Sunday would be the 1st Shawwal-ul-Mukarram in Pakistan which would start a three days festival for Pakistani muslims. Eid as most of you might know is the gift of Allah for those who actually take advantage of this month.
2007 is the year which is not good for us and made us cry many times, still it’s bleeding like hell and on occasion of 27th Ramadan, I heard news of bombartment in Wazristan areas which converted several women and kids into pieces.
So, this is another EID which we we’re going to celebrate. People are buying lots of stuff from markets. I am recieving greetings via mails, eid cards etc. I am usually not a party person and Eid was always just another day for me.
Imagine if someone in your family or beloved one passes away before Eid or in month of Ramadan, how would you feel? would like to smile, have fun,throw parties or you would try to celebrate it simply and according to Sunnah. Don’t get confused or take me wrong that Muslims shouldn’t celebrate Eid. It’s the reward by Allah for those who perform Ibadah in whole month, refusing to obey His order would just ruin all our prayers. Unfortunately Eid for us has just become an excuse of excessive shopping,buying clothes and visiting relatives, nothing else. None of us try to seek the spiritual side of the Eid.
My fellow blogger and a known figure Sabahat Bhai(aka iFaqeer) lost his dad in month. I don’t need to tell worth of father or mother for any child and definately it was more than a pain for Sabahat bhai’s family. It would be quite natural that his family would not feel same on this eid and wouldn’t be cheerish enough to enjoy the ‘glamorous’ side of Eid(which we should always avoid). This is why Sabahat set a message on his Facebook profile which I agree 100%, Sabahat says, let’s focus on the spiritual side of the season.
My fellow blogger would be in pain because he lost his loved one. People like you or me are still lucky that so far we have not lost any closed relative and we are mast in our life and busy in buying stuff even during prayer times. Imagine if(Godforbid) you hear a news that someone in your family passes away, how would it make you feel? will you like to continue shopping by saying, I am busy at the moment!? Imagine you hear such news during shopping which just takes away your soul and then you see few people near to you busy in Hulla Gulla and masti and laughing out loud. How would it feel to you? For a moment you would like to throw them away and you would like to cry out loud. Why the hell are you going to feel like that? Just because you lost someone closed to your heart? why do you expect others cry for you or even feel for you?… But then your heart will not listen any logic. Your brain won’t respond you sensibly, after all you have just lost your closed one.
The way you suffer or could suffer, someone else would have suffered or suffering in your country. Ghazala Khan of TPS made an excellent post about disaster in Wazirstan area, I second/thired/nth to words of Ghazala. Do remeber this is not the only one. In 2007 we faced horrible Balochistan flood and people are still suffering over there, we are not hearing any news due to political stunts one after another. We then experienced 12th may massacare in karachi when I lost 45+ people of my own city. We then suffered deaths due to rain, again 30+ people died and then we had lal masjid’s sadist incident when I saw that soldiers invading a mosque, offending books of Quran and Hadiths by dumping them in nullah(savrage lines). I am not including Waziristan crisis because it has become an obvious conflict in Pakistan. One after another we faced so many problems. On top of that, we have not yet made those people calm who lost everything in earthquake 2005. I remeber that during earth quake crises(which is still ON), I didn’t find too many crowd in markets and even newspaper reported it. Everyone was willing to contribute and help those people. Even beggers were complaining that people were not given them money and they were mad their all Kamai went for Earthquake victims.
The question which bothered that time and bothering me this year again, Do we always need a natural disaster as an excuse to realize others’ pain? Is it necessary that unless we suffer ourselves, we can’t feel pain of others? Things have changed a lot from 2005, we have faced so many crisis that even Balochistan flood couldn’t motivate us. Maybe we are eagerly waiting for some kind of disaster which Quran tells us about nations of Aad and Samood or Noah’s? If there’s something like that then we are going to make the biggest mistake because then we would not survive either.
I would just say one thing, just try to consider all those who lost their lives this year due to different crisis your loved one and feel their pain. I am not gonna tell you WHAT YOU DO FOR THEM because you are not told when you lose your own relatives. I am sure once you consider them your own relatives, you wouldn’t require any teacher to teach you a lesson, just like nobody asks you to give you tips to feel pain when you lose your mom,your dad,your sister,wife or anyone who’s near to you.
May Allah bless all of you. Do celebrate eid but by thanking Allah who gave you another chance to become a zero-meter Muslim rather polluting yourself more after getting involved in same activities and fantasies. Eid Mobarak.
On a related note, as I requested/advised all Muslim men on earth, do pay attention what I’m expecting from all of you. Do give them credit to make you a human being and keeping your name high.
This is something which atleast I had not expected but then left-wing is not less surprising and immature than right-wing. Yeah, JesOSTM, Operating system for Chiristians Only. :-). According to Issac Peters:
