Change we really need (part II)

The Repentance

"And O my people! Ask forgiveness of your Lord, and turn to Him (in repentance): He will send you the skies pouring abundant rain, and add strength to your strength: so turn ye not back in sin!" Verse # 52, Surah 11. Hud (The Boundry?)

And so Greed Inc. under the able leadership of its CEO, Mr. Adam Smith, may have closed its doors for now but there is a big chance that the corporation would stage a stronger comeback unless something is done about it.

The change which we now look forward is the change in concept of ‘equity’ in corporations. Why can’t the concept of ‘equity’ can now be changed from one of amassing wealth to equal distribution of wealth? Now why the true strength of corporations judged not from the monetary reserves which they have but rather from the prosperity which they distributed to their employees and their communities? Why would only shareholders continue be the stakeholders?
This is indeed the true change we now need from the future generation of entrepreneurs who will now be flexing their wings to take flight. This is certainly the change expected from them which will herald a new era of change elsewhere in our lives.

It is He, Who doth show you the lightning, by way both of fear and of hope: It is He, Who doth raise up the clouds, heavy with (fertilizing) rain! Verse # 12, Surah 13. Ar-Ra'd (The Thunder)

Textbooks on biology do not tell us that the human race is actually a parasite, but I consider it so. We continue to suck out vital natural resources from the belly of our host body, the mother earth, which are badly needed by us in order to sustain our daily business. Scientists are looking to the stars for our continuing survival and the mankind will hop to some new planet as the mother earth slowly dies. The change we really need now is to look for alternate ideas which are in harmony to nature rather than our ‘slash-and-burn’ policies which are actually spelling our doom.

I ask myself if I am too big a dreamer to dream of change in governments and their attitudes towards their people. We certainly need and would welcome a change in this regard. Why would people continue to be a number in the hands of economists only to show how many have died of hunger and malnutrition? Why cant people replace statistics? And why market forces be allowed to roam free forcing farmers to destroy their excess crops when millions go hungry everyday?

Now its our choice whether to pay heed to wakeup call from God or we have a choice to go about our ways and wait for yet another wakeup call which may be not as subtle as this one.

And if indeed thou ask them who it is that sends down rain from the sky, and gives life therewith to the earth after its death, they will certainly reply, "(Allah)!" Say, "Praise be to Allah." But most of them understand not. Verse # 63, Surah 29. Al-‘Ankabut (The Spider)

Change we really need (Part I)

Wake-up call

They ask thee to hasten on the evil in preference to the good: Yet have come to pass, before them, (many) exemplary punishments! But verily thy Lord is full of forgiveness for mankind for their wrong-doing, and verily thy Lord is (also) strict in punishment. Verse # 6, Surah 13. Ar-Ra'd (The Thunder)

We all saw history in making when the almighty Wall Street came down. Maybe I make it sound more dramatic than it actually was but whoever thought that such giant corporations would come down like houses of cards. To me, fall of Wall Street giants and the subsequent recession that followed is certainly a catastrophe of biblical propitiations. We may not admit it as a global catastrophe because there was no death-toll attached to it but natural calamities have only regional impact while this catastrophe touched almost all or us in one way or the other, whether it is a lost job, or lost sales or a lost opportunity.

And now that it has happened and shouldn’t we consider this as a subtle wake-up call from God but do we listen? Subtle it was indeed, because God is certainly capable of much more. The Lord works in mysterious ways and the Empire of Greed came crushing down.

The Resurrection

See they not how many of those before them We did destroy?- generations We had established on the earth, in strength such as We have not given to you - for whom We poured out rain from the skies in abundance, and gave (fertile) streams flowing beneath their (feet): yet for their sins We destroyed them, and raised in their wake fresh generations (to succeed them). Verse # 6, Surah 6. Al-An'am (Cattle, Livestock)

The concept of resurrection tells us about new beginnings and of starting over. So the Wall Street went down and the after shocks took down countless giant corporations all around the world. These corporations were also the extensions to the same Greed Inc.

Now that we are all set to starting over and for sure this change will bring countless opportunities to many. This change has now created a huge vacuum which will usher in a new generation of entrepreneurs to the helm of affairs. These men and women will now have a chance to bring their innovative ideas to work. How these men and women will fare, only the future will tell us but we now have a fair idea of the real change we need in ourselves and in our societies.

To continue……….