Being Too Comfortable
I am from the village. As a villager I am used to the many ways of village life. The most obvious is,my strong belief in my religion that taught me life’s discipline and good morale behavior. Being religious,simple, caring, cooperative, trustworthy and warmth in various aspects of life apart from carrying out the religious wajib and sunnah duties.
Due to the long period of time residing in the city, I found that the positive aspects as described above are slowly fading from my countrymen’s daily rituals. We are too tied up with the western way of life. We have become more individualistic, more egoistic, more me, me, me,and you, you,you,less we,we,we,or us,us,us not bothering about other people, and focusing more on one’s success and excellence. What happened to our friends and our societies we are not bothered. The Ibadat wajib and sunnah is considered more of cultural than religious duties that must be carried out.
I felt that eventhough my countrymen have changed a lot, I still feel that we, our countrymen are not as great as the non Muslims. Eventhough we imitate the western way of living, we are still at the old helm in comparison.
The tree without fertilizer
My countrymen, our economic and political position is very fragile. As fragile as the tree without the fertilizer. It will shrink, if it continues without any fertilizer. It will not produce many good quality fruits and offsprings. To live, this tree must have strong roots to absorb the good fertilizer. Better still, let the main root be more than one i.e. four so that it can sprawl and grip the four corners of the world and absorbed the good fertilizer from every corners. I am confident that this tree will become healthier, stronger, resilient and continue to produce offsprings in the form of trees that are fresh, resilient and strong in multiples. Neither wind nor other strong force can destabilize this tree again.We need fertilizer for these trees so that these trees will grow and strengthen with four main roots.
We Just Cannot Wait Any Longer
In reality, my countrymen, it is still not too late. We actually have a lot of strengths. We still have the numbers. Our purchasing power is strong. Eventhough we are way behind in business but we are strong in the salaried sector. This strengthen our purchasing power.
The non Muslims became rich and famous in this country are actually due to the strong support from my countrymen. My countrymen are the ones making them rich and wealthy. My countrymen are the ones buying goods from their shops. My countrymen are the ones working in their shops or factories, My countrymen are the distributors,dealers, stockists, or downliners in their trading or marketing businesses.My countrymen are the ones serving in franchised outlets with a warm smile on their faces where the owners are the non Muslims. My countrymen are the ones obtaining the permits or licenses that are eventually sold, mortgaged or rented out to the non Muslims who in the process become richer than my countrymen. My countrymen are the ones getting the government contracts sold at lesser profits to the non Muslims who eventually are the ones benefitting out of it.
There are many more examples that demonstrates the fact that my countrymen in reality have many strengths and specialties. We are special, we are strong, we have many opportunities, we have the support, we have the assistance. Other people, other communities don’t enjoy all this. In actual fact they are clinging to us. In reality, before this they were parasites, but now we are the ones pleading and clinging on to them. We have everything, but they are the ones enjoying all the benefits. They are the minority but the majority of the wealth and assets in my country belonged to them.
My countrymen, it is still not too late. We cannot wait any further to take action to strengthen our economy, our financials and our wealth. We have everything, let us start now and reap the benefits. We have the strengths. Let us utilize all our strengths to strengthen our countrymen’s economy.
Move forward With A New Vision
InsyaAllah, we are awake now. We will go back and reflect upon where we come from. It is still not too late. We uphold and assumed back all our normal ways. We scrapped off all the western influences. We close rank and move forward with a new mission and vision. We are a great statesmen. We need not practice what we took from the western world as it is actually making us indifferent, making us comfortable and making us drift far apart from our strengths which is our beloved religion. From now on, nobody can stop us from being successful in this world and hereinafter. We will make sure the tree that grows will have four main roots.
Praying For Our Friends And For Ourselves
My countrymen, we need to cooperate, we need to work together, we need to pray for ourselves, for our friends. We need to be honest with ourselves, our friends and our countrymen. We do not wish to work hard to enrich only the other communities. We need to be responsible towards our countrymen. We will make our countrymen successful, our countrymen rich, our countrymen wealthy. We have helped other communities become successful. It is time now to help our own countrymen. Strengthen our position in all aspects be it economy, social or politics.Ensure that our family, our friends, our neighbours, and our society are all successful and become rich. This is our promise and aim. We are not daydreaming anymore. From now, we need to strengthen our main roots. Not one root but four main roots. We want our roots to sprawl afar and aggressively absorb the good fertilizer from the four corners of the world so that the tree with the four main roots, cannot be uprooted anymore no matter how strong the wind blows. We will do it and we will not postponed it anymore. We have do it right now.We have to think big dream high and have a strong heart.
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