Are we Dead?
The immediate answer that anyone may come up with is “No, we aren’t” but the reality is quite different. We are all dead!! Though we breathe, eat, walk and talk but we are dead from inside. You must be thinking why am I saying all this. Actually, I just got to hear about an incident that has made me think this way. My maid told me that around a month ago, someone came and threw a big box in the community bin(kachra kundi) near Neelum Colony, which is a small colony adjacent to Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s Mazar. There was this guy who found this box and when he picked it up, he found it to be a little heavy. On opening it up, he found inside a newborn baby wrapped in a piece of cloth. The boy told others about this baby boy so that someone could take care of him or at least drop him at a nearby Edhi Center…NO! That’s what I thought he must have done…but he didn’t do nething like that..instead he took the box and the cloth that the baby was wrapped in probably because it was a shawl or sumthing and threw that baby there over the garbage. After sumtime that poor newborn started crying and that attracted people’s attention. They came over, picked up the baby, the police also came but after a little while the baby passed away. The police caught the guy who had taken the box and had thrown the baby but obviously he had no information about the baby’s parents and so the entire story ended then and there.
Earlier I had read about such incidents in the newspaper but listening to this one was like almost seeing it happening. I have just realized how apathetic we are…I doubt if we r really human beings…the Ashraf-ul-Makhluqaat….we are social beasts!! If it comes to saving ourselves from ne sort of trouble, we can go to ne extent…a mother can throw away her newborn who was a part of her body a little while ago knowing very well that her child would serve as a meal for cats, dogs and eagles. We just see what can benefit us and so a box and a piece of cloth seem to be more important to us then the life of a human being.
I just don’t understand what’s happening all around me….it’s either that I’m too sensitive or I still haven’t turned into a complete beast. It often becomes unbearable for me to accept the realities and so I’m afraid that I’m going to end up living in some mental asylum!!!
May Allah give me the courage to change or to challenge and may He save and guide us all. Ameen!
it really scared me the way u potrayed the whole incident. seriousely its very beastly. but u know ppl like u is very much needed. instead of ending up in lunatic house or even thinking about it try fighting back. it may be too huge battle for u but maybe it inspire someone else as well…just keep what right is right n what is wrong is wrong…..dont give up no matter how bleak circumstances look
Comment by lubz — March 2, 2007 @ 11:46 am
Lubz..u always encourage me to stay the way i’m but sumtimes..it just gets too much…it seriously gets unbearable for me and i feel damn too depressed but still i’m trying..i’m trying to fight back no matter how worse it gets because i don’t want to change..i know i’m on the right path. May Allah(SWT) gives me the strength.
Comment by Administrator — March 2, 2007 @ 12:14 pm
Think of it from the point of view of the guy who actually considered a *carton* and a *piece of rag* to be more important than the life of a baby. What drove him to it? What conditions does he live under? What are his needs?
Also, think about it from the point of view of the mother who abandoned the baby. She didn’t dump it in a garbage dump outright. The fact that she took care to wrap it up and all shows that she cared about it — that the baby was loved. What drove her to abandon it, though?
Moreover, what are the needs of the people around — the people who refused to touch the baby, or even take it to an Edhi centre? What were they thinking? Understand their perspective on this.
Life’s not all black and white — that would be a very simplistic view of stuff. There’s an entire spectrum in between, comprised of shades of gray — those shades-of-gray are more realistic than the black and the white. Explore the gray area — you’ll find the answers to your questions there, and hopefully the solutions too. : )
Comment by UZi — March 4, 2007 @ 2:02 am
@Uzi
Thanks for showing yet another perspective of looking at things. I’m definitely going to think about *gray area* and hopefully get back it you with either the solution or some more questions
Comment by Administrator — March 4, 2007 @ 2:11 am
My God.. I don’t have words. I am not feeling good at all after reading all this. I mean how can someone do that.. Shame on them.. We don’t have any heart, no empathy at alll….
Thanks for sharing…
Comment by Zain Abbas — March 5, 2007 @ 11:18 am