In Pakistan talk is cheap. People just talk and talk and talk, to no avail. In our society talking is a great pastime, be it about politics, our relatives or anything else.
No one gives a second thought to what they are saying and why. In all the chitter chatter of life we forget that words have great power. Kaala jaado aur kya hota hai, just the right words in the right sequence on the right time. And poof words become reality.
We love to play word games. Ishaaron mein kabhi mazaaq, to kabhi tanz. Kabhi attack to kabhi defence. We think we know best and all others are too dumb to answer. We fool ourselves into thinking we have great power, because we rendered the opposition speechless.
But instead of just hurting others with this behavior, we end up doing more damage than we can imagine to ourselves. We loose our creditably, people close to us start second guessing every thing we say: is he saying to put me down, to humiliate me or are they truly just joking?
The words we speak to put down others slowly but surely poison our own minds. We start believing all others are like us! We can't laugh at a joke, without thinking: Yeh mujhe keh raha hai!
They poison our hearts too! Very slowly we start believing what we say is true! We start thinking badly of every one! This is the power of words! When we speak kindly and softly, with reverence and izzat, we do become softer and kinder, more at peace with the world and ourselves. Our words reflect our reality, they describe what we see and feel.
This Ramadan, be generous and happy. Describe beauty Allah surrounds us with, with grandness and openness. So the pen is mightier than the sword, but nothing beats a tongue!
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