IF FOOLS RULED THE WORLD

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   30. IF FOOLS RULED THE WORLD

Shortly before his death , my late son , Mustafa , sent me a SMS which said that if women ruled the ruled there would be no war ..................... Just a bunch of jealous countries not talking to each other . However , I have a better suggestion –  indeed a capital suggestion .     
Just imagine the scenario if fools ruled the world .

I wrote to the others among my contacts to have their input . Four responded  as follows :-

1.     Ms Rahat Moin from London said ‘ I thought fools ruling us anyway .Lol’

2.      Najma Khan  from Chicago  ‘ give all your love to your friends .but do not give all your trust to him’ and ‘you can fake your smiles and laughter ---but you can never fake tears and feelings’

3.     Col . Safdar , a neighbor a dear friend  ‘Perhaps it would be better world because fools wont be able to swindle so meticulously.’

4.     Naim ur Rehman , a cousin from Islamabad‘  I  dont know much about rest of the world but I know for sure that if a hard working Pakistani with normal wisdom starts working honestly he can change the whole complexion. We don’t need hifi types we need normally educated people who accept ground realities and start working with others with sleeves rolled.kia khayal hai janab  ( Your viewpoint , please ) .

To which , I observed ‘Hard working and wisdom are alien to our culture .
Once Ashfaq Ahmed , a great writer and philosopher  ,on his visit told us at National Institute Public Administration , Lahore that he met a very old man who told the former that Pakistan was not damaged so much by unlettered people than by the educated lot .However , I respect your views ‘

 Mr. Naim further ‘That is what I am saying we have to motivate people to work and example has to come from the top. If president of a civilized country can clear rubble following an accident  ,why cant our rascals placed at various slots ‘

My family and I agree with the observations by the former three . I dont trust anyone . Friends and relations are friends and relations for  limited interests : their

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own interest . Even  a mother , according to a gentleman addressing his staff , said that a mother chooses a son who is wealthy for special treatment

From the beginning of  time , a man has ruled over the world . The first murder occurred when Kabeel (Cain) the younger  son of the Prophet Adam , killed his older brother , Habeel (Able) over a woman  ,thus began the eternal triangle . Sin began when Adam and Eve were directed by the Almighty to leave Heaven and  inhabit the earth . The Bible lists the seven deadly sins .

Biblical lists

In the Book of Proverbs 6:16-19, among the verses traditionally associated with King Solomon, it states that the Lord specifically regards "six things the Lord hateth, and seven that are an abomination unto Him", namely:^[4]

1.                 A proud look

2.                 A lying tongue

3.                 Hands that shed innocent blood

4.                 A heart that devises wicked plots

5.                 Feet that are swift to run into mischief

6.                 A deceitful witness that uttereth lies

7.                 Him that soweth discord among brethren

Another list, given this time by the Epistle to the Galatians (Galatians 5:19-21), includes more of the traditional seven sins, although the list is substantially longer: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, "and such like".^[5] Since Saint Paul goes on to say that the persons who commit these sins "shall not inherit the Kingdom of God", they are usually listed as (possible) mortal sins rather than capital vices.

Historical and Modern references  defines  Lust ,Gluttony , Greed ,Sloth ,Wrath ,Envy and Pride . Islam considers  associating  others  with Allah (God) is the most heinous sin . The rest of deadly sins are common to Islam .

William Shakespeare , the greatest master craftsman of characters in the  northern hemisphere , dealt  remarkably with the seven deadly sins in his plays . Jealousy , flattery , meanness had been dealt with in Macbeth and Lady Macbeth , wickedness has been portrayed in the King Claudius and Queen Gertrude (Hamlet’s mother ) of Denmark  in ‘Hamlet’ , flattery and cunningness in Goneril  and Regan, the daughters of King Lear and in Edmund , the son of Earl Gloucester and in Iago in ‘Othello ‘  .

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In history and in everyday life , one or  a combination of sins is involved . In the reign of Queen Elizabeth the first , flattery was very a potent weapon . Before that , King Henry VIII either sent people to the gallows  who  gave him an adverse advice  or banished them . Her namesake , Queen Elizabeth II , a miserly old lady is not willing to leave the throne in her son’s favour although Charles  , like an obedient son ,has grown old waiting . Ah , the temptation of the crown and throne .  In the past , the kings and emperors depended on their advisers viz. Niccolo Machiavelli (Italy ) , Chanakiya (Kautiliya) (Indian ) and Sir Francis Bacon (England )  , the modern era has American Enterprises Institute , the Smithsonian Institute , the Brookings , David Cheney ,Donald Rumsfeld ,Paul Wolfowitz , Douglas Firth to launch invasions on first Vietnam and then on  Iraq and Afghanistan 

 Thus, man and woman are alike as far as the commission of the seven deadly sins are concerned. If man wages war and battles, woman are equally responsible for invasion of countries viz. King, Frederick and Queen Isabella  and Queen Elizabeth I for the launching of the Spanish Armada.

In recent times, Mrs. Indra Gandhi  , the late Prime Minister of India ,invaded  a part of Pakistan i.e. East Pakistan and managed to make an independent Bangladesh with the help of the natives of the country.

However ,the wise men of Gotham  and the wise men of Magi ( who brought gifts  when Jesus was born )  is history . The people of Gilgit , the Chakma tribe of Chittagong , the Kafir tribe of Chitral and the people of Tibet , though they are not fools , are very simple folk .

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Fools are at peace with themselves and they are at peace with the world . It is my suggestion .

Mahfooz ur Rahman

Islamabad

July 17 , 2013