The Pakistani Spectator

Jinnah: ( Sad and despondent) What have they done? The land of the pure has been converted into a graveyard for apostates, hypocrites and liars. Have they forgotten pre-partition and the time when they were under the rule of the British? Have they forgotten the how the Hindus were against a separate land for the Moslems? How can they forget millions who perished brutally when they made their way for Pakistan? So many innocent men, women and children lost their lives. Countless women, young and old were mercilessly raped and butchered. Have they forgotten the history of their ancestors?

Allama Iqbal:They have become servant of their desires. Their characters are weak and shallow. One foot is towards the east and the other towards west. They declare their faith in God and the Prophet yet their pleasures and their actions belie the life of a true Muslim. Look at them. The people are busy worshipping their desires; the fear of Allah and the Day of Judgment does not exist. There is no rule of law. Bribery and corruption envelopes the whole society. Everything can be bought for money; faith, belief and what not. What sort of future can you expect?

Jinnah: Look Iqbal, look at that woman talking to her new born child in ‘English’. Have they forgotten their language?

Iqbal: Jinnah! The people are deeply complexed. They embrace anything foreign, language, custom or dress and think of it as a step towards modernism and progress. They have become a cheap imitation. Throughout History, people who became corrupt and strayed away from the Commandments of Allah were likewise punished. The Jews were made to roam the desert for forty years. Throughout history they have were despised and cursed not only by the Christians but by God as well.

Jinnah: I fear Jinnah that the people are in for a bad time. Evil rulers are a curse from the Supreme Creator.

Iqbal: So are evil societies Jinnah! Muslim nations suffer Jinnah because the Ummah is not united. The people are too busy Jinnah, amassing wealth. Their faith and characters are poor. The people don’t fear God but they fear death. Their faith is malleable and weak. Their hearts have become hard and they have become indifferent to the Commandments laid down in the Quran by the Supreme Creator. They value this short material life above the eternal life promised by Almighty Allah.

Jinnah: It is a crying shame. The bookshops and libraries are empty. Intellectuals who used to discourse over different matters concerning society, science, politics, religion, philosophy, astronomy, etc don’t get together any more.

Iqbal: No one value a ‘Teacher’ or ‘Professor’ in this society. They are literally worshipped in the west.

Jinnah: This barbarian and Neolithic society worships nothing productive. Their ways and manners only leads toward self-destruction. Over here only wealth and symbols of authority are worshipped. The teacher does not figure prominently in this society. They are even averse to learning their own language Iqbal.

Iqbal: The Quran stresses upon acquisition of knowledge for every Muslim man and woman. It is a form of Jihad that is most pleasurable to the Creator yet they refuse to acknowledge it. The West developed because they made great strides in the acquisition of knowledge and because their governments worked for providing education, health, sanitation and other facilities to their citizens. Look at us, where are we?

Jinnah: We have reached no where. Our sole achievement is perhaps the development of a nuclear bomb. Other than that the leaders have failed to unite the masses, educate them or alleviate poverty. Tell me Iqbal why do these people continuously look towards the West?

Iqbal: Jinnah ! They look towards the west for more contributions towards charity for the country. The leaders have become shameless beggars.

Jinnah: Shameful and disgusting. Look at the representatives of the people riding around in luxurious bullet proof vehicles. Who pays for all of this and more?

Iqbal: Everything is paid for from the national exchequer.

Jinnah: For these fiends and parasites?

Iqbal: Yes it seems so.

Jinnah: What about the common man?

Iqbal: Well they have been forgotten. They are a poor lot. A lot of them battle poverty and the ravages that it brings about. With little access to proper education, they remain shackled in the embrace of poverty, hunger and disease. Look at their abodes. Many of them live in squalid abodes where pools of dirty water and overflowing sewerage give rise to malaria causing mosquitoes and an unbearable stench. Look at those small barefoot and naked children prancing about in that dirty water without any notion about the hazards and dangers that they are being exposed to? Do you see those children sifting through the pile of garbage? They are hungry and searching for food. Every year thousands of children die due to cholera, malaria and diarrhea.

Jinnah: Doesn’t anyone carry for their plight or predicament?

Iqbal: Except a few philanthropists, NGO’s and charities no one looks their way. They have been left to God ! No one cares whether they live or die. Jinnah, the people look at poverty as a dangerous disease. The people over here don’t know what it is to serve and to care for and love one another.

Jinnah: Where are the municipalities?

Iqbal: They are overstaffed and inefficient. There seems to be a lack of concern about serving people. More energies are allocated towards misusing and misappropriating monies allocated for developmental purposes.

Jinnah: There seems to be an excessive misuse of power and position in this country. As a result the country has not developed. There is a lack of merit and accountability. The law of the jungle persists Iqbal. As a result the powerful get away with anything that they do. When will this end?

Iqbal: No messiahs are forthcoming as many would believe Jinnah. The people have to stand up for their rights. They have to come on the roads in their numbers; men, women and children. Otherwise those in power will continue to oppress them.

