Dear Mr. Hoque:
Happy to hear your response. Happier still to learn that you make a decent living from Halal sources. That is so challenging these days and age. Your concern for other fellow human beings and your kith and kin is very much appreciated and justified.
We waste so much of our time in fruitless pursuits and we expect too much from our leaders and from the government, which is understood but the society will not change through the guidance or motivation of our leaders because we do not have many good leaders.
Instead we all can do small acts of goodness, kindness and service to others.
Small can indeed be beautiful.
Those who are capable of changing the society they should boldly go ahead and do that but for the rest of us we have to pick up small projects and make them successful. How long are we going to complain, expect, hope and do nothing? Let us start small. There is so much to do yet so little time and such a small number of people. So much injustice, unfairness, inequality and cruelty. How can any one solve all the problems?
One of the major hallmark of our faith is to do good to others, serve others thus serve God. God Almighty does not need our service. He is all encompassing and self-sufficient.
Show small genuine acts of kindness to the rickshaw-puller, the sweeper, the house servant, the butcher, the baker and the poor. Try to stop one unjust dowry based marriage and encourage the man to give the marriage gift of Meher to his wife and not the other way round which is injustice to women and is Haram in Islam.
Show respect and kindness to your wife and children. You may already be doing this. If so then continue to do so.
You can take on small projects locally. Organize the local population and set up a park where children could play and the elders could breathe fresh air. Go and visit an orphanage or if you have money or if you are a good organizer then go and set up an orphanage.
What ever small act of goodness you do, do that solely with the intention to please Allah subhanahu wa Taala and do not expect reward or appreciation from others. You will receive immense satisfaction and reward in the Hereafter from Allah, insha'Allah.
You might like to share your achievement in your service to humanity not for reward from man but to motivate others. Post your story in this forum.
In this forum like many others and groups and assembly of men hardly do we hear positive acts undertaken by ordinary people like most of us. This forum (Alochona) is one of the oldest and largest. Step by step this can become an engine of change if more people like you start thinking about the welfare of the society which is also the object of this moderated forum.
Aziz Huq
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From: haquetm83@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:42:29 -0700
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] We have a long way to go - Democracy (2)
Dear Mr. Aziz Huq, Thanks for nice words and encouragement. I am not a hystorian not a scholar on the subjects I often deal with. It is, all out of living experiences and my focus in life. I do have few books on hystory in my shelves but what I see everyday, what I made to understand, that always intrigues me and out of love of my people I spent time sharing my opinion, with the hope that this might encourage, unite us to a better understanding. I did not try to write our hystory rather our common characteristics that affect us today on daily basis. Glorifying Bengol or Bangalis does not do any good to their present deplorable conditions. For me 'today' is more important than yesterday.Allow me to tell you why. Does any thing pains you when you retire at the end of a day. After reciting Ayatul Kursi what do you say or think. Alhamdulillah, less of persoanl- other than wish for my children, it is my people, often a big sigh then a prayer for a good leader who can change the plight of my people. I am certain that we do share few common things including a wish for genuine well being of our people and closest of all we do not take our wisdom from Sh.Mujib or Zia. I do not write well, yet I try honestly reflect on the reality. Let me repeat the issue of our "personality' that obscure our positioning in a competitive society. Many Pakistani or Indians I see them in a good positions, few of them I happen to know. I wonder how this guy secured such a position. Only to reflect on this I had to go back. Sonar Banglar treasure diye Shaesta khan or Warren Hesting ki koresilo it is only relevant to researchers, historians. Emperor Akbar allowed a land to East Inida company and that was the begining of great conquer and the rise of Akbar, what pains me at 11.Pm has nothing to do with Akbarer kirti or Zia's courtmarshal on often revolting majors or other officers. At my childhood I have seen my grandfathers pakka building, roof to floor. What it implies, my father had to ferry small marchandise from Kolkata on his shoulder before he made his fortune 60 years ago. today I walk on silk or wool carpet (with my 100% halal earnings). My cousins, they are the majority, all barely make a living. Writing or describing my grandfathers buidling's architect how much would help? Ramadan is coming I need to help few of them (some at their late 60s) to eat two square meal. I also see hundreds of them in my village, they desperately need help and this is the history I always see. I do not think they are inferior they do have many good qualities which I do not possess but ignoring their plight is a great disrespect, aberration to my spirituality. I only tried to make my point sighting a fraction of our history. No nation is inferior or far too great. I have been to Uzbekistan very rencently - imagine their past, central asia was the focal point of the world, see them today! You talked about arsenic problem - one REB general manager who stayed at my place narrated this story - a news paper printing a series of stories on arsenic contamination from chemically treated electric poles imported from Philippine. REB investigated the soil around few poles in Chapai Nababgang and found no contamination. You know why his paid journalists run that story line - the newspaper owner has concrete electric pole factory in Thakurgao. Today arsening contamination is far worse then before and so its reasons. Which is highly political, none of us can deal with the issue with full grasp, highly political water experts will provide you non relevant hypothesis, though it is a very serious issue for our own survival. River that help developed our nation, our civilisation and our treasure, that attracted foreign bandits, today it is our local heroes submits our glory, our water, our treasures to foreign masters for their protection. It is pertinent that we should write and narrate our current history in truth. I hope I managed to made my point clear. (on a different note - I wrote to two of our famous poets and novelists. one from the bank of Jamuna and the other from a nearby town of Padma, do you have any writings on these rivers - one politely replied - 'no sir' another did not reply - they are our 71's spirit bearers, write our history). Haque --- On Wed, 14/7/10, Aziz Huq <azizhuq@hotmail.
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