Thursday, March 5, 2009

They Ask...

It all started with people coming to know about me "Learning Arabic". 
Why are learning it?
Are you going to get a job in Saudia / UAE?
Oh! I see you are looking to go abroad in an arabic country...
What you would do with that?

and the list goes on and on and on

I wonder why people don't ask me why I did English all together? Come on that is another foreign language. Oh, there you go, it enables my to get in touch with the current scenario and the life I am spending. I can be a better professional and being in technology I am made to to know English otherwise I am out of this world of Innovations, Corporate glamor and following the footsteps of western world.

I think what people forget that whatever I am and whatever they are, it is not because of them or me alone. It is that ever being The Almighty The Gracious and our creator Allah who granted us these pleasures of life.

So, have I gone insane to learn Arabic just to understand what my creator is saying about how my life should be?

Oh, I forgot there are pretty good translations out there in English and Urdu as well. 
Here even my educated friend says a thing which urge me to hit them with my head in their stomach :D.

Come on, can Ghalib be understood natively in English transliteration or translations? NO
Can Shakespeare be understood in Urdu, cent percent? Certainly NOT

If these human written verses cannot be reflected in any other language with their spirit in place. How can one individual or a bunch of individuals can translate the original, the pure and the most worthy words of my creator Allah.

I am learning Arabic, just to understand, what my creator is saying about me and my code of life and my collective life in Allah's pure words.

It would help me understand the true context and true spirit of the verses and increase my understanding. 

As I don't believe in the current socio-economic systems of collective life like Capitalism, Communism etc. As they are human made then I need to be a student of Quran-e-Pak to understand the ultimate solution to our collective and individual life.

Don't think that why my parents did not put me in any madarsah. They couldn't since we all are product of this confused society of Pakistan where people have as many thinking schools as the population of this country. They had the choice to make me go learn Islam or make me learn the English MEDIUM.

They chose English MEDIUM since they knew we are a nation which is a by-product of British experiment and therefore I would need British tools to earn my living in this country. (people don't quarrel me on calling our country a British by-product, remember I am writing this note in English, y I am not writing it in Urdu when Chinese can do it or Arabs can do it in their own language. THINK -- you know it). We are muslims but we don't conduct Islamic Laws (don't you remind me of British born constitution of our country). We even don't know if the current political system (I don't call that democracy) is right or wrong for us. 

I think I am getting off the topic, SO, I just wanted to say we need to have some new system for a peaceful life in our country. I believe that it would be Islam as the system therefore I am learning it in advance and in its native dynamics.

Thank you very much for reading my spill and your comments are more than welcome.

1 comment:

Abu said...

Salam,

Try out the following site for Arabic

http://www.80percentwords.com