Sunday, October 27, 2013
Friday, October 25, 2013
Closed!
This blog is as of this moment, closed.
I have lost access to my original account and hence, can't do much on it.
There will prolly be another blog, as you guys well know I just can't stay away.
But until then Sayonara Ryloggers,
A.
I have lost access to my original account and hence, can't do much on it.
There will prolly be another blog, as you guys well know I just can't stay away.
But until then Sayonara Ryloggers,
A.
Saturday, September 28, 2013
"I smiled. She smiled. I believed the smile. We walked to the stairs and then ran down them. At the bottom of each flight, I jumped off the bottom step and clicked my heels to make her laugh, and she laughed. I thought I was cheering her up. I thought she was cheerable. I was wrong,"
"I understand now that I can’t be her and she can’t be me. Maybe Whitman had a gift I don’t have. But as for me: I must ask the wounded man where he is hurt, because I cannot become the wounded man. The only wounded man I can be is me." - John Green. (Paper Towns)
"I understand now that I can’t be her and she can’t be me. Maybe Whitman had a gift I don’t have. But as for me: I must ask the wounded man where he is hurt, because I cannot become the wounded man. The only wounded man I can be is me." - John Green. (Paper Towns)
To my closest friend.
You know who you are.
We've had a long and complicated history.
And at the end of the day, there is nothing left to be said.
Cause you know without me saying. You know me better than I know myself.
Every experience I've had with you has given me better life lessons than anything else.
C&ABFTCDAF <3,
Aaiz,
You know who you are.
We've had a long and complicated history.
And at the end of the day, there is nothing left to be said.
Cause you know without me saying. You know me better than I know myself.
Every experience I've had with you has given me better life lessons than anything else.
C&ABFTCDAF <3,
Aaiz,
Thursday, August 8, 2013
Joe of the Shore - Pt 1.
In the middle of known and unknown
stands a place more unknown than known
A haven of it's own devise
To it's walls reached not
The torments of the broken
It's water tight ramparts never shook
with the melancholy of the fallen
The indifferent little retreat wept not
with the cries of the forgotten
But there stood the little town of apathy
Beautiful in it's cold unknowing.
Content in its peaceful lethargy.
In a time not so long ago,
Within this very walls resided a lad,
Aged in his soul, but not so much in years
Though he was of nimble shape
He possessed a heart of old
With eyes that glow of judgement, wise.
And wit so sharp that with a single stroke
Could fell the iron walls
of the land of the faiths, three.
Lonely Joe, of the Shore, call him they did.
stands a place more unknown than known
A haven of it's own devise
To it's walls reached not
The torments of the broken
It's water tight ramparts never shook
with the melancholy of the fallen
The indifferent little retreat wept not
with the cries of the forgotten
But there stood the little town of apathy
Beautiful in it's cold unknowing.
Content in its peaceful lethargy.
In a time not so long ago,
Within this very walls resided a lad,
Aged in his soul, but not so much in years
Though he was of nimble shape
He possessed a heart of old
With eyes that glow of judgement, wise.
And wit so sharp that with a single stroke
Could fell the iron walls
of the land of the faiths, three.
Lonely Joe, of the Shore, call him they did.
Saturday, July 20, 2013
The Cake and the Apple.
Hey Ryloggers,
It's 7 in the morning and today is the day Ish and I randomly decided to write a poem together so I thought I'd post the little mess that was formed. It's based on the the first eight words we could think of. ( four of hers and four of mine) Love, Life, Death, Cake, Prostitution, Prosecution, Madmen and Apple. So here you go:-
Apple of my eye, fallen from the sky
'lest you didn't know, I witnessed your downfall
Horizons are a delusionary, illusion for the sun to rise
but I've seen life flash before my eyes, while I stood tall ( - Ish.)
O darling, you talk about life and death,
As if they are worlds apart,
And yet, I see myself but inches from its cold embrace,
O darling, Your love, prickly as thorns,
And yet, many layered in its sweetness, like cake.
Was appealing enough, for me to throw my life,
And face death, like mates of old.
Never was I ready though,
To dig deep in and live, savoring every bite. ( - Me )
If the line between life and death is fine
The abyss between you and I is infinite
I won't let you stand between what's rightfully mine
I may be a madman but I'll prosecute thee tonight. ( - Ish )
I once did find beauty in your madness,
Like an apple half eaten,
Now all that I see in thine eyes, dark,
Is the reaper of my heart,
All but too inclined,
to make mine soul, thy personal prostitute. ( - Me )
It's completely bogus but I had to blog it. Aaiz out.
It's 7 in the morning and today is the day Ish and I randomly decided to write a poem together so I thought I'd post the little mess that was formed. It's based on the the first eight words we could think of. ( four of hers and four of mine) Love, Life, Death, Cake, Prostitution, Prosecution, Madmen and Apple. So here you go:-
'lest you didn't know, I witnessed your downfall
Horizons are a delusionary, illusion for the sun to rise
but I've seen life flash before my eyes, while I stood tall ( - Ish.)
O darling, you talk about life and death,
As if they are worlds apart,
And yet, I see myself but inches from its cold embrace,
O darling, Your love, prickly as thorns,
And yet, many layered in its sweetness, like cake.
Was appealing enough, for me to throw my life,
And face death, like mates of old.
Never was I ready though,
To dig deep in and live, savoring every bite. ( - Me )
If the line between life and death is fine
The abyss between you and I is infinite
I won't let you stand between what's rightfully mine
I may be a madman but I'll prosecute thee tonight. ( - Ish )
I once did find beauty in your madness,
Like an apple half eaten,
Now all that I see in thine eyes, dark,
Is the reaper of my heart,
All but too inclined,
to make mine soul, thy personal prostitute. ( - Me )
It's completely bogus but I had to blog it. Aaiz out.
