POISONOUS HUMAN BEINGS

( The origin, nature and reality of Snake and Wolf )

If I want to administer a bitter medicine to you I know many methods. After all I am the grand son Hakim Mirza Muhammad Sharif. The Hakims (indigenous doctors) know how to treat a patient. I learnt a few tricks from my grand father in my childhood. But grandpa used to say that it is difficult to make children drink bitter medicine but if the patient is elderly then by warning him about the gravity of his disease and with his consent he can take a bitter medicine.

So before administering you a bitter medicine I would like to inform you about the gravity of your disease and the dangerous condition you are in and how would you land in more dangerous ailments in future. The first step in the contraction of a disease is ignorance and lack of knowledge. If due to lack of knowledge one swallows a wrong thing then a poison is produced in the stomach. This poison circulates in the blood and creates headache, stomach ache and innumerable pains. So one has to visit doctors and hospitals again and again. The doctors and hakims then suggest bitter medicines to remove the injurious effect of this poison. And if one does not take the medicine as suggested then the disease aggravates and order to remove the diseased part surgery is required.

Presently there are two major diseases in Pakistani nation which are full of poison and the ailment is aggravating. Two types of human beings are running scot -free in the country. They are snake-types of poisonous nature and wolf-types of ferocious nature.

According to the teaching of Islam or the medicine prescribed by Islam for removing the shadows of darkness and enlightening human beings the following words have been used :

Every Muslim is a brother of other Muslim

If I want to explain this in easy words I would take help from a verse which was written by Hali and is very appropriate and represents my feelings:

You should keep away from them.
What sort of brothers they are
They are capable of selling their brother
Even if he is as good as Yusuf (Josephe)

I hope you have understood the deep meaning of the verse. It is the way of poets to give a bitter advice in sweet covering. Allama Iqbal and Altaf Husain Hali and other poets adopted this way. But I am trying to give you a medicine which should cure your ailment from inside and if there is a large quantity of poison present then surgery should be performed to root out the disease.
I shall come back to the meaning of the verse which explains the poisonous nature of human beings in a very beautiful manner. The reason why good people are running out of Pakistan and staying abroad permanently because they know that there is a large number of slave-traffickers. The real brothers of Yusuf who sold him were more ferocious than wolves. And such dangerous wolves are running free in Pakistan in large numbers and are spreading fear. On the other hand you will find in abundance the human beings with the nature of snake in every department in cities and villages. They intrinsically bite the good people and suck their blood. That is why the blood is getting lesser and lesser in the veins of the common and gentle people of Pakistan and on the other hand the number of snakes and ferocious wolves is multiplying.

The Poisonous Human Beings

I would like to narrate an incident concerning my family. In April 1999 when I came to Pakistan with my Japanese wife and children it was my endeavour to produce a good impression about Pakistan on them. I kept on trying that the children develop a love for Pakistan and when they go back to Japan they carry cherished memories with them. Now as long as I remained with them they had no problem. In order to take part in the orientation ceremony for their new classes they had to return to Japan earlier than me. So I booked seats for them in P.I.A. and went to see them off at the Islamabad airport. Handing over the passport, tickets and other papers to my wife and explaining the procedures etc. to her I came back. As I arrived back home I received a phone call from my wife telling me that PIA people had informed her that seats were not available in plane and due to a fault in the computer there were only two names mentioned against your reservation although I had myself got five seats reserved for my wife, three sons and one daughter. My wife informed me that this was not the case with her only but rest of the passengers are also facing the same problem and are shouting at the PIA counter. Firstly my wife and children could not understand the language and more so they got sacred due the fighting at the counter. And they started crying. Some people at the airport tried to console them and my wife asked a Pakistani to talk to me on the phone who informed me of the situation and people were facing lot of hardship due to mishandling of the situation by the PIA staff and foreigners were unable to comprehend all this. I rushed to the airport and found that my children had been turned out of the departure lounge along with their baggage and were crying and a crowd of spectators was gathered around them. They were unable to explain their plight to the people and were waiting for my arrival with tears in their eyes.

