Introduction:
The revolution starts by changes in ideas. Once the changes in thinking processes started then it needs that changes get maturity. Mind will remain active with practices of ideas. When the ideas are put in practice the difficulties and problems arise that were not thought before or neglected. Hence the thinking minds are needed to lead the revolutionary process. It is the process of maturity of revolution. The masses also mature with maturation of the revolution. If a revolution has to survive it has to evolve constantly and it only can evolve when there are thinking minds with clear visions and devotions. Hence every revolution has three basic processes:
1- Birth of revolution: The struggle to change opinion of masses and intellectuals is key to revolution. A culture and system that is making lives for people difficult, messy, hard to handle and no ways to escape can’t be expressed effectively by people. People usually lack the ability to express in coordinated manners though they express their sufferings frequently. The coordination of sufferings and finding their reasons in coordinated manner reveal the defects the culture and system that govern society. It is the intellectuals that have the ability to coordinate the sufferings, defects of culture and systems and link the sufferings of people to them. Similarly it is the intellectuals which can present the alternative solutions and systems. Presenting the alternative solutions is the seed of change in mind. This seed germinates only if the thought processes are continuously injected.
2- Maturation of revolution: When the ideas put into practice it would need a thinking body of visionary intellectuals to solve the problems and lead revolution in correct path (Stick to objectives). The high levels of flexibility in tactics and approaches are necessary for maturity of revolution.
3- Evolution of revolution: Once revolution succeeds to put its firm foundations in society and achieved the goals and changes it promised then there is need to expand and make alive the revolution. As coming generations are brought up under new situations and conditions so their preferences, judgments and objectives differ from previous generations. It is called generation gapes. Generation gaps are a common phenomenon of all societies. It is dangerous for revolutions and many revolutions collapse by ignoring generation gaps. The coming generations may reject the accomplishments of revolutions by making alternative historical interpretations and analysis so it is necessary for a revolution to indulge its every generation in revolutionary processes by creating tasks and making their minds thinking in the revolutionary lines. It is called evolution of the revolution.
In all three processes that we have counted the thinking process is the core and hub of the revolution. No revolution could take birth or succeed with leading thinkers. Societies which lack leading revolutionary groups or settings fail to have any revolution or have riots, civil wars, chaos and destructions by name of revolution.
A small introduction and knowing the stages of revolution we can have a short analysis of revolution by posing key questions and answers to them.
1- Does revolution need massive support to be started?
From historical evidences it is clear that revolution starts from small thinking devotees rather than in masses. The socialist revolution has its roots in Marx that had a small part of his life in political struggle and in large part had an intellectual struggle. It was not Karl Marx that had massive struggle for revolution and its maturity but it was Lenin and Mao who had evolved in Marxist thoughts that agitated people of Russia and China to propagate the Socialist and communist revolutions. The same example is fitted to the Islamic revolution in Iran. The leftist thoughts rooted in Marxism already working in China and Russia, and other parts of Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. The Islamic thoughts have roots both in Iran and Iraq. Imam Khomeini were old man lived majority of his life teaching Islamic thoughts. The thinking process requires time to develop leading intellectuals and coordination of thoughts.
If breaking of habits is difficult in individuals then breaking habit of masses is much difficult. Individuals suffer from their bad habits but it requires high levels of convincing to change the individual’s life style. To change lives of people it requires changes in culture and systems of society. Certainly both culture and system are too resistant to change. Cultures and systems are evolved through long processes and they govern daily lives of people. Changing these sustained cultures and systems require high levels of intellect, knowledge and visions. More important than this, is transferring of these intellect and visions to people to prepare people for a change.
The development of historical dialectic and historical materialism is the foundation of intellectual endeavors of communists and socialists movements. Similarly, the revival of concepts of Islamic government was the foundation of the Islamic movements which lead to the Islamic revolution of Iran.
2- How intellectual leaderships lead to maturity of revolution?
It is the Chinese communist party and the Islamic councils that lead the Chinese and Islamic revolution of Iran when the ideas put into practice. The Chinese communist party and Islamic councils were the sources of intellectual leaderships to bring revolution into maturity. The successful leadership involve in total restructuring and nourishing the young generation into a revolutionary culture. The most effective part of introducing new culture is educations, active and controlled participation of masses in processes of change.
3- Do people not become trouble making once they become habitual of resistance and aware of their powers?
Revolution is more sensitive than artworks as they just not only agitate people for change but also put people in constructive process of change. It is the real art of revolutionaries that they make people more responsible and contributing than normal conditions or in older exploiting systems and cultures. As agitations of people require learning new ideas and skills, interacting and coordinating with each other but once the revolution took place, it will follow unlearning processes in which people have to unlearn the agitating behaviors and learning constructions. Unlearning agitations and having active participations in reconstructing new revolutionary systems, culture and ideals in society the people require new skills, knowledge and coordination.
4- Societies are part of international communities and they have agreements. Revolutions break the relations between societies. How the revolutionary societies could reattach into international community?