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Fandom Kills Perks.
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Hi Ryloggers!
So since I am procrastinating anyway and not giving a damn about the work load still pending which possibly could and probably would come back to bite me in the ass, I thought I'd do a short 'Aaiz rant' on something which has been bugging me for a while.
So if you've followed this blog from before, you'd know that my favorite book has been 'The Perks of being a Wallflower' for quite some time. It is maybe one of the few books which had touched me on a deeper level than your regular reading and It's definitely meant much more to me than any other book has, ever. I guess I could relate to the book a lot on many different levels and it's more than a good read for me. There is this power behind Chbosky's words, his style of writing, his portrayal of Charlie that carried a certain elegance that made me incurably depressed and at the same time, lighter, more at peace. I still have this habit of reading Perks from time to time to be followed by a phase where I won't read any other book or watch any series, I guess to savor Perks in my head.
Anyway, I could go on with my dramatic narration of how much Perks mean to me but that's not the point of this article. I've already reviewed the book in an earlier article on this very blog. My point here would be that, back then I was happy with the 'fandom' Perks had. For those of you who don't know, a fandom is a new term used by fans of a certain book, book series, movie or tv series to depict basically all the internet forums etc which has been created where fans come together and discuss the particular book, movie etc or post fanart, fanfiction etc about it. You must have seen those pages in Facebook, Harry Potter naturally has the biggest fandom.
So yea, I was happy with the small 'Perks' fandom that existed. I mean, it wasn't main stream. But there were a group of people who were genuinely affected by the book and they talked about it; about Charlie and about how his experiences related to theirs etc. It had a decent and enriching way about it. Then disaster struck.
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And when it came, it was perfect. I can tell you that, it was amazing. Chbosky managed to bring the book to life in the movie and it was not like that it was verbatim from the book, there were changes and there was a nice elegance to these changes. Emma was an amazing Sam and Logan played Charlie very well. But Ezra Miller was the biggest hit for me. He took Patrick from the book where he was a good character and brought him to the screens as one of the best characters I've seen portrayed in a long time. You couldn't help but love Miller's acting. So, if it was so picture perfect, what is my problem, you ask?
My problem was the response from the public. We saw the old Perks fandom withering away. And I'm not even being dramatic here. The old pages in which we discussed the novel kind of disintegrated, to be replaced by a new fandom. Pages where you talk about how hot Emma was in the movie, how well Logan Lerman managed to shift from Percy Jackson to Charlie etc. And worse than that, there were these small small pictures, fanart that they uploaded with a quote here and there about the movie and then everyone got together and talked as if they deeply understood the novel while everything they are talking about is the face value you got from the movie and not the themes that Chbosky has brought forward. Everyone seems to be a Perks expert and I find few people who have actually grasped what it was about and fewer people who had actually read the book.
They acted like they knew everything there is to know about Perks just because Emma Watson starred in it, I mean you guys should see the Harry Potter pages where they like incessantly and murderously just kill this amazing novel in the sort of stuff they come up with about. I know that I sound like a little boy who has been asked to share my favorite toy with the whole world and I don't care. It is my favorite toy and I am sharing it with the world and they don't know how to play with it and in the process would end up breaking it. Perks went mainstream and it killed the meaning of it.
IF that wasn't bad enough a rather peculiar trend started. It was Just like how the LGBT movement made it cool for people to come out there and advocate homosexuality (And understand me here, I have no problem with that. what I'm saying is that LGBT created a trend where people just supported gay rights because it was the cool thing to do when they remained incessantly ignorant about related themes like gender based persecution, gender roles and their utter stupidity, you get my drift?), how feminism made it cool for women to consider every guy as the enemy who would discriminate you, how nerds were ostracized once upon a time and then it became cool to be a nerd and people who haven't touched a book in their entire life puts on big glasses take pictures and put it on FB and go, 'OMGEEE, kill me now I am such a nerd. hihihihaaa!' etc etc, you know how we humans have a tendency to associate with whatever is 'hot' at that time in order to get acceptance.
Anyway similarly, it became cool, a fashion statement to be socially awkward. Now, I don't know how many of you have actually read Perks and in case you haven't, I won't spoil it for you but more or less, it does talk about a boy who has, because of the events in life become socially awkward. I won't go more into that, but anyway, this was taken up by people posting stuff on facebook saying, 'I'm so socially awkward I could just....' 'It's cause I'm so so freaking socially awkward that I am...' 'OMG, you know me, so socially awkward..' And the funny part is if these people post these stuff early in the morning, at midnight there would be pictures of them being the life and soul of a party in some club. Excuse me, lovelies? Do you know the meaning of Socially awkward?
It is a very real problem for so many people and it's a huge slap on their faces and your foot down their throats when you make a mockery out of it just because you love a certain actor or actress and would like to associate with a fandom just because he or she is the star of it. So yes, these among other reasons are how the Perks fandom has killed, murdered, butchered and desecrated my favorite book for me. It was my personal escape and now I look at the book and I see all the nameless, faceless people of the fandom who are a global joke.
Until next time,
A.
