Article by Muhammad Sharjeel ______ "ابلیس کی بےلباس تہذیب اور اسلام"

قصہء آدم و ابلیس جہاں بہت سے پہلوؤں سے سبق آموز ہے وہاں یہ بات بھی قابلِ توجہ ہے کہ انسان کے ازَلی دشمن ابلیسِ لعین کا اوّلین حملہ اسکی شرم و حیا اور عفّت و عصمت پر تھا۔ گویا شیطان اوّل دن سے ہی انسان میں سے حیا کے عنصر کو ختم کر کے فحش کاموں کی ترغیب دینے کی کوشش کر رہا ہے۔ جس طرح ابلیس نے ہمارے والدین حضرت آدم و حوّا (علیہماالسّلام) کو جنّت کے ممنوع پھل کی طرف اکسا کر ان کو بےلباس کیا اسی طرح یہ آج بھی انسان کو بےلباس اور بے حیا کرنے کے لیئے اپنا "جہاد" کمالِ استقامت کے ساتھ جاری رکھے ہوئے ہے۔

انسان جس کی فطرت میں اللہ تعالٰی نے شرم و حیا کا عنصر رکھا ہے آج اسے شیطان نے بری طرح بےحیائی کے جال میں جکڑ لیا ہے۔ انسانیت کی عظیم اکثریت اسکی بے لباس تہذیب کو قبول کر چکی ہے۔ بلاشبہ یہ انسانیت کی فطرت کے خلاف بغاوت ہے کہ حیا جو اسکے لئے حیات تھی اِس نے آج اسے اپنی زندگی سے خارج کردیا ہے۔

لیکن وہ بات جو اس سے بڑھ کر تکلیف دہ ہے وہ یہ کہ آج مسلمان جن کے دین میں حیا کو امتیازی حیثیت حاصل ہے، جن کے دین میں حیا ایمان کا حصہ ہے اور جن کہ پاس سے اگر حیا رخصت ہو جائے تو وہ ایمان کو اپنے ساتھ لے جاتی ہے، آج وہی امّت اپنے عالمِ پیری کے بسبب اس ابلیسی تہذیب کی اندھی تقلید کررہی ہے۔

اس سے بڑھ کر افسوس یہ ہے کہ ہم مسلمان اس بات کو سمجھنے سے قاصر ہیں کہ کس طرح مغربی اور مغرب زدہ میڈیا اور اس پر مسلّط دین بیزار افراد کے ذریعے ہمیں اس بے حیا تہذیب کی طرف مائل کیا جا رہا ہے۔ یہ لوگ بظاہر تو مسلمان ہیں مگراندر ہی اندر ابلیسی ایجنڈے کو پورا کر رہے ہیں۔ ان سے بھی بعض اوقات "ھمدردی" محسوس ہوتی ہے کہ ان کیلیئے اسلام ایک ایسے لباس کی مانند ہے جسے نہ یہ اتارتے ہیں کہ سرِعام رسوا نہ ہوں اور نہ اسے پورا زیبِ تن بھی نہیں کرتے کہ گھٹن محسوس ہوتی ہے۔ لہٰذا یہ دعوٰی تو مسلمان ہونے کا کرتے ہیں مگر اندازِمسلمانی یہ ہے کہ جب انھیں اپنی خواہشات کہ بت ٹوٹتے نظر آتے ہیں تو یہ ‘خود بدلتے نہیں قرآن کو بدل دیتے ہیں‘ اور اسلام کی من گھڑت تاویلیں کرتے ہیں۔ 