Certainly! The revolution break ties with international community and even may result in conflict with international communities as we have seen in case of Soviet, Chinese, Cuban and Islamic revolution in Iran. As revolution matures, it starts evolving and it is the evolutionary phases of the revolution that the revolutions and the international community find ways to bring their relations and interactions normal. Why I have chosen the evolutionary stage of revolution as a phase of normalization of relation because in this phase or stage the revolutionary process would have constructed the promises it made and would have gained skills, knowledge, professionalism, productivities and capabilities that international communities can no more ignore them. The normalization of relations during world war two with soviets and with China during cold war is the proof of this fact. The Iran is heading its way to normalization and it has started after the Iran and Iraq war. The international community needs the skills, knowledge, resources and links that Iran have in Gulf, South Asia and Central Asian regions. This is why despite of the conflicts and rivalries international communities have partial relations with Iran.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Stories, too short (Part: 2)
Time has become the most precious commodity so the urge for quick tranfer of messages are needed everywhere. Here I have managed my time considering others time also..............
Stories, too short (Part: 2)
11
A hot discussion amidst of clashes of views and accusations were there. All were trying to find some points for attacking. The struggle of everyone was to show himself patriot and concerned about the national culture, identity and pride. An old man in panel was silent. When anchorperson asked him, “Why you are not participating in discussion?” He smiled and replied, “The intolerance in discussion shows lack of mind and that is why we know all about others but others don’t know about us. My silence was a rejection of intolerance.”
12
Boys were gathered around a fire in playground and were busy in a general conversation. The son of driver told, “I don’t like winter season as most of traders go to their villages and native cities and besides days are short. The utility bills rises and my father can hardly manage the expenses so I can’t get a smart pocket money”
“But I like the winter season as our clinic gets more patient. I pray the winter season stand longer and more people suffer from flue.” The doctor’s son protested.
“It is of equal opportunity for us so I don’t know whether I should like it or not” said the son of a fast food shop keeper. “In winter, prices of cold drinks and juices drop so we buy them in large amounts and store them. In summer when both prices and demands rise up we sell them.” He added.
13
“It is correct that we couldn’t serve our country as we should do. I accept that we had failures and mistakes. I know the country is in great trouble and many forces are threatening us but still we are hopeful” He responded in a very angrily type of speech to anchorperson.
“What your hope is based on?” Asked anchorperson
“Our youth is our future and my hope is based on our youth” He replied at the same temper.
“What is causing you to hope on the youth?”
“The hopes I see in eyes of youths are my hope”
“Your father had also said that youth is our future and I can see great promises and hopes in youths. But your generations were total failure?”
“I know that hope is no policy but we can’t find other policy stronger than hope”
14
“We were always ready to fight and resist for our friends but now when we are in great troubles, our friends are silent and our enemies are laughing and trying hard to damage us more. Perhaps, we are not reaching well to our friends that they can’t understand our situation and are not helping us?” An elder in meeting stated.
“I don’t think that in era of information and chaos nations can afford misinformation and ignorance both about their friends and enemies.” Another elder replied.
“OK! If our friends can understand our situations and they are intentionally silent and not helping us then, it means that even our friends are agree for our punishments for death. Have you not heard the famous proverb that, “The punishment for crime of weakness is death?”
“No! Weakness is not a crime but relying on others instead of relying on ourselves are a crime and whose punishment is really death.”
“What do you mean by others? Are our friends are also come under definition of others?”
“Yes! All those who don’t have common roots with us are others. Those, whose interests are linked with us, come to us as friends and those whose interests are in harm due to us, confront us as enemies. We can reduce the sizes of our enemies by relying on ourselves and strengthening ourselves. Those who are strong have more friends and those who are weak have more enemies.”
15
They were three brothers with a small retail shop as their only possession and sources of livelihood but their unity and selflessness grew them into several wholesale points and transportation business. As they grew rich their home became the focal point of the local people. Their elder brother became leader of their tribe. His main political point to share with all were, “ If we got a place where only our people could live, with all heirs of single race, single religion, single language and single cultural practices then we will require no police and no courts and there would be an unimaginable progress as there would be no clashes. There would be only harmony and cooperation for an ever increasing progress.”
People were really impressed of his hope and promises. He was highly respected in community. A few years later, I heard of clashes and separations between the brothers. It was really a strange event for all so I asked from one of his neighbors, “What was the dividing factor?”
“Oh! What else could you expect? It was wealth. Have you not heard that all conflicts are rooted in one of three factors, land, wealth and women? As their businesses expanded and each brother had to control a lot, so the struggles for bigger shares started and similarly the blames which lead to breaking of brothers”
I was thinking that even in most idealist situations we can’t rule out dividing factors and it is a natural principle for assortments of species.
16
There was a long queue of patients for getting token for OPD. A man rushed with his little sister ignoring the queue. First he asked his little sister to take token but she failed as she was too short to reach the window where computerized token were distributed. Then he himself reached the windows and asked the computer operator to issue him a token. They were talking in their own tribal language. All those who were in queue were members of other tribes. As people in queue protested against him, he replied, “There is no justice in Pakistan.” I was amazed of his logic. He was committing injustice and was blaming the country for injustice.
