Jihad for the Sake of Environment

The term DEMOCRACY needs to be redefined in terms of Contemporary times.

If the entire Globe is aiming for Democratization, should there not be levels of it? To suit the National Character traits and History of a People?

People with a Military history should have a differently evolved form of Democracy.

Those that are Tribal, by virtue of their history require something else.

Those that have a Communist history or Marxist ideology have separate requirements for self-rule.

And countries that have heretofore been Socialist have different ways of rule.

JIHAD : - which way will we turn?

Pakistan is on the edge of a Tectonic Shift. It divides from East to West, the Levant from the Indo-Ganges plains. North-South it divides the Mongolian Steppes from the warm Arabian Sea.

Churning this Subterranean mass is the Karakoram/Himalaya/Pamir/Hindukush knot. It grows anywhere between 2mm to 1.2meters every year.


Does Geography define Ethnography? Perhaps.


Pakistan is a Nuclear State.

We have the potential to hold a stake in Global Politics. But with Terrorist Status, we hold the respect and trust of very few.

If we were to turn from a terrorist state to a Nuclear Friendly Nation, would we not hold the admiration of the many?

To have Nuclear potential but to not have the financial funding nor the vision to do so poses impossible and interesting questions. Naturally, when you have potential the situation becomes interesting. Who do we ask?

And whomever we ask, what do we barter for it?

We have 3 choices : -

America – who calls itself Big Brother but that in reality will steal our horizon like it did with everything from Vietnam to Watergate onwards and give us Satellite vision ?

China – the Bhai who has suddenly turned Corporate towards Zardari and our Volatile nation.

Or the Arab League – who would do anything in the name of Jihad and Islam?

Where and which corner will Civilization turn?

Pro West. Pro East. Or Pro Terra Firma.



Why is it that every time you turn around to have a look, the Shadow seems longer ?


The Dark Spots of the Sun that have burnt another Halogen Black Hole in the Orb – and have made the Earth a harder place to withstand because of its dwindling Resources and over exhausted Elements – Elemental Nature : is there any left ? It seems there is nothing left to use – and abuse.

Does it put back into the Earth that off which it takes ? Consumes itself with ?


This Earth that made the Clay of Adam. This Pulse that beats within itself with the Rhythm of the Resounding Earth – the Water that comes out of it – Pure enough to slake the thirst – Did you know that the Blood is composed of 80% H2O ?
When there is nothing left – to feed a Human Soul

What will then slake the thirst of the dry clay that is then the Man, Adam ?

When Water ends, when thirst is not quenched, when dry clay is parched, is that when the gift of the Guff is going to echo in its own Silence?


Shadows grow longer because the Sun has grown older.




It says in Religious Scripture that Azazael and his Companions would be seated beneath the Lote Tree (the Tree of Zuquum). The Tree of Knowledge. Or the Tree of Wheat and Barley. And that Adam was told to keep away from it because it would bring him the knowledge to distinguish between Good and Evil. It was said so because as a Soul, he did not have the Maturity to handle the fruit of this Knowledge.

From the Tree of Knowledge was not knowing how to handle it with Care.

Nobell, and ultimately, even Einstein himself, were horrified in the end as to how their endeavors were used.


Both to War.


Under God’s Holy Throne referred to in the Ayaat al Kursi flow four Rivers that are flowing from Heaven itself. These are: the Nile, The Tigris, The Euphrates and The Indus.

And from the Indus flow five tributaries : The Ganges, The Jumna, The Brahmaputra, The Kwaii and The Yangtze.


And what is the Measure of a Miqthaal?

What is the measure of a Miqthaal?

From the pink glow of Fajr to the peach hue of Asr,

What is the measure of a Miqthaal?

Blossoms fallen upon sweet fresh loam

Geraniums

From sweet Mists to Savannah

From Warm clouds to Ferns

From the Snow topped mountains of Kilimanjaro to Ambergris, which you found on the Oriental Spice Route.

To Nanga Parbat , K2, Everest – all be ours.

14 of the highest peaks enclave Pakistan.

And you say, “What have we got?�


In 1906, Picasso completed his ‘Les Demoiselles d’Avignon’

In European Continental Art he borrowed from Africa, his vision, to get there. It was a turning point. This was a product of ‘les Bateaux Lavoires’ with Braque.

Est-ce que la Spiritualitee etait mourue? Mauvaise? Malgre toi?
Dites-moi!

In the early 20th Century the names that came out of Germany/ Austria were Gustav Klimt, Heinrich Himler, Sigmund Frued. And Adolf Hitler.

In France you had Marcell Duchamp, Picasso, Robespierre, Jacques Rousseau and Henri de Toulouse Lautrec.

This was the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

The 20th Century was fired by the products of Science and Industry.

Perhaps the 21st will be energized by the by-products of Nature.

In Nature’s Chemistry they say you can’t reproduce the Elements.

Can you produce pure Nitrogen out of a Vacuum. Or Oxygen.


Perhaps not.


The one thing that you cannot recreate is WATER itself, which, despite having a chemical formula of 2 Hydrogen atoms bonded to 1 of Oxygen is not recreatable.


The Water Table is dwindling.


