Fixing us

Ever been in a situation where you find more sugar in your cup and you get angry. Your plug won’t fit into the socket and it irritates you. Your computer hangs up and it won’t fire up. A small piece of code takes entire day to fix. Some equipment does not work the way it is supposed to, makes us irritated.

Why do we get irritated?

We want to fix something really logical. No body can argue about these irritating things being wrong, you want to fix it, you fail, you get irritated. Getting irritated is a totally normal reaction to such illogical and blatant wrongs.

Let me amplify it a little. It goes equally well while we are arguing with a highly illogical person. You do not fix the argument or the illogical person, that person might harm himself. He might harm others. Getting really irritated here is again totally normal. It happens to all of us. Our kids don’t listen to us, we get irritated. They do mistake, they hurt themselves. We don’t want them to fall the way we fell.

So.. should we not get irritated?

No. We should get irritated. It is a normal reaction to every abnormal event. We should react while in irritation. We have to pour in more milk in our tea to disappear excessive sugar’s. We need to fix the points of plug / socket to get it across. If we stop and don’t react to the abnormal, it is only going to delay us from reaching our goal.

Be careful

The only thing we need to fix in our lives that can fix the excessive sugar in our tea, a broken socket and a kid getting spoiled, is we have to be ‘careful’ while reacting. First word coming out of our mouth against an argument has an impact. Raising of our finger to raising eye brows, each reaction in our body has an affect. We need to be really careful while responding to these very logical irritations.

We are a miraculous creature who speak not only with tongue but with eyes, fingers, body movement and all our energies. The tone of voice only constitutes 38 % of our verbal communication.

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Therefore it is clear that ”We should be really careful while responding to abnormalities”.

Where am I going?

Case 1

Dr Abdul Salam died a Qadyani muslim. He won a noble prize in 1979 for Pakistan. He was made to leave Pakistan but he kept his linkage all along. His work is still appreciated around the globe. He died in 1996. We removed the word muslim from his grave after he was buried in Chiniot, Punjab, Pakistan.

Marble stone installed at grave of Dr Abdus Salam

Case 2:-

Malala Yousafzai, the 2nd Pakistani awarded a noble prize in 2014 ”for her struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education”..

She has been labelled a complete propaganda to further defame Pakistan. It is considered she is ruining image of Pakistan by exploiting its sensitive issues. The more she talks about these issues, the further the image of Pakistan deteriorates.

Is our reaction justified according to Quran?

The socket in the wall if hurts our feeling, what our response should be? May be we need to calm ourselves down a little and try again by making minor fixes in the faulty adopter.

If our kid doesn’t listen to us, may be we need to calm ourselves down a little and carefully help him fix himself. The moment we kick our kid out of home, or we label him a blaspheme or a propagandist, we hurt our own home.

Similarly;

The moment we label Dr Abdul Salam a non muslim, we remove the word ‘muslim’ from his grave we hurt our own home ‘Pakistan’.

The moment we declare Malala a ‘propagandist’ we hurt our own home ‘Pakistan’.

The moment we declare Indian muslims our enemies because they did not accept the two nation theory of Quaid-e-Azam, we hurt our own home ‘Islam’.

The moment we declare people on wrong track, the wrong doers all out loud in streets, beating buses, burning tires, we do only 1 thing. We hurt our own home ‘Islam’.

In today’s lesson, Quran emphasises on coming to common terms to establish peace;

Say, "O People of the Scripture, come to a word that is equitable between us and you - that we will not worship except Allah and not associate anything with Him and not take one another as lords instead of Allah ." But if they turn away, then say, "Bear witness that we are Muslims [submitting to Him]."
- Surah Al Imran verse 64

We have to represent Islam as a wonderful religion. It speaks of unity. It attracted masses and dissolved super powers like sun vaporising liquid. It fixed the middle east, Rome, Persia, sub continent up-til Spain. It fixed us back then. It has the power and energy to fix us again.

I believe if we take baby steps and ‘Fix Us’. This all technology that is making these blogs happen, have all the power and might to unite all of muslims again. Walking down this road of ‘staying careful’ we might unite. We might liberate ourselves of our sufferings in Uyghur, Kashmir and Palestine.