17
“Only Hazaras are paying utilities bills. Others either steal electricity or pay no bill”
Looking to my father told the WAPDA officer to whom my father was complaining about 1500 Rs of utility bill which we have deposited but some official has transferred them to the account of another person.
My father smiled and replied, “The fishes of fresh water can’t survive in brine water”
The officer looked in surprise to my father and replied, “You are correct, it is why you people have better lives than others.”
18
Everyone was feeling deep sorrows for him. He was a person whose all wishes were come true as his father was a rich and influenced man in the area. His father was a well known politician and an international trader. His homes were always filled with men and women when he was home. Some were coming to him to resolve their differences; others come to him for help and future of their children. Many were there just for raising their social status by showing their links to him. He was too busy to give attention to his family. There were money and their wills to live. His son was the most fortunate boy in area. His was travelling continuously to neighboring cities, countries and had always new toys and gifts coming from his father trips and from visitors and well wishers. He had money to spend as he wished. He had respect and pride. All children were wishing a life and position of him.
But now he was a person engulfed in debts and no hope. After death of his father he couldn’t manage his life and spend as always and lost everything in heir and now he was unable to steer his life. He was living on support of others who were in debt of his father’s helps.
I remembered my uncle’s saying that, “Fortunate in not those who born with rich heirs but fortunate is one who born in a wise family. A wise family raises wise children who live a life of great achievements and source of inspirations for others.” I was convinced of his truth of his observation.
19
It was science class of grade three, the most feared class. There were frequent oral tests and frequent punishments. After 15 days of spring holidays of Nauroz celebration there were expectations of tough oral tests besides loads of home works. Except of few brilliant students most of students feared of tough punishments from science teacher. Class started and teacher was asking questions and was lining students according to their wrong and true questions. Now it was the Tahir’s turn. Teacher called, “ Tahir!” Tahir was looking to teacher as he has not heard anything. Again teacher called, “Tahir! I am speaking to you. Are you deaf?”
Tahir, while standing replied, “I can’t hear anything. Are you with me Sir?”
Teacher walked to Tahir and as he reached to Tahir he stood silent there for a while just staring at Tahir. Then he leaned over Tahir and brought his mouth near Tahir’s ear and whispered in his ear,”Tahirrrrrrrrrrrrr…..”
Tahir also replied in same tone of whispering with a very dim voice, “Yes sirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…………”
All the class started laughing as it was proved that was totally failed in proving himself deaf. The teacher forgave all students and told the class, “You can’t overcome difficulties of life just by ignoring them. You have to face them to see how much difficulties are coward and you are brave. Once you learn about your bravery then your life is a certain success.”
20
He was a typical introvert person, rarely participating in talks. Due to his usual non-responding nature his friends considered him foolish. They were always neglected him in decision making. At that Thursday they made a mountain hiking plan. Responsibilities for preparation of hiking divided. He was given no responsibility. One of the friends told,” He is unable to make any decision by him or complete a responsibility given. He is physically strong like beast so we just give him water pots as they are heavy and he is good in transportation. Next day, all water bottles put in a large bag and provided to him. It was the heaviest bag that all were carrying with them. When team started hiking he was a little behind than others and as the steep of mountain increased the distance between team and him was increasing due to weight of water bottles. Friends were making joke of him and left him far behind. As the team reached the peak, they decided to make a camp there. After they rested a while they were feeling thirsty and they also needed water for cooking and preparing tea. Half hour later he reached to team and put bag near other bags. All friends come to bag to drink water but to astonishment of all, all water bottles were empty. They look to each other and to him. All were almost weeping but he was smiling. They were punished by one who was neglected by them. He had emptied all bottles on the way. On the way back all friends had filled bag but he was carrying an empty bag.
Stories, too short (Part: 2)
11
A hot discussion amidst of clashes of views and accusations were there. All were trying to find some points for attacking. The struggle of everyone was to show himself patriot and concerned about the national culture, identity and pride. An old man in panel was silent. When anchorperson asked him, “Why you are not participating in discussion?” He smiled and replied, “The intolerance in discussion shows lack of mind and that is why we know all about others but others don’t know about us. My silence was a rejection of intolerance.”
12
Boys were gathered around a fire in playground and were busy in a general conversation. The son of driver told, “I don’t like winter season as most of traders go to their villages and native cities and besides days are short. The utility bills rises and my father can hardly manage the expenses so I can’t get a smart pocket money”
“But I like the winter season as our clinic gets more patient. I pray the winter season stand longer and more people suffer from flue.” The doctor’s son protested.
“It is of equal opportunity for us so I don’t know whether I should like it or not” said the son of a fast food shop keeper. “In winter, prices of cold drinks and juices drop so we buy them in large amounts and store them. In summer when both prices and demands rise up we sell them.” He added.
13
“It is correct that we couldn’t serve our country as we should do. I accept that we had failures and mistakes. I know the country is in great trouble and many forces are threatening us but still we are hopeful” He responded in a very angrily type of speech to anchorperson.