Sunday, June 30, 2013
My Short Review on Dan Brown's Inferno
"As of
late, I haven't read any book that truly captivates and moves me into
its realm..but by god, Dan Brown's Inferno has done it. In my opinion,
transcending Da Vinci Code and one of my personal favorite books till
now 'The Lost Symbol', Inferno proves that Dan Brown has no saturation
point but it just keeps on getting better! From a profile of Dante
Alighieri that leaves one with a passion and sense
of deep curiosity about the poet to the enigmatic and brilliant Sienna
Brooks and the eccentric genius Bertrand with a twisted sense of
Philanthropy which you just have to sympathize with on so many levels,
to call Inferno a complete wealth of information wouldn't be giving it
justice. A beautiful novel that was both entertaining, thrilling and
shocking deals with a lot of very real world issues as well as opens up a
lot of amazing characters who are a profiler's dream. A genius in a
category and a class of his own hail Dan Brown, whatever amount of #Respect dedicated towards you is not enough, as you continue to outdo yourself with every book." - Aaiz. {Facebook Status, 24th of June}
Buried
Note: Also written in my self imposed Exile from blogspot. Partially inspired by Terrible Things - Mayday Parade so give that a listen! Here you go; I call it
BURIED
Off in the shoreline,
I see you stand,
Lost to the world,
Unwilling to be found,
You look at me and,
I look away,
Maybe, if our eyes meet,
You might disappear,
Maybe if our eyes meet,
Maybe you'd know,
That we were so right,
It was wrong.
BURIED
Off in the shoreline,
I see you stand,
Lost to the world,
Unwilling to be found,
You look at me and,
I look away,
Maybe, if our eyes meet,
You might disappear,
Maybe if our eyes meet,
Maybe you'd know,
That we were so right,
It was wrong.
You call my name and,
I turn around,
Frozen to the spot,
Unable to move,
Your voice holding
Every inch of my body
I turn around,
Frozen to the spot,
Unable to move,
Your voice holding
Every inch of my body
You smile at me,
Sending waves of bliss
To the entire pinnacle of my being,
I walk towards you,
Guided by a force,
My lips cannot mention
And my pen cannot explain,
You stand an inch away,
Your beautiful face glowing,
Your smile vibrant,
I can almost smell your fragrance,
Flowery smell of lilies,
That could belong to no one but you,
I reach out my hand to touch your face,
But how could I?
When these hands buried you,
Not so long ago.
~ Aaiz A.
Friend of Stars, Not of men.
Note: This is a poem I wrote during my 'exile' from Blogger. Thought I'd post it here. Also found at Plumcakes and cigarettes
Fiddling a fiddle,
as fickle as life,
He walks amongst women and men,
Not their kin, never their lover,
The great stars, his only mate,
Those sparkling planets, that held his fate,
His lonely eyes on the road,
His bare feet a carving zone,
for rocks and stones,
old and new, jagged and blunt,
Fiddling a fiddle,
as fickle as life,
He walks amongst women and men,
Not their kin, never their lover,
The great stars, his only mate,
Those sparkling planets, that held his fate,
His lonely eyes on the road,
His bare feet a carving zone,
for rocks and stones,
old and new, jagged and blunt,
He heard them say,
Away with him, that desperate soul,
He who lives in our midst,
but is neither our kin, nor our lover,
He heard them say,
Frown your nose, turn your face,
Don't lose yourselves,
He is neither your kin nor your lover,
Turn away, that desperate begger,
Away with him, that desperate soul,
He who lives in our midst,
but is neither our kin, nor our lover,
He heard them say,
Frown your nose, turn your face,
Don't lose yourselves,
He is neither your kin nor your lover,
Turn away, that desperate begger,
On the crossroads,
He wipes his cheek,
Dries his eyes,
He looks not back,
He who lived,
In their midst,
He who never were their kin
Nor their lover,
Off he sets on his path,
Blazed by stars,
His eternal mates,
That lonely soul,
On his road,
seeking home,
where can he go,
That hermit soul,
Who had no brother,
And knew no lover,
lost in the abyss,
Of shattered dreams. - Aaiz A.
Aaaand Back!
So Hi!
It's definitely been really long since I blogged. I have remained in touch with writing but haven't really published anything. But as those of you (If any still read this) who have known me for long obviously knew, I never could stay away for long from the world of blogging. I mean they say a criminal always returns to the scene of crime and It's not like Aaiz can stay away from Aaizivia, is it?
So for all extents and purposes I'm back and you'd see more posts soon enough. Only thing is, you might notice a change in the direction of my writing. For long I've focused on political and nationalistic themes, but from here on forth, this blog would be more personal and a few social issues here and there but mostly, not a lot of political writing would be here.
It's good to be back and if you've stuck with me till now, <3.
A.
It's definitely been really long since I blogged. I have remained in touch with writing but haven't really published anything. But as those of you (If any still read this) who have known me for long obviously knew, I never could stay away for long from the world of blogging. I mean they say a criminal always returns to the scene of crime and It's not like Aaiz can stay away from Aaizivia, is it?
So for all extents and purposes I'm back and you'd see more posts soon enough. Only thing is, you might notice a change in the direction of my writing. For long I've focused on political and nationalistic themes, but from here on forth, this blog would be more personal and a few social issues here and there but mostly, not a lot of political writing would be here.
It's good to be back and if you've stuck with me till now, <3.
A.
Friday, May 10, 2013
Decide Maldives 2013
DECIDE MALDIVES 2013.
As the second multi party democratic election in Maldives fast approaches, it was a disheartening realization how uninformed the average voter is in making this very important decision, discharging this very vital right and duty as a citizen of Maldives. Our voters are often fueled with narrow minded hate-feeling that disables their ability to stop and consider that some of the candidates that they do hate, actually have pros to them, there are reasons why they might make good leaders. And as for the other extreme those of us fueled by adoration to a certain figure, fails to realize the possible repercussions of the Presidency of this respective candidate. So we attempt to completely profile each candidate and bring to you all his contributions and exploits alike, in one document for the voter to be better informed in discharging their duty.
