I saw this happening today in our local vegetable shop..
A poor person peels the banana, throws its skin on the floor, kicks it under the table inside a vegetables shop and walks away. Who is responsible for the throwing of garbage on floor, kicking it under the table and walking away? He is already poverty struck. Asking him to refrain from doing it, won’t stop him in future. He lived his entire life in difficulties, finding ways to feed his children and surviving the chaos created by the riches. What can be done that changes the way people behave sanely and do not litter around?
Where can we white collar people, driving luxurious cars, using credit cards, buying J. clothes intervene that has an impact? What exactly can we do to make a difference?
Do we listen?
Before answering questions and finding answers, go 1 step further back. I am wrong or right does not matter anymore around us. I am better than everybody else around me. My thoughts are more refined. I need to take advice from others, but still I myself have an opinion that is finest and can not be altered. Such thoughts make us go blind slowly and gradually. The more we start focusing on ourselves the more nearer we go to becoming deaf to sane voices.
For a moment can we open our ears and listen to Quran. Can we stop considering it a supernatural thing, not so possible to act upon, thing. There are verses in it that are spoken by the Creator of us and this planet. He is worried about us.
These three verses in the Quran have the potential to shape our entire society. That person throwing skin on the floor to we not listening, are all events totally interconnected. These strings can be connected by acting upon the following 3 verses. It will shape us into a fixed society where we will build lives of people. We white collar people will fix it.
O you who have believed, fear Allah as He should be feared and do not die except as Muslims [in submission to Him]. And hold firmly to the rope of Allah all together and do not become divided. And remember the favor of Allah upon you — when you were enemies and He brought your hearts together and you became, by His favor, brothers. And you were on the edge of a pit of the Fire, and He saved you from it. Thus does Allah make clear to you His verses that you may be guided. And let there be [arising] from you a nation inviting to [all that is] good, enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong, and those will be the successful.
— Surah Al Imran verse 102–104
Allah (swt) is speaking to us. He is right above us looking at us. He shakes the planet, brings earthquakes, rains thunders on us, that we listen to Him. He really does not want we break His expectations of “becoming His representative on this planet”. He knows each of ours potential. He does not overburden us more than we can carry. Right above, looking and wanting for us to talk to Him. He never talks about conflicts and divides. He does not want us to disrespect our neighbours. He tells us to not litter around. He wants us to paint our lives with colorful vibes. He wants us to eat from His fruits and roam around on His planet. He wants us to stay away from division that we excel in our lives. He is here, if He wills, it will all become sober, nicer and peaceful. He does not want us to forcefully submitting to Him, He wants to find out people who really are showing the willingness to listen to Him. Only some of these willing workers of Allah (swt) will fix the broken fabrics of our society.
We learned people need to take responsibility to fix the damage done to Pakistan, India, Iran, Afghanistan and all muslim states. We learned people who can read good english and understand Quran. Key factors from quoted verse above are below:-
- We need to hold tight to the rope of Allah (swt) even in times of low faith. We need to embrace Quran in totality. It is not dangerous to act upon its verses.
- If we are believing in Quran, we can not become divided. We need to resolve our personal conflicts with our brother, boss and colleagues. Anger is not a solution, if it creates divide. If love and harmony creates unity, we need to embrace our faulty boss, faulty colleague and faulty wife in its totality. Love brings better harmony, results in beautifying our bonds. This ultimately results in a better society.
- We were enemies, we were at the brink of falling down fighting with each other into fire, He saved us before. Christians, Jews, Muslims all are brothers if we start following Quran. Do not change your label, keep it ‘Christian’ but read Quran, start finding the creator around us and we will become brothers. We brought up in Islamic homes are also not so religious people, believing in the truth of Quran. We were just given the book to preserve it in our upper shelves. If you start finding Creator by reading Quran, it really does not matter from which faith you belong, you start becoming closer to Muslim’s creator. You will be standing closer to Allah (swt) on judgment day if you started acting on it, if you refrained from littering in the streets, kept neighbours happier, emboldened a just society, spoke truth and acted responsibly. You ‘Christian’ will take more marks than me, whose Quran is held high in his room shelf.
- Invite to good, enjoining what is right and forbid what is wrong.
We white collar, educated people are responsible for fixing the broken fabrics of our society. A guy who is already struck with poverty and lawlessness can not really throw the peeled skin into a dustbin. We broke him hard, he is tired. We need to fix the poverty and lawlessness that peeled skins from bananas really start falling into their right places.
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