The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : Let’s ask how we contribute to rape

The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : Let’s ask how we contribute to rape

In conversation with an Atheist

          Today, I was going through some Islamic sites to see whether I could find something interesting or something new hidden among the wily masses of the very vast yet ever-mesmerizing teachings that the religion beholds. I came across a video in which a Sheikh talks about "Ghafla" (heedlessness towards God's sayings) and I wanted to download it.But very soon, due to my lack of prowess in the techie field, I realized that I had to first LEARN to download., and only then could I download and watch the video. So I called up a computer-wiz friend of mine who knew the ins and outs of downloading and uploading, to seek advice. My friend was on a lunch break and he was quite eager to spend the few minutes post -lunch to teach me the art of downloading videos.

         Eventually, as the process commenced, we started chatting of random things, old friends doing new things, places, and the story of Pi. Suddenly, he cracked a joke saying that God has postponed the plan of making an  apocalypse and it wont be happening anytime this year. Of course I said it was not bound to happen , being the olways-optimistic tutor that I am.... Here I am trying to teach English to a bunch of people who cannot tell the difference between 'by' and 'buy'. and God is planning to end the world??! Of course that's not happening, Surely he shouldn't make all the efforts I put in so long go waste!!

         Then we went into a long ordeal about the presence or absence of the entity called GOD, of whom the whole world is so obsessed about.. Seriously,, this guy has the highest fan following and is the most sought for celebrity in the entire universe!! My friend believes that there indeed is a power, a positive energy that gives us positive vibes and pushes us to do newer and better things.. But actually its the thought that is there in everybody's head that provokes them to do things..whether good or bad. Every man who has reached anywhere today whether grave or shrine, light or dark, riches or poverty, calm or viral, happy or sad, is because his thoughts led him there. It is the thought that manifests in the brain as a single electric spark and transforms into a feeling, emotion, or an idea, and which then leads a man to do or not do something.. God is someone we turn to. He doesn't direct our thoughts..he just lays the backdrop for our thoughts to materialize into things that can be seen, touched, felt, talked about, and experienced. People do argue that if it were a lie, it wouldn't have sustained all these years, all through the civilizations and all through mankind and reach us, (to be one day written about on this blog). But it did stay. Like the sun, the moon and the space. It survived. The truth(what it is called, since it is believed) survived.

        There was a time when I was scared because he was always looking. He'd see me colouring my sister's colouring books secretly cz I didnt ask her permission.. He'd see me hiding my books because the teacher did not correct it and I was afraid to go to her. He'd see me lying to my mom about a fever so that I could skip school.. But now, I dont fear him. Over the years, He..that invisible power with satellite eyes has become someone who knows everything about me, yet doesn't mind.I could choose to like him or dislike him, he doesn't care. Many a times I felt him..or maybe it was just plain happiness, and I gave it his name.. Whatever it might be.. I know of one thing for sure. He invented humor, and therefore, he intends us to absorb it, indulge in it and share it....Even with him., and not be all stuck up and morose when it comes to Religion and Worship. I know that he laughs and might be one funny....er..man...

Thus, I spoke to an atheist today, who helped me download a video about paying heedlessness towards GOD!!

            I feel so hopeless when I see all these bombings and killings, and I often wonder of how ungrateful we are..The people out there who are being killed are little children who have seen nothing of this world, know of no evil act and have seen only misery and warfare throughout their growing days.

           It is such a mess to see so much blood and violence and to think that we feel so very alienated from all these while the incidents happening are occurring right across the continent , to our own Asian inhabitants.!!
           It is in awe that I consider how we react at the release of some big budget hollywood movie, or some rapper or music honcho selling his albums and making millions out of it.. It is also in awe that I notice how we react at the prospect of the far possibility that the mess of a world that we are living in right now is going to end next month.. For God's sake someone please redefine the meaning of humans.. Cz this is not what God intended us to be.. He created us not to fight over measly land or penny dollars with which we can purchase branded shoes or gem-encrusted handy phones of carved wood, or sterilized broccoli for that matter!! He created us so that we can experience love. He made all of us different so that we may experience oneness in our differences. He made life a mixture of sorrow and joy so that we know to relish the two.He gave us hope not to hope for a bigger land or a heftier  sum in our savings. He could have easily made all of us live our entire life n a couple of days..But No... He made  Life span over 60-100 years.. So that we experience what is change. So that we have faith even in change. So that we live in harmony and teach our successive generation the essence that is hidden in kindness, in empathy ,and in harmony. He taught us to share.. by giving some a little more, and giving some a little less,.. So that the richer shares his possession and the poor shares with fellow poor what little is his.

            I live in India. A country where every perspective is mixed. We neither advanced, nor retarded in our cultures. As we love giving, so do we love taking. We sympathize a lot. A few are courageous enough to act. We dream. We pursue. We are not unknown to injustice. We hanker a lot about the inefficient working of the government, we also sometimes vote, with the hope that an efficient administrator runs the government. But we have not really seen or even had a far away glimpse of what Gaza is going through., or what Palestine has been through in the last century and almost all of what we have completed in the present century. I am not writing this piece so suddenly everyone will become 'Jaagrukth' about what is happening in the world or what could happen. I am just wondering as to how we fall short in saying our gratitude to the lord for keeping us away, yet aware off all the pain that we humans inflict on fellow humans without any contribution from GOD..

Hijaabi in the Rain: Compulsion

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Hi....

I'd like to unofficially sue all those male nymphomaniacs that go around public places with unkempt hands and uncontrollable urges by which they degrade their own chastity and pronounce themselves inappropriate to be called as decent humans!!

Its indeed a shame, not for the fidgeting female, but to the unruly male to allow their limbs and thoughts to wander around at the beck and call of their amorous desires. Little do they realize how it feels when all of a sudden out of nowhere a third limb, or a poking finger sticks into you and leaves you wondering... "What on earth is he up to??!"

Very rightfully, the answer to such a disturbing act would be a neat tight slipper on the tresspasser's face or an equally violent shove so that he falls head-long out of your personal space. Or as I carried out the fine deed, one can kick hard on his shin with a shod foot so that he remembers his mother and never again lets his assets wander around.

To the males reading this, we don't feel shy, just inconvenience. To the females.... Kick some @$$!!