Another very important thing, we failed to realize in the 2008 elections, is the importance of the running mate or the potential vice president. It is not just the candidate who is contesting in the election and it is not just for the candidate that you are casting your vote. You are casting that vote for the running mate as well. Recent events had shown us, how much of a possibility it is for the vice president of the nation to assume the top office, in different events; in the event of death, resignation or disability of the President. And even if this won’t be the case, the Vice President is one of the most important political posts in a nation and only a capable leader should be declared VP. That being said, we would also be profiling the lives of our running mates, this time around.
Lastly and maybe most importantly, we would be writing respective pieces on the manifesto of the candidates. For democracy to prevail in Maldives, we must all envision a day where voters vote on the basis of the manifestos as well, not just the party spirit. A manifesto is a mirror image of what each candidate hopes to bring to the nation and hence, it is vital for us to select which of these public policies is most feasible for our nation while doing our constitutional duty of voting. And in this spirit, we bring to you ‘Decide Maldives 2013,’ a series of articles about the candidates, running mates and their respective manifestos. We realize, that we may not be able to make such a large imprint with these articles, but even if one person reads them and looks at these elections more broad mindedly and choose objectively, we would consider it a victory.
We believe something very important that the average Maldivian should realize by now for us to progress as a democracy is that leaders are first among equals, yes but they are not the be all and end all of our system. Sure, President of the Republic is a very important figure, maybe the most important figure and hence, we have chosen to profile the potential future Presidents, but it is important for us to realize not to go to extremities in our love or hate for our Presidents. A President doesn’t make the system or the people; we the people make the system and it is also us who makes the President and hence it is in our hands, to make or break our country. A president ideally is just someone who we have elected as our representative to govern as we wish.
Another very prominent feature of Maldivian democracy is the mischief of the party spirit. In saying this, we do not mean that being loyal to your party is wrong; one must be strong in their conviction or political ideology, hence their political party, but when the time comes one must have that individuality within them to think beyond their party and put their country first. It may be your party, but it is made of humans and we humans are prone to mistakes. So your party is not above making mistakes either, it is up to us the people to correct them when they go wrong.
It is possible for one to be impartial in their views, but not completely neutral. Neutrality in essence, is a difficult feat to achieve and in our opinion sometimes it may also be equated with indifference. One can only plead complete neutrality if he is detached, removed from the affairs of the country but to be involved brings out a passion and a sense of what we believe to be right or wrong and this dismembers this neutrality. But in the writing of these articles, we do attempt to be as unbiased and as impartial as humanly possible. Not all the views that are expressed are our own personal convictions, but both sides, both takes to a matter or a person has been included. Despite this, we do realize that we may be accused of partiality from both sides and that’s just the way it would be. We are not perfect, we too have our own political opinions and it is quite probable that despite our best efforts, some of these opinions might have crept into these writings.
Another important thing, the readers of Decide Maldives must understand is, as it is evident to an informed reader, the functioning of the Maldivian Judicial System, is very much far from optimum and disease has plagued it for many years. Hence, if we were to only take proven allegations against our candidates and running mates, we would have petty little to work with. And that is why, we have included at times even the unproven strong allegations and rumors which we believe to have an impact on the political life of the person and political scenario in Maldives, at large.
Before we conclude, as we approach our elections, we feel it’s necessary to mention the vast number of people who maybe have already decided they would not vote. Disheartened by the previous leaders they have elected, maybe they have lost faith in democratic Maldives. But it is important we realize every country goes through this phase, where we are forced to elect the lesser devil. This time is no different, but not voting is not a solution. It’s our right to vote, it’s our duty to vote, even if it is to the lesser devil, so to speak. We must not give up on Maldives, she is our country, she is our motherland, and she has made us the people we are today. She is diseased yes, but we must heal her one step at a time. So, we must vote, we must make our public opinion heard, we must even contest to important legislative or administrative posts (councilors) and take the fate of our country into our hands. Be the change you want to see, together you and me, we will save Maldives. Maybe not through this election, maybe not through the next but slowly and surely we can and we will. In this spirit, we bring to you ‘Decide Maldives 2013’ and all we ask is for you to read and to read again and to decide, objectively.
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012
A Comment for 'My word against Capital Punishment'
Hey Ryloggers,
Yesterday, I posted maybe the most controversial post this blog has ever seen. I expected a lot of criticism, naturally living in an agitated society very much dominated by religious fundamentalists, it was inevitable. But what I didn't expect was this.
This comment, came to me in my facebook inbox from one of my best friends. A guy who , despite being one of my best friends I really didn't think thought about these things so deeply, which contributed to my amazement. But every word he said, had an honest basis to it. And it would be wasted if i didn't share it with you. So, in Zaan's words.
Yesterday, I posted maybe the most controversial post this blog has ever seen. I expected a lot of criticism, naturally living in an agitated society very much dominated by religious fundamentalists, it was inevitable. But what I didn't expect was this.
This comment, came to me in my facebook inbox from one of my best friends. A guy who , despite being one of my best friends I really didn't think thought about these things so deeply, which contributed to my amazement. But every word he said, had an honest basis to it. And it would be wasted if i didn't share it with you. So, in Zaan's words.
