Jeem aur Meem - Poem Urdu - .جیم
Channel: owais sarvasukhsevaka
Date: 30/11/2012

This Urdu poem is an anguished cry at the inability of my brethren to rise above the morass of dogma to achieve at least a sprinkling of knowledge- the only possession that allows greatness to groups, peoples, civilizations; as well as to individuals.

Muslims are essentially pests in today's world: hardly any knowledge is produced by believing Muslims.  We love to use cars and computers and cell-phones; but not one critical principle of science or a critically useful and popular innovation can be credited to a Muslim.  Without so much as inventing a windshield wiper, believing Muslims use all modern conveniences, and yet find the gall within themselves, to criticize the West.  They oppose freedom of expression to the hilt and yet never stop to wonder what they would have done to opposing forces, if they had the superior power to do violence: a possibility for predicting which there are enough pointers available in the annals of Islamic history.  Even staying within the fold of Islam, one could never go against the established narrative: Mansur's and Sarmad's are telling tales of Muslims that dared oppose the dogmatic, while the Muslims were in power.

What Muslims need is less dogma and more knowledge: that change alone will make Muslims more equal participants in the developed world of today.  That will also dispel the notion within the Muslim breast, that they have been unfairly treated by the world.  That also, hopefully, would stop the violence initiated by Muslims in the name of Islam.

This is a new poem (written: 27 Nov 2012, 0001 - 0025), being published here first, and in video format only, so far.