Book loan

People think that debt is only for dirhams and dinars, although there are many types of debt, such as debt of spring, the debt of love, debt of loyalty, debt of Jaffa, and then debt of books.

People think that debt is only for dirhams and dinars, although there are many types of debt, such as debt of spring, the debt of love, debt of loyalty, debt of Jaffa, and then debt of books. We spend our whole lives to pay off some debts, but they still don't pay, like a mother's love debt. According to the poet

It's a debt I can't repay

My mother prostrates until I return home

Listen to the story of the spring debt

Thus the four-day spring loans were repaid

The seasons after you have just passed

However, the debt that has kept me restless is the debt of books. Many authors have lovingly sent me books. The loan for the books sent as a gift has to be paid with "interest". You have to read the book and then write a comment on it. At the moment I have at least a dozen books on the shelf in front of my study desk. 

Today I thought about how long I will keep an eye on these books so the decision has been made to start repaying the loan for the books in installments. Today's first book was published by Dr. Farhat Naseem Alvi a few days ago. Dr. Alvi holds a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from the University of the Punjab and a postdoctoral degree from the University of Toronto. His focus is on Muslim minorities around the world.

Today the land distances have disappeared and the world of millions of miles has become a global village. Whether the village is in the east or in the west, the peculiarity of the village is that the people there are in love with each other. In the 21st century, IT and the Internet have revolutionized the world of communication. When an idea takes root in your heart, it has reached the corners of the earth in a single moment before it reaches your lips. 

When an event or accident happens thousands of miles away, the whole world sees it with its own eyes as if someone standing at the scene of the accident sees it. However, it is a tragic contradiction of today's Global Village that the world sees the incidents of oppression with its own eyes and remains silent. ۔ In Myanmar, 'not two but thousands of people are roasted', Rohingya Muslim girls are lusted after, 'children are thrown on beds with flowers', their fields and barns are burnt And these painkillers are driven into Bangladesh or handed over to the merciless waves of the sea. Even such horrific atrocities do not awaken the conscience of the world.

Dr. Farhat Alvi has written a three-and-a-half-page book on the past, present, and future of Rohingya Muslims living in Myanmar for centuries, entitled "Buddha's Idea of ​​Peace and Blood Rohingya". This book is a beautiful source of research and good writing. Dr. Sahiba has very sympathetically told the Muslim Ummah about the plight of Muslims in Myanmar (Burma). The Ummah should be grateful to Dr. Farhat Alvi for the goods with which he has repaid the debt imposed on the Muslim Ummah. If reading this book is not a definite duty on every sensible Urdu Muslim, then it is definitely a duty.

Today's second book is "Wilayatnameh". This is a collection of Tahir Jamil Noorani's columns about England and Europe. Noorani was part of a group of young people who went to England in the 1970s in search of a beautiful and prosperous future. Noorani Sahib received his early education in Iqbal Sialkot and completed his higher education in England. They have found the meaning of their dreams in England. However, he is one of the few lucky immigrants who have the medal of British citizenship on his chest but the world inside his chest is happy and settled with the love of his native Pakistan.

Pakistanis who have migrated from Pakistan and settled abroad, whether they become Americans, become British, become Europeans, become Australians, become Kuwaitis, or become something else, but as soon as the name of their beloved homeland Pakistan is mentioned, their The heart starts beating. The tragedy is that the renaissance of Pakistan, born in a foreign land, especially in the Western world, does not have the same sentiments and feelings as those of their ancestors who settled there. This is the feeling of deprivation that has made Tahir Jamil Noorani write such heartbreaking essays.

 "Wilayatnameh" is in a way a newsletter of British citizens of Pakistani origin and also their lament. At this stage of life, they feel that a large part of their new generation has slipped out of their hands and has largely adapted to Western civilization, and has become almost alienated from the Pakistani language and culture. ۔ At the same time, a small number of this new generation has forged ties with some extremist organizations in response to Western civilization. Immigrant Pakistanis face many complex problems. 

In Wilayat-e-Nama, Noorani Sahib writes that older British children of Pakistani descent ask their parents that you are always anxious to go to the country of your loved ones and tell them that How long will the series of "Go Nawaz Go" and "Go Niazi Go" continue in your beloved homeland? Tell us, can't we be kidnapped while visiting Pakistan? They ask that the public looting market at your airports be hot. There are deals in your courts. They also ask that every person in the country where you sing guns owes more than one lakh rupees. They ask why you cry all the time for such a country. The question is very tragic, but it is also true.

Noorani has also pointed out another issue regarding Pakistani-born British children. He says that the new generation of Pakistanis has become ignorant of Urdu and their mother tongues. Most elderly Pakistanis in the UK share this pain with them. They hold themselves responsible. Now he admits that in the "hobby of kissing flowers" we put our tongues on the thorns. We have alienated our children from our language Urdu in the interest of teaching "pure English". 

This deprivation is their own creation. Pakistanis from Punjab are at the forefront of not teaching their native and national language to British-born Pakistani children. Noorani's book "Wilayatnameh" is actually an "account book" of immigrants. Today, standing on the temple of the evening of life, they think, what did they lose and what did they gain by leaving the homeland and adopting a new homeland?