I was surfing the net, avoiding the news from Pakistan, as usual. The TV was playing in the background with the usual bits about the Prime Minister speaking in English in interior Sindh, and I am thinking, why, oh why, is the world like this?
Suddenly I heard 'lab pe aati hai dua ban ke tamanna meri,' that poem by Iqbal which we all so proudly sang in school.
Such innocent words, that poem. And look where we stand today.
Where did that innocence in our beliefs go? When did we start becoming like this? Our Islam was a belief that the world can be a better place, that it will be a better place. It was an undying value system which allowed us to see the beauty in God's most sterling creation: mankind itself.
But somewhere, there were this other kind of Islam that was being nourished. An Islam based on hate, violence and intimidation. No one could possibly want it, or so it seemed.
Things look so much different today.
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