“Then your hearts hardened after that, so that they were like rocks, rather worse in hardness; and surely there are some rocks from which streams burst forth, and surely there are some of them which split asunder so water issues out of them, and surely there are some of them which fall down for fear of Allah, and Allah is not at all heedless of what you do.” 2:74
I look out at the world today with a feeling of surprise and disappointment. My eyes after gazing out at the very strange world outside , bleed tears of sadness. They pray for blindness rather than sight. My heart prays for silence rather than constant beating. My brain prays for a silent demise rather than a constant analysis.
There was a time some years ago , when I was in grade eight perhaps , I went for umrah and I still remember how I reacted when I saw an old Pakistani woman , lost from her family. I innocently yet effectively went straight to her and decided to take her to a nearby Pakistani community. Tears fell from my eyes when I saw her reunited with her family.
Some years later, I see a nation drowning in water, yet my heart decides to turn hard and indifferent. I see a nation on the verge of destruction, yet my eyes fool me into discarding it as a misguided thought. Apathy has invaded me, altruism has evaded me.
I long for the days of innocence to come back. I long for the days when my heart used to shatter at the sight of sorrow, when my eyes used to weep at the sight of sadness.
At nights I sit down, by a tree in a state of meditation and ponder upon the evolution of the humans around me. I look at my friends, I see them submerged in problems of their own, I look at strangers and apathetic torpor greets me. I look at myself and I see a hypocrite awaiting to know his fate. Even the trees around me emanate a colour that is both yellow and green. A sense of duplicity surrounds us . A sense of hypocrisy invades us .
It would seem that evolution is real . Man has evolved from being a loving, caring creature to a hateful, indifferent one. There used to be times when people used to feel the difficulties of others.
Sadly , the reality today is exactly opposite. Kitna badal gaya hai insaan ?
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