“What your hope is based on?” Asked anchorperson
“Our youth is our future and my hope is based on our youth” He replied at the same temper.
“What is causing you to hope on the youth?”
“The hopes I see in eyes of youths are my hope”
“Your father had also said that youth is our future and I can see great promises and hopes in youths. But your generations were total failure?”
“I know that hope is no policy but we can’t find other policy stronger than hope”
14
“We were always ready to fight and resist for our friends but now when we are in great troubles, our friends are silent and our enemies are laughing and trying hard to damage us more. Perhaps, we are not reaching well to our friends that they can’t understand our situation and are not helping us?” An elder in meeting stated.
“I don’t think that in era of information and chaos nations can afford misinformation and ignorance both about their friends and enemies.” Another elder replied.
“OK! If our friends can understand our situations and they are intentionally silent and not helping us then, it means that even our friends are agree for our punishments for death. Have you not heard the famous proverb that, “The punishment for crime of weakness is death?”
“No! Weakness is not a crime but relying on others instead of relying on ourselves are a crime and whose punishment is really death.”
“What do you mean by others? Are our friends are also come under definition of others?”
“Yes! All those who don’t have common roots with us are others. Those, whose interests are linked with us, come to us as friends and those whose interests are in harm due to us, confront us as enemies. We can reduce the sizes of our enemies by relying on ourselves and strengthening ourselves. Those who are strong have more friends and those who are weak have more enemies.”
15
They were three brothers with a small retail shop as their only possession and sources of livelihood but their unity and selflessness grew them into several wholesale points and transportation business. As they grew rich their home became the focal point of the local people. Their elder brother became leader of their tribe. His main political point to share with all were, “ If we got a place where only our people could live, with all heirs of single race, single religion, single language and single cultural practices then we will require no police and no courts and there would be an unimaginable progress as there would be no clashes. There would be only harmony and cooperation for an ever increasing progress.”
People were really impressed of his hope and promises. He was highly respected in community. A few years later, I heard of clashes and separations between the brothers. It was really a strange event for all so I asked from one of his neighbors, “What was the dividing factor?”
“Oh! What else could you expect? It was wealth. Have you not heard that all conflicts are rooted in one of three factors, land, wealth and women? As their businesses expanded and each brother had to control a lot, so the struggles for bigger shares started and similarly the blames which lead to breaking of brothers”
I was thinking that even in most idealist situations we can’t rule out dividing factors and it is a natural principle for assortments of species.
16
There was a long queue of patients for getting token for OPD. A man rushed with his little sister ignoring the queue. First he asked his little sister to take token but she failed as she was too short to reach the window where computerized token were distributed. Then he himself reached the windows and asked the computer operator to issue him a token. They were talking in their own tribal language. All those who were in queue were members of other tribes. As people in queue protested against him, he replied, “There is no justice in Pakistan.” I was amazed of his logic. He was committing injustice and was blaming the country for injustice.
17
“Only Hazaras are paying utilities bills. Others either steal electricity or pay no bill”
Looking to my father told the WAPDA officer to whom my father was complaining about 1500 Rs of utility bill which we have deposited but some official has transferred them to the account of another person.
My father smiled and replied, “The fishes of fresh water can’t survive in brine water”
The officer looked in surprise to my father and replied, “You are correct, it is why you people have better lives than others.”
18
Everyone was feeling deep sorrows for him. He was a person whose all wishes were come true as his father was a rich and influenced man in the area. His father was a well known politician and an international trader. His homes were always filled with men and women when he was home. Some were coming to him to resolve their differences; others come to him for help and future of their children. Many were there just for raising their social status by showing their links to him. He was too busy to give attention to his family. There were money and their wills to live. His son was the most fortunate boy in area. His was travelling continuously to neighboring cities, countries and had always new toys and gifts coming from his father trips and from visitors and well wishers. He had money to spend as he wished. He had respect and pride. All children were wishing a life and position of him.
But now he was a person engulfed in debts and no hope. After death of his father he couldn’t manage his life and spend as always and lost everything in heir and now he was unable to steer his life. He was living on support of others who were in debt of his father’s helps.
I remembered my uncle’s saying that, “Fortunate in not those who born with rich heirs but fortunate is one who born in a wise family. A wise family raises wise children who live a life of great achievements and source of inspirations for others.” I was convinced of his truth of his observation.
19
It was science class of grade three, the most feared class. There were frequent oral tests and frequent punishments. After 15 days of spring holidays of Nauroz celebration there were expectations of tough oral tests besides loads of home works. Except of few brilliant students most of students feared of tough punishments from science teacher. Class started and teacher was asking questions and was lining students according to their wrong and true questions. Now it was the Tahir’s turn. Teacher called, “ Tahir!” Tahir was looking to teacher as he has not heard anything. Again teacher called, “Tahir! I am speaking to you. Are you deaf?”
Tahir, while standing replied, “I can’t hear anything. Are you with me Sir?”
Teacher walked to Tahir and as he reached to Tahir he stood silent there for a while just staring at Tahir. Then he leaned over Tahir and brought his mouth near Tahir’s ear and whispered in his ear,”Tahirrrrrrrrrrrrr…..”
