Zamaan

When the earth dwellers, i.e. humans reign terror on the earth, the response that comes from the Lord of the worlds, is in different forms. The constant pictures of starved human beings in Gaza, the footages of aid seekers being fired at, the terror and hunger that they face; do you think that this would go on and nothing would happen to the people of the rest of the world?

Since the past decade, there was a rise in the graphic content being shown on T.V. serials and movies, scenes of blood, bullet driven bodies, splattered brains, torn limbs, you name it, it was all on the screen. Even now, shows like The Squid Games, have an audience all over the world and even children were watching such series on Netflix. The idea that violence is a new norm, there is no need to flinch or feel disgust or horror at such scenes was being normalized all over the internet, T.V., everywhere. It was all for the sake of the new horror that was to be unleashed on human beings in real life, will not make people gape and their stomachs wont turn in with whatever that they were watching on their feeds. When the starved pictures of the people of Gaza is put up on Instagram, we shamefully put the food that we eat on our feeds. The people of Gaza are giving up their lives as they scavenge the aid that is being dropped, the people of the world are sharing the videos and clips of Master chef and their picture perfect food. This is the kind of normal that we have entered into. The place where we do watch the reels and the videos of the atrocities, the bombs and their devastation, and the wiping of an entire population, and on the other hand, we watch amazing places, delicious food, travel destinations etc. The constant paradoxes of the world bombarded on to us in our feeds , where it is hard for us to fathom exactly what is real and where our emotions should be. Our emotions are all over the place, our mind bogged down with so many things at once that we barely know what our original thoughts are and what we are fed, and how to analyze the situation at hand. The information is overwhelming, the pace of processing that information is almost zero and sorry to say, wisdom is nowhere in sight. So the information is rendered useless. So the generation has already turned into monkeys, where they only mimic what influencers are doing or what others are doing, without putting much thought into it.

The recent seismic activity in Russia and the tsunamis, which later turned into eruptions of volcanos around that area, and then these activities translating into Himalayas and creating cracks in those mountains, the recent flash floods, all pointing that something massive is in the making. There may be a lot of scientific explanations about these things for everyone, but being Muslims, we know, natural disasters and floods and earthquakes are all signs of Allah, so we may become conscious of all that we do. Though these all also amount to the signs of Day of Judgment, one may also wonder where we stand on the scales of the deeds that will rest our case. It seems like time is the ESSENCE! We are living with a live time bomb, that can go off at any time and it will wreck havoc everywhere in the world and we wont have time to react, run and save ourselves as footages of havoc being wrecked with natural and man made disasters across the globe.

The Mentally Sick

“Westerners thinking that ‘we’ had given ‘them’ progress and modernization? Hadn’t we provided them with order and a kind of stability that they haven’t been able since to provide for themselves.” This is what the West believed and still believes, that the former colonies shouldn’t have been left to themselves and it was their burden to recolonize them in another way, hence the birth of Imperialism. This is very aptly discussed in the book, Culture and Imperialism, by Edward Said, that colonialists have time and again referred to the “foolish”-ness to leave these countries and should reinvade them.

What we fail to realize is that the West, earlier was predominantly referred to were the European countries that had colonies all over the world mainly Asia and Africa. The tradition that T. S. Eliot so boastfully talked about in his essays was the tradition of Europe, the tradition that was deep set in its Christian ideology. But in today’s world and the new paradigms and the shift that has been created, it seems that the European countries may not have as much of an influence as US has now all over the world.

Edward Said writes in his book, Culture and Imperialism that the ‘relationship between the Occident and the Orient is a relationship of power, of domination..’ and he has rightly put so as we see today that the global south is dominated by these Western powers, mainly that of the U.S. The former colonies have certain issues and the West looks down upon them and want to take a role of a mediator or that of a master who wants these states to behave in certain ways and these countries are dying to gain favor from them. The recent show of extravagance and flamboyance by the Arab world to the President of U.S., Donald Trump and the way the gifts were given to him and the way they tried to please him, showed as if they were actually trying to win favor of the master to get some things from him. The shamelessness of these countries was quite evident and seemed as if the ruled really have no dignity when it comes to pleasing ones’ masters.

