of our Holy Prophet Pbuh. It was the language of the chosen people. It will be the language of the QA session in the grave. And it will be the language of Jannah.

Sadly, this very special language is considered relevant only for recitation, neglected otherwise and even made fun of with imitation of its strong pronunciations. Even in the relevance of recitation, we do not bother to understand the few words we are reading by connecting it to its translation.

We need to take out one summer vacation and start learning and conversing in Arabic. Try it. I promise you it will be real fun.

It will be a small step on our part but a giant step of the nation in the right direction. We need to change our Qibla, once again, from Bait-ul-Muqadas to the Holy Kabah.



O’ Muslim, the next time you face a quiz question, ‘What is our national language?’, try the answer ‘Arabic’. In the non-Arab states, you will most probably get your quiz wrong but you will set thinking and set straight the concept of many among your audience. And that is, the lasting victory.