فطرت کے تقاضوں کی کرتا ہے نگہبانی
یا بندہ صحرائی, یا مرد کوہستانی
The precious words of great man (mard-e-momin) of our history, Hazrat Jaffar Tayyar ibn Abu Talib (brother of Hazrat Ali) in Najashi’s court,
“O king, our people were ignorant and wild. We worshipped idols. We ate the flesh of the dead. We committed evil. We teased our neighbours. The strong tormented the weak. We usurped the rights of our relations. Oppression and evil was our daily routine of life, when Allah, with all his kindness sent towards us a man from amongst us as His Prophet. We knew him well and found him most honest and trust worthy, pious and virtuous, who commanded great respect and confidence in Mecca. He forbade us to worship idols and associate other deities with Allah. He convinced us of the Oneness of Allah, and truth and honesty. He taught us how to love the neighbours and relations and avoid telling to lie. He told us not to murder any one without reason. He prohibited deception, wrangling and evil and warned to keep our hands off the orphan’s property. He forbade us to make false accusation against anybody. He called the people to abandon idolatory, believe in one God, offer prayers, observe fasts and pay zakat. We have full faith in him and follow the way of life practiced by him. We abandoned idolatory and submit to One God. We came to know of lawful and unlawful. Consequently our own community and our friends turned into foes because of the change in our life and our views. They were determined to bring us back to idolatry and other evil practices by tormenting us and even take our lives if necessary. When their brutalities became unbearable we migrated to your country under orders of our Holy Prophet (peace be upon him).”
These men from desert changed their lives from similar to what we are living now in Pakistan, to a civilized one. Hazrat Jaffar Tayyar mentioned the reasons to King Najashi. They introduced a new system to the world that was, for centuries, indulged in wine, singing, dancing, gambling, partying, festivals, celebrations, abusing women and children, oppressing weak – nothing civilized and productive. Their scholars, thinkers and wise men were mostly found living in solitude because they knew that these worldly attractions can be categorized as ‘entertainment’ but not as the goals/career (as the word goal has now been replaced by ‘career).
Punjab government, many times, for many reasons has banned musical concerts in educational institutions. Mostly recently, this government ruling half population of Pakistan has been harshly criticized by literates, illiterates and celebrities alike.
I usually don’t count Pakistani celebrities (the current lot excluding the legends, the honourable Madam Noor Jahan and Ustad Amanat Ali Khan and his son Asad Amanat Ali Khan – Madam was even distinguished among them) as the part of our society because of their own claim, “we are artists and so are sensitive and fair, we are not hypocrites, we observe people and imitate them, we are a mean that let the world know what is going on in Pakistani society, for us art has no limits and no boundaries, an artist belong to the world and is not bound to a specific territory, bla bla bla…”…….. these are enough reasons to classify them as “different people”. I personally think that anyone with these wording cannot be trusted to build a system. They live for money, they die begging for money for their treatment. They are wise enough to adjust famous western philosophies regarding art, ignoring the values and right traditions of our society. While ‘building system’ is a process that requires a lot of sacrifices, even popularity, applaud and chikni chapri haan main haan milanay wali batain.
محکوم کے حق میں ہے یہی تربیت اچھی
موسیقی و صورت گری وعلم نباتات
As Iqbal has defined it, this slavery is their life-cycle that they are trapped in. I think that even animals do consider time, venue and situation to do dancing, singing, applaud and celebrations. So I totally ignore the celebrities for condemning these kind of bans. They know Pakistan consists of 65% energetic youth who could be their great source of income if gone astray at young age. They don’t mind criminals. See, actors and actresses feel proud getting awards from Zardari.
“When crops are ready, farmers do bhangra – peacocks dance – people dance in festivals in different cultures…..”……. Farmers have right to do bhangra because they suffer for whole Pakistan, they so, they harvest, cultivate, they work for months and wait for months – peacocks, they are animals and even then they have timings for dancing – festival/ folk dances are usually related to their beliefs and centuries old traditions and they follow limits. Do musical concerts have any of these reasons?
For the sake of further arguments or any arguments at all, I have a suggestion for Pakistani youth. Since they are not interested in getting education at all, their parents either don’t care about it, politicians especially MQM, PPP and many religious groups have to make up excuses to destroy the remaining educational process and the American lords are not happy with us for being literates and the way our schools and colleges are run……… they shouldn’t exist there anyway.
Why don’t our youth run a campaign to close down all schools and colleges in Pakistan? Homeschooling then would be a better or the best choice for that tiny fragment of population who wants to be recognized as ‘civilized people’.
Let’s sing…..Rock a Bye Baby on the Treetop…. when the wind blows the cradle will rock…
when the bough breaks the cradle will fall… and down will come baby, cradle and all
Just imagine you, young people, you won’t have to carry heavy bags, you won’t have to wake up early morning just to learn how to read and write (who cares about it when money is there), you won’t have to sit like slaves for six hours, you won’t get to see unqualified, impolite, rude and unprofessional teachers, no more punishments, no more yelling by parents, no more curses, no more threats. You will earn money from young age and will independently, you can even kick your parents out before their old age or they will have to live according to you. You can buy anything you want, you will be praised by the world. No one would mind your appearance, your complexion, your hair-style, your apparel, even your strange accent. Everybody with worship you. Believe me, until you are able to make money and dump on yourselves, no one would dare to stand against you.
You can even shut people’s mouth by saying that we are a democratic nation and in democracy, education should be limited to fun and fine arts. Medicine, engineering, environment, libraries are not the concerns of underdeveloped countries like us. We are poor, frustrated nation and we can’t afford to study serious matters.
Just one precaution, must save enough money for your old age. You know why because, you won’t be the one-man show in this field. You will have to face millions of competitors, both inside and outside the country. So as you will start fading away, millions will replace you with better performance. That might be the time that you regret not going to school, not being sincere to yourself and for not knowing that this will happen to you. You may feel lonely that no one is there to throw food into your mouth or check your pulses if you are dead or alive. And then people close to you, putting their hands under your nose and feeling no hot air exhaled, may announce you dead. The channels will only wait for doctor’s confirmation. No one would understand that you were dead long time and regretting the choices you made in the past. But hey, that’s not a problem, you can try to avail citizenship in other countries. They do have a system of respectful farewell for old people.
So,
CJ Iftikhar Chaudhry, are a you relevant person to talk about education, youth and the sacredness of educational institutions?
Can you please take a suo motto action and pass these laws so students, principals, teachers, parents and educationists can find time to get rid of hopelessness and idleness?
Please change school and college timings to 3 hours and children get to study only four basic subjects; Urdu, English, Math and Science – rest of the subjects can be merged in English and Science.
All children know how to operate computers. For programming and other advance features, they can join computer learning centers. For Islamiyaat, they can consult Madrassah or maulvi on weekend or after school. For physical activities, gym, sports, swimming and martial arts, they can join sports clubs and centers.
Youth will have rest of 21 hours to enjoy music, dance, comedy and other tamashay and they can go to theaters and cinemas and can watch cable channels and CDs all the time. They already sing and dance for days during weddings and other ceremonies and festivals.
Just change timings to only 3 hours aur phir parents janay, unkay bachay janay aur celebrities janay.
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