http://www.mybitforchange.org/2011/happy-fathers-day-everyday/
Happy fathers day to everyone!!!!!!
This is the day to express your love for your father, make him feel special on Sunday 19th June. Fathers Day is a day honouring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society.
These clips are not adverts from BBC, SKY or some other western channels, I saw them on a local
Pakistani channels here in the UK and I am sure this is true for all the other various channels that broadcast to millions of Pakistanis back home.
I just asked myself for a logical explanation as to whats the point? Why is there only one Fathers day and only one Mothers day celebrated in the Western society? So, in order to find an answer and justify the significance, I let my observation go wild and tried to encompass things which I have learnt being a very close observant of this society.
There is an absolute need to celebrate dedicated days for parents in a society where the bond between parent and child is very delicate and might be non-existent after a certain age and stage; A society where 3 in 5 women aged 75+ live alone. (attached is a graph which shows the percantage of men and women in UK living alone at different ages); where an old parent is a hindrance to fun filled life and where the slogan is Be nice to your children as they are the ones who would decide which old house youd end up in (reads a humorous car sticker); where living with your parents is ridiculed by your mates, where an old parent falls on the floor of a lonely haunting house and there is no one to give him a hand to stand up again, until the milk delivery man comes next morning only to find no answer at the door and calls the police and ambulance. A society where mothers abuse and kill their children, youngsters abuse and beat the vulnerable elderly, fathers leave their partners to survive as lone mothers who may be as young as mid-teens such dedicated days are indeed reminders of those vague bonds that exist by chance and not by choice.
The economic system here requires both parents to work to survive, which inevitably makes it difficult for them to spend quality time with their children. Such celebrations are required where children spend most of their time not in the company of their parents but child-minders, friends, mobile phones and internet. Its a reflection of the society in which one-parent families on the rise. In the same society, morality dips down to the fact that they debate in the parliament on the very need for a father to make a family and encourage lesbians to have children using IVF.
Rather than blindly copying (only the) useless traits of the West, lets celebrate our values. Celebrate each day as mothers day, a person whose cries at the time of childbirth can never be paid off and she keeps on bearing pains bringing us up and helping us keeping our head up high and reaching our goals; serving whom is more weighty than going to war in the way of Allah, if she is old and dependant. Celebrate everyday as fathers day in whose pleasure lies the pleasure of God and in whose displeasure lies the displeasure of God (according to a Tirmidhi Hadith).
And yes! Lets be proud of a family system of respect which thankfully has been made an obligation by God upon us; which keeps us close and beautifully tied in the bonds of eternal trust and a package of give and take throughout our lives. It is our family system and respect to our elders, religiously engraved on our minds which makes us proud and keeps us going in all the difficult times and has so far prevented us from a nervous breakdown. And it is this quality which non-Muslim parents feel as an obvious positive change in their new converts to Islam children.
Does that make your head high enough to celebrate a trait which should be a trend-setter for other nations and not vice versa?
Come on! Lets celebrate. Make our parents happy every day; the easiest way to please God every day.
And your Lord has decreed that you worship none but Him. And that you be dutiful to your parents. If one of them or both of them attain old age in your life, say not to them a word of disrespect, nor shout at them but address them in terms of honour [al-Isra 17:23]
Happy fathers day to everyone!!!!!!
This is the day to express your love for your father, make him feel special on Sunday 19th June. Fathers Day is a day honouring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society.
These clips are not adverts from BBC, SKY or some other western channels, I saw them on a local
Pakistani channels here in the UK and I am sure this is true for all the other various channels that broadcast to millions of Pakistanis back home.
I just asked myself for a logical explanation as to whats the point? Why is there only one Fathers day and only one Mothers day celebrated in the Western society? So, in order to find an answer and justify the significance, I let my observation go wild and tried to encompass things which I have learnt being a very close observant of this society.
There is an absolute need to celebrate dedicated days for parents in a society where the bond between parent and child is very delicate and might be non-existent after a certain age and stage; A society where 3 in 5 women aged 75+ live alone. (attached is a graph which shows the percantage of men and women in UK living alone at different ages); where an old parent is a hindrance to fun filled life and where the slogan is Be nice to your children as they are the ones who would decide which old house youd end up in (reads a humorous car sticker); where living with your parents is ridiculed by your mates, where an old parent falls on the floor of a lonely haunting house and there is no one to give him a hand to stand up again, until the milk delivery man comes next morning only to find no answer at the door and calls the police and ambulance. A society where mothers abuse and kill their children, youngsters abuse and beat the vulnerable elderly, fathers leave their partners to survive as lone mothers who may be as young as mid-teens such dedicated days are indeed reminders of those vague bonds that exist by chance and not by choice.
The economic system here requires both parents to work to survive, which inevitably makes it difficult for them to spend quality time with their children. Such celebrations are required where children spend most of their time not in the company of their parents but child-minders, friends, mobile phones and internet. Its a reflection of the society in which one-parent families on the rise. In the same society, morality dips down to the fact that they debate in the parliament on the very need for a father to make a family and encourage lesbians to have children using IVF.
Rather than blindly copying (only the) useless traits of the West, lets celebrate our values. Celebrate each day as mothers day, a person whose cries at the time of childbirth can never be paid off and she keeps on bearing pains bringing us up and helping us keeping our head up high and reaching our goals; serving whom is more weighty than going to war in the way of Allah, if she is old and dependant. Celebrate everyday as fathers day in whose pleasure lies the pleasure of God and in whose displeasure lies the displeasure of God (according to a Tirmidhi Hadith).
And yes! Lets be proud of a family system of respect which thankfully has been made an obligation by God upon us; which keeps us close and beautifully tied in the bonds of eternal trust and a package of give and take throughout our lives. It is our family system and respect to our elders, religiously engraved on our minds which makes us proud and keeps us going in all the difficult times and has so far prevented us from a nervous breakdown. And it is this quality which non-Muslim parents feel as an obvious positive change in their new converts to Islam children.
Does that make your head high enough to celebrate a trait which should be a trend-setter for other nations and not vice versa?
Come on! Lets celebrate. Make our parents happy every day; the easiest way to please God every day.
And your Lord has decreed that you worship none but Him. And that you be dutiful to your parents. If one of them or both of them attain old age in your life, say not to them a word of disrespect, nor shout at them but address them in terms of honour [al-Isra 17:23]