یہی حال ہے کہ جب انکو اسلام کا تصوّرِ حیا اپنی آزادی یا یوں کہیئے کہ "مادر پدر آزادی" پر "تیشہ" بن کر گرتا محسوس ہوتا ہے تو یہ اپنی تاویل کے خنجر نکال کر انکا مقابلہ کرتے ہیں ۔ انکو اسلامی تعلیمات دقیانوسی معلوم ہوتی ہیں جو ان کی نظر میں آج کے ‘جدید دور‘ میں مسفٹ ہیں۔ یا پھر کمال عیّاری سے ان تعلیمات کو عرب تہذیب کا نام دیتے ہیں جنکا اسلام سے دور دور سے تعلّق نہیں۔ لہٰذا جو عورت اپنے آپکو باحجاب کرکے شیطان کے تیروں سے بچا لیتی ہے تو انھیں وہ عورت قدامت پسند محسوس ہوتی ہے۔ اور اسکا یہ عمل انسانی مساوات کہ خلاف نظر آتا ہے۔ دراصل یہ وہ لوگ ہیں جنھوں نے اپنی خواھشات کی خاطر اللہ کو بھلا دیا لہٰذا اللہ نے انھیں اپنے آپ سے بھلا دیا ہے۔ اب اگر ان سے قرآن و سنّت کے دلائل کے ساتھ گفتگو بھی کی جائے تو یہ نہیں سنتے۔

چنانچہ ضرورت اس امر کی ہے کہ وہ لوگ جنہوں نے برضا و خوشی اپنی خواہشات کو جنّت کے عوض اللہ کے سپرد کر دیا یے اور اسلام کو اپنا طرزِ حیات تسلیم کر لیا ہے وہ اپنی استطاعت ک مطابق ان تعلیمات پر عمل کرتے رہیں اور اپنے گھر والوں کو بھی اِن فتنوں سے بچایئں۔ جہاں تک ممکن ہو ان تعلیمات کو دوسروں تک پہنچانے کا ذریعہ بنیں۔ اور اجتماعی سطح پر بے حیائی کے خاتمے کیلیئے اپنی صلاحیتوں کو اسلامی تعلیمات پر مبنی معاشرے کے قیام کےلئے وقف کریں۔ اللہ ہم سب کو اپنے دین کی طرف پلٹنے کی توفیق عطا فرمائے اور حیا کو ھمارے معاشرے میں عام فرمائے-آمین!۔

Note: The writer Muhammad Sharjeel is an Islamic Activist / Social Media Activist. He loves to write on issues which have impact on environment. Owner of the Remove Immodesty from Media facebook page.

Reaction to the Lawn Billboards in Karachi

As soon as the arrival of summer, the whole city was filled with the billboards which are being used for the promotion and advertisement of the female lawn clothing. This time many lawn manufacturers had appointed out of the box marketing techniques and filled the whole city with the pictures of female model showing lawn prints on their body. Since the start of the first billboard placed by a garment manufacturer the competition started and then one after another all clothing brands put their billboard on the streets. They are of various sizes, some are small that are placed on all the poles along the whole street, while some are huge, irrespective of the size they have all in one thing common and that is the picture of female models, in immodest clothing.

Normally Pakistani environment is modest, people have values and they can compromise to some extent, but yet enough is enough, very soon the reaction form the local public has been seen the social media was filled with the criticism on this boards vulgarity, some protest has been done, but the major thing which we have seen is the two major actions.

One, in counter to the lawn billboards, an organization Working Women Society (WWS) has placed billboards at various points in the city, which shows small meaningful messages like, “Kapray Becho, Ghairat Nahe” (Sell Garments, Not Morals), “We appreciate those who so not use female model in their advertisement”, and many similar sentences. Another activity shown by the Tanzim e Islami, they also placed some boards in the city central points to convey their message on the said issue.

Two, another reaction shown from the public against the billboards, people noticed there are many boards in the city with female model on them in improper clothing are blackened. Overnight many billboards have been blackened by permanent ink. This was another reaction in counter to the immodest billboards, which show pure aggression from the public that they want no more immodest billboards.

According to the Hadith by Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) he mentioned three level of belief when a person sees a wrong act:

The highest level of Eeman, stop it by hand (i.e. by force)

Second level, if you cant stop it by hands, stop it by word

Third and the lowest level of Eeman, if you have no courage to stop it by word, then in your heart you must believe it as inadequate act 

In the fight against the modest and immodest, the good the bad, the liberal and the conservation, we have to see that what degree of Eeman (belief) we are following. Where we are standing, the highest or the lowest, or if we are included in this act, it will be lower than the lowest. Think!