As J.C.Young mentions in his book, An Introduction to Post Colonialism, that the governments of the countries of the global south, when try to steer away from the Western influence, they are met by ‘military interventions’ by the West as it happened in Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq etc. The current example is that of Palestine. The case of Palestine goes way ahead of all the ‘soft’ policies of the West. The West or the countries that have so far succumbed to the secularism, have failed to give anything but religiosity to the whole settler colonialism of Israel. The genocide of Gaza can not be described by anything religious and secular. One of the journalist I used to read when I was in college, who was brought up in the Western culture and believed that the values of East are not up to the mark of the West in terms of human rights, and freedom of speech and freedom in general, said the wall fell on him and he doesn’t want to be associated with those values any more, as these values were just on paper, when it came to Palestine, all those values turned out to be trash.

After years and years of studies of Colonialism, Neocolonialism, Post-colonialism, Settler-colonialism, we have come to the conclusion that the so-called ‘global-south’ was never a problem. The disease lies in the West and the U.S. and their Israeli friends. The disease of controlling, taking over a land, and ruling over the global south. The people, who didn’t fear them and stood their ground, resisting, were made to starve for months and then were put in cages to make lines and stand in que to get morsels of food. People, with their kids dying of hunger, were desperate and these colonists and savages and animals made them do something so heinous and insane that it will be written down in history that the tyrants were mere animals and sadists and took pleasure in hunting babies, sniping them, letting them rot in the hospital NICU beds, starving them to death and drawing their loved ones to such desperations.

The humanity? What is it ? What traits one should have to be called humans? DO we need to redefine it? Above anything and everything, one has to be clear in his mind and his head that the humanity, the values, and the doctrine shouldn’t come from the West and the U.S. no matter how prestigious their outlook is, no matter how many prestigious universities they have, no matter what! The lowest low is evident and when we think there can’t be another low to which the humanity of these people could sink to, they take it as a challenge and show us a new low, and the sadist and most sick side to them. These people need therapies and should be admitted to mental asylums rather than be seated in the posts of command!

Heavy-ness

My Facebook feed, since yesterday, was filled with the mourning picture of mum of nine, Alaa AlNajjar. She is an emergency room pediatrician. She received 8 bodies of her children charred, maimed, dismembered and there was nothing recognizable about them. Her only baby that survived, went into surgery and is in ICU till now. The doctors at the scene said that she almost fainted when she saw those angels so ruthlessly killed. I can’t imagine the pain, the grieve, the sadness that must have engulfed her very existence .My son once didn’t answer his phone because he was in class and couldn’t find the phone in his bag and answered me half an hour later, whereas I have gone in panic mode and started having palpitations. I am sure all of have more or less experienced something somewhat familiar at least once in our lifetimes. The panic, the pain a mother feels is beyond what words could ever describe.

We, as Pakistanis, drowned in the ecstasy of downing of the three Rafales this month, can not leave behind what our brothers and sisters are going through in the cities of Gaza. The genocide being committed right in front of our eyes, yet we see the flamboyant and exuberant dinner parties and gifts thrown in the honor of Trump, we ask, what is the reality of this world ? When we eat our fills and prepare meals for our families and our kids, do our hearts even feel a pinch for the starving population of Ghazza? Have we become monsters, that when people are decimated, we carry on as if nothing has happened. Today, when preparing my kids for exams, I wondered what an average woman in Ghazza would be doing; hunting for food… tending to injured kids, tending to injured family members, mourning her loved one, grieving, cooking from whatever small amount of flour she has…

The most commendable thing about the people of Ghazza is that I have never seen them complaining to anyone and I have always seen them thanking Allah, asking Allah, and submitting to Allah. The kind of resilience they show against the kind of collective punishment and genocide they are being subjected to, these people have continued to have a stronger connection to Allah than I have ever seen. The mother of the 9 children said, my kids are at a better place, they are alive and are with Allah. May Allah reward her, and put sakinah in her heart, for when I think of her, I feel as if my heart is about to burst into a million pieces.