When I arrived there I saw an elderly person who was standing there and on seeing me he said, My son now take charge of your children. It was my duty that I should remain here till your arrival so that some one might not put them in some other trouble.? I thanked the elderly man and immediately went to the booking office to find out the problem. The PIA people told me that the flight was gone and they could not do any thing then and therefore I should contact the head office. So in utter confusion I brought my family back home. The children told me that if they did not reach Japan within next two days they would not be allowed to appear in entrance tests therefore they should be sent to Japan in the next possible flight. I knew about a flight for Tokyo that left Karachi the next day. Therefore next morning reaching early at the head office I informed them of the whole situation to which they said that they were unable to do any thing before the arrival of their big boss. New tickets and booking could only be arranged with his permission. After waiting for a few hours the big boss arrived. His name was Raja Sahib and listening to my complaint he guessed that we were a prosperous party and had come from Japan and were in trouble. So they would be able to dole out money to him. He started giving meaningless advice and I understood his intention. So I asked him whether there was bigger boss around. He told me the name of the bigger boss but I understood his intention and desire.

Anyway I came out of the office and started thinking what should be done next. My conscience was not allowing me to bribe them in order to secure booking for my wife and children. Suddenly it flashed in my mind that I should find out any man of high contacts among my relatives. So I rang up my brother in law who told me that a friend of his uncle was a big boss PIA. I asked him to go to the uncle’s place and bring him along .As he entered the PIA office along with the uncle people started showing respect to him by slightly bowing and saluting. I got impressed with uncle?s personality. He took me straight to the big boss and told him what had happened with his nephew.. He was apologetic and said,? I know this. This has not happened for the first time. I am trying my hard to change the situation but whom should I catch. How can I reform them? It is an Herculean task.? Anyway he made phone call and tried to solve my problem. After making the new reservation when I arrived back at home the children and wife again started crying,? Papa, you were with us here and every thing got smoothened . If the same thing happened in .Karachi who would help us out.? I understood their apprehension and changed my programme. I sought the permission of my parents and my father said that my wife and children were right and it was more appropriate that I accompany them to Karachi. So getting ready we arrived at the airport and were informed that flight to Karachi had been cancelled that day due to technical fault but we had to reach Karachi the same night to catch the Tokyo flight. Again I contacted the booking office who informed me that there was a flight to Karachi via Quetta but seats were not available on it and we could be placed on chance seats. When I informed my wife and children about it they again started crying .and said, Papa, what sort of system is there in your country? If we want to visit Pakistan without you or if we want to roam about in this country without you and want to do any thing we shall face lot of problems.? I told them,Look my children in such a short time and with only a few dealings with Pakistanis you have come across so much trouble. Just imagine the plight of those people who live here and would continue to live here. In front of the problems that they face this is just nothing what you have faced. Let us sit here in the airport mosque and pray to Almighty Allah to alleviate our sufferings. And we started praying together. The God answered our prayers later. We came and stood in the long queue and understanding our frustration a PIA man came to us. I was a little disturbed lest another Raja Sahib had arrived to help us.

Anyway I told the full story to that gentleman who gave us a very appropriate advice. He told us that there were no seats available in the economy class but by paying a little more we could get seats in the first class. Taking the boarding passes for the first class we rushed towards the plane. The plane first landed at Quetta airport. It had to proceed further to Karachi with new passengers from Quetta. We were sent to the transit lounge for a short stop-over but it was announced that due to technical fault the flight would be delayed and we should wait in the lounge. This waiting time was stretched to two hours. The children got worried that they could reach Karachi on time to catch the flight to Japan.

So after waiting for two hours we again embarked on the plane and found out that on the adjacent seats some VIP personality was sitting. He was apologising to the PIA staff that they had to wait so long for him. Then I understood the meaning of technical fault. It was in fact he who by using his VIP influence made the plane wait for him. To be true I felt frustrated. Anyway we arrived at the Karachi airport just thirty five minutes before the Tokyo flight and were able to take the flight at its last moments. Thus this return journey was a big adventure. On reaching Tokyo the conditions of Pakistan remained the key topic of discussion in my family and I tried to provide them answers as best I could. Upon this the children said Papa ! If you help a bit in improving Pakistan?s present condition we shall also help you when we grow up.After knowing in details about Pakistan?s conditions my wife and children asked me to do some thing for Pakistan or otherwise I should write a book to create awareness in Pakistanis. So the problem I was encountered with in Pakistan must have been faced by other Pakistanis as well or they might have faced more difficulties and would have decided not to return to Pakistan again.

