By Waqar Malik
I do not know His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan personally, who brought about a revolution through mothers. I have seen pictures, but you cannot claim to know someone by looking at his/her pictures. But I am not that ignorant either, I know a little about him. And how do I know this little?
I saw people in this group. I happened to meet the members of this group. I saw that they are so far from theft, dishonesty, lying, etc. that these qualities have become an integral part of their personalities.
So integral that they have completely lost the ‘ability’ to steal someone’s money. If someone’s wallet, camera, mobile phone, or anything valuable is lost in your (regions where Aga Khan’s followers live) area, he does not worry that this thing will somehow reach him… So this is a great act of goodness, a great deed, so when a person of this group is told and praised, he looks at it with such amazement that what greatness is there in it, what kindness, when that wallet, mobile phone, camera, that valuable thing was his, how can it be called greatness. Now you are at a loss as to how to tell them that these things can also be ‘stolen’.
Look at the women of this group. They look into each other’s eyes and talk with such confidence without any sense of gender discrimination that they seem human…
Oh, has someone cast a spell or enchantment that in every dark city spread across the country, this woman appears at the level of humanity?
Then in the evening, I saw children and women going to the place of worship in groups with love and enthusiasm in different villages. It turned out that this place of worship is a center for solving social problems and getting to know each other’s joys and sorrows. There is a playground for small children. Our background was such that we did not even imagine the beautiful works of children in places of worship. So for us, this is a foreign scene, even if it is beautiful.
It turned out that the religious leader of the place of worship may be great in knowledge but is an ordinary person of society, who wears ordinary clothes. He works for his livelihood, becomes a businessman, becomes a farmer, and works hard for his livelihood. And this Imam has a term, he completes his limited term and retires…
When I got to know this group, I came to know that the group is educated. The entire group reached a 100 percent literacy rate in a few decades… How did this happen?
How can a group achieve this rate in a few decades? It turned out that the leader of this nation said decades ago… If you have two children, a daughter, and a son, then your resources are only for educating one child, so the priority should be only the daughter… But what does this have to do with the education rate becoming 100 percent in a few decades? It turned out that when the girls of an entire generation got educated, these were the mothers of the next generation and these mothers revolutionized the education rate by educating their children and making it 100 percent… Ignorance became stories of history in just a few decades.
I cannot limit the scope of his services by simply saying that a great leader of the world has passed away. His scope is as wide as the entire humanity, which is proven by his actions.
How many leaders are there in the world who eliminate prejudices…? How many leaders are there who identify as religious leaders but tell their followers that when someone asks them about their faith or religion and wants to have a pointless debate, tell them that their religion is humanity? In any state you live in, its constitution is above your constitution. Respect the constitution of that state and do not let any chaos spread.
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