The World ANEW

Last week was the series of a rollercoaster of emotions, where when we resorted to the digital media, and social media, the misinformation and the disinformation, led us into total chaos. The X, the channels, Facebook, etc. was filled with rumors and false reporting. The way everyone used to say that the dynamics and the architecture of warfare has been changed drastically, we saw it all happening within the span of one week. Though we have been seeing what is happening in Ghazza for more than a year, but when we actually were caught in the similar situation, we understood what it was like to be the victim of such news propaganda. Not only that, the new horizons that opened up concerning the whole Air defense system, that came under play during these past days, was something that I would never have predicted in my life.

When I used to think about the modern day settler colonial mindset of the Israelis and the Zionists, I used to go back to the whole tradition where the superiority complex of the European part of the world used to come under play. The French colonist advocate, Jules Harmand, believed that it was their superiority (mechanical, economical, military and MORAL) that gives us the right to rule over these native people of the land. In the wake of the Palestinian genocide in Ghazza, the Western claim of superiority over the global East, just went into tatters. Piers Morgan or others, asks the natives to come on their show and then keep saying that they have a moral superiority over the Arabs and the Muslims because the West still believes in the same principles. Imagine Piers saying that Pakistanis only export ‘terrorism’ on TV while India was the one carrying out terrorist activities in Pakistan. When children die, these people side with genocide because that is the ‘moral high ground’ that they have possessed for the past three hundred to four hundred years where the rest is the white man’s burden and it doesn’t matter if the people of color die. BUT something interesting happened when India tried to do the same to Pakistan these past few days.

When the first attack happened in Bahawalpur in Pakistan, my daughter became distressed, as all of us have only seen what war looks like in Palestine, the only reference point we have. The whole world sided with India, as they sided with Netanyahu, and did not say a word when innocent civilians died in Pakistan and then claiming that they did not intend to target any civilians but the terrorists in Pakistan, whilst killing children here. Interestingly, when Pakistan downed six jets, the whole world came running to the South asking to de-escalate the situation. The world, the leaders of the world, do not care about people dying. Do you know what they care about?? THE STOCKS OF RAFALE!!! Not only that the geopolitical shift from the Eurocentric world to China, and this war established that shift in the most unapologetic way that the whole world is now concerned with it. Countries like Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine, became the testing ground of the weapons of Russia, NATO, US and the likes and they were uncontested as they bombed the hell out of the innocent civilians and did not fight anyone head on. When Pakistan, and India came face to face, mostly they didn’t bother as they knew that India has more weaponry, more technology, massive artillery and a huge army, and Pakistan is tiny compared to it. The hegemony of the whole power block that was being created by the West in the global south or say South Asia by making India their side chick, was shaken when they realized that there might be another power emerging here that they did not consider to be anything. I am talking about China here, which seemed to have been nowhere in the equation and it silently became the center now of the global South.

War is not the same when two nations are fully equipped with modern day technology and weaponry. War becomes something else. The media becomes a tool of war, as many people had rightly put, the war now will be fought in the cyber space. And we saw that happening, war was being fought on cyber space. But what was more interesting to see was how war was fought in the air space. The jets that didn’t cross international borders, the radar jammers, the communication jammers, the airborne radar jets, the air to air missiles, the ability to see the jets on the radars and hitting them without them knowing. With China and Turkey, both providing satellite data to Pakistan (Alhamdolillah), we achieved what would have been impossible. The days of conventional war suddenly shifted to something big, something we could never imagine happening in our lifetime. We saw history being written right in front of our eyes.

The lessons to be learned from the past few days are many but I would like to stick to three; the first and the foremost and the most important lesson is to be equipped with the best of technology, best of weapons as per the Hadith of Prophet Muhammad (saw). The importance of having at least one satellite in space and have that power to see what your enemy is able to. The world would not have bat an eye if all of Pakistan was nuked because it’s a Muslim country and we have seen that in Ghazza, they became concerned because a non-Muslim state was seeing a rebuttal. Secondly, as the Quran says, to verify the news that is brought to you before you act upon it. The recent disinformation and misinformation, do not give in to the hype, keep calm, do not react impulsively, and do not make rash decisions. Thirdly, remembrance of Allah. Muslim ummah should never forget that in the midst of calamity, remembrance of Allah is what keeps us from falling into despair, from having a weak heart and losing a battle. Remember, Palestinians are not losing any battle but they have conquered what we can never; the fear of death and destruction!

