Caricaturing the Sacrifice

        Each year on Eid-ulAzha we sacrifice our dignity, sense and respect by making fun of the sacrifice by all means. From adverts to dramas the sacrificial animal is used to sell the channel. And that is what we are teaching the next generation about this event.

Today I got this message from Ufone:

       

 “Win a blackberry Bold 9000! Just MMS funny videos of your sacrificial animals to ….”

This was enough to make me write this blog post!

       And I am pretty sure that the Eid transmission of various channels would be full of people mimicking the sounds of animals and making fun of the sacrifice by all possible means, and frankly to me (I need to use some harsh words here) these programs stink. Sacrifice has become a matter of fun, a  matter of competition and show off, which is against the very spirit of sacrifice.

        Humor is something very positive and constructive as i have stated in another post earlier,  but there has to be a line that divides the things we need to make fun of and things we don’t make fun of. Airing all such programs dramas and adverts even , do we have any right to protest against Islam being caricatured by other religions? No! we don’t, we first need to set our rules and vision right.

          Hazrat Ibrahi A.S. was a Prophet of very high stature, the Quran uses the word 'Hanif' for him, i.e. focused & committed and his commitment was nothing but oneness of God. He spent his life in trials and tribulations but he never let go of his cause. He was the ambassador of oneness of Allah for the ancient man. Even he did not give up in front of a powerful ruler Namrud, which for he was sentenced to be thrown into fire, but that fire could not bear the fire of tauheed(oneness of God) in Hazrat Ibrahim A.S. and turned to flowers.

Reminds me of some urdu poetry:

Be-Khatar Kood Para Aatish-e-Namrood Mein Ishq
Aqal Hai Mehv-e-Tamasha-e-Lab-e-Baam Abhi

Translation:

Love fearlessly jumped into the fire of Namrud
Intellect is absorbed in the spectacle from roof‐top still

The sunnah of such a Nabi of such high stature must never be made fun of.

We need to bring the true essence to the lime light, make the people realize the sunnah better and enhance the knowledge of the new generation on this rather than laughing at the idea and hence let the world laugh at us!

 May there be 'sacrifice' in every ‘slaughter’!! Ameen.