Destiny of Our Heroes
History is the biography of great people who sacrifice their comfort rather than their self for their cause and mission and it is the duty of other people to pay honour and homage to them for their great work. Great nations keep their heroes and their message alive forever. History of Islam is brightened and lightened by many such great people. But unfortunately the maltreatment and in some cases brutal acts with great people is also present in our history.
The land of Indus weeps blood when it sees the brutality being destined to its savior and Andataa Hazrat Muhammad Bin Qasim on Arabian sands. The greatness and bravery of that pious young man is ignored and he is dropped into the fire of some old revenge which has been there in Arab blood for centuries. The conqueror of Spain Moosa Bin Nusair is put behind the bars in his old age because of the same reason. Khalifa Salaman does not like him and puts him in prison. In his old age he was received by Salman the head of his brave and pious son Abdul Aziz and pious Aziz would spend the night praying and during the day fighting in the name of Allah. . But the pious man was killed for nothing.
In the same way Imam Ahmed Bin Hambal was brutalized resulting in his tragic death. Imam Abu Hanifa was imprisoned and tortured. Yes! They were our heroes who were humiliated and brutalized for their glory and dignity. They serve Islam and followers of Islam but they were given punishment instead of paying them gratitude.
On the other hand the people against whom our heroes defend us confer the real honour to their heroes. They can crown them and make them sit on the royal chair.
It is a very strange thing that we do not want to see our heroes dying and it is expressed through our dastans and our films as well. A Punjabi film hero gets hundreds of bullets in his breast but survives and kills all of his enemies who may be in hundreds. But in the real world we care neither for honour nor their lives. We crush them as if they were our enemies or the agents of enemies. Our protectors, our benefactors and our saviours are brutalized and tortured instead of being honoured and regarded.
When we see the heroes of our films we want to be heroes because we see that ultimately we will achieve our longings and purposes as heroes. Death and torturing hands cannot touch us. But when we see the ultimate destiny of our real heroes we have to give up the idea of being heroes like Hazrat Muhammad Bin Qasim, Tariq Bin Ziad and and Moosa Bin Nusair. We become afraid of mental and physical torture. We fear to be imprisoned in our homes where we may be caught by blood cancer. We are afraid of being accused as culprits and traitors instead of being honoured as national heroes. We fear the separation from our friends, our relatives and our loved ones.
But heroes never die. They live in the hearts of people. If we want to have great and shining people in our society we will have to give honor and homage to them. Otherwise Allah Almighty may deprive us of the illumination and real leadership.
By
Jawad
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