Shudir Baran Mazi, Physical Education & Sports Teacher
Haimchar Government College, Haimchar,Chandpur,Bangladesh-3660.
I like to travel. I also have a hobby of traveling. When I have some money and time, I go to a familiar and unknown place. When you travel, new places and environments, getting to know new people, gaining new experiences… everything feels pretty good. Once I went to visit a relative's house. He stayed at the relative's house for some time. The area is quite beautiful and has some kind of magical look of natural beauty. Talking to the people there can be a source of satisfaction. I saw that there are many differences in people's thinking. Some people are orthodox, while others are reformist. Some semi-reformed again want to accept the truth with someone or argument. One day I was having tea in a small tea shop. A few more people are sitting on the bench next to me drinking tea - and they are talking about various issues including society, family, religion. This is a very familiar scene in our country.
One of them asked me, "Brother, you seem to be a stranger, and you have never seen us here before." I also said politely, "That's right. I've never been to you before, this is the first time I've been to Sipon's house. " While having tea, I met the gentleman, who said, "My name is Shariful, but the people here call me Bachal Sharif." It's nice to be known, there's a kind of sweetness in her speech. We continue to talk about various issues.
Sharif told me, "It feels good to talk to you, moreover, you seem to be educated." Stopping him this time, I said, "I'm glad to hear your words. I don't know if I am educated or not, but how many levels of education have I achieved?
Sharif said, "That's right, brother. The people here are educated idiots." I said, "Brother, how is that?" Sharif said, "Matiman, listen but I will tell. Will you have time? " I nodded and said, "Say no.
"Sharif started, "Most of the people here are educated. However, they do not differentiate between truth and falsehood, nor do they want to. He doesn't want to understand anything by reasoning, even if he understands, he doesn't want to accept it. Do not want to accept the truth. There is less sense of justice and injustice among the educated people here. The chairman, the foreman or the lord, without any judicial analysis of what he said, followed him. True or false, right or wrong, good or bad - without understanding, they agree with their words, their actions. They do not have the ability to recognize enemies and allies. Much like this proverb - grandfather said bonito dhan , bainte achi oda dhan. When I try to distinguish between right and wrong, most people avoid me. I understand this more.
After a pause, Sharif began to say again, "I went to talk to some people and said, Allah created us as Ashraful Makhlukat. That is, man is the best creature of creation. Has Allah ever specified the people of any religion - they are the best creatures of creation and all other people are inferior? God has declared all human beings to be the best creatures of creation, not human beings of any particular religion. But forgetting that identity, we are proud to introduce ourselves as some Hindus, some Buddhists, some Christians, etc., and try to increase the number of our own religious people. Don't think of yourself as being human and others as human. The number of people giving this identity to me is very low. That's why there are so many communal attacks all around. Great arrangement for the loss of harmony. Brother said, is it possible to take civilization forward in this way? You see, there are a lot of people in our country who are making money illegally - taking bribes, corruption, defaulters and syndicates and swindling thousands of crores of rupees and saying through people - God is giving, God is giving. Then they are the ones who are insulted. "
I turned to Sharif and he said, "We all know that one day after death we will all go to heaven and to go to heaven we all follow our own religious customs and rules according to our own beliefs." But look, no one wants to die, everyone wants to live, even with life support. Not everyone dies, I want to go to heaven.Well, brother would say, if not die, how to go to heaven? They do not believe in heavenly bliss on earth, but want to live on this earth again. There is another group of people who - taking bribes, stealing, robbing banks, corrupting, adulterating food, illegally occupying, syndicating, owning wealth by making more profit out of the pockets of ordinary people, and speaking or telling by themselves or others. There is - Allah or God is the owner of Rizik.If so, has the Creator written your Rizik into bribery, theft, corruption, food adulteration, bank robbery, illegal occupation, looting and syndicate business? You will bribe, you will corrupt, you will rob banks, you will adulterate food, you will syndicate… and the creator who owns Rizik will say in his mouth. In this way they are becoming the owners of wealth by capitalizing on the faith of the common people.Some people go to poor people in different places and say that those who have less wealth here will have less account in the Hereafter. The word is reasonable and believable. But my question is elsewhere. They again go to the rich people and pray for them, saying, "O our Lord, increase the wealth of such and such a person and make the reckoning of the Hereafter easy." So who is going to take responsibility for this double standard, brother? "
