Wow, they say these are bad times... I am pretty sure they were saying the same when Haluko Khan came roaring down the mountains....bad times!!! Stay indoors at all times walay times.
Human history is full of bad times...from the incident between Kane and Abel all the way down to Jack the ripper and Nawaz Sharif. Blood baths have spilled in the name of religion and atrocities have been comitted in the name of freedom......... I think it all is prompted by the innate need of man to control something, at any cost, (whatever he can get his hands on). It may just be his small personal domain within his house or if he has somehow fooled people into letting him lead them, his clan or country.In the meantime whoever losses a limb or a life for him is mere collateral damage as far as the eternal leader (man) is concerned. I mean Is tarah tou hota hai is tarah kay kamon main.
Why is this so, you may ask (maybe you won't ask but I will tell u anyways)? Waiasay bhi WHY is my favorite question (Haina Papa?).... Why did Halaku khan burn the libraries or used books to make bridges in Baghdad (Maybe he was jealous because he had no books)? Why did Alexander not stop before all his Army including him was perished (Maybe he wasn't God after all)? Why did Tipu Sultan's Mamu open the gates to the enemy (This one is easy, lalchi tha)? Why did Hitler let himself lose on the Jews (Still thinking , thniking......thinking)? Why did the Japs attack Pearl Harbour (Maybe they were tired of playing war war)? Why are the Jews punishing Palestinians for Hitlers crimes (This I know for sure is because they are just mean and badatameez)? Why did the Jews leave their house in the first place (Did we ask them to?). By the way why are they behaving just like Hitler nowadays (I mean eradicating a whole race because they are sitting on prime land)? Wow, us Muslims ladies love discussing Jews.......phew !!!
Please, do not read between the lines here, I never took history in school and now I am teaching Egyptian history to middle schoolers in Pakistan.........so I am no authority on anything I am writing about. These are just rambles of a woman living during bad times. But weren't all the above mentioned times bad times for the mothers losing their sons,despite their religious beliefs, to make the random, unsure, perverted,sick, half cooked dreams of their leaders come true.....!! I mean who was Hitler to kill Jew, Christian, Black or White population ( someone's child)
(Personal glory is the answer as far as I am concerened..........that is all......)
So, back to the bad times !! They say these are bad times for the Islamic Ummah..............hunm remind me please when were the good times???? From Karbala on wards I do not think there ever were any times that were totally good for the Ummah on the whole......Complete peace?never ever heard of it ......Please, give me a window of at least a 100 years where Muslims were not being oppressed or were not the conquerors?? In one way or the other there was always fighting, anarchy, unrest and chaos within the Ummah........Bad times? Now??? Hunm !! If you say so !!!
Eastern times or Western times, at their best, were and are usually bad, so why fret ......Let the bad times RULE ............if for nothing else then only for nostalgic reasons !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PS: All the puns were very much intended......