Tahir also replied in same tone of whispering with a very dim voice, “Yes sirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…………”
All the class started laughing as it was proved that was totally failed in proving himself deaf. The teacher forgave all students and told the class, “You can’t overcome difficulties of life just by ignoring them. You have to face them to see how much difficulties are coward and you are brave. Once you learn about your bravery then your life is a certain success.”
20
He was a typical introvert person, rarely participating in talks. Due to his usual non-responding nature his friends considered him foolish. They were always neglected him in decision making. At that Thursday they made a mountain hiking plan. Responsibilities for preparation of hiking divided. He was given no responsibility. One of the friends told,” He is unable to make any decision by him or complete a responsibility given. He is physically strong like beast so we just give him water pots as they are heavy and he is good in transportation. Next day, all water bottles put in a large bag and provided to him. It was the heaviest bag that all were carrying with them. When team started hiking he was a little behind than others and as the steep of mountain increased the distance between team and him was increasing due to weight of water bottles. Friends were making joke of him and left him far behind. As the team reached the peak, they decided to make a camp there. After they rested a while they were feeling thirsty and they also needed water for cooking and preparing tea. Half hour later he reached to team and put bag near other bags. All friends come to bag to drink water but to astonishment of all, all water bottles were empty. They look to each other and to him. All were almost weeping but he was smiling. They were punished by one who was neglected by them. He had emptied all bottles on the way. On the way back all friends had filled bag but he was carrying an empty bag.
Clashes of meanings OR Crisis of identities?
Introduction:
We have all seen the changing language of the people in different occasions. Some occasions have their specific words and manners of speaking. These consciousness of meanings and changes of languages according to occasions are the signs of the civic life. The level of familiarity with these words and languages add to nobility of individuals so people try very hard to learn them. As culture and politics have a lot in common both in functionality and purposes so here we would look to some aspects of the clashes and conflicts that are in political and cultural circles of world.
Meaning is the foundation of the culture and cultural activities. It is the meaning that leads to developments of values and it is the set of values which collectively construct culture. It is the culture that directs our cultural activities and behaviors like politics, education and economics which in turn shape the societies and determine our positions in society. Do meaning work the way we have linked the meanings with values, then culture and cultural activities? How we create new meanings out of old ones and events and how they affect our lives? Let’s take a few examples,
Redefining the meaning of economy and history
Historical dialectic or historical materialism was in fact a reconstruction of meaning of history and economy. History was viewed as economical struggles between classes, class struggles, new men, proletarian revolution and planned economy. These new meanings developed new values in societies which welcome the Proletarian revolution. All the values related to higher classes become evil. There were clashes and conflicts between old values and new revolutionary values. Culture, traditions, religions and icons were banned from public practices. Secular men and women’s lives were no more directed by the promises of the lives of after deaths but were based on better lives promised by communism and socialism. Their culture were based on animosity with rival political and economical systems namely capitalism and religions. Equality of men was thought in the form of the economical equality. Equation doesn’t mean equal proportion but still the economical equality was promoted. Today if we look back we can’t find economic equality in any parts of the world under any economic system or political system throughout human history. Promotion of the socialists and communist values led to conflicts and clashes within the societies and with other societies the most famous and lengthy of which is cold war.
Redefining the religious languages and imagery
Colonization of the Muslim world by European forces especially by British Empire was the most destructive to Muslim civilization. British Empire knew well the importance of religion in thoughts and acts of people. If the Empire had to be strengthen and expanded then the religion was the strongest tool. British Empire was not only used the differences of between the sect to widen the differences and to cause an unending conflict between Muslim sects but also using them for the Political purposes. Creating Afghan Mujahidin against Hazaras of Hazarajat and make Hazarajat part of Afghanistan to make Afghanistan a buffer zone against the Russian Empire is a very well known and well documented example.
It was the first time that these Mujahidin gave new meanings to holy war of Islam. By declaring the Muslims infidels and allowing to massacre them, enslave them, burning their homes, orchards, fields and businesses, confiscating their lands, forced immigrations, putting heavy duties and selling their sons and daughters and distributing their men and women among the tribes of the Afghan Mujahidin. These were no known in Islamic rules of war. It was first time that the Afghan tribal traditions were presented by the name of Islam. The Islamic Jihad or holy war got new meaning and it was supported by British Empire.
As religion is the best tool for the massive brain washing so the British Empire planned to make a new sect in Muslims which promote the British interests in Muslim world especially in oil rich areas of the Gulf countries. It was the British support that a new sect by the Wahabism was introduced and it was injected in the Saudi family the kings of the Saudi Arabia. Wahabism gave the new meaning to every rule of the Islam and call its opponents infidels and allowed to kill infidels confiscate their properties and enslave their women and children. These were the start of the extremism in Muslim world. Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Somalia have seen the worst practices of these extremists. The values and cultures that come of these new meanings shocked the Muslims and Muslim world and defamed Islam in way that losses and wounds is impossible to be healed.