The fact is that if ignorance and poverty are not alleviated it would be difficult to get any thing done in Pakistan without greasing some body?s palm. In every department one encounters a Raja Sahib, a Shiekh Sahib, or a Mughal Sahib and to get work done is impossible without doling out any thing to them or without the help of a bigger boss above them. Is it possible that we make Pakistan a country where every thing is done on merit and principles without the influence of money or a bigger boss? The present situation is that bribery has been removed from the list of sins and all the sinful things have become virtues if these serve one?s own interest. So if the concept of sin or remorse is exterminated from a society then the wrath of God descends on it. Due to bribery and corruption the spirits of human beings have been turned into the spirits of snakes and wolves and the number of snakes and wolves is increasing day by day. How can you expect peace and contentment in such a society?

Whenever I come to Pakistan from Japan I have to meet pot-bellied wolves of the custom department on the airports. Some snakes are also loitering around sniffing that some one has arrived from abroad. When I reach my home after getting out of the clutches of these wolves and snakes I heave a sigh of relief and I thank my God. But before reaching home some times I have to encounter some wolves in the uniform of traffic policemen who bombard you with various questions. Where have you come from? Where are you going? Dole out something to us as well. So the time I spend in Pakistan has to be spent with great care and lot of energy is wasted on these precautions and I undergo mental tension. When I occupy my seat in the plane I feel relief but sometimes if it is PIA then I can not sleep in peace because I have to worry about my hand carried baggage . If the number of foreign passengers is high then I sleep calmly. May be those foreigners do not sleep in peace finding a Pakistani sitting next to them. So before going to sleep I say excuse me to them .

The only purpose of writing all this is that many Pakistanis like me are living peacefully in various developed countries but the fact is that they are not happy. Rather they are worried and upset in their hearts about the condition of their country. Every one of them wants that Pakistan should become developed country like other developed countries. Thus my message is for all those Pakistanis who are scattered in various corners of the world and are sending precious foreign exchange to their country after working hard. It is the desire of many Pakistanis living abroad that their children should marry in their own race and nationality and it should be in accordance with their own culture, customs and traditions. But after listening to the hissing of snakes and howling of the wolves they withdraw their decisions. But nothing can happen by withdrawing the decisions. I want to tell all of them that let us go to Pakistan together. Let us make a new Pakistan and bring a revolution in Pakistan . A revolution that would lead the country to the road to progress and this can only be done by those Pakistanis who are living abroad. Because they think internationally. Their plans are geared to leading the country to prosperity. They are influenced by the good policies of the developed countries and they can not betray Islam. No matter the others denigrate Islam they feel proud of being Muslims and are steadfastly attached to their faith but do not want to return to Pakistan.

In this country the number of anti- Pakistan elements has increased manifold. The need is to doubly increase the number of pro-Pakistan elements. Your duty is to increase these Pakistan lovers and deepen the love for their country in their hearts. The biggest Jehad is the love for one?s country and to fight against the country?s enemies within the ranks. I learnt this Arabic saying from my father about Jehad. Having lived in Arabia for along time he was fully conversant with their culture, civilisation, language and thinking. So once I asked him about Jehad and he explained it to me in a very brief but comprehensive way:

When there is tyranny then one resorts to ( Jehad)
When there is cruelty then one prays

So I would like to say the same thing to Pakistani people. You should be grateful to Almighty God that there is no tyrannical dispensation in their country. No such tyranny is being perpetrated on you as being done to Kashmiri Muslims in Kashmir. There is injustice and cruelty in our society. It is cruelty against Islam and these cruelties would go on multiplying and the number of cruel people would also go on increasing. If you will not wage a Jehad against these wolves and snakes then these cruel people will one day become tyrants and in Japan I can only pray for my nation against these cruel people and if you have the revolutionary spirit in you then let prayers alone I am prepared to wage the Jehad along with you. But still I shall say only this:

The prayer for cessation of love is not blessed with acceptance
If the heart is not willing then there is no effect in the talk

You have fallen in love with this material world and to discontinue this there is need for change of heart. If the mind and heart would change then there will be effect in the saying and then all your prayers will be answered. God knows the intentions of human beings. If your intention is good and your mind and heart are clean then it can not happen that the God Almighty would not accept your prayers. Come on let us start with good intention and we prostate in prayers before Him and pray that in his beneficence he should shower His blessings on us in undertaking the arduous task of pulling back Pakistan from its present predicament and making it a developed country of the world.