Swiddiq Nadvi Cheroor
The incident that happened last Friday in the Mahal is being shared considering its novelty, difference and effectiveness. Immediately following Jumu’ah, Khatib informs Eneet very solemnly: I have a matter of very serious and urgent nature to discuss with you. So all the people of this Mahal should come to Madrasa Hall at 8.30 PM tomorrow night. The Ustads have a few things to tell you.
Those who listened were full of curiosity and eagerness. Something important has happened, or is regarding to happen. Those who heard passed the message to each other. The men returned home and told the women regarding it. Everyone waited impatiently for that moment. The Khatib presented the matter in front of the assembled in the madrasah hall. A large crowd of men and women and youths from various clubs and groups stood in rapt attention. The matter is very serious. There are some shocking indications of how intoxicants and narcotics are finding ways to take hold in our areas.
Even ten- and twelve-year-old children were given some material that was considered a childish lesson in intoxicants, making them addicted to it and making intoxicant use and circulation universal in the future. thereby securing their business prospects, trapping the new generations in the world of addiction and leading them to aimless and dull lives. Planned moves for this are underway in most areas. Especially in Muslim majority areas. A small sample of it was sprouted in this Mahal.
In the last few weeks, a few Muallims under the leadership of the Sadar Muallim have taken notice of some of these movements from the children’s side and handled the matter with utmost caution and importance. He went to many houses, inquired regarding the situation and made the family members aware of the danger and seriousness of this. From some of them such things were seized with their hands. It is then that the families come to know regarding the pitfalls their children have fallen into.
Most seriously, none of the children who came into contact with it knew the seriousness of it. There are even elders in the family who help them. Similarly, some of the shops in the nearby bazaar are havens for such crooks. They are very secretive in dealing with their enemies. Children who are born interested in this knowingly or unknowingly take away huge sums of money from their homes. Those who go through this are sure to seek more deadly intoxicants tomorrow.
It is certain that these measures will be helpful to educate many children and deter them from it, to make parents aware of the seriousness of the situation and to make the locals aware of the issue for the time being. The religious teachers who have put in a lot of effort and adventure for that need to be appreciated. They have rendered exemplary services. The people responsible for each mahal have to wait with tears in their eyes. The powers of darkness have prepared many pitfalls to mislead the new generation which is their future promise.
In their hands are stones covered with silk. They assert their influence by raising seemingly innocuous slogans such as independence, equality between men and women, gender neutrality and civil rights. Thereby draining them of religious consciousness and inclination towards moral values and pushing them into all kinds of debauchery and anarchy. Such countervailing forces calculate that its benefits can be achieved personally, socially and politically.
Movements under the guise of civil liberties are powerful enough to entrench the very dangerous view that no one has an obligation or a right to advise anyone. Such people reckon that moral organizations and moral propagandists will become inert and inactive. Tinma’s traders are on the scene with tricks that foxes use to steal lambs. This can be prevented to some extent if the concerned rise to the occasion.