Secrets of Success!

It was our last class for that subject our teacher told us about three points of success, he referred to them as "his" secret of success, he is a great financial expert and teaches us financial management but he is a great motivational speaker, he explained these three points taking about a hour but the class was sitting patiently to learn something more from this brilliant man. One hour is not enough. I would like to share those success points below:
Be Humble!
The first thing he told us about humbleness, he said, "Be humble not only in your words but in your actions too, there are a lot of people who pretend that they are very "down to earth" and humble but they are just pretenders, while some people are opposite as they always keep bragging about their works and activities. We should always keep in mind that whatever we have Almighty Allah has bestowed on us and he is able to take back anytime. We have nothing of ourselves but of Allah, this is the reason why we should not be proud of what we did but always thanks the Almighty, be humble". He gave his example, that he think that he is a bit successful (though we know he is a very successful man) the major thing in teaching profession is speaking ability, he said "It takes only seconds for Allah to take back his voice, and there will be nothing but silence!". Always praise to Allah and thank that He has given him this skill so that he can use it
for the betterment.
Be Positive!
Another thing he referred is positivity. Talking about his life experiences he said that thoughts are the initiative point of action, negative thoughts can cause you to negatively act. Thus always think positive; even bring out the positive element from the things which look negative. For this he said that whatever happens to you "never blame others". Think positive, it might be you; it may have been your mistake, if you will think this way you will then be able to correct your mistake, or else if you initiate the blame game, you will never be able to accept your mistake and correct it. If you want to be a leader take responsibilities. In your professional life, if anything goes wrong, never blame your team members or juniors, take responsibility, say that you are the person responsible, act like an umbrella upon your team and they will trust you and stand beside you in thick and thin. Automatically they will accept you as their leader. And for all
the rewards, praise your team and give the credit to them.
Be Cooperative!
Another important rule of success, help and cooperate with other, never be jealous of others, the more you will involved in helping others the more you will get respect, the world is like a mirror, whatever goes around comes around. Some people might think that the way of success is leg-pulling, if you pull someone's leg he might fall and you can go forward. But see the other side of mirror, there will be a day when someone will pull your leg and you will be grounded and no one will be there to help. But if you are a helping hand, even if someone will make you fall, there will be several hands you will see who will be offered to you so that you can get up!

Modesty is the best Policy!

The vehicle accidents are increasing everyday, maybe people don't actually know the reasons, or maybe don't want to know about the reasons. Well, it will be interesting to know the two things going to be related in lines below.

The sign boards overall the places in Karachi are flooding with the pictures of women, showing dresses, in shameless styles and poses. This seems like when you are using internet you get lot of spam emails, messages and advertises unwanted. Similarly, these bill boards are creating such scenario, they are unwanted, annoying for a person travelling over the city, and a normal person had to counter such type of billboard every 30 seconds or less.
Generally, ethically, clothes are meant to cover body. But it seems like those clothes shown in the billboards are made to "show the body" rather than "cover the body". Well being a modest person, and living in a society which have values and modest traditions, a person might think that it seems more civilized to be in full cloth rather than half naked, well truthfully saying, you will never like to go to your office in shorts, or without shirt ? Would you? Never!
We should like for everyone else what we should like for us!
The sign boards are one of the strongest reasons behind the distraction of drivers. Taking notice of the ever-increasing number of road accidents, the government should take concrete action to ban these bill boards on first priority as they are the biggest cause of diversion of your concentration in driving. This will not only cause fewer accidents but also be a helping hand building a modest environment.
One thing more to be noted that most of the women in our societies hardly even visit these streets, if we have about 100 people in Shahrah e Faisal, only 6 of them might be women. Being a marketing student I think that, the advertisers should also notice that they are doing promotion on an incorrect place and targeting the irrelevant market. The correct area for marketing their product will be apparel markets rather than main roads and busy streets.
One last thing, remember what they say,
"If showing your body is modernization, then animals are the most modern of all."