But that energy is a false glimpse of our personalities. In reality, we are exactly similar to our leaders, especially the current lot we have. They lie, we lie. They lie they are not paying bribes to lawyers at District bars, and you will hear the enlightened modernists defending Pakistan is a secular country every other day, a country where there is literally a mosque every 1 kilometer, 50-60% are Barelwis or Sufis, 20 odd percent are Deobands and Shias and 5-10 % are Jihadis and extremely fundamentalist, but this chap is right because he thinks he is never wrong 1500 kilometers away from home and reality. They loot and plunder, we are even better than them. They are eating up the national exchequer as termites vanish up our trees, and we do the same in our day to day lives with others and ourselves. The manufacturer uses sub-standard material to produce stuff, the wholesalers and retailers sell sub-standard stuff as “A” grade products, the vagabond has got a dish antenna at home but steals money in the morning by emotionally blackmailing public and the “cyber moulvi” chants “Allah O Akbar” and passes an online fatwa that the heads of all the non Muslims should be chopped off forgetting The First Charter at Medina, Agreement of Hudabiyah and the settlements between the warring forces of Sallahudeen Ayubi and the Crusaders.
We even get punished the same way our leaders do. They die untimely, they go to jails and they live miserable personal lives. We die on the streets, we are harassed by police and we snatch away the smiles of our loved ones from their faces, with one ferocious stare. Still, we do not discover because we are not permitted to. Our ego stops us, it re assures us that we are never wrong. This inner voice capitalizes from the situation and makes us its slave.
Another problem we have is that we want to say what we want to and we cannot stop ourselves, especially we love to speak out of turn and we love to answer back without listening to what the other person is saying; the ego tells you “I am winning”. When it comes to practical steps and taking moral stands, we back out; ego starts finding ways. We try to escape and find scapegoats to rescue us; to rescue us from the big claims we make in our mosques, on our blogs, in our columns or in our “shout box” at Millat Facebook which is uniting 1.57 billion Muslims; uniting 1.57 billion non-mahrams with each other and creating feelings of love and lust between brothers and sisters – height of hypocrisy.
Do not feel offended of what has been said above. It is a reality and when it strikes; it strikes hard, and it hurts too, it hurts your ego and makes it weak at the same time; so it is good don’t worry. It is a reality you have refused to listen to, in fact it is your ego which does not want to listen this. Ego has to listen now and there is no escaping now: we are hypocrites, we are liars and we run our day to day lives the most unethical ways. So stop cursing Zardari for even the plate you broke during dinner today, the country and the fate for the misfortunes born due to your fornication with the adulteress ego of yours. We have to learn that there is no harm in accepting a mistake and learning from it. The best step we can take is that we begin realizing our mistakes; surely that would be the first step towards self-realization i.e. there is no justification for a wrong, a wrong is always wrong.
We really need to mend our ways and if we do it we will create some sensation and the world would be looking at us in awe. The last time we did it, we came from behind in 1857 to take away Pakistan from the jaws of the Imperialist superpowers and our Hindu neighbors in 1947.The weapon which has always protected this country is the passion of its inhabitants; their love for God, for country, their families and their wives is second to none. Do not let it rust!
So, the key is in your hand – just have to eliminate hypocrisy, lies and unethical attitude present in our personal/professional lives without more ado. It is very effortless to attain the lock, look around yourselves and take the step to change the life of the one who is staring at you in hope that you will change his life i.e. your lock, change his life. All he needs is a pat on the back, support and logical knowledge; all you need to unlock is to achieve success and peace in your heart. The peace you will feel it soon if you try, you will witness your heart expanding and you will know that nothing can stop you now; the expansion would be a feeling you would have never felt before, the expansion will slowly kill your ego and transform it into selfless characteristic. The transitions are hard but achievable; once you start seeing selflessly you will see the one staring in hope at you and that day you will know that there is a reason for everything, and the reason was written before your existence.
Many see themselves staring at themselves; few see it through the eyes and experiences of other.
Let’s unlock ourselves, let’s bring change within ourselves to create a positive change outside, let’s start serving to lead & leading to serve.
Let’s redefine this world as a midway stop between us and our eternal success.