"Justice has no definition". That part alone makes this post. "You never understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb onto his skin and walk around in it". But for most people, the effort is too much. People who conform to the the majority will not run any risk of being different. Being outcasted. I don't ask people to throw away their ways of life. But only that they open their minds a little and ponder upon just how many things they just go along with cause everybody else does.All I can say, is I'm very impressed and I agree with almost all of your points. Thank you, as corny as it sounds you've made me realize that its still too early to lose hope in Maldivian youth.
I like how the idea that questioning things one takes to be normal being taboo, or else being against the pack mindset, ties in with your start. I'll give an example you might not agree with. As you know Nazim, the atheist, was dragged of by the police and made to stand trial. The key thing you have to remember is that Maldives does not practice Shariah Law. From what i managed to hear; his own attorney, the guy responsible for his defense, gave Nazim an ultimatum. Either revert or die. I can't decide whether he was scared of earning the cold shoulder of Maldivians and labeled as an atheist like he was, or whether he let his personal feelings get in the way of his job. The main point is, this should not have happened in a court of law.
Another example you might not be particularly happy with. This deals with religion. As we all have been taught, the Quran is a miracle. But nobody really questions why. we are given many points as to why, but they are so pathetically hand fed to us. Take the point where the composition of the Quran, how the words have been weaved together is so perfect. Out of the 30 or so students in that classroom when it was taught, how many do you think even reads arabic? how many students do you think has even read the Dhivehi translation of it? Do you really think that the teacher knows, understands and fully grasps this perfect composition? And yet, nobody thinks to question it when a woman holding a textbook just stammers of a bunch of words, directly related with the faith that makes part of who we are and affects the very direction our lives should take, without proof! We were given all these corny questions about meeting a christian on facebook and arguing about whose religion is genuine. All those points we were taught? Guess what, without proof, they are worth nothing. And yet nobody cares about it. Society has dictated what we should think and that is what we are gonna believe. This, with no doubt, is also the case with religions like Christianity. I once asked my mother to put herself in a christian's shoes and view Islam as a religion. Keep in mind that social brainwashing happens everywhere. What do they see? Bearded men shown moments after explosions on news channels. Women being beaten for reasons unfathomable to them. This is an image that i think correctly symbolizes just what an effect your upbringing and environment has on a persons mindset. My mother immedietly freaked out, accused me of lack of faith and brought the issue to my father. and all through that, all i kept wondering about was just how much she knows about the religion Christianism? she sees america and she thinks thats how christians act. She hears of budhism and thinks of only a golden statue. How much do we really know about all these people we criticize? and in doing so, arent we all really closing ourselves off in a loop of hatred as the players of one generation dissapear to be replaced by the next. extremists and all.I feel that the point about social ignorance closely ties with this as well. If this is the reaction people get by simply searching for answers, for justifications to follow their purpose in life, who would dare to speak out?
The most saddening fact is that most of us have lost our religion already and does not know it. The teachings of the Quran are being replaced with instructions shouted at us by muslim extremists who use religion as a tool to achieve their own ends. They preach simply. We know the words and intentions of god. Either be a muslim with us, or suffer the wrath of god as an infidel against us.
Muslims are not allowed drugs. They are not allowed sex. But ask a person who regularly does both of these acts whether he really is a muslim and he will valiantly answer yes. This stems from the lack of a good foundation. A muslim with a good foundation would have no trouble resisting these temptations because he would not only be led on by the faith that he will be rewarded for his sacrifice, he will also be led on by cool, hard logic and facts proving that these acts prove harmful in the long term. Instead of dictating what we should do or not do in islam, people should concentrate more on what the result is when you dutifully follow Islam. And i'm not talking about Heaven. I don't think a misguided soul trying to find a religion in life is going to pick one based on what he/she gets when they die. A religion picked like that is alike to picking a data plan. They all have things he wishes he could change and he ends up picking the one where he gets to sacrifice the least for the most gain. Explain to him how the laws of islam maintain a stable society. Explain to him how exactly islam will make his life more prosperous. Explain to him why the punishments he deems cruel in islam is necessary. Not shower them with promises from. a god he doesn't believe in. Not point out the shortcomings of other religions like most religious advocates do so in other countries. A muslim who keeps all this in his heart would be led by logic as well as faith, and he would be twice as devout while appearing half as radical.
And as for your points concerning how offenders are treated in maldives, i wholeheartedly agree. Our current penitentiary system is one in which we treat symptoms, not diseases. By incarcerating a person who abuses their child, we cannot simply brush our hands and get on with our lives. The cause has not been resolved. only the effect. And in all likelihood, that child is going to grow up with that trauma on her shoulders only to vent it on her own child. The cycle continues. And it will continue as long as we stand idly by. Another example. You might have heard of all the points i'm gonna raise but the Connecticut school shooting is the most fresh in my mind right now. A mentally unstable person, takes out her mothers gun and shoots her. Then he proceeds to barge into an elementary school and kill innocent kids and teachers. What does the media do? they spend the next two week showcasing his picture, documenting his biography and giving all of america somebody they can all collectively hate. They made a celebrity of a person who was not even a psychopath, evidenced by the fact that he killed himself in the end. Online social sites like 4chan, reddit and facebook were the first ones to even mention the victims names. Meanwhile the media channels were trying to shove microphones on 5-10 year old children, traumatized by seeing their friends killed right infront of them, and narrowly escaping death themselves just moments ago. I mean, it;s good TV, right? And even now, days after the shooting, what is the main concern on the congress's minds? Gun Control. instead of arguing about how to prevent guns from getting into the hands of killers, how about you decide on a course of action that will prevent killers being born in the first place? The sad part is, with the way the Republicans and Democrats are so cleanly divided among themselves with the issue of gun control, in all likelihood, the matter of gun control itself will be off the table in just a few short weeks. Politics trumps again.
