A Letter to Maulana Fazlullah
For the sake of Allah, give me my life back!
Dear Maulana Fazlullah,
Assalam-o-Alaikum! Hope this will find you in the best of your health and spirits. I am a daughter of Swat and today I want to share some thoughts with you and i hope that you will consider it in the larger instrest of Islam and Pakistan and people of the area.
I have no objection to your demand for Shariah as we ourselves fed up with the rotten and corrupt political, judicial and administrative system of the country. We are also yearning for a just society based on justice, equality, fair-play and moderation.Who have no objection to your demand. And if you remember we supported you when you launched your movement.
You also said in your speeches that your movement is against the landlords who exploited the locals and keep some of them in bonded labour. Thats alright. What i fail to understand is that these are the poor poeple who are the victims of your movement. The rich ones have already shifted to other cities and have admitted their children to better schools.
Your militants destroyed the schools where poor and middle class were getting education. This is true that these schools were used as bunkers by the military and the military establishment is equally responsible for that. You say that the bridges were destroyed by the military and the military says it was done by the militants.
Your militant campaign rendered 50,000 people jobless and hundreds killed. Islam says when you nurder one person its like you murdered the whole humanity. Please guide me what version of religion people should follow; yours or the one preached by the Holy Prophet (PBUH)?
Dear Maulana Sahib! there is still time that you reveiw your decision of fighting till Shariah is enforced in Swat. Islam is the religion of peace and it can not be enforced on the dead bodies of innocent people who are also Muslims. The whole world is observing us and they cursing us for our approach to religion. Why you dont work on minds rather then forcing people to surrender to your point of view. Love is the power, belive me your way of handling this issue will bring nothing but disaster.
DOnt you have a heart that can feel for the weeping children and helpless mothers? In the past our leaders had the power but they abused it and used it for their personal interest, today you are at the helm of affairs in Swat and you have the power to put an end to the ongoing voilence. Let us find a solution through dialogue and negotiations. Let us have a debate, a honest debate, a jirga from where we can go ahead and bring some relief to the people.
But i know now the secret hand has succeded in giving a tarnished image to Swat, unfortunately today all the people in swat are considered as militants. Now our homes are already destroyed, our schools are turned to ashes. Our people living like refugees in Pubjab and Karachi… Now how it will be possible to reverse the cycle of time. We have lost every thing we had, our peace, our society, our traditions and our future!
Swat will not be the same again! Aaah!
Tarikh ki awraq mai ye zulam bhi dekhi hai, Lamhon ne khta ke thi sadyon ne saza payi.
Please do whatever you can do for the next generations of Swat if you can.We have enough of destruction please give us an opportunity to breath a sigh of relief.
May Allah bless us all!
Your sister in Islam,
Gul Mina
