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DON’T LET OTHERS RUIN YOUR FUTURE,
LIFE: CHOOSE ONLY GOOD PEOPLE
BY JAVED ZAHEER, FREEEXPRESSION
AWARD WINNER
TORONTO:
People look towards the political parties, leaders and workers with much hope
and great expectations but mostly face terrible disappointment on being fooled
and cheated. Yes, fooled and cheated. They either fail to understand or ignore the
fact that most political parties and their cronies all do, dupe and die for
their vested interests and to serve the same masters or corporations. They are
two faces of the same coin.
The dirty game of hypocrisy is played in the
name of democracy and peace. People are the only losers. Their sufferings and
frustration keeps increasing. Every budget acts as a sharp knife on the throat
of the people, ready to cut slowly and painfully. Blame game is played to keep
confusing and fooling the people and to find excuses to raise prices and taxes.
Such
political parties, their leaders and cronies stop fearing accountability or
punishment. This makes them both cunning and cruel. They think that only the
rich ones have the right to contest elections and rule the people. They suggest framing of such draconian laws
and conditions so that commoners would not dare to raise his head or afford to think
of joining the leadership race. They start considering people as their servants
and slaves.
In
order to face such challenges, people need to change themselves and stop fearing
and being fooled by the bad parties and leaders. They must fear but the one
whom they should i.e. God only and choose, select, elect and promote only good
people and true leaders.
Those
who never fear anyone or anything become cunning, cruel and cold-blooded. It is
the fear which controls us, corrects us, makes us brave and helps protect us
from sin, crimes and cruelty. The fear of being seen, caught and punished keeps
us on track.
There
is a vast difference between the fear of tyrants and fear of God. Tyrants make us
helpless, slave and robot. They act as god and keep the remote in their hands
and play with our lives. God gives us the freedom to live, think and act
properly and makes us good human beings. He commands us to fight only to
protect right, rights and humanity and not to just control or kill.
I
too used to think that when God likes and loves us the most then why we are
asked to fear Him. Why always remain scared and in terror and not like and
focus only on His love? This generated bad imagination about Him as Cruel and
Unjust. I was wrong. Yes, totally wrong.
There
are many others including of all religions who keep thinking, imagining and
propagating that God is Cruel & Unjust. Thanks God I was never one of them.
I did lack the proper knowledge and understanding of why we should fear God and
remained confused and kept arguing with those saying and warning us to fear
Him.
It
is the FEAR which helps us know Him, bow before Him, worship, like, love and
remain close to Him in the real sense. It is the fear which makes us good human
beings and gives us the knowledge and understanding that God is good and not
Cruel & Unjust. It is His Wrath and Punishment due to anger and not cruelty
for those who are cunning, cruel, tyrants, terrorists and hardened criminals but
God can never be UNJUST. NEVER EVER.
Those
who start fearing God start to like and love good, become loving, caring respectful
and ultimately good and pure. Those who truly fear God become pious and true
believers. The Divine Messages in the original holy books including Bible, Torah
and Quran are common in this connection and point towards the following ways of
life in order to have a perfect lifestyle, good character and God with us---1) Patience or self-restraint or steadfastness
(Sabar) 2)Thankfulness (Shukar) 3) Praise (Zikr) and 4)Thinking (Fikr).
This is the combination that holds the key to success. Let’s see what the Holy
Book (Quran) says in some chapters (Suras):
Chapter (Sura) #2
Al-Baqara (Madina): Verse 45: “Seek help in patience and prayer; and truly it
is hard save for the humble-minded.” Translation: Eng-Pickthal-Audio.
Chapter (Sura) # 11
Hud (Makka): Verse 115: “And have patience, (O Muhammad), for lo! Allah loseth
not the wages of the good.” Translation: Eng-Pickthal-Audio.
Chapter
(Sura) # 14 Ibrahim (Makka): Verse 1: “Alif. Lam.
Ra. (This is) a Scripture which We have revealed unto thee (Muhammad) that
thereby thou mayst bring forth mankind from darkness unto light, by the
permission of their Lord, unto the path of the Mighty, the Owner of Praise.” Translation:
Eng-Pickthal-Audio
Chapter (Sura) # 14
Ibrahim (Makka): Verse 5: “We verily sent Moses with Our revelations, saying:
Bring thy people forth from darkness unto light. And remind them of the days of
Allah. Lo! therein are revelations for each steadfast, thankful (heart).
