We Have a Dream!

Wars, terrorism, killings, slaughters, beheading, bloodshed, blasts, kidnappings, chemical weapons, atomic and nuclear devices, live-streaming of innocents being killed and beheaded, smoke, dust and the outcome of all these in the form of global warming, natural disasters, earthquakes etc.: this is the picture of our  world today. God did not create this world for all these horrific phenomena to happen. He gifted this world to humans as a place to live in with peace and love for fellow citizens. Man, who was created in the Shadow of God, has turned into a demon over the centuries and changed the mother earth. According to most revealed religions, there is a world hereafter with Heaven and Hell for pious and sinful people respectively but man has transformed this world into a living hell at this very moment. But we have a dream that one day the clouds of enmity, hatred and demonic intentions will shed away and humans will start living with love and compassion for each other, irrespective of the colour of their skins, creeds, languages, or nationalities. We still have a dream!

We have a dream that man will not cut his brother’s throat for the sake of bettering his own economy. Instead he, himself, would sleep hungry but feed his brother. He would request his brother to share the reward of his harvest rather than snatching it at the gunpoint. If his brothers in Africa are struck with hunger and drought, he would stop going to KFCs and McDonalds to save a few pennies to be sent to the dying brothers in Africa whose innocent eyes keep watching and waiting for food to come from somewhere; but sometimes those innocent eyes shut silently and kick the bucket because the moments of waiting do not pass at all. We have a dream that the stronger will not exploit the weaker and the weaker would look up to the stronger, not in jealously but in hope that the stronger would support him through thick and thin. We still have a dream that if a black person dies of hunger in Africa or in Asia, his white brother in Canada, the US or the UK will have restless sleep; if the black suffers from the pangs of continuous drought, the white mother in the West would send love to him across all the oceans without caring about distances that stretch between them. If a man confronts aggression in the East, someone in the West would stand for him; and, likewise, if a Western gets hit by any misfortune, an Eastern would send him Nirvana across thousands of miles. We still have a dream today that this is going to happen despite all odds.

We have a dream that powerful countries will not invade and wage wars against poor countries on the basis of lame excuses of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) and terrorism in order to seize their natural resources and lands. We have a dream that the powerful will realize that the colour of the blood is the same in all human beings, whether black or white, yellow or tan in any part of the world. A child in America, Canada, or the UK feels the same amount of pain as a child in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Palestine and Syria when his innocent hands and limbs are torn apart and blown off with a bomb or missile fired in the name of the War on Terror. We have a dream that the East and the West will have mutual love; and in case of any misunderstanding on any issue, they would strike a deal on the table amicably rather than going to war against each other and promoting the weapon industry. Ammunition cannot differentiate between good and bad, black and white, innocent and guilty, young and old, women and children and Eastern and Western. Therefore, when ammunition is set on fire, it destroys everything and terminates life. So, what would be the use of all these natural resources that the world is hiding in its stomach if no one is there to use them anymore?  

We have a very vivid dream and still have it and will always have it that the colour of the skin will not be a matter of pride or prosecution in any part of the world. As it is beyond human approach to have a specific colour of the skin, no one has any legitimate right to be proud of or to feel inferior on the basis of a specific colour of the skin because the colour of the blood is always the same. We have a dream that we will, one day, live as brothers and sisters leaving behind all colour schemes.

We have a dream that humans will not kill or prosecute each other on the basis of differences in religions, beliefs and creeds. They would respect every religion and provide others enough space to practice whatever religion others believe to be true according to their understanding. If religions come from God, leave it to God to decide on the Day of Judgment who was right and who was wrong in his choice of religion. We have a dream that people will follow live and let live philosophy in all walks of life, especially in religion. Religion is a code of conduct and it is meant to discipline humans in their day to day lives. All established religions of the world condemn killing the followers of other religions, debauchery, theft, falsehood, dishonesty and promote universal love. We still have a dream that people will follow their religions truly and live like brothers and sisters whether they are Muslims, Christians, Jews, Sikhs, Hindus, Atheists, and Zoroastrians. We have a dream today!

We have a dream that there will be no secret societies and espionage in the world and that people and nations will respect others’ privacy. We dream that the stronger nations of the world will not spend billions and trillions for secretly knowing what other nations and certain individuals are doing. Rather, we expect them to spend that money on the welfare of their own people in the first place and then on the poor of the world in the second place. The money that is being wasted, at present, on espionage, intelligence agencies, surveillance equipment, either along the ground or in the space, will be used to provide the needy with proper food, clean water to drink, adequate education, and a safer place to live in. We also dream that instead of acting like wolves in sheep’s clothing, human beings and nations will work hand and glove for the sake of much needed uplift of their living standards across the globe. We dream that the money, allocated for espionage and secret societies, will be spent to protect our mother earth and its environment from global warming and cooling and all sorts of natural disasters. A safer and cleaner world would be the greatest gift we can give to our fellows, children and coming generations. God’s earth is getting polluted not only with poisonous by-products of weaponry, industry, transportation, communication, Geo-engineering but also by hatred, dishonesty, debauchery, fraud, spying, stealing and many more evils that cannot be accounted for here. We dream that we put all hands on the deck for removing the existing evils to make our world, once again, the same place that God created millenniums ago. This is our aspiration and this is the dream we dream today. 

Dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.