Monsoon Rains

There's something about rains that make us look at the brighter side. Whenever it rains, whether in summers or winters, everyone yearns to get all wet in that rain. But Monsoon Rains are special. They bring hope and life in our lives.

When I enter through the gate of Karachi University throughout the year, though it has a wonderful botanical garden now right after you enter from Silver Jubilee gate, it is not that mesmerising. But in the monsoon season, the garden seems to have a new life. The places in University which seems like a part of the Thar Desert, after the rains, turn into a green jungle. The growth of the plants though is wild, uneven but it brings freshness, green-ness and healthy-ness in everyone around! I'm talking about Karachi University in particular because around Karachi, there's not much change visible except in the less populated areas like Gulshan-e-Maymar. Because you see empty plots of land with grass and other plantations sprouting up right after the rains, and not all round the year. I guess that is why the poet said,

"zara num ho tu yeh mitti bohot zarkhez hai saaqi"

And all at once you see around you and you think, "HOW TRUE!!!"
The Imam of Kaa'ba was in Lahore and was leading the maghrib prayer. It was showing LIVE on t.v. And you could see thousands gathered behind him to pray to their Lord Almighty. It seemed as if it was a crowd of Hajj or on smaller scale, of Eid Prayers.

And this reminded me what one of my teachers regularly say that the Muslims just need a proper direction or someone who could tell them the right path. Muslims, in todays world, though are scattered and divided, yet they all would lead the prayer behind the Imam of Kaa'ba. They still hold him in high esteem. The Imam of Kaa'ba, who is not a political figure and yet has soo much influence upon the Muslims of the world, who doesn't give long boring speeches and yet people would love to stand behind him for prayers.

All I could conclude from this is that the Muslims, in Pakistan specially, are fed up with the division of sects, races and on the basis of language. They just need one person who could tell them THE RIGHT PATH and they will follow. The hollowness and the religiosity of the soo many has led them into trivial things which are making them more divided, unfulfilled and yet more weak while the enemy grows stronger on the other side.