SRINAGAR | TUESDAY | 06.02.2024
must remember that one of the common distinctive traits of all the Prophets and their apostles was good behavior and it is that all of the great men have enjoined on their followers. They are the ‘embodiment of all good’. They are rich in virtues and exhibit distinctively unparalleled qualities. Their conduct is the best. These exalted men are called patterns; whose exemplary behavior we, the followers, have to follow. They are our role models and we have to strive & be their true This is the reason why doing-good unto others has been equated with worship and
stressed, throughout life.
Employing a typical idiomatic language, that (largely) the addressee people could understand and act accordingly, religious books talked about a plethora of topics. Mention of the elements out of which the creator created creation and the sensory faculties endowed to the ‘created’ is there. These faculties endowed to us are the tools which are essential for performing various functions on the mortal plane. Very much possible in other planes these faculties might lose relevance, lose their utility. So one can ponder: won’t these faculties degenerate & decay, here too, on dis-use? ; and get negatively impacted with misuse. Conversely, going on doing good, day in and day out, in all the spheres of life, in hundred different ways will, so to say, sharpen our faculties; make them increase what some writers called ones ‘aura’, depicted in the visual form by painters of yore as the round
like luminescence of ones persona as associated commonly with persons.
Limited space in the newspaper, today, won’t allow me to continue further though the -that defines existence in a philosophical vein knocks on the door, I better welcome it, next time. Among our readers, there definitely might be a considerable lot of young people, who would be of the age of my children, so I prefer to conclude today’s write up with the opening and closing verses of a beautiful poem, written prior to 1994 by an accomplished Urdu poet of this continent: yes, you are right… Parveen Shakir [-- who had three Masters degrees; was a successful bureaucrat; a recipient of (her country’s ) President’s highest award; authored three volumes of poetry but died in a car accident]. Here I go: