How can a society live on the grave of honor?
✍🏻 Muhammad Palanpuri
What a strange time it is that a Muslim girl is taking the support of a stranger's hand and choosing the path of escape, and her father, sprinkling salt on his own daughter's wounds, is standing as a spectator wearing a blanket of insensitivity. Inside homes, the upbringing that was once the fragrance of a mother's embrace is buried in the mobile screen. The father's affection, which was once a fortress of honor and protection, has dissolved into weightlessness in the economic race. And in the shadow of this negligence, the new generation is losing its identity and sinking into the quagmire of false love, naive relationships, and temporary attraction. To the extent that married men leave their legitimate shade and seek the shade of the forbidden, and women begin to scatter the soil of their loyalty at the feet of non-men, and society continues to become a spectacle as if souls have died and bodies are just walking...
In such a situation, it is necessary to show parents the mirror that the upbringing of children is not just about bread, clothing, and education, but the moments of day and night in which a father lights the candle of modesty in his daughter's heart, and a mother plants the pillar of fear of God in her son. And when these two pillars fall, neither the home remains nor the generation... It is necessary to tell young daughters that a spotless youth is not one that is spent in the deception of love, but one that preserves its shine for the pleasure of Allah. And young boys should be made to understand that strength is not in the arms but in trampling the ego underfoot... And married couples should be awakened that the real beauty of the marriage relationship is not in the union of bodies but in loyalty, trust, mutual peace, and fear of Allah...
And most importantly, it is necessary for scholars not to make their pulpits only showy jewels of sermons, but to put their finger on the broken veins of the Ummah and tell them that modesty has vanished, character is dying, homes are breaking, and generations are scattering. And if we still don't wake up, a day will come when even tears will be worthless when our daughters go astray...
Therefore, O parents, O scholars, O youth, O married men and women! Listen all, that time is slipping through your fingers. If you do not bring your generation back to the command of Allah today, tomorrow they will leave you crying in the dark night of the grave and be lost in the lap of the world, and you will only sit on the rubble of regrets, thinking about when, where, at what turn we lost our generation...
By Qalam Muhammad Palanpuri