Mangoes and Milkshakes

Mangoes and Milkshakes are one of the best things, we, Pakistanis look for in the summer. Mangoes, being the favourite fruit of almost everyone here, is a whole affair. When you have guests at your place you can simply serve them with mangoes, or milkshake or just cream,condensed milk with mangoes. And trust me, everyone loves them. The mango parties, the mango mela (fair) or just having mangoes after every meal is what everyone looks forward to in the summer here in Pakistan besides the monsoon rains. But...

Inspite of all the sweetness in the fruit, the bitterness of life can not just whither away. It remains there gnawing at you, biting you and injecting more pain and miseries upon your soul. Whether it's the politics of your own country or the sufferrings of the innocent Muslims out there.

"It's easier to look the other way" - Prisonbreak

And perhaps it is... but how can you just ignore that the country, which was built on the very basis of Islam, is just losing it's grip on the very ideology it was built upon? The politicians and the leaders have given into lust of power, corruption and greed for money. It's easier to ignore what they are doing, and moving on with your life. But what would life be without your own country, ideology or religion? It's easier to ignore that Muslims are brutally killed and their lands and plantation taken away from them but they are a part of me and how can I not flinch, or feel the pain? A part of me is burning, the other fighting between themselves, How can I just go on eating mangoes and look the other way?!

The natioanlists are raising their voices, the sects are fighting amoungst themselves and the rest are watching as silent spectators. Looking everywhere and seeing the blood, the selfishness of Muslims is destroying them. They are in huge number, they bow towards the same Ka'aba, and yet so much hatred inside?! OR is there someone else creating and fuelling the whole affair?!

A just question. Because I don't want to fight with my brothers, nor they do. Who comes in to bring those gaps, hatred and absurd theories of dividing us between, sects, languages or the races? This reminds me of the time when I was reading about how in Salahuddin Ayyubi's (the famous Saladin that the West loves) time, the jewish and the christian agents used to come to manipulate the Muslims and used to create the walls and the barriers and corruption into the religion. And this let me thinking;" why is today any different?" Just look around... and see... and pray,

" Oh Lord! Show me things as they are in themselves". Ameen.