Also, about incarceration. A prison in Brazil is employing a unique method of rehabilitation. For every book an inmate reads and writes an essay detailing his views upon, he gets 4 days off his sentence. Most people are calling it BS, but i don't know. A person grown into a life of crime might have the mindset that education is worthless. But they are now being forced to learn, like it or not, and more knowledge opens up more choices for them when they finally get out. what do you think? - Ismail Zaan
Thursday, December 20, 2012
The Death Penalty, Social Escapism? My word against Capital Punishment.
Hey Ryloggers.
Merry Christmas, to those readers who might celebrate. And I wish you all an auspicious New Year 2013 too. Also, world didn't end, so glad that the poem wasn't my last post. I'd like my last post to be my own. Die in style you know. xD. And before we start, I apologize for the lack of activities, I've been kinda caught up. And I m also starting to write this novella, which I hope to publish in a few years. So yea, wish me luck.
Anyway, This is the fourth in the series of blog posts I've been writing. The first ones being, 'My word against JFK,', 'My rant on Society,' 'My word against Paulo Coelho,' and this one would be followed by, 'My word against Democracy.'hopefully.
I realize that capital punishment is a sensitive issue in moral, social and religious grounds so i ask you guys to keep an open mind and bear with me and I'd try my best to prove my point. So okay without further ado:
Contents:-
Introduction
Small History
Why people believe in death penalty
Negativity and how we as a society have failed
Real problems leading to capital punishment
Religious Perspective - Islam
Alternative solutions.
Merry Christmas, to those readers who might celebrate. And I wish you all an auspicious New Year 2013 too. Also, world didn't end, so glad that the poem wasn't my last post. I'd like my last post to be my own. Die in style you know. xD. And before we start, I apologize for the lack of activities, I've been kinda caught up. And I m also starting to write this novella, which I hope to publish in a few years. So yea, wish me luck.
Anyway, This is the fourth in the series of blog posts I've been writing. The first ones being, 'My word against JFK,', 'My rant on Society,' 'My word against Paulo Coelho,' and this one would be followed by, 'My word against Democracy.'hopefully.
I realize that capital punishment is a sensitive issue in moral, social and religious grounds so i ask you guys to keep an open mind and bear with me and I'd try my best to prove my point. So okay without further ado:
MY WORD AGAINST CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Since its slightly larger than the average blog post, here are the contents, incase you just want to read some bits of it.Contents:-
Introduction
Small History
Why people believe in death penalty
Negativity and how we as a society have failed
Real problems leading to capital punishment
Religious Perspective - Islam
Alternative solutions.
What is Capital Punishment?The definition of Capital Punishment, itself becomes a matter of perception.
Capital Punishment as defined by Google, is 'The legally authorized killing of someone as punishment for a crime.' What I see in this definition is, 'The legally sanctioned murder of a murderer, in order to punish murder by murder.
We humans were born only with our animalistic instincts, just like any other meek animal. We knew nothing, but to satisfy our basic needs. Then as time grew we formed groups, we built institutions, we wrote down moral codes, we evolved into social beings, we decided what is socially acceptable and what is not, we defined the boundaries of organized social life. Time progressed and these small moral codes became legal codes, we built judicial systems, we developed penal codes, punishments were instilled on those who go against these codes.
None of these codes have remained constant, for one simple reason. Justice, as we know it has no definition. My justice is injustice for you, my freedom fighter is your terrorist, your scholar is an indoctrinator for me. But the death penalty or the capital penalty has been ever present in our societies, some form or the other. If we think about how this concept originated, I don't know what you may thing ryloggers but forgive me and correct me, if i m being one dimensional here but i see one simple reason behind this. And it is not peace, it is not justice, it is not safety and law and order. It is our innate, insatiable desire for revenge. blood for blood right? It was mainly done, so that the second murder, the murder for revenge occurs in a controlled environment, sanctioned by the state, sanctioned by the seat of power; once again society's little way of making sure its in control and giving us the illusion that we just got what we want. But the question that comes to my mind, is what would the family of the dearly departed gain from this, would the aching, gaping hole left behind by their loved one disappear because we killed the one who killed him? Would their loneliness, their misery brought about by the loss of a friend, of a brother, of a sister dissipate because we have given the same loss and loneliness to another family, maybe? And what does this speak about our humanity?
When, the whole Maldives cried for revenge when an MP was killed recently, my best friend updated this in his facebook status.
Okay, lets talk about why PEOPLE believe Capital Punishment is inevitable in the present day scenario. And I'd try to be as general as possible but forgive me, my experiences are much limited right now in the region I was born in. We live in a world where everyday a girl gets raped, for no apparent reason. We live in a world where there are a billion childhood child abuse cases, both sexually and physically. We live in a world where those who look at the society objectively has to accept the fact that most of the unregistered cases are actually about boys. We live in a world where eve teasing has reached to a point where girls can no longer work alone safely on the road, because of the fear of being harassed. We live in a world where we must fear our own family members because they turn out to be the perpetrators. We live in a world where one can not honestly hope to identify a predominant reason for murder, a world where you get killed for no good reason at all. But then again, had there ever been a good reason to get killed? The world has reached the year 2013 now, and people are tired of waiting on things to change, hoping that humanity would awake from their mistakes and live in tranquility. Even, if our own efforts towards that end has been limited, at kindest.