Lessons from Palestine

In the midst of such chaos, what should we do? Learn from the people of Palestine.

Their aqeedah, their love for Allah and the Prophet saw , their steadfastness, their faith, their unity, their reliance on Allah in the face of calamity. So yes, in this time of calamity, trials and tribulations, let us reconnect with Allah and remain steadfast on the right path.

Weltanschauung

The structuralist poetics described the weltanschauung or the world view one has structured around the language that we speak growing up, in other words, our mother tongue. People like us, who grew up in the post colonial era, where English was and still continue to be of more importance than the language of our ancestors, our world view seems to be distorted, torn between three things; our tradition, our culture and that of our colonial masters. As they say, the gap that is left by the colonial armies, is filled with the language of the colonial masters and those gaps later empower everything as language is ten times more stronger than the physical armies as one can resist those armies and those power with more aggression and throw them out, but once language is embedded in the minds of the opressed, they become better slaves, even after the armies leave, the psychological remnants of the culture and language never let them be free of those masters and that inferiority complex that they had embedded within the minds of the slaves that they created.

In the post modern world, where structures have crumbled, where there seems to be no center whatsoever anywhere, where the moral values, and moral compasses have no grounding or no anchor and it shifts like sand dunes with winds or move around in the ocean with the waves and currents, one wonders where will we find some kind of structure to give meaning to all the madness that is going on around the world. The recent events of colonial settler’s genocidal war on Ghazza and later bombing of the most poor country in the world i.e. Yemen, has put a question mark on every single idea that has been floating around the world for so many years about the moral superiority of the global north. The movies like Avengers, Batman, Superman, all of them white, saving the world and rescuing the opressed people all around the world, seem to have crumbled as soon as the confict started. The idea of free speech, democracy, having opinions, everything that West used to justify it’s illegal bombing of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria etc. all became invalid. The colonial, imperial powers came out as nothing but a facade that blew up like a balloon and there is nothing left of them to admire anymore.

The question now arises, what will be the world view or the weltanshuaang that we should look at. The language, that has enslaved us for so long, is breaking into small pieces, and we being more aware of the shackles that we knew were there but we never consciously tried to break free of them as we are now trying, struggling to. The world around, be it the north or the global south, nothing has answers to the questions that are being raised in this era. Where is the moral grounding? Where do we anchor the ship of values? The global north, which they made us believe that they have all the best universities, colleges, institutions, crumbled and shattered as people were fired, sacked, slandered for speaking up for a ceasfire. Imagine being called out for asking to stop the killing of innocent civilians and children. Imagine asking to not to target hospitals and being called a terrorists. The question now arises, if you have all the knowledge, all the technology in the world, but no moral values, would you create a human or a monster?!

About the other side of the picture. What is the world view or the weltanshauung of the other side of the conflict. What kind of worldview do these opressed people have? What understanding of the world do these people in Ghazza have to be so resilient, to be so patient in the time of such catastrophe, devastation and destruction.
‘Everything from Allah is beautiful’, were the words of the man who stood on the rubble of his home and his burnt shop smiling.
Such a simple sentence and such a beautiful and deep answer that people like me and you can’t fathom. The worldview that this simple man had is beyond any professor, intellectual that sits in the University of Oxford or Harvard. The weltanshauung that is metaphysical and transcends beyond the realm of the Western culture, langue and discourse. What makes his weltanshaaung so different from everyone we see around us. Living in the MiddleEast for most of my life, the comfortable lifestyle I had, I could never see things the way he is. This is not the story or words of just one man, but an entire population, who I never saw complaining amidst the destruction and devastation. The words, the attitude is the same that we have read about the Sahaba, the companions of the Prophet (SAW). It seems that they have internalized the word of Allah in such a way that they see life, death, destruction, and loss in an entire different way than we do. They seem like a different people, people who are connected to some kind of sabr that comes with endurance and huzn and love of Allah, Quran and the Prophet Muhamad (SAW).

