So it was that when I went to the launch, there was a Hollywood movie playing on TV. My youngest son, 20-year-old Waqas, commented on it, so I asked: Do you know what acting is? He replied in the negative, so I said, “Then how do you enjoy a movie or a play?” My son said, “It’s fun, the story and the action are all fun.”
To which I said, “What you think is fun is not, just temporary relief. All you get is just the noise of the movie and the sounds of running characters and weapons. You have only considered the changing scenes and sounds as the whole universe. Otherwise, your situation is just like that of a person who does not know the language of colors but is standing in front of Picasso’s masterpiece. “
After that, I started talking about this topic in some detail. For the next hour and a half, my children were stunned. I also showed them the details of art by showing some movie scenes from my archive on my laptop. The most interesting moment in this conversation was when Waqas named Al Pacino and Robert Denero as the biggest actors. And I refused to accept that claim.
And then I explained that there was a mafia rule in America. So when films on the mafia began to be made, the public interest was natural. Al Pacino and Robert Denero’s careers began with these films, so their name also gained popularity. But how can it be denied that public opinion in the field of science and art is mere ignorance?
When it comes to acting and it’s a matter of art experts, they can by no means call Al Pacino or Robert Dinero the two greatest actors. Art should be judged on the basis of art, not box office earnings. Although there are regular film critics who write reviews, these people are not honest. These are involved with marketing companies. Otherwise, on a purely technical scale, both Alpacino and Robert Denero would not be able to match a single expression of Anthony Hopkins.
The next day, politics and political ideology came under discussion. It took two hours. And it’s not like a lecture is being swept away or a sermon is being preached. Rather, it was a situation like a discussion. My sons kept asking questions and asking for explanations of certain things. That is the style of regular gossip.
An important question, for example, is that West, it is said, developed when it embraced secularism. Therefore, we can make progress only if we move towards a secular state instead of a religious state. Isn’t that really true? To which, I said that there was no concept of a supreme state in the Christian religion. Jesus did not strive for it, nor did he establish a state, nor did he preach in this regard.
Thus, in principle, it was wrong for the clergy to create a religious state. As long as these nations persist in this mistake, they will not be able to develop. As soon as they moved towards secularism, that is, removed the label of Christianity from the state, which was devoid of political affairs, the process of their development began.
In contrast, there is a formal concept of state in Islam. Not only did this come into being in practice, but the movement of diplomats also began during the Prophet’s (PBUH) time. When the Qur’an itself decides to punish the thief by cutting off his hand, it does so only for the state.
God does not give the unwilling citizen the right to cut off the hand of the citizen. Similarly, when our religion gives orders regarding defense and economy, they are also for the state. Therefore, as long as our religious state remained in its stable form, Muslims continued to progress in the field of science and art.
As the religious state weakened, so did our progress, which is still stalled. And it can only be restored and strengthened when the religious state is restored and strengthened. We are in the religious age of progress. Our decline began when the religious state weakened and the practice gradually became more secular.
Now if you think about it, these are things that have been part of my consciousness for years. But my children were deprived of them despite living in the same house. Why ? Because I didn’t have time for my own children. For the first time I have the opportunity to be a teacher of my own children, otherwise I was only a mentor from their birth till now.
This is how our house has been for the last two weeks. However, an amendment has been made that if for some reason social activity took place before evening, then Wi-Fi is left open that day. So these two and a half hours of activity in the evening do not become a burden on my young children.
During these two weeks, the whole atmosphere of the house has changed. And to be honest, it feels like meeting your kids after so many years. However, irritability is still present. Unnatural talk still raises my temperature. But I know very well that this irritability will gradually get better. Because now the mood is not always bad but pleasant.