This has created a feeling of negativity among the masses, which is utterly disheartening. Negativity towards, the perpetrators, It has become common belief in most our societies, that these 'brutal murderers,', 'these despicable monsters' deserve to be killed in the most brutal way possible. And if we make an example out of some of them, these crimes would miraculously stop. but if we claim to be the evolved species, the homo sapien sapiens, before evoking the law of the jungle, should we not sit back and think about the finer points here. The first being Who on earth are these brutal murderers and despicable monsters. Did they come in a space shuttle from Mars? Or are they a part of a frankenstein experiment, or are they a new type of evolved beings?
No, Harper Lee has already answered this question in the words of Atticus Finch, much better than I can ever hope to answer it, in a slightly unrelated matter though.
Yes, at the end of the day, they came from us. It is our societies who created these people. If there is a monster here, it is our society. If our society, is considered to be the good father who teaches good morals and good ethics and good values but has also created a bunch of children, who he has neglected enough to turn out to become 'bad' in the traditional sense, at least for me it says much more about the father than the children. If we are to truly stop, these heinous crimes, we must think from the point of view of the heinous criminals too. What made them who they are? How can we stop others from becoming what they have become? Don't believe for one second, that killing a bunch of people would set an example so deep that others would stop committing these heinous crimes. No, that is never going to happen simply because of the fact that we are not dealing with a mob here, where you arrest the ring leader and the mob becomes scattered. Believing that some sort of revenge killing would ever solve this problems. I refuse to believe the cliche', kill one and they'd all learn. Its stupid. Its not about teaching a person a lesson. Hasn't religion and law been trying to do that for decades, instilling fear? has it worked. no. No, we are dealing with real issues.very real problems. These murders, rapes, violence is just the outlet we see. Behind each murder, behind every rape, there is a hidden social problem, a social disease corrupting the very essence of our social structure, which has lead to these outlets. And as I always say, if a tree is diseased, we may hack off the branches all we want, the new branches that grow out of it will still be diseased, the problem is within the roots and we have to cure the roots in order for the tree to be healthy.
The fact of the matter is this friends, Ryloggers: Every time a person is raped or murdered, all of us come together. All of us 'normal' people come together, we protest, we scream, we weep, we blame the government, we call out to kill that evil monster, we wonder and ponder how someone can be so inhumane, we demand the government to hang that monster and while we are busy about what violent things we can do to the monster, how many of us actually discuss what has to be done to the victim? Especially in rape cases and child abuse cases, No we do not give a damn about the victim. We are just here to punish the perpetrator, the essence of all evil. And once all the hue and cries down, and normal life is ensured how many of us wake up from our day to day problems look at the society, reflect and see the problems within the society that has CREATED this monster? No WE DON'T. We just eat our delicacies, drink our worth, love our beloved and wait for the existing problems in the society to create another monster, wait for another case to appear, so we can kill another person and get along with our lives. This is a vicious cycle. Brothers and sisters, the truth of the matter is that we are not doing anything for the victims or the society at large, we are just fulfilling our gut instinct for revenge, we lead by animalistic not humane need for revenge, we offer the criminal, to put in the words of one of my facebook friends, 'as a a blood sacrifice to the society to abate it.' Thats what we do, that's what our governments do. To abate the angry masses, we kill the perpetrator. But at the end of the day, friends, this is escapism from the real problems. This is state and social escapism. And how long can we go on like this.
I think I've vaguely mentioned, real problems, real issues long enough for you to wonder what real problems, what real issues I'm talking about here. My sister, (Her Beautiful Blog.) the other day very appalled (bless her), at the situation of Maldives, randomly wonders out, 'What is wrong with our country?' and my answer to her, is the real problems that I talk about. My answer being:
"There is a serious problem with our penitentiary and education system, our moral codes are hypocritical and our social system diseased. "
There are more problems today, than I can hope to write in a meekly blog post or you could be bothered to read. So here are some highlights off the top of my head in no particular order.
QUESTIONING FORBIDDEN
We live in a society where questioning is forbidden. With sex a taboo, when a child first starts questioning about sexual issues, sexual drives, impulses or even basic sexuality or the simple question, how he comes to the world he is met with repression. And I m not talking about what is traditionally regarded as a bad type of repression, this is the simple, 'Don't talk about it. You'd find out sooner or later.' One must understand is that a childhood is the most curious age, a person can ever go through. And at this age, if questions are not answered at all, if questions are completely neglected, the child does not simply withdraw his impulses and his curiosity, he seeks other means in which he can find answers. So first of all our one sided morality and taboo is making sex itself an enigma. One does not have to be a genius to figure out, that once someone is forbidden something with no proper reason, they are more prone to do it. And our sex drive, doesn't disappear. But we are making the essential part of it disappear. the human part of it. the very thing that differentiates man's sexual behavior from animalistic sexual impulses. - our common values about sexuality making the ill advised child ignorant to what is acceptable form of sexual behavior and what is not. And this is not just restricted, with parents. We have an education system, which does not allow proper sex education. So basically, in the development stage of man, a sexual being essentially, is given no proper information on the ethical or the better ways to deal with his sexual drive. And nobody, is more dangerous than an ignorant man. Can you honestly say, that this unawareness towards sexuality has nothing to do with increase in rape cases? Lets deviate from Maldives, for a minute here. If you take other countries where slums are more predominant, brothers and sisters all grow up together, maybe sleeping in the same room, using the same facilities, Isn't it natural to develop a curiosity and in the formative years, when the sexual drive is being developed, if this curiosity, is not abated properly, man is left with no cultural values just his raw sexual impulses and this is the case in some of our more rural islands too.
FAULTY MORALS CREATE LACK OF CONSCIENCE.
