avoiding the present: harking on the past
September 5, 2003
avoiding the present: harking on the past
we look in the mirror...(nothing wrong with it if it is for a purpose)...we look in the mirror but what do we see there…depends on what we are looking for you say...yes, will agree...but what irritates me is those long drawn battles fought to correct the present ills and imbalances... but seeking half baked, far fetched lessons from recent or past history...
...so the road in your block is un-repaired after the recent rains...ok...so it never was paved ever since you recall and is worse for the wear now...
...so the power is even more whimsical...and the khakhi honcho managing the electric supply is a nincompoop..(incidentally, do you know of one khaki who has made a success of a civilian post?...any job, any post, any era?)...
...so you know someone who knows someone who lives in that village/town where another girl/woman was gang raped and their uncle was one of the accused...and it cost him Rs.75,000 to buy his way out...as for the victim girl/woman?...who cares...
...so...:)....where am I going with this?...bet discuss any issue and sooner or later that issue under discussion is covered in a misty fog, set aside and the discussion turns to inane and irrelevant issues...yes the recent or past history’s turns, twists and injustices...
...so if historical wrongs were corrected according to this Qur'anic (mis)interpretation or that hadith the muslims would have been more...yeah, right...or...if jinnah had done this then...yeah, right...or if the gadar party in 1905 had not gathered in california and...yeah right, or if...
...if only we focus and discuss one issue...and apply all our energies towards resolving and alleviating that problem...if only...instead of harking on the past...
...forget jinnah, forget sunnis, deobandis, barelvis, ahl e hadees, hanafis, malikis, shafii, humbalis...forget shias, ismailis, athna ashaaris, bohris...
...forget broken promises for we are broken consciences
...the trouble (and the problem) lies with you and me...it is not in some obscure and misinterpreted wording of a long forgotten historical resolution in some park beneath a fort...it is not the chess game played by a dying man with resolute vision…(my way or the highway)...it is not in the hijacking of the state by the bureaucrats at first and then by the army...ah the army with a country!…when all is said and analyzed to death...pardon my swahili...the trouble (and the problem) lies with you and me...
why?
...because this is how we do it...
...bismillah ar rehman ar rahim…yes!...Begin in the name of the Most Beneficient, Most Merciful...and then...totally ignoring Him…His Message…totally ignoring all norms...insaniyaat we indulge in things a flying pig with conscience would not indulge in...laanat ullah on our sophistry...
...forgive and ignore the bitterness...focus on the truth if you find it here...
avoiding the present: harking on the past
we look in the mirror...(nothing wrong with it if it is for a purpose)...we look in the mirror but what do we see there…depends on what we are looking for you say...yes, will agree...but what irritates me is those long drawn battles fought to correct the present ills and imbalances... but seeking half baked, far fetched lessons from recent or past history...
...so the road in your block is un-repaired after the recent rains...ok...so it never was paved ever since you recall and is worse for the wear now...
...so the power is even more whimsical...and the khakhi honcho managing the electric supply is a nincompoop..(incidentally, do you know of one khaki who has made a success of a civilian post?...any job, any post, any era?)...
...so you know someone who knows someone who lives in that village/town where another girl/woman was gang raped and their uncle was one of the accused...and it cost him Rs.75,000 to buy his way out...as for the victim girl/woman?...who cares...
...so...:)....where am I going with this?...bet discuss any issue and sooner or later that issue under discussion is covered in a misty fog, set aside and the discussion turns to inane and irrelevant issues...yes the recent or past history’s turns, twists and injustices...
...so if historical wrongs were corrected according to this Qur'anic (mis)interpretation or that hadith the muslims would have been more...yeah, right...or...if jinnah had done this then...yeah, right...or if the gadar party in 1905 had not gathered in california and...yeah right, or if...
...if only we focus and discuss one issue...and apply all our energies towards resolving and alleviating that problem...if only...instead of harking on the past...
...forget jinnah, forget sunnis, deobandis, barelvis, ahl e hadees, hanafis, malikis, shafii, humbalis...forget shias, ismailis, athna ashaaris, bohris...
...forget broken promises for we are broken consciences
...the trouble (and the problem) lies with you and me...it is not in some obscure and misinterpreted wording of a long forgotten historical resolution in some park beneath a fort...it is not the chess game played by a dying man with resolute vision…(my way or the highway)...it is not in the hijacking of the state by the bureaucrats at first and then by the army...ah the army with a country!…when all is said and analyzed to death...pardon my swahili...the trouble (and the problem) lies with you and me...
why?
...because this is how we do it...
...bismillah ar rehman ar rahim…yes!...Begin in the name of the Most Beneficient, Most Merciful...and then...totally ignoring Him…His Message…totally ignoring all norms...insaniyaat we indulge in things a flying pig with conscience would not indulge in...laanat ullah on our sophistry...
...forgive and ignore the bitterness...focus on the truth if you find it here...
posted by temporal at 8/28/2005
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