The recent events have made me wonder how vulnerable and dependent our life has become. I mean our religious and political beliefs are so vulnerable that any one can use them , exploit them and mold them to their benefits. Religious and spiritual leaders have been earning loads of money by exploiting us making us shed blood where it benefits them actually under the pretence of Gods will. Similarly the political leaders exploit us and get what and where they want to be in their career. The only reason that they have been able to do that is because we dont read our research . If we look at the religious aspect we dont read Quran with translation , we dont try to understand or find put on our own. We dont study history to know what actually is the issue.All we o is accept whatever any self acclaimed scholar would tell us and to top it off we would fight passionately to defend the ideals that were not ours to be begin with nor that we understood them in any way.
Similarly when we follow a political leader we wont judge him by pros and cons of any person we would follow them for bizzare reasons, like i have seem people follow and support a person passionately because he or she is good looking , played a certain sport that they liked or that he or she is from the area that they belonged or the cast they belonged. his or her political vision or capability comes secondary. I once had this discussion with a friend and she said that you would vote for this leader if you had cancer and was treated in his hospital and I told her that i would not even vote for the doctor who would save my life because choosing a leader doesnt mean that you choose a person because you are obliged by him or her. voting for someone means that you judge whether he or she would be able to perfomr even if you personally dont like him or find him attractive. A leaders capability and international standing should be the criterion not anything else.
Our religion teaches us one thing and that is to look to study to read to research and find out but we never do this one thing that our religion wants us to do before doing anything else. The first that God ordered our prophet to do was to read. And today we would kill in our prophets name but we would not follow him. His tolerance , kindness, honesty and good manners is all but lost to us. We have forgotten his love for acquiring knowledge, justice, and mutual tolerance among people of different opinions and even different religions. He wanted his Ummah to read and acquire knowledge both worldly and religious. But look at us we buy everything but we dont buy books , our cities are full of shops but you wont find a book shop. In my city there is none. all the shops who claim to be book shops are actually stationery shops and they have everything but books..... they would even have custom made jewellery but no books. the libraries in our country are almost non existent but we dont worry about that because learning is not our priority anymore.We have forgotten the basic rule that if you want to rule and progress in this world than you have to learn.
If we understand and try to learn than these fake people wont be able to exploit us..... but for that we need to put learning and reading our foremost priority. Instead of praising the muslim scholars of the past we need to try to be one of them..... we need to question , we need to learn and acquire, not land but knowledge.
