Today we mourn the loss of lives in a recent event that has occurred in Islamabad. Our fellow students - our fellow countrymen in fact, have died a painful death - Nay, they have been murdered. Innocents as they were, their lives are now lost. We speak to you today out of a humble need. A need to communicate, not to instigate you against others. We speak to you today to shed some light on our situation.
We now live in dark times. Our schools are being targeted; our educational institutions are being bombed. Today, it is our schools. Tomorrow it will be our Masajid. Maybe even our homes. If anyone remembers, this is how many states were brought down (like Afghanistan) - the schools were targeted, and once they were gone, illiteracy spread. With illiteracy came doubt.
The people did not know WHAT they were facing, much less WHO they were facing. So I ask you… I beg you today... don’t give up hope, don’t give in to their demands. Doing so will insult the memories of those that have died so recently. Our only way to win now, is to be the light in the age of darkness, and to do that, we have to become successful. Our only way to thwart those against us, is to deny them the satisfaction of knowing they have broken us down.
We also want to talk about the things that are dividing us. We plead to you today to set aside all your differences. Forget about you being a Karachite, or your friend being a Lahori, or a Kashmiri or a Sindhi or whatever. These things do not mater now. We should be united. In that aspect, forget all about Sindhi’s, Balochi’s, Pashtu’s, Kashmiri’s or Punjabis. Think of Pakistan as one big school. Think of all the Muslims as all the students.
Don’t panic around and don’t be fooled. Don’t be mislead into believing things that are not true. Our only hope now is if we stick together. Our only hope now is if we support each other. Above all, don’t let propaganda and politicians and radicals and racists fool you and put a blindfold over your eyes. Do not insult the memory of those that have been killed by doing this. Know that we are under threat. Know that our time is now. Know that we have to do the best we can for ourselves. For our schools. For Karachi. For Pakistan.
Don’t fight with violence or vengeance. The moment you fight, that moment you give others a chance to fight back. At that moment they have won. They have made you lose control of yourself. Let us passively resist anything anyone throws at us. Fight with your MINDS. They don’t want us to study? We WILL study. They don’t want us to pray? We WILL pray. They don’t want all the Pakistani's to be united? WE WILL BE UNITED.!
What we are trying to make you understand is that we don't care who has done this. It could be terrorists or anyone else. The thing is: It doesn’t matter. This was the first step in many to come. We have to stop this before it has a chance to begin. Don’t let them brainwash you. Don’t let them break you. Stand your ground and be cut to pieces, just don’t ever give up your beliefs. Don’t let them make you illiterate. Do not become one of the sheep that follow the lies.
They could attack anywhere that is true. So what do you plan on doing? Will you just stop living? Will you let these heartless murderers break you down? Will you just hide behind the curtain of deceit and hope for the day someone lifts it? Will you let them indoctrinate your children into fear, a fear that drives them away from their realities, their beliefs and their lives. No is the answer to these questions. Cowards are not dealt with actions based on cowardice. Rather, they are dealt with emotion, courage and faith.
Let us take an oath today. Let us Promise that we will have the courage to study, to practice freedom of thought and expression, and that we will defy all that say that we are not allowed to believe what we would like to believe, so that years on, when the children of this country live in an air of freedom and glory, men will say, “This was their finest hour”.
The enemy we face today is not known. The enemy that is brewing constantly a plan of destruction and death for us is merciless. The enemy we face is deadly in its own right. The enemy we face today has its own evil geniuses. But don’t we have the guidance of the greatest Genius of them all? We indeed do. In the heavens, He is watching. A step forward is all the moment needs. He is watching ladies and gentlemen.
Do you realise? He is not God for nothing. He is waiting for men like us to take action. He is waiting for people like us to show that we are worthy of being called Muslims. A step forward, a step to show everyone that we will not be bullied into give up our freedom, that we will retain the right to stand-by our beliefs, is all I ask of you. That’s all you need to do. Help will then descend. Ranks upon ranks, deadlier than our enemy. Sometimes it is not enough to do your best.. Sometimes we have to do what is required. Do not give into their demands of following generic thinking.
And people, we would consider it humiliating to have failed without trying. Such is the magnitude of the war above us, the war between our minds and our consciousness. If we win, we shall never have such great a victory. If we lose, we shall never have such great a defeat...
Let us now have one minute of silence for the students that died. And this silence is not for the sake of silence. During this minute just think about what has happened. A bomb - an actual BOMB was dropped on students who wished no more than to be something in their lives. A package of pure, concentrated death was unleashed upon them. So let us, just for a minute, think about what has happened.
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