Without new definitions of meanings and extremists values and cultures Islamic states could have Islamic unions, single currency, monitoring systems, open trades and passport entries without visas in Islamic countries and unified defense. The allied economics and defense systems of the Muslim countries could help solve the Palestinian, Iraqi, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Chechen an, Bosnian, Somalia and Sudan problems. Unfortunately the extremists cultures implanted in Islamic countries by Western forces left out Muslim states of those opportunities and to pity of Western Powers.
Redefining the culture by mesmerization of Western Ideals
The vast gapes of progress between the Western world and third world countries have put a very deep psychological effect on the minds of the youths of the underdeveloped and developing countries. The youth want to escape the poverty and the sense of the inferiority so they are adopting the western life styles in order to escape their poverty and sense of inferiority. These efforts make them compel to redefine and give new meaning s to a lot of things that are essential parts of their daily lives, cultures and societies. The force that compels them is mesmerization of Western ideals. The idealist writings of the Western philosophers, men and women of letters, politicians, scientists, musicians, film stars, etc are the sources of the new meanings. The change in languages, dressings, dinning, education, behaviors and celebrations have introduced new sets of values. These values in turn introduced a new culture that is in conflict with traditional cultures. A conflict with ones history and culture can’t be said as generation gap but a disconnection of with ones past and identities. These youths are not able to totally westernize nor they are able to connect with their history and culture and hence they are suffering from identity crisis.
Identity crisis is not a simple problem because it blurs the visions and minimizes the role of these youths in reconstructions and renaissance of these societies. The inability to judge and compare the meanings, cultures and values made these youths to become deeply mesmerize and let them in any direction that popular cultures are leading them. Youths are struggling beyond their resources and potentials and it costing them much and hence they are unable to create meanings, values and cultures that could accommodate their resources, potentials and gave them a directions in which they could reconnect with their cultures as well as make them able to earn identities and recognitions.
We have all seen the changing language of the people in different occasions. Some occasions have their specific words and manners of speaking. These consciousness of meanings and changes of languages according to occasions are the signs of the civic life. The level of familiarity with these words and languages add to nobility of individuals so people try very hard to learn them. As culture and politics have a lot in common both in functionality and purposes so here we would look to some aspects of the clashes and conflicts that are in political and cultural circles of world.
Meaning is the foundation of the culture and cultural activities. It is the meaning that leads to developments of values and it is the set of values which collectively construct culture. It is the culture that directs our cultural activities and behaviors like politics, education and economics which in turn shape the societies and determine our positions in society. Do meaning work the way we have linked the meanings with values, then culture and cultural activities? How we create new meanings out of old ones and events and how they affect our lives? Let’s take a few examples,
Redefining the meaning of economy and history
Historical dialectic or historical materialism was in fact a reconstruction of meaning of history and economy. History was viewed as economical struggles between classes, class struggles, new men, proletarian revolution and planned economy. These new meanings developed new values in societies which welcome the Proletarian revolution. All the values related to higher classes become evil. There were clashes and conflicts between old values and new revolutionary values. Culture, traditions, religions and icons were banned from public practices. Secular men and women’s lives were no more directed by the promises of the lives of after deaths but were based on better lives promised by communism and socialism. Their culture were based on animosity with rival political and economical systems namely capitalism and religions. Equality of men was thought in the form of the economical equality. Equation doesn’t mean equal proportion but still the economical equality was promoted. Today if we look back we can’t find economic equality in any parts of the world under any economic system or political system throughout human history. Promotion of the socialists and communist values led to conflicts and clashes within the societies and with other societies the most famous and lengthy of which is cold war.
Redefining the religious languages and imagery
Colonization of the Muslim world by European forces especially by British Empire was the most destructive to Muslim civilization. British Empire knew well the importance of religion in thoughts and acts of people. If the Empire had to be strengthen and expanded then the religion was the strongest tool. British Empire was not only used the differences of between the sect to widen the differences and to cause an unending conflict between Muslim sects but also using them for the Political purposes. Creating Afghan Mujahidin against Hazaras of Hazarajat and make Hazarajat part of Afghanistan to make Afghanistan a buffer zone against the Russian Empire is a very well known and well documented example.
It was the first time that these Mujahidin gave new meanings to holy war of Islam. By declaring the Muslims infidels and allowing to massacre them, enslave them, burning their homes, orchards, fields and businesses, confiscating their lands, forced immigrations, putting heavy duties and selling their sons and daughters and distributing their men and women among the tribes of the Afghan Mujahidin. These were no known in Islamic rules of war. It was first time that the Afghan tribal traditions were presented by the name of Islam. The Islamic Jihad or holy war got new meaning and it was supported by British Empire.
As religion is the best tool for the massive brain washing so the British Empire planned to make a new sect in Muslims which promote the British interests in Muslim world especially in oil rich areas of the Gulf countries. It was the British support that a new sect by the Wahabism was introduced and it was injected in the Saudi family the kings of the Saudi Arabia. Wahabism gave the new meaning to every rule of the Islam and call its opponents infidels and allowed to kill infidels confiscate their properties and enslave their women and children. These were the start of the extremism in Muslim world. Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Somalia have seen the worst practices of these extremists. The values and cultures that come of these new meanings shocked the Muslims and Muslim world and defamed Islam in way that losses and wounds is impossible to be healed.
