‘We Want Freedom’

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Never forget, golden hooks can in no case be worth freedom of fish in oceans and likewise no guns can vanquish human will to resist onslaughts by forces of darkness.

Xuhaib Maqbool
Author: Prof. Abdul Gani Bhat

‘We Want Freedom’ is a wonderful construct, designed as if by Heavens above to nourish human nerve at once and promote existential ethics forthwith below on earth into voices enrapturing, gestures enlivening and strides ennobling towards attaining at a cost  to a communion with the pinnacle-the purpose of living. ‘We want freedom’ summons in the fullness of its pleasures to perceive the odour, flavour and spice of living in communion with the construct. What a construct? Freedom lifts to heights, to wonders and to purposes in life. Servitude breeds fear, cowardice and hopelessness-the negative behavioural fetters constructing movement forward towards the purpose of living. Freedom is the root. Freedom is the fruit. Seek and dig deep to find the treasure-the pleasures of living. Who shall choose to forgo freedom? Parents would never do. Children mustn’t either. ‘We want freedom’ nourishes power in combination with an inner voice to protect human excellence as much as to resist encroachments by the forces of darkness against the design and essence of creation. The construct- a supreme combination of an eloquently inspiring triple, we, want, freedom, spurns disdainfully attempts at yoking though machinations, distortions, deceptions and even subversion to unnatural and indecorous courses in life. Remember, ‘yoking’ with reference to human beings-the crown of creation, runs counter to divine wisdom as much as to existential ethics. ‘we want freedom’ spells out the human nerve  in conjunction with the existential ethics will never submit to servitude whichever be the motivation, positive or negative-treasures of goal to lure or stock piles of guns to frighten. Never forget, golden hooks can in no case be worth freedom of fish in oceans and likewise no guns can vanquish human will to resist onslaughts by forces of darkness. ‘We want freedom represents a glorious effort to preserve against offences the grandeur of God’s scheme and the blessed impeccability of human conscience. The triple is an act-an act of asserting, ‘thus far and no further, and an act of asserting resolutely that servitude cannot subsist with the elevated status of human beings. How on earth? However, if debasing the construct for any reasons happens, let the word reach each ear that the texture may tear apart, the purpose may be jeopardized and the humans may under duress degenerate the animalism-a disgusting situation to confront and a tormenting misplacement to live with.

The bowing angels and the rebellion devil in terms of religious history represent antagonistic forces of good and evil for human beings to be put to test: who goes which way to qualify and earn approbation-reach the zenith or fail and suffer condemnation-dwindle to nadir? Who follows the right path and who goes the wrong way?  Or who wins or who doesn’t is not the point here, the fact of the matter is that freedom to choose unmistakeably vests with human beings. In exercise of the choice, the human beings broke as a consequence, broadly speaking into two groups with conflicting mindsets. Who, may be one asks suffers the rage of conflicting mindsets? The dominant enter, rather unabashedly into the collective being of their weaker likes so possessively that the later pass as soulless robots- the mutes to serve master-distressing and yet a stark reality. Encounters-understandably harder encounters are bound to happen between the conflicting forces representing light and darkness like days chasing nights and conversely nights chasing days- a phenomenon that we watch regularly shaping our life styles. How do human beings react to excesses? History bears witness that reactions against excesses or atrocities occasionally assume pungent forms and then happens what happens-the fallouts determine the courses in life. Domineering is unacceptable. A human being is not a mechanical device to be pressed into any service at will or punished with impunity if a ‘No’ happens or be reduced to servitude, nor is he a toy  to be tossed up and  down or straw to admixed with dust on earth. God created him out of a single soul, which is where the rationale of being the likes of each is enshrined and which is why God blessed us with a special status and equally significantly gave us to world with the pleasures of freedom to evolve into maturity and flourish in glory. The human beings elevation to an enviable office as Gods vicegerent on earth in an indisputable testimony to his being what he is-the crown of creation. Zenith and never nadir was therefore, to be his destination. However, Gods scheme envisaged a trial for humans to go through in life-the trial weather they could eschew vice and reach the zenith or follow a wrong path to dwindle to ebb of degradation and fall into nadir. The choice would lie with human beings to be more exalted then angels or more degraded then the devil.

The author is the president of Muslim Conference (Kashmir) and a prominent separatist leader who worked during the track 2 diplomacy from Kashmir between India and Pakistan in 2004.    

Note: (The views expressed by the author are his own)

The Article First Appeared In Print Edition Of May 11, 2016. 

 

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