Sunaina Mir
Today every Indian heart is bleeding for the departed souls of 26 innocents Indians, who have lost their most precious lives during the terror attack in Pahalgam and then for those who have sacrificed their lives for mother India during attacks from across LOC.
Friends, Life is one of the most cherishable gifts of Almighty Allah to the entire living world. It is out of our ambit to even reimburse an equivalent gratitude to Him for it. God has bent human beings as a superior mortal to live with other creatures of this globe, with his modesty, courtesy, adore, empathy, benevolence and over all justifiable approach towards others. But I am very apologetic to say that, all the above mentioned traits have diminished somewhere. Today man appears as an utmost foe of his own race. Irony is, this so called superior creature is fighting, somewhere for piece of land, somewhere for property possession, somewhere for money and somewhere, just to keep his ego supreme. In the present scenario, no corner of the world is untouched with violence. Every newspaper is crammed with heart bleeding news of killings of civilians, children and women. Countries of the world are running a race of making powerful atomic bombs. This competition has fixed our globe over a big mass of atomic bombs. The moment, when one of the atomic bombs explodes, it would devastate the whole human race from the back of this planet.
Can someone answer me, what would we do of that piece of land, wealth, property possession or our shallow ego? If we would be no longer in life. Being a science student, I can well understand the struggle for food and space (as per Darwin theory) but contrary to ancient time, today we have an ample quantity of food and newly established dwelling lands. The main reason behind this brutal violence is greed and shallow ego.
Destruction of Iraq by U.S.A is the most shameful example of abhorrence in hearts. Mere suspicion of the atomic bomb with Iraq, leads to the destruction of millions of innocent civilians, children and women by the brutal hands of the U.S.A govt. In addition to this slaughtering of innocent people of countries like Gaza, Chicinia, Burma, Bosnia, Barien, Egypt also present the brutality of the human heart and mind towards its own species. The story does not end here, the most heart bleeding example of violence, on the back of this planet is our J&K. Jammu and Kashmir have been witnessing the martyrdom of innocent army men, Civilians, youngsters, children and women since 1947. It has become the bone of contention between India and Pakistan. Greed for J&K, time and again, compelling Pakistan to invade India.
History speaks that wars benefited none. Similar is the case here, millions of precious lives were assassinated during wars between these two neighboring countries. As per written records nearly 1.2 million Hindu and Muslim fled across the borders and half a million lost their prized lives during the 1947 partition. Soon after this, on 22nd October 1947 Pakistan army along with the tribal group massacred 11000 to 14000 residents of Baramulla district of J&K. After this Pak again tried to satisfy her lust by invading J&K during the 1965 war and then during the Kargil war. Her greed for possession of piece of land was paid by the dead bodies of millions of Indians and Pakistanis.
In addition to this, the rigging of the 1987 assembly election in J&K has given an unending start to the era of violence in our state. As per a written record of nearly 5462 army men, 4700 civilians, 31 KPs have lost their precious lives during this unrest in the state. Moving ahead the most dreadful face of violence was seen in the form of the disappearance of 3400 sons of J&K. This violence reached its peak when the Pakistan army chopped the heads of our honorable army Jawans in Mendhar district of Jammu. Our innocent women folk were also raped during this violence across the state. Irony is this; the bloodshed is still on and perishing the lives.
The question must not be that a civilian died, army men died, innocent girl, woman or old died but question should be, that a human died. A person, who is lying dead, bathed in a pool of blood in front of you, may be civilian or army Jawan, he is surely some one’s loving son, some one’s loving husband, some one’s loving brother. Here my heart is howling with questions.
(1)When will this unnecessary violence end in the world?
(2)When will people realize that it is not the assets, capital or ego which matters but it is the life which matters?
(3)When will people start loving, respecting and accepting others?
(4)When will abhorrence, gluttony, covetousness, intolerance and ego end from the human heart?
In conclusion, I just want to say, this is ripe time to comprehend our faults, otherwise this voracity would turn us into lysosomes (suicidal bags) of a cell, which engulf all the cell organelles and even nucleus in order to satisfy its hunger.
Likewise we ourselves would become the foundation of our obliteration and no one can save us at that time.