Since the waltenshaaung has shifted with the crisis, it seems the strive to find a new moral ground or anchor has been created too. Once we know that the world, and specially the colonial, Western world has nothing to offer in this regard, where do we shift our focus too. The facade has fallen, the veil has been lifted, the ugliness of the colonial Western world, that has no moral grounding and loves killing children and innocent civilians, we know now, that the moral grounds have to come from the beautiful people, who have the worldview that is not tainted by the hypocrisy of the West and its influence like ours have. The tradition, the Book and the tradition of the Prophet Muhammad (SAW), is the beacon of light, is the anchor of the moral compass and the grounding of the very foundation of our values as humans and not some farce that change every few years to suit some powerful people ans countries.

A Different Lens

I have been struggling for the past couple of weeks to pen down something. My mind boggled, my emotions fried and my life distracted. My insides are in turmoil. I have always been amazed by this miracle of Allah Suhanahu wa Ta’ala of how in fills our hearts with the love of other people, who are not our blood relations, not our friends nor our acquaintances. Every single person’s ordeal seems like etched in my heart, every person’s tears has moved me to tears, I know I can never understand their pain, anguish, heartbreak or the burden they bear, I feel something in my heart that these mere words can never do justice to.

I have the understanding of things now that I could hardly understand in the past. I remember how the Quran says to the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), to not let these people denying the truth, consume you. And I always used to wonder why was the Prophet so consumed by that, why did he felt so… I only realized just now that when people can see the Truth as light as the Day and you know that they know it, and yet they don’t testify it or acknowledge it is very frustrating. In the current times, when people everywhere, don’t want to acknowledge that war crimes are taking place, over 7000 children have died, that IOF kills, kidnaps, blows up hospitals and time and again refers to turning Ghazza into a ‘football field’ or ‘parking lot’ and are in complete denial of a genocide and a holocaust taking place right in front of their eyes, makes you realize how heart wrenching the situation must have been for the Prophet (saw). He preached the Quraish and the people of Makkah for 13 years, and for 13 years, they knew he was telling the truth and yet they didn’t accept it. As the Quran says, ‘ it is not the eyes that are blind, but the hearts’. How can one see all these modern warfare tech weapons unleashed on civilians and yet turn a blind eye to the atrocities that the state of Israel is committing. So much so that these people think that bombing hospitals and doctors is acceptable. How sick and how much of a psychopath one has to be to accept that and not bat an eye.

The people of Ghazza were denied food, meds, water, fuel and basic necessities. In the current times, when human beings think that they are on the pinnacle of civilization and where human rights are for all, such behaviour puts a question mark on the intellect of the so-called human beings. The struggle they went through in the past one and a half month, is unquestionably, not only horrendous, horrific but it also raises questions as to what is this so-called-civilised world have come to. Are we even human to deny basic human rights to more than 2 million civilians. The human rights organization, the women’s rights organizations, UNICEF, UNESCO, feminists, children’s rights organizations, all were silent and are still silent. The hypocrisy of all these people, who wail at the fully covered women because they think their rights are breached, where are they when the women, pregnant women and girls were bombed to bits, when they were being amputated and when C-sections were performed on them, without anesthesia. Where is UNICEF, when the school board cancelled the year because all the kids were killed, and when the Israelis chanted that,’ There are no schools in Gaza, because we have killed all the babies’.

The insanity has cross all limits so much so that I can’t wrap it around my head. We feel angry , anguished, heart broken and depressed everyday. Why can’t the world see it. Why are people so heartless and so emotionless as to look at the atrocities and just turn a blind eye towards it. Everyday, brings new pain, new low and new destruction, yet the people, to whom Allah has given power, sit and do nothing except for paying lip service, doing extreme disservice to everyone around them. The respectable, don’t seem respectable now. There is NO freedom of speech, where people so proudly used to boast that they are the flagbearers of freedom of speech.

Blood on Their Hands

As the death toll mounts, and the world looks at it with horror, the insanity and the foolishness is revealed. I thought we have seen the low of humankind when they killed indiscriminately in Afghanistan, Iraq or Syria. But with the events unfolding with every passing moment, we realise that we discover that we were wrong and it’s a bottomless pit and these ministers and leaders are racing to show us how horrendous their insides are. Every time has it’s own Pharoah. Musa (AS)’s Pharoah killed babies too, then there was Abu Jahl, the Pharoah during the times of Prophet Muhammad(SAW), and today, it’s Netanyahu, Biden and Sunak. Their brutality knows no border.

