Tsunami Waves Signify Judgment
Muslims Weekly , Commentary, Shamim Siddiqi, Posted: Jan 12, 2005
NEW YORK –– It is the tradition of our Creator and Sustainer that when He sends warning signals to His creatures, the humans on earth, it comes so swiftly and suddenly that man remains stunned about how it happened and why it was so ferocious.
Natural calamities occur throughout the globe every now and then, but only a few get recorded in human history and the rest are forgotten over time. Earthquakes, tidal waves and cyclones accompanied by floods of unprecedented nature are the worst form of events. They destroy in tens and thousands of people with colossal loss of property and infrastructure.
They visit the human abode when human atrocities and violation of human rights becomes unbearable. Zulm [oppression] becomes the creed of the day. Exploitation is rampant everywhere. Falsehood, lies and concocted stories overwhelm the truth. The dignity of man is constantly transgressed by his own species. Justice is no longer traceable in human society anywhere at individual, national and international levels.
Transgression and inconsistencies dominate and become the law of the world everywhere. Human society, unfortunately, is passing through the same crisis. It is the human creation that God hates in all its forms and shapes. The Creator feeling pity for man sends warning signals of natural calamities one after the other so humans may get lesson and correct their affairs and live with justice to all [Al-Qist].
The vast tract of land from the coast of Indonesia to East Africa, the countries living within the belt of Indian Ocean have lately become the hot bed of diplomatic treacheries, foreign hegemonies, economic exploitation in the name of monopolizing oil and industrial raw material resources, political maneuverings. It has become the arena of showing and testing the military muscles, first by the Russian desire to reach warm waters of Indian ocean and now by Uncle Sam to capture and dominate the heart of Muslim land and its natural resources.
The destruction of Afghanistan, the so-called war of independence to banish Aceh from the Island of Sumatra, the pagan life of Bali in the heart of Muslim land, the denial of human rights to the people of Kashmir, the atrocities in Gujarat, the occupation of Pakistan by U.S. diplomatic forces, the devastation of Iraq by the allied forces of the United States and the United Kingdom, the unprecedented tyranny of Israel over the innocent Palestinians and vice versa, the suffocated human life in the Persian gulf states and Saudi Arabia at the behest of the U.S., the misuse of oil wealth by princely Sheikhs of the Middle East, the tyrannies of Bashr Asad in Syria, Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, Ghadafi in Libya, Ali in Tunisia, the constant turmoil in Somalia at the hands of war lords. They all together provide more than sufficient justification for the natural calamities to fall in this region as warning signals to others and to the people of South East Asia and Africa.
The tsunami of Dec. 26 happened after 40 years just to warn humans that their God is not sleeping. He is very much alive to the situation. The warning is equal both for the tyrants and the oppressed. The dominant countries of Europe and America, including the countries like India, China and Japan, must learn that these tsunami waves can also visit their luxurious coasts and ports any time without giving any signal. They all are within the active review of the Creator and Sustainer. He is giving them some respite to ponder their atrocities and inhuman treatment of underdeveloped nations.
If they do not stop their game of exploitation, occupations and hegemonies to subjugate other people and their natural resources, the day is not far off when these arrogant nations may meet the same fate as it is faced today by the people of Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Somalia, and others. God forbid, if similar waves of Atlantic or Pacific Oceans visit the countries around the Atlantic and Pacific belts, it may destroy the entire edifice of modern civilization.
The losses in this area will surpass what happened only yesterday to the countries of the Indian Ocean. Europe and American people must learn this lesson and recast their foreign policies on the basis of justice and peace before it becomes too late. The wrath of the Creator and Sustainer is hovering on their heads. It may fall any time but Bush-Blair-Sharon is unmindful of the consequences of their game plan and will awake only when the tsunami waves will overcome them to break their haughty heads and crush them for good. That day is in waiting. Its fall is not far off.
Equally, it is a warning for the people of Asia and Africa to wake up, get rid of the usurpers in their respective lands, establish justice and human rights in their lands otherwise natural calamities like earthquakes and tidal waves will again wash their land. The people of Asia and Africa are guilty of keeping silence and doing nothing to overthrow the tyrannical regimes of their lands and get the democratic process restored.
The tsunami waves are natural phenomenon that comes to serve warning signals both to the oppressors and the oppressed. The earth belongs to Allah not to the UN, Bush, Blair or Putin. Allah gives latitude to the oppressors to a certain extent, but when it reaches to climax of committing Fasad and fills the earth with transgression and no Khair [good] is left in them, they are overthrown by the Creator and Sustainer and someone else is given chance to rule this world with justice. So these sudden and so powerful waves are open warning signals for both camps, the oppressors and the oppressed. They must act and act fast to fill the earth with justice and fair play. The days of repentance are swiftly receding.
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