Translation:
Eng-Pickthal-Audio.
Chapter (Sura) # 14 Ibrahim
(Makka): Verse 8: “And Moses said: Though ye and all who are in the earth prove
thankless, lo! Allah verily is Absolute, Owner of Praise.” Translation:
Eng-Pickthal-Audio
Chapter (Sura) #14
Ibrahim (Makka): Verse 37: “Our Lord! Lo! I have settled some of my posterity
in an uncultivable valley near unto Thy holy House, our Lord! that they may
establish proper worship; so incline some hearts of men that they may yearn
toward them, and provide Thou them with fruits in order that they may be
thankful. Translation: Eng-Pickthal-Audio.
Chapter (Sura) # 14
Ibrahim (Makka): Verse 39: “Praise be to Allah Who hath given me, in my old
age, Ishmael and Isaac! Lo! my Lord is indeed the Hearer of Prayer.”
Translation: Eng-Pickthal-Audio.
Chapter (Sura) # 41
Fussilat (Makka): Verse 35: “And no one will be granted such goodness except
those who exercise patience and self-restraint none but persons of the greatest
good fortune.” Translation: Eng-Yusuf Ali.
Chapter (Sura) # 50
Qaf (Makka): Verse 39: “Bear, then, with, patience all that they say and
celebrate the praises of thy Lord, before the rising of the sun and before
(its) setting.”
Translation:
Eng-Yusuf Ali.
Chapter (Sura) # 83 Al-Mutaffifin
(Makka): Verse 4: “Do they not think that they will be called to account? Translation:
Eng-Yusuf Ali.
Chapter (Sura) # 89 Al-Fajr
(Makka):Verse 5: “There surely is an oath for thinking man.” Translation:
Eng-Pickthal-Audio.
Chapter (Sura) # 90 Al-Balad
(Makka): Verse 5: “Does he think that none can overcome him? Translation:
Eng-Dr. Mohsin.
Chapter (Sura) # 90
Al-Balad (Makka): Verse 7: “Does he think that none sees him?
Translation:
Eng-Dr. Mohsin
Chapter
(Sura) # 103 Al-Asr (Makka): Verses 1-3: “By the
declining day, (1) Lo! man is a state of loss, (2) Save those who believe and
do good works, and exhort one another to truth and exhort one another to
endurance.(3)” Translation: Eng-Pickthal-Audio.
So
let’s pledge to choose only the right people for our bright future. We must
never allow the bad ones to play with our future or lives and harm the country
in anyway. We must never allow any bad ones to make Canada a poodle or puppet
of any big or small country or their leaders. Every community must think the
same way about their country of origin and people as well. I can never leave Pakistan and Pakistanis
alone and would continue to act as their voice and strength. All communities
must live and work together for the common cause.
JZ’S PROFILE: Joined Journalism Profession in 1974 (Daily
`SUN’, Karachi) and still serving as a professional journalist (2014). Javed
Zaheer, Free Expression Award Winner (Awarded by National Ethnic Press &
Media Council of Canada—NEPMCC. Award presented by Lieutenant-Governor of
Ontario, Canada), Desi Idol Recognition Award Winner (Presented by North
American Desi Idol), Member/Honorary Director of NEPMCC, Veteran Active Member
(VAM) of Toronto Press Club, Ex-Member of The National Club and The Ontario
Club, Honorary Editor of English Weekly `Pakistan Abroad’, Canada, ex-Chief
Editor (Honorary) of English Weekly `The Ambassador’, Canada, ex-Chief Editor
(Honorary) of English Weekly `DAWN', Canada, ex-Senior Sub-Editor of English
Daily DAWN, Pakistan (From 1986-1999), Chairman, CANOPI, Director of Children
Dignity Foundation (CDF---Canada & Pakistan) and Honorary Director, Canpak,
Chamber of Commerce, and Honorary Director Information, Pak Seniors Forum (PSF),
is contributing purely on Voluntary and Honorary Basis in order to serve all
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