When 9/11 happened, I was in school. The events that followed destroyed not only Afghanistan but Pakistan too. If you take out the interviews, the media, the news, articles, anything from those times, the words, the narrative, the propaganda is still the same. When Bush was asked to try Osama Bin Laden in a neutral country, he said that he wanted to go on a ‘Crusade’ and hence, bombed the country to bits. The soldiers there did every inhumane thing they could have possibly do; keeping parts of Afghan’s human bodies as trophies, raping girls, and killing off whole families at point blank, and all of this was during the ground invasion. They blew up houses and killed innocent civilians through drones in Pakistan too, claiming militants were hiding there. The Blackwater organization was on its feet working in Pakistan and Afghanistan and Iraq killing whoever they wanted whenever they wanted.

The war crimes that happened in those days came to light years after they had taken place. The people were kidnapped, and abducted from various parts of the world, and were sent to Guantanamo Bay Prison, Bagram Prison and Prisons in Iraq. The pictures are still on the internet and the testimonies are there of how these prisoners were treated, and were kept in prisons for years and years without any charges and they were subjected to worst kinds of tortures that anyone in this world could ever imagine. The so-called harbingers of peace and the flagbearers of justice, turned out to be savages with no morality whatsoever. They didn’t have any humanity, they didn’t have any moral values, and certainly were not the best of the people as they claimed to be.

The so-called freedom of speech turned out to be a hoax too because in US now it is illegal to ban Israel and go for BDS but it is okay to condemn the people of Palestine to a genocide! They are now proposing bills to expel Palestinians from their country. So much for free speech and freedom and the American Dream and what not. If you want to expel them from your country then rid their country from the occupiers. But no, they can’t even do that. The very fact that these countries, the best countries in the world, who have the moral high ground, thinks that chanting pro-Palestinian slogans is also ‘hate speech’ and want to turn around the tables and are propagating that this is ‘antisemitism’! When you scroll around your social media, you come across these people, and the talking points only revolve around the events that happened on October, the seventh! And how appalling it is that there are no pictures on the internet whatsoever of ‘decapitated’ babies and children. But everyone turns a blind eye to the babies, that are not even days old and are killed by Israeli airstrikes, the pictures of children killed and mutilated by the bombs. Have you seen the father who was carrying parts of his children in a polythene bag?! Do they count for anything? But the most appalling thing was when the Israeli minister screamed in the cabinet that these children are not equal to our children. If this was a statement of any Muslim minister, the West would have bombed that place saying that these people are terrorists and are a threat to their ‘national security’ and their existence.

There in no moral background of the US or the West’s policies. The people, who caused Holocaust, dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killed millions in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, everywhere, say that Muslims are terrorists and a threat to their existence. How ironic! As the world watches in horror and the leaders, be it democratic, or dictatorship or whatever, I have come to this conclusion, wherever there is evil in this world, US, UK and the West are in compliance with one another in abetting to those crimes and stand steadfast in those values that only harm other people mostly because they are not the same race i.e. white!

Now the West, and the world stands with Israel, with it’s so called notion of ‘right to self defense ‘. Imagine how comical it is that the only nuclear power in the Middle East, is wailing like a child over some stones that were thrown by some teenagers at their fully armored tanks. And in retaliation killed over 10,000 innocent civilians, most of whom are kids. Now their cultural minister is asking for a Nuclear bomb be dropped on the city of Ghazza, because carpet bombing was not killing enough of the Palestinians and they want that piece of land for themselves. It seems to me that the times have not changed yet, some people are always more equal than the others. The idea of being ‘white supremacist’, ‘white man’s burden’ and ‘others’ will always be there. The US and Europeans, the British and the Israelis have very beautiful notion that they are the supreme race. US President Biden saying that US is the greatest country and is responsible for the world (bully of the world). These countries have this notion that they are untouchables and will never be held accountable for the crimes they committed because all of them would veto one another in the UN and get away with everything.

