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person has his own temperament and his own approach;
he has his own priorities and natural inclinations;
it’s not necessary that everyone should feel the
same way. Ever since I have read this report and seen
the torn and dead remains, and the faces of those tiny
newborns, I have a peculiar feeling inside me. Their
picture does not leave my eyes. A question relentlessly
goes round and round my mind: have we really become
so vacuous, so low, so heartless, and so wicked that
we fail to have the least pity for tiny, innocent lives?
Are we really so powerless at the hands of momentary
pleasures and fleeting gratification that we have lost
all sense? Neither Allah’s commands nor the teachings
of the Prophet sallallahu ‘alaihi wassallam, or
the family’s honor, or moral constraints and principles,
or conscience, or humanity stop us?
This report is in context of an organization that buries
unclaimed bodies and picks up babies still alive but
abandoned by their immoral mothers who wish to veil
their sin by throwing their babies on heaps of rubbish,
sewerages, backstreets, empty parks, and in those cribs
that have specially been provided for the purpose.
90 percent of these babies are killed before being thrown
away. Some are torn from limb to limb, some are burnt,
some have the life squeezed out of them, and some of
those that are abandoned are bitten and gnawed to death
by stray cats and dogs, while some cannot endure the
hunger, weakness or rigors of weather. Some mothers
leave behind their babies on the benches of hospitals
they were born in or tell the nurses to take them and
give them away to anyone they like.
80 percent of the abandoned babies are female which
shows that couples too prefer sons and daughters are
left to die. The ultrasound has made it easier now to
know before the birth whether a baby is male or female.
A lot of unborn females never see daylight. It has been
discovered that 600 such babies are found annually in
the country, out of which 100 are alive and 500 dead.
What becomes of these children? Where do they go? This
is a different discussion.
Anyway, this report is enough to open our eyes. It shows
the degeneration, low morals, heartlessness of the society,
and the propagation of immodesty. This degeneration
and lowliness has not befallen us suddenly. Multinational
companies, filmmakers, the actors and actresses dominating
the media, and we ourselves have worked at it for years.
It has taken billions of Rupees and tens of thousands
of minds to get us there. When nudity and obscenity
rule, when the roads are overflowing with naked splendor,
when the papers and magazines are filled with semi-bare,
nay, bare pictures; the TV is rife with arousing scenes;
films and dramas are fanning dormant desires; when schools,
colleges, homes, and streets are festooned with the
mixing of sexes; when sharai pardah is cast off as a
remnant of backwardness; when adopting the cursed western
styles becomes all the rage; when tying the knot is
made an arduous procedure with the tough walls of dowry,
standard, and traditions and custom to scale; when the
yardstick for a proposal becomes not a good character
but riches, cars, and bungalows; yes! When all is done
to fan and heighten the flames of desire and then all
possible actions taken to impede legal courses of action…………in
that case we will just have to witness such horrifying
and chilling sights. We will just have to pick half-burned,
torn, twisted, and bewailing bodies from rubbish heaps,
sewerages, backstreets, empty parks and dismal lanes.
Even animals cannot equal such savagery that a deluded
“single mother” metes out to her baby.
You must have seen the common enough sight of a sick,
hungry bitch offering her pups the last drops of life
and nourishment in her body, who will jump at any threat,
however great, to her babies. But who are these people
who have made the “woman of the east” first
shameless and then so hard hearted that no family value,
no code of behavior, no religious law, no stab of the
conscience stops her from treading the path of sin.
In the days of Ignorance it was the man who squeezed
the life out of his daughter, but today, in our society
it has become the mother who dumps the life of her life,
the life nourished with her own `blood to the mercy
of buzzing flies, poisonous insects, hungry alley cats,
and brutal, ravenous dogs. If the clandestine meetings
that stripped her shame and honor was one sin, then
this is the next: of murdering an innocent life.
You may remember when one woman of the days of the Prophet
sallallahu ‘alaihi wassallam was guilty of such
a sin and she was restless with the thought of her indiscretion.
She came to the blessed Prophet sallallahu ‘alaihi
wassallam to ask him to impose the had (Islamic law)
on her and thus purge her of her sin. RasulAllah sallallahu
‘alaihi wassallam had answered,
“You have sinned, but what fault is it
of the innocent life growing in your womb? What should
I punish him for?”
She went away but came back after the baby was born
and repeated her request. He sallallahu ‘alaihi
wassallam argued that if she were gone, who would bring
up her child? Then she came when she had weaned the
child and it held a piece of bread in its hand. She
said, “Ya RasulAllah! Now he is weaned of milk.”
After that she was punished for her transgression.
To kill an illegitimate child is undoubtedly murder.
But the question is how to prevent such murders? By
adding to the number of cribs? By validating illegal
births? By encouraging the unmarried parents to carry
on with their heads up in society? No! Certainly not!
We will have to find a solution not with the glasses
of the west but under light of the Islamic Laws. We
will have to rein in those papers, magazines and journals
that have made woman’s body, her beauty, her bareness,
and obscenity the means to further their circulation.
Our papers and magazines consider it their loyal duty
to highlight any obscenity anywhere in the world or
any scandal of actors or actresses or sportsmen. We
will have to ban those films and dramas that have nothing
but violence, romance, and abductions in them. We will
have to keep an eye on those mixed gatherings, educational
institutions, and clubs where the germs of indulgence
nourish and seeds of sin take root. Unless we make marriage
a lot easier it will be impossible to stop illegitimate
relations. No one will be able to stop the advance of
unlawful means of fulfilling natural desires when lawful
means will be held back.
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