Without new definitions of meanings and extremists values and cultures Islamic states could have Islamic unions, single currency, monitoring systems, open trades and passport entries without visas in Islamic countries and unified defense. The allied economics and defense systems of the Muslim countries could help solve the Palestinian, Iraqi, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Chechen an, Bosnian, Somalia and Sudan problems. Unfortunately the extremists cultures implanted in Islamic countries by Western forces left out Muslim states of those opportunities and to pity of Western Powers.
Redefining the culture by mesmerization of Western Ideals
The vast gapes of progress between the Western world and third world countries have put a very deep psychological effect on the minds of the youths of the underdeveloped and developing countries. The youth want to escape the poverty and the sense of the inferiority so they are adopting the western life styles in order to escape their poverty and sense of inferiority. These efforts make them compel to redefine and give new meaning s to a lot of things that are essential parts of their daily lives, cultures and societies. The force that compels them is mesmerization of Western ideals. The idealist writings of the Western philosophers, men and women of letters, politicians, scientists, musicians, film stars, etc are the sources of the new meanings. The change in languages, dressings, dinning, education, behaviors and celebrations have introduced new sets of values. These values in turn introduced a new culture that is in conflict with traditional cultures. A conflict with ones history and culture can’t be said as generation gap but a disconnection of with ones past and identities. These youths are not able to totally westernize nor they are able to connect with their history and culture and hence they are suffering from identity crisis.
Identity crisis is not a simple problem because it blurs the visions and minimizes the role of these youths in reconstructions and renaissance of these societies. The inability to judge and compare the meanings, cultures and values made these youths to become deeply mesmerize and let them in any direction that popular cultures are leading them. Youths are struggling beyond their resources and potentials and it costing them much and hence they are unable to create meanings, values and cultures that could accommodate their resources, potentials and gave them a directions in which they could reconnect with their cultures as well as make them able to earn identities and recognitions.
Oh my heart you are very cruel
Oh my heart you are very cruel
That you want beyond solid’s rule
Every tear reflects the endless picture
Neither colors nor sounds can adventure
My blood losses heat its heat, when run
It is neither the cold money nor gun
Open eyes are empty, closed are full
Death can’t dare to swallow, life can’t pull
No form can fit it. Is it formless?
If it snatches satisfaction, is it harmless?
Does it fly? Does it swim or flow?
How it comes I really don’t know
If I could read my heart’s Atlas
There would be triumphs of desire’s surplus
My heart is beyond the reaches of Arts
I don’t know how it ends and how it starts
My blood and sweats are ready to buy
Either you desire sorrow or joy
No distinction is between wise and fool
Hearts were cruel and hearts are cruel
Your tales are sweet and my dreams are sweet
Your tales are sweet and my dreams are sweet
But we are engulfed by blood and sweat
You are inherited wisdom and wealth
But you are not looking in good health
My heart shakes when I open my eyes
You are not colored, what show your dyes
I closed my eyes with your sweet tales
Sweet dreams were there but not for sale
I saw additions and multiplications
But not disturbing anyone’s vacations
There were subtractions and divisions
But they were of growth not of decisions
When I awake of my dreams
I was scared of laughter, snores and screams
Face of living earth was looking formless
Even the growth zones were not harmless
I searched order but there were none
With differences what could be done?
Equation is the fact that rule orders
When it works, it doesn’t bind to borders
Coming back from school
Sun runs to middle of sky
And singing lips run dry
A child with cheers and joy
Runs to his father standby
It is what remembers a school boy
The moments loveliest than any toy
Eyes are closing and tired is greed
And he is unable to read
He comes out of school
Cloud is darkened and breeze is cool
But he doesn’t run with joy
He is no more a school boy
With heavy steps and head
He was a walking dead
A familiar sound awakened him
He was a child calling, “Hi dad”
Walking with father, the school boy was glad
Books, computers, squirrels and cat
Dark clouds, snow are all what he chat
He is no more a school boy
Though his reading lips still run dry
That you want beyond solid’s rule
Every tear reflects the endless picture
Neither colors nor sounds can adventure
My blood losses heat its heat, when run
It is neither the cold money nor gun
Open eyes are empty, closed are full
Death can’t dare to swallow, life can’t pull
No form can fit it. Is it formless?
If it snatches satisfaction, is it harmless?
Does it fly? Does it swim or flow?
How it comes I really don’t know
If I could read my heart’s Atlas
There would be triumphs of desire’s surplus
My heart is beyond the reaches of Arts
I don’t know how it ends and how it starts
My blood and sweats are ready to buy
Either you desire sorrow or joy
No distinction is between wise and fool
Hearts were cruel and hearts are cruel
Your tales are sweet and my dreams are sweet
Your tales are sweet and my dreams are sweet
But we are engulfed by blood and sweat
You are inherited wisdom and wealth
But you are not looking in good health
My heart shakes when I open my eyes
You are not colored, what show your dyes
I closed my eyes with your sweet tales
Sweet dreams were there but not for sale
I saw additions and multiplications
But not disturbing anyone’s vacations
There were subtractions and divisions
But they were of growth not of decisions
When I awake of my dreams
I was scared of laughter, snores and screams
Face of living earth was looking formless
Even the growth zones were not harmless
I searched order but there were none
With differences what could be done?
