It's 3:49am and I just finished watching my most favourite movie for the second time. A Wednesday. The dialogue keeps taking rounds in my mind: THEY ASKED US THIS QUESTION ON A FRIDAY, REPEATED IT ON A TUESDAY, I AM JUST REPLYING ON A WEDNESDAY.
What a way to deal with terrorists..... I really wonder, can it really happen? Rather I wonder, should it happen? To put it explicitly, should there be a need for it to happen???
Religion, as per wikipedia's definition means an organized approach to human spirituality which usually encompasses a set of narratives, symbols, beliefs and practices, often with a supernatural or transcendent quality, that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to a higher power, God or gods, or ultimate truth.
The words that caught my attention are HUMAN, LIFE and TRUTH. To put the definition in a simple language instead of the jargons, we may say that Religion teaches one to live life truthfully and respect humanity and forms of life.
True, religion is a way to construction, not to destruction, as preached by the religious leaders and analysts, religions are different roads towards a common destination. I feel very sad to see Islam being connected to terrorism, few worms have successfully eaten up the faith in the world's second largest religion in terms of devotees. Where are we heading towards? How long shall we keep on generalizing the specified incidents? It may look awkward to someone seeing a non muslim writing about Islam, but I'm not deliberately writing anything, fingers are simply translating what I feel, I started off with an intension to write about inefficiency of administrative system to curb terrorism, but then thought, it's expressed better in the movie.
Few excerpts from wikipedia.
jihād is a noun meaning "struggle."
According to scholar John Esposito, Jihad requires Muslims to "struggle in the way of God" or "to struggle to improve one's self and/or society".
Jihad is directed against Satan's inducements.
And we see the same word being used by Satan. ('Satan' as a name for the Devil. Again from wikipedia). The only way to improve the scenario comes from fighting terrorism, irrespective of who is inducing it. Attack on WTC was terrorism, so was attack on innocent people of Iraq, where so many houses were looted, civilians were amputated, women were raped. Whatever was done with the devotees in Godhra was wrong, so were the reaction.
Massacre or a single stabbing, nothing can be justified, termination of any form of life on any scale is unacceptable. Ruthless killing is preached by no religion, and those preaching it should be treated as traitors and terminated.
Finally coming to the governmental aspects.
Is really our Police force on a par with terrorists, or even burglars when it comes to technology or weapons or alertness? Look at the fat policemen, I doubt, they can even run 200m comfortably. With these forces, it is too much demanding.
It is 4:39am now, and I'm leaving my room, heading towards Marina Beach (Chennai) to see the sun rise. Let us hope the same sun brings happiness, and more importantly, honesty and humanity to the humans.
Signing off.......
Awesome take ashu..lovely explaination and confidence you have shown towards your thought was the best past...
ReplyDeletekeep penning buddy.
you are a think tank