I listened to her and sometimes agreed with her. Sometimes I got involved in arguments. He said, "Brother, we are going through a difficult time. Young people have lost the character of their youth, day by day they are becoming intoxicated with consumerist thoughts.On the other hand, our parents today are preoccupied with the future of their children. As the future unfolds, they are constantly being destroyed - and taking refuge in lies, taking advantage of corruption, committing irregularities, and engaging in violent killings. The child who has so much shelter for the future, does not pay much attention to the character formation of that child. If they could look at the character formation of the child, they could have developed the character themselves.Unnecessary could create a developed civilization by avoiding the existing problems between us. We know that patriotism is a part of faith, but we seem to have forgotten that patriotism. You may disagree with what I mean by patriotism, but I would like to say a little bit about me here. Patriotism is love of country; Love the people of the country; Loving the country's history, civilization, language, literature, culture and the country's heritage - to play an active role in its preservation. "
Keeping an eye on me, this time Sharif Bhai said, "I have wasted a lot of your time, I will waste a little more time. Is religion a religious taboo? Many of us do not know. Again, many people do not believe even if they know. Today we practice religion as we see fit, just as much as we need to protect our own interests. I don't want to read books about religion, I just want to learn by listening to someone else's words. But the scriptures are written in a very simple way, which we don't even read.Due to the ignorance of our knowledge, a group of people are taking advantage of it. And we blindly believe them. Chile is running after them like listening. Adam and Eve were the first creatures on earth. They are a hereditary and Islamic religion. But from them so many clans, so many religions, how possible! This matter does not enter my head.At the rate at which religious education, educational institutions and places of worship are growing in our country, it seems that a communal riot is inevitable in the days to come. It is important to look at these now. On the one hand, the scattering of religious educational institutions, on the other hand, the deteriorating quality of general education, the rise of communal violence, the backwardness of science education, forgetting history, tradition, culture, humanity - all to save the religion of Bivo.These people do not understand, religion for people, not people for religion. Religion is not safe if people are not safe. In order to protect religion, harmony, humanity and values must be developed. "
After being silent for a while, Sharif Bhai again said, "When we look for blood for a dying patient, we say we want O-positive or B-positive or A-positive blood for a dying patient.But even if we make a mistake then we don't say for once that we want blood of Muslim people or blood of Hindus or blood of Christians or blood of Buddhists or blood of people of any other religion - just say blood for a dying patient. Again when a child is born we all say, a child is born. No one says a Muslim child was born or a Hindu child was born.
Again, when someone dies, we still do not say that a person of that religion has died. So what is the meaning of all this violence, communal riots, killings, catastrophe of humanity, catastrophe of values in this intervening time? "With a sigh, Bachal Sharif resumed, "Even though it is mentioned in our holy scriptures that the workers should be paid before their sweat dries, how many of us accept it?" How many people are trying to accept it? To what extent are our scholars or religious leaders playing a role in that?Those who are supposed to play a role have moved far away from it to achieve their own interests. It is as if we are moving forward on the path of Krishnapaksha. Can't find the white side road. Brother, this is our condition. Do you like all this, tell me? I like the non-communal spirit of friendship and harmony. "
Neither of us noticed how time passed. Our conversation was interrupted by the shopkeeper's call, "Babu, now we have to jump." Saying goodbye to Mr. Sharif, I said goodbye like that day. But I did not understand that day, when I also jumped into separatist thoughts. I understand that today, and so ...