Equation is the fact that rule orders
When it works, it doesn’t bind to borders
Coming back from school
Sun runs to middle of sky
And singing lips run dry
A child with cheers and joy
Runs to his father standby
It is what remembers a school boy
The moments loveliest than any toy
Eyes are closing and tired is greed
And he is unable to read
He comes out of school
Cloud is darkened and breeze is cool
But he doesn’t run with joy
He is no more a school boy
With heavy steps and head
He was a walking dead
A familiar sound awakened him
He was a child calling, “Hi dad”
Walking with father, the school boy was glad
Books, computers, squirrels and cat
Dark clouds, snow are all what he chat
He is no more a school boy
Though his reading lips still run dry
Sparks of Hope
White Pages Of History
There are unlimited dyes
That not discovered by eyes
It is undiscovered dyes
That eye is wandering through skies
There under shadows of wisdom, beauty lies
Beauty dances with naïve questions and innocent replies
Some knights are coming by riding history
When they pace into darkness, cruelty cries
White pages of history ask sweats
Write about heights of characters when it repeats
The rhythms of life is not hidden
Ear can hear heart when it beats
3/7/2002
They Named Him Mad
When he put his hands to collar of fear
Honor kissed him and told, “Oh! My dear”
Experience cleaned his sweat
Success wished a drop of his tear
Fear left unknown and passion embraced
All sprites vaporized when he faced
His mind is filled with colored shadows of paradise
In unknown worlds when he paced
They named him mad
And his songs of liberty bad
But reality proved it miracle
And lightened beauties under shad
He cried when faces turned pale
His voices still comes if you can hear
Don’t dream of all air of city to inhale
Take the purest which trees of nature exhale
3/7/2002
Sparks Of Hope
It is sparks of hope
That men is satisfied on cope
Success walks along with passion
And victory untie every rope
Passion’s heat burn such roses
That man proposes and God disposes
Determination has a triumph
Like sleeping on bed of roses
One can’t resist burning in passions fire
That tears in eyes agrees to be love’s heir
It is the indications of hearts fire
And hope to achieve the most wished desire
30/1/2002
Sun's Call
How can I control my insides fires?
How can I shape my desires?
A shadow is of wall
But comes after sun’s call
Winds are sings of rain
My love will bring you back again
9/1/2002
O Walls! You May Collapse
O Wall! You may collapse
That prevented me from her glimpse
You have won enough
You have, but I have no option
Others were dancing around you
Walls, tents and joys were surrounded you
Heartedly I called you
Except of coins nothing sounded you
I am earning to earn you
But more coins may turn you
The poverty are burying my desires
My praying hands are tied with hardships wires
But still I wish walls may collapse
That prevented me from your glimpse
5/1/2002
There are unlimited dyes
That not discovered by eyes
It is undiscovered dyes
That eye is wandering through skies
There under shadows of wisdom, beauty lies
Beauty dances with naïve questions and innocent replies
Some knights are coming by riding history
When they pace into darkness, cruelty cries
White pages of history ask sweats
Write about heights of characters when it repeats
The rhythms of life is not hidden
Ear can hear heart when it beats
3/7/2002
They Named Him Mad
When he put his hands to collar of fear
Honor kissed him and told, “Oh! My dear”
Experience cleaned his sweat
Success wished a drop of his tear
Fear left unknown and passion embraced
All sprites vaporized when he faced
His mind is filled with colored shadows of paradise
In unknown worlds when he paced
They named him mad
And his songs of liberty bad
But reality proved it miracle
And lightened beauties under shad
He cried when faces turned pale
His voices still comes if you can hear
Don’t dream of all air of city to inhale
Take the purest which trees of nature exhale
3/7/2002
Sparks Of Hope
It is sparks of hope
That men is satisfied on cope
Success walks along with passion
And victory untie every rope
Passion’s heat burn such roses
That man proposes and God disposes
Determination has a triumph
Like sleeping on bed of roses
One can’t resist burning in passions fire
That tears in eyes agrees to be love’s heir
It is the indications of hearts fire
And hope to achieve the most wished desire
30/1/2002
Sun's Call
How can I control my insides fires?
How can I shape my desires?
A shadow is of wall
But comes after sun’s call
Winds are sings of rain
My love will bring you back again
9/1/2002
O Walls! You May Collapse
O Wall! You may collapse
That prevented me from her glimpse
You have won enough
You have, but I have no option
Others were dancing around you
Walls, tents and joys were surrounded you
Heartedly I called you
Except of coins nothing sounded you
I am earning to earn you
But more coins may turn you
The poverty are burying my desires
My praying hands are tied with hardships wires
But still I wish walls may collapse
That prevented me from your glimpse
5/1/2002
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