Jinnah: Iqbal, I always thought that the people would work to make Pakistan a symbol of pride and honor.

Iqbal: Well Jinnah, you were naïve. Feudal lords, educated and uneducated monsters have bought the country on its knees. There is no rule of law, discipline is absent and corruption reigns supreme.

(The devil steps in)

Jinnah: Who are you?

Devil: Well let’s say, I am the one who challenged God. I am the despised Devil.

Jinnah: Go away. What do you want?

Devil: Well I overheard your conversation and well I just wanted to let you know that the pits of hell await many of your countrymen. I am waiting for them. There’s free heat down there….no lack of gas or fuel there unlike in Pakistan. I have many disciples over here. Many of them sit in seats of power. Many of them have sold their souls to me in return for riches and power.

Iqbal: Any one whom you favor a lot amongst the leaders?

Devil: Oh there are many but one of my favorites is ZARDARI. He professed his love for me. He beckoned me and promised to give me his soul in return for the highest seat of power in the country. I asked him to give me to sacrifice his dearest valuable in turn for this. And in he turn decided to sacrifice his wife.

Jinnah: What an evil man?

Iqbal: loathsome creature!

Devil: Oh hes a darling ain’t he ! Well there are so many of them aren’t they? They look pious and nice on the exterior but their inner souls are all mine. Ha ha ha ha !

Iqbal: Well, I am sure that there are so many of them who fear God and fulfill His Commandments.

Jinnah: Very few, it seems. Men and women make societies. Corrupt men and women make corrupt societies. They fail to discern between wrong or right. Many of them fail to stop evil from spreading.

Devil: Jinnah Sahib, it is my duty to mislead people and well so many of them choose to disobey the Creator and go my way.

Iqbal: There are so many who seek redemption and who truly mend their ways. God is All Merciful and He forgives.

Devil: Well there are so many who seek redemption and then again I mislead them towards my way. (Laughing)

Jinnah: The mosques seem empty. Only a handful of believers!

Iqbal: Jinnah Sahib, the mosques are only frequented on Fridays, during Eid and on Ramazan. Other than that they are deserted abodes.

Jinnah: What pulls them away from the worship of God?

Devil: Well let me tell you. The young rush towards dating, pornography, drinking, movies, music and committing adultery. Ah so pleasurable vocations are they for them. The older people are busy making money any way they can. Taking and accepting bribes. Drinking, spending time watching dancing girls, gambling or spending time with mistresses and prostitutes. That is the Heaven that I show them. They lie, cheat, swindle, back-bite, rape, murder and plunder and all the time I grow more and more powerful. (Devil breaks of laughing).

Iqbal: The land of saints and Sufis has been turned into a playground for the Devil and His Disciples.

Jinnah: The humble and the saintly are condemned and thought to be naïve. Those who are astray and those who are the disbelievers are praised and thought of to be modern and developed. Ah what has happened to my Pakistan?

Iqbal: Our Pakistan Jinnah! Our Pakistan……….

Jinnah: It is a disaster. Look at these statistcs. 5 percent of the entire population controls all the wealth and the assets of the nation. There are 42 million children aged 5-19 years who are out of schools. In 1997, Mongolia allocated 8.5 per cent of its GDP to education. Pakistan was at the lowest rung of the ladder as its allocation for education was only 2.2 per cent of GDP. This amount was less than the amount allocated by the Maldives (8.1), Iran (5.4), Malaysia (5.1), South Korea (4.2), Thailand (4.0), India (3.7), Sri Lanka (3.1), Nepal (2.9), Afghanistan (2.3) and Bangladesh (2.3). Nigeria with some 8 million out-of-school kids stands first in the hall of shame, whereas India follows Pakistan at the third spot with 4.5 million such kids. Ranked fourth, Ethiopia fares better than nuclear powers Pakistan and India.

The elite evades taxation! What utter nonsense. This is criminal ! They are freaking traitors. The nation depends upon taxation for spending on different sectors of the economy. And they are bloody sabotaging the future of this nation by their callous and criminal acts. To add salt to the wounds, each one of them gets paid 10 million rupees per month to loot and plunder the nation !

Iqbal: Where are the learned religious men? Haven’t they done anything?

Jinnah: I always despised the Maulvis. The Ulema should have been a guiding force for the people. Where are they?

Iqbal: Eating halwa and dividing the people in so many sects or worshipping power and craving for material things like so many people who have been led astray by the Devil.

Jinnah: Iqbal, fanatics and lunatics grace the Madrassahs! Uneducated and educated monsters grace positions of power in government and society. Those who are honest, talented and capable contribute to the prosperity of foreign countries. Over here in Pakistan, they are ignored ! That is why IQBAL, this country is in the doldrums. We have become a state that enamors corruption and vice. Our role models are either actors, actresses, musicians, con artists or corrupt despots. There seems to be little value for educators, scientists, thinkers, philosophers, pious men and women. Ah what will become of Pakistan and its people?

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