The reality is that the supporters of genocide and ethnic cleansing that is happening in Ghazza, will face dire consequences in the future. You cannot do injustice in this world and sleep like a baby. There will always be consequences. And Insha’Allah we will see who will win in the Hereafter.

Ahlul Jannah

Have you ever wondered how the people of Jannah looked like? I mean you look at them, and you are in awe of their eiman, conviction and their relationship with Allah. I saw them. Weirdly, on my Instagram reels; thousands of them. I look at these people and I am amazed, shocked and inspired at the same time. These people have suffered great pain, they have lost everything; from their houses to their families, from their friends to their colleagues. Some have lost their limbs and have been burnt beyond recognition. But what makes them from Ahlul Jannah are the words that they utter in this calamity that makes my hands shake, my eyes tear, and my heart ache; they say ‘ hasbunAllahu wa Na’mal Wakeel’! (Sufficient for us is Allah and (He is) our best Disposer of affairs)

To the people of Ghazza and Palestine: You show us what it is like to be the people of Jannah. What ehsaan is like, what is resilience, what is sabr… Oh! People of Ghazza, when I see you holding the Quran and reading it in the hospitals, while injured, in the ambulances, and everywhere,, you teach me how my relationship with Quran should be like. Ya Ahlul Jannah, you show us how to be happy in Allah’s qadr. Oh my brothers and sisters from Ghazza, you have put all of us to shame.

Oh Ahlul Jannah! I have fallen in love with you though I have never met you. I love you even though I don’t know you. I love you for the sake of Allah. I love you for teaching me how to be grateful. I love you for teaching me what brotherhood is. You have taught me what life is and how transient these affairs are. Allah has given you so much respect that everyone loves you in this dunya and you are welcomed by the Angels in the heavens.

Phalasteen

Yesterday, I was talking to my brother and was asking him if he has written something regarding the current issue. He replied that he hasn’t, and continued to say that what is there to write?! Today, as Isat down to write something, my heart skipped a beat, my chest felt contracted as if my heart is constricted and there is not place for it to beat. And I felt his words weighing heavy on my chest and I sit here, and I’m thinking, my words are just mere words.. no one reads my blog anyway, but still, what will my words do?! When there is need for an active combat, words are worthless. I sit here and feel as if my existence is worthless for not being able to do anything for my brothers and sisters in Ghazza or Phalasteen. As I sit here with my blood boiling, I wish I were able to do more even if it is hurling one stone at the occupying forces.

I can’t wrap my head around the fact that how can one think it is okay to bomb hospitals, residential areas , mosques and churches. How can all these people say it is okay to annihilate a whole area where 2.1 million people live where 50% of them are children? How can you not allow food, water, medicine and electricity to hospitals, and innocent civillians. This is not new. People don’t even know that Israel has time and again, even before October 7th, has bombed schools, hospitals and civillian population. They have time and again used tanks and bombs and white phosphorus over civillian population not just in Gaza but even in the West Bank. I had written on Gaza and Palestine over and over again in the past 10 years of my blogging era, and Israel has always breached international laws, and has committed war crimes time and again without any remorse. They think they have a right to exist and in this right, they will trample over other people’s right to exist. The existence of the ‘other’ is a threat to mine. It’s ironic that the people, who came as refugees to Palestine, took over the land, houses and the rights of the people who already were living there by killing them, by driving them out of their houses and bombing them with support from USA and British.

The Israeli minister said, that their babies do not have a right to exist only our babies have. The US presidential candidate said, kill them all. The Israeli minister said that they are dogs. Their language is the same as Winston Churchill when he said that they were right in killing blacks of Australia, Red Indians of US, browns of the subcontinent, claiming whites being a superior race and ‘others’ are animals and do not have a right to exist.

The West hs always been like this. But Oh Ummah! Oh Leaders, Kings, Prime Ministers of the Muslim World… Where art thou?! Where is the united army of 40 countries? Where is Raheel Shareef? Where is Khalid tank? Ghauri missile? Where is the ISI? Where is Asim Muneer? Do we not have any duty in the current state of affairs?!Oh my heart!!! How will I face my Lord on the Day of Judgement when I know that this was not a time to write but a time to fight…

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