I opened the newspaper felicitously after Pakistan's victory against unbeatable Australia to read more about it when saw a despairing news of allied forces attack on Libya. For a moment, I was stuck because I could never expect such a great piece of imprudent action at a very critical time. The allied forces are having a highly depressive outcome against their expectations in war in Afghanistan, and when the world has not forgotten the hidden contemplation against war on Iraq, the drone strikes in Pakistan killing dozens of innocent civilians everyday that has proven ramifications yet another involvement of US and its allies in upcoming episode of bloodshed in Libya has shaken me deeply. I have asked myself this question a million times that is there no peaceful solution to the problem? Why everything is getting entangled in the vicious circle of hostility, contentions, conflict, fight, bloodshed, annihilation, hatred and why is the world being painted with red? If war was the only solution, why we don't see any improvement in past 10 years amid the 9/11 massacre; in fact the situation has been worsening with every passing day? And had the war been fruitful only by a smallest fraction, the two world wars would have made the world a nicest place to live in. I am embarrassed that we didn't learn anything from past, we are the same filled with bestiality, ignorance, barbarism, false pride and ruthlessness. It is astonishing that the present economic conditions have caused so much of inflation yet human blood has become astonishingly cheaper!
If these superpowers of the world are being asked the reason for their war, they give their stereotype reply that they are striving for peace. This situation has been beautifully portrayed 1400 years ago in Quran:
And when it is said to them, "Do not cause corruption on the earth," they say, "We are but reformers." (Chapter 2, Verse 11)
Had these forces ever endeavored for real peace and they were the reformers, the peacemakers, they would have followed the message of Quran which I would say in simple words the crux of Islam that:
"Anyone who saves one life, it is as if he has saved the whole of mankind and anyone who has killed another person, it is as if he has killed the whole of mankind" (Chapter 5, Verse 32).
And a parallel utterance in Jewish Scripture "We find it said in the case of Cain who murdered his brother, the voice of thy brother's blood cries out (Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5)...... "and he says, it does not say he has blood in the singular, but bloods in the plural. It was singular in order to show that to him who kills a single individual, it should be reckoned that he has slain all humanity. But to him who has preserved the life of a single individual, it is counted that he has preserved all mankind." (Genesis 4:10).
If you have no idea about the importance of human life and how you feel when you save one, go and feed a dying kid in Africa, take a step to provide shelter to homeless people in Japan and give a missing child of a mother and look into her eyes then; and that there are still thousands of flood effecties in Pakistan save them from severity of weather there, go help the countless Haiti earth quake effecties who are fighting against the aftermath of the earth quake one after the other. Why have we failed to understand that the war remains impotent, rather weakens our roots and there are clearly NO benefits even to the parties imposing it on other nations. It seems that the war history from thousand years doesn't bring any lesson for us, and that we are not killing others, we are killing ourselves and our next generation. I wonder how those eyes sleep that cause tons of tears round the globe, how such eyes ever meet with their offspring when they have snatched parents from their children or the other way around, how their hearts ever find peace while they have plagued the world with bombs, suicidal attacks and guns. If such people consider themselves to be humans, I am embarrassed for being part of this group.
I have so many questions that are blowing up my mind...Can their deadly laboratories ever stop generating the deadly mass of destruction and their resources being utilized for inventing human helping technologies, and their military bases stop sending the troops for war and rather send them for helping the needy and homeless people? Can we spend our heavy substantial budget share that is otherwise spent on wars in enlightening the next generation with knowledge? Shall I be able to see the real peace in my life because me and my cohorts are jaded with brutal killings! We are born in war and we are living in wars.... Shall we take our last sighs in war and would see the world leading towards a deadly end even till our last moment?
I am worn out and I don't see a ray of hope! the more I think about it, the more I feel that perhaps it was not the Satan who was cursed, but the human of our time. Even the satanic forces would be taking refuge from the human of today for the way we have corrupted the world and shed eachothers' blood for a nominal price or mere worldly gains. I wish I was never born so that my eyes would not have seen this much I have seen till now, and the deadly show seems endless. We are perishing and destroying and this is not happening quietly! The only thing is our lips that are quiet and everybody is silently watching this horror show going on! If the lips remain dead, the next generation would curse on us for taking them to stone age. I am ready to play my part for peace, is there anyone who want to accompany me??
