In the
Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
SAD
DEMISE OF TERRI SCHIAVO –WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?
[Shamim A
Siddiqi,
Ultimately the 41 year old mentally paralyzed
woman, “starving” and bed ridden for the last fifteen years, Terri Schiavo died on March 31, 2005 in
In fact, God first created man with three urges
and a strong freewill. He then created this universe and what it contains for
humans consumption to satisfy his/her urges the way he/she likes. Whatever man
possesses – life, time, talents and
resources and what he sees around him in this cosmos all are trust in his/her hands. He is
accountable to God the way he/she uses them on earth. If it as per His
guidance, he/she will be rewarded with eternal bliss [paradise] but if he/she
uses them as per his/her own whims and caprices [as we see around us today and
through ages] he/she will meet with eternal pain [the hellfire]. God, then, in
His infinite mercy, arranged to send guidance through His appointed messengers
from Adam to Muhammad for man as how to live, act and behave on earth.
Thus, life
in the hands of late Terri was a “trust” from God. She had every right by
virtue of our Constitution that guarantees life, liberty and pursuit of
happiness and by her faith in God to hold it till she could die a natural death
on her own accord. But the system of the country deprived her of this
opportunity. The blame of her death can precisely and squarely be placed to the
legal procrastination of proceedings in the courts that choked her to death.
The stoppage of feeding system was a forced
suicide imposed upon her by the legal system. It was thrust upon her. It
denied her the right to live. Rather, coerced her to give up her life, the trust from God in her hands.
The matter becomes more ridiculous when one
finds that the constitutional provisions of each state confirms it’s believe in
God and takes “inspiration” from this concept. Unfortunately, everywhere it is
the part of the Preamble which is
perhaps not binding as a governing class except in four States:
This is called the mockery of the situation.
They allege to be loyal to God but in each case they resolved to carry out
their affairs as per their own “conscience.”
Then, where is the authority of God and what lies in His domain?
Unfortunately, our forefathers were not “sincere” to God or wanted to remain
secular for all “practical” porpoises, keeping the situation of religious
skirmishes back home in their mind about the lands from where they migrated.
So is the case with our adage on currency
notes:" In God we trust" but in fact we do what we like to do
and there is no trust in God. President Bush “used” God and the concept of
pro-life as a means to get into power by befouling the American people but his
entire life, policies, program, political and economic maneuverings are outside
His domain and hence unjust.
A believer in God surrenders to Him and follows
His directives in every walk of life. But the tragedy of Christianity lies
in the fact that it hasn't got any system of life except some beliefs and
dogmas. As a result it has no choice but to surrender every thing outside
church to the worship of devil or its agents: secularism, liberalism,
materialism, Epicureanism and Capitalism. From each field God has been
ousted point blank and Church has no control over any thing except reading
Bible stories, exhorting to rhetoric and rendering oath to President once in
four years. This is all that Christianity stands for today in the
It is now a land mark question before all of us
as how to bring God to be worshiped in every walk of like, to the
pedestal of power and to “Rotunda” from where His Ten Commandments have been
“ousted” by the “criminal” Justice that protects the sanctity of the so-called
”secularism”. Only then we the People of America will be able to earn His
blessings in this life and in the life hereafter.
Shamim Siddiqi
April 1, 2005