Neither education nor treatment nor employment, is this the new spring?
Public awareness, the sanctity of the vote, and the inside story of political promises.
✍🏻 By Khama Bakaf Muhammad Aadil Arariavi
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Is this the account of the new spring? The power of the vote, the hope of the people.
No trace of education, no treatment, no employment.
Is this the account of the new spring?
This question is now echoing in every street, every alley, every intersection. Those who showed dreams have now disappeared after selling dreams. The public is still trapped in the same circle where electricity is a hope, water is a question, and justice has become a dream.
Vote: A piece of paper or a key to destiny?
Many of us ignore the vote, considering it a trivial act, but this very vote is the power that can overthrow kings and raise true servants. It is a sacred trust, the first brick of a silent revolution.
If we vote only on slogans, emotional speeches, and temporary promises, then we will have to face neither education, nor treatment, nor employment. If we decide with awareness, with good intentions, and keeping in mind the future of the coming generations, then spring can truly become spring.
Disrespect for the vote is the destruction of the nation.
Every time an election comes, the market is decorated, leaders come, make promises, lie, shed tears, and win hearts and leave. Then, for five years, not even their shadow is found. Neither hospitals are built, nor schools are completed, nor jobs come, nor justice becomes cheap.
Have we ever asked ourselves? How long will we remain prisoners of these deceptions? Have we ever decided that this time we will vote only after seeing the character, not the face?
When will the sun of public awareness rise?
It is not only necessary to vote, but it is even more important to vote for the right person. Deciding on the basis of caste, creed, or language is tantamount to enmity with our generations. We have to elect those representatives who improve the education system for our children, who build hospitals for our sick, who provide dignified employment to the youth.
The decision is in your hands.
Voting is not just a one-day responsibility; it is a five-year decision. If we are negligent, the same old faces in new packaging will fool us. But if we vote with consciousness, with alertness, and with courage, then this very vote can take us out of the darkness of neither education, nor treatment, nor employment and lead us towards a bright India.
Now the decision is in your hands.
Do you want the same old account of spring?
Or are you ready to vote for a new morning, a new hope, and a new India?
Voting is apparently a small act. A few moments to press a button. But in reality, it is a Sharia trust, a decision of the nation's destiny, and a cause for accountability in the court of Allah.
In Islam's view, the real deserving of the vote is the one who is religious, trustworthy, a figure of honesty and justice, who prioritizes the interests of the nation over personal interests, who is against the oppressor and a helper of the oppressed.
It is not enough to give the vote only to someone close to you, but the one who is on the right is your own. In the era of Imam Abu Hanifa (RA), when the Qazi was being elected, he rejected his son because he felt that his son did not have the ability to fulfill this responsibility. This is the standard of justice.
As the seed, so the fruit.
Today, if in our societies
There is inflation, injustice, distance from religion,
There are corrupt rulers, then we have to reconsider our voting decision because the reins of the nation have gone into the hands of those whom we have chosen ourselves. Tomorrow, on the Day of Judgment, when Allah asks, "In whose favor did you testify?" what will we have to answer?
O Allah, grant us the ability to recognize the truth as the truth and adopt it.
And grant us the courage to recognize falsehood as falsehood and avoid it.
O Allah, give us the awareness of the sanctity of the vote.
And grant us the ability to elect such people
Who are the ones who implement Your system on Your earth.
Aameen, O Lord of the worlds.