Counting South on up – latitude 34*North - longitude 70*East, Pakistan has the Red Sea - Arabian if you will – The Raan of Kutch and its marshes; Sandy Thal in Balochistan and Thar in Cholistan and the Oases that come off every desert, from Saif ul Muluk to Ziarat . Arable fertile lands of Punjab fed by the five tributaries of the Indus – Ravi, Beas, Sutlej, Chenab and Jhelum.

To the mild drums of the Potohar.

To the Cavalry Orchards of Hassanabdaal and Abbottabad… loquats as big as your fist and strawberries and mushrooms

(What is Mannah?).

To forests of Pine.

To Wood.

Did you know that the Cedar of Lebanon is a Pine Tree.

Pine, Walnut, Shisham, Oak – where cemeteries are kept – to Eucalyptus and its medicinal qualities

To Concordia.

Moraines and Riverine valleys, Glaciers, Snow banks and Moutaintops.

14 of the highest peaks in the World enclave Pakistan in the North.

Everest. K2. Nanga Parbat. Biafo. Golden Peak. Gasherbrum.Masherbrum. Siachen Glacier. Makalu. Changabang.

The Perfect Duck.

And Margalla. And Taxila – the last Satrapy.

And Snow melt and Glacial torrent.

Ever taste pure virgin snow?



There are 6000 species in Pakistan.

The Red Sea Dolphin.

The Blind Indus River Dolphin.

The Ibex is almost extinct.

What did the Marco Polo Sheep hear with his beautiful horns?

When his shepherd yodeled what bell was around the Polo’s Sheep neck?

Is this not an Eden? In the matrix of modern Geography, can we not save it?




In 1857, the Durrand Line was demarcated.

In 1457, the Renaissance began.

In 1557, Leonardo da Vinci drew his perfect man in a square within a circle.

He was representing God’s perfected Creature.

Insaan e Kaamil.


If the yin/yang is the male/female perspective of Darkness and Light, then so too does the Square within the circle signify perfect Spirituality.

The Perfected Creature within the symmetry that he borrows from the four Cardinal points to the Circle wherein he borrows the poetry of his Soul leading into Infinity.

From the 1400’s to the 21st Century – 600 years – the idea has come full circle to maturation. It took God 600 years to ferment Adam’s Clay before he breathed off His Spirit into it.

Every 600 years the Chiaroscuro is complete.
And the Kingdom has taken a turn.



falaa uqsimu bilkhunaase
wal jawaaril kunnaase
wal laile iza ‘ass’assa
wa subhe iza tanaffasa
innahu liqaulin rasoolin karim


by the stars that retreat
and by those that travel and disappear
and by the night as it retracts
and by the morning as it approaches
indeed this is the word of an honoured prophet

(Surah Taqwir v 15 -19)



What is better?

To be made Immortal, Perfect, Eternal?

Or to be made capable of it?


Or to prove to yourself that you are so – because you have proved to yourself that actually you are worthy of it?


C’est sans doute la colere qui nous donne le courage de ne pas etre anticipie par les gens. Leurs attitude ne s’en fiche plus de nous faire croire comme eux, par ce qu’ils ont pas voulu comprendre d’ou viennent nos gestures circonflex.

Pourquoi y-a-t ils des langues ou il y a les accents. Sur le ton de voix – c’est la larynx. Le son – le bout des levres – la formulation de la bouche. Le sens de le dire/prononcer comme ca doivent etre dit.

Par-ce que le sens se change – les circonflex,et les circonstonciels; sans doute, les subjonctifs qui doivent etre la; les imperatifs qui sont de la regle; c’est la grammaire d’une langue qui la fait vivante.

Puis il y a le Latin. Et puis il y a le Sanskrit. Cicero et Panini. LeRoman. La Loire. L’Histoire. Une raison pour maitre la regle la – par ce qu’il y eu cet precedent qui a fait necessaire de le mettre en place par des pareilles de Justice.

Cars c’est la justice qui fait comprendre la Raison d’Existence d’une pays, d’un nation, d’une race…. d’une constitution.

Pour quelques leurs ca peut etre L’Egalitee.
Pour quelques fois, c’est la Fraternitee.
Peut etre quelque fois ca ce dit Tauhid.

Quelques fois ca se dit L’Unite.

C’est une raison d’Existence.

Une Raison d’Etre.

La Tempete. La Cloche. Le sens du Muezzin.


La marche a commence.



We are given the legacy of Jihad to fight, not amongst ourselves but to fight for the sake of the Environment. Just as Christians are given the legacy of Shepherding and Carpentry, we are given the turn to Trading and tilling the Soil.

Can’t you see how the shares of the Christians and the Muslims are enfolded together?

To the Jews belong Industry itself, and Currency.

The Environment is the share of the Ummah of the Prophet Mohammad.

We cannot exist as a Civilization without each other. Can you not see?

When you talk Democracy, it is not democracy of a country that is required but democracy of a Peoples, a Race, an Ummat. Does it now make sense?

The Water Table is dying. Without constant cooperation now the Earth will begin to die bit by bit.

Like the Vedanta Brahman, all Humanity is One.

The Earth is One.

The People are One.

The Earth’s resources, one without the other, in its symbiotic existence cannot continue to exist, one without the other. Has the Time not come to make it through this Environmental Crisis together rather than cast and hurl stones at each other because the one cannot understand the term democracy and the other cannot explain it?