The next moral system I have a huge problem with is our very values. From day one, we are taught whats good and whats bad. And if one has the audacity to question, Why? Why is this good and why is this bad? The answer he would be met with is because we (parents/teachers) are telling you its good and bad. Or my favorite reason. Its bad because if you do that, you d go to hell. Its good, because when you do that you d be granted heaven. So basically, we grow up having a set of ethics, a bunch of social dictates and no understanding why we follow them. So, as he goes on with life and through the course of time when he is given the choice to do whats supposedly good but he doesn't know why its good, or whats easy and an immediate solution to his problem, he takes the easy way out. The point I m trying to make here is we do not tell our children what is right and what is wrong and we don't try to instill on their young minds why it is right and why it is wrong, instead we give them a hard and fast rule that something is either good or bad. Its the difference between a child knowing that if he plays with a knife, he'd cut himself and that would cause him pain and a child just being told that he must not play with a knife. It is incomplete morals that we teach our children. A person growing up, whose parents have through experience and advice instilled in him, in his conscience basic ethics would understand that he should not kill a man, because he does not have the right to take another life while a person growing up just with the dicta that it is wrong to kill a man, wouldn't have the same moral solidarity. You might say, that despite this when the person grows older he should have the common sense to know that taking a life is wrong. Yes, he should. But the fact is, he does not have the same value for life. We can see this in Maldives right now. In the gang violence, killing people just because they can. Cutting up a human being has become as simple is cutting your toast for breakfast. So it is high time, we instill upon our kids whats right and wrong, not dictate to them whats good and bad. And yes, there is a difference.
NEGLECTED SOCIAL ISSUES
Another problem I find is that we are making this whole murder/rape problem we have a political issue. It's not. It might have political basis at the face level but take it to the grass root level, and it is a bunch of social issues we have chosen to neglect. For instance, take domestic violence. Until recently, we have not even seen that this is a problem. In some households, children as young as three to four years are beaten black and blue with broomsticks or pans for small mistakes, and if one questions the parent, Why did you just beat your kid up?, The answer would be along the justification of disciplining. Yes, disciplining. Domestic Violence, physically beating up their children in our societies is a socially accepted form of disciplining. In an island, if a woman comes out with her child and beats the living hell out of each other infront of all the citizens in the island, there wouldn't be even 25% who thinks its wrong and its doubtful that there would be even one person who would oppose it. Why should they? She is the child's mother. The child misbehaved, so she is disciplining it. But at the end of the day, the fact of the matter is this. This is violence too. This goes against human rights too. But you can't even exactly blame the parents. Its what they have learned from their parents, who disciplined them in a similar manner. It has created a vicious cycle, And we don't even see how wrong it is. These small things accumulating over the years, has lead to the mentality, the decorum in society which has lead to the violence we see today. For the love of god people, we did not develop a sudden disease of rape and murder over night. This has been a long lasting process. So stop blaming any particular government for it.
NEGLECT OF THE ABUSED - OVER EMPHASIS ON ABUSER.And here, I m talking more about rape than murder. In an year, thousands of people get molested and hundreds get raped. From this comparatively speaking, only a very few cases get reported. Why? There could be many reasons. A lot of guys, for instance do get sexually molested, some in more patronizing and impactful ways than others but the 'male ego' or 'pride', among other reasons often causes them to voluntarily not talk about it ever again because of the fear of getting ridiculed or repress these memories. Another reason, is those who get abused by family members are coerced into keeping their mouth shut in the name of family name. There could be many reasons, but the fact is irrespective of the degree of the incident, it always leaves an impact. And people are different, both in their biological and social make up. People deal with things differently. A lot of these children who get abused in their young age, without given the proper care and counseling grow up to become the 'monsters' we talk about. As much as I don't like the book 50 shades of Grey, (god this is the third blog post I'm mentioning it. But it's just a good example. I really don't like it.) it portrays a very good example. The guy, Trystan Grey was used in a bondage relationship as a child by his mother's friend and when he grows up, he who was the submissive, wants to be the dominant in all his sexual relationships. So nothing really works for him other than Bondage. Its what gets him turned on sexually. And this is a very real reason a lot of people become child molesters. Mainly, those who are abused as children are left with a complex where they have to exert their dominance over the opposite gender, sometimes even the same gender sexually. This is a reason why a lot of them actually abuse children, who will be more innocent and submissive than a child? I do not say all this to justify their action, there can be no justification but to merely explain why people become what they become. And the drastic action we must take to prevent others from becoming the same. As I mentioned earlier in the post, people do not bother about the one who really needs their attention, care and love but are too bothered in trying to punish the perpetrator. But the truth is, twenty years from now these very people become the perpetrators, I don't say all of them do. But some, do. So to prevent them, they should be given the necessary care and psychological therapy.
IGNORANCEIn direct relation, to the above point, we are also very ignorant to the plight of the abuser. We must understand, that he too is the product of the system we live in. Something must have gone wrong, in our own values and social structure, to create such monsters. He did not emerge from somewhere else, it is our society that made him the person that he is. And that is why i call it social and state escapism. Instead of, dealing with the problem we choose to send him to the chair. Commit state sanctioned murder until the next person emerges, also created by the same system. Is this the empathy and sympathy that us normal people brag about. Should we not wonder, why these people become who they are and not just end their lives, without reflecting on it. Doesn't this reveal a lot more about our humanity than his? Food for thought.
NEGLECT OF YOUTHThe heinous, sick, twisted truth is the youth of our country has been not only neglected but also used by two regimes for their political motives. Our youth population consists, of a huge chunk of people, who are not aware or does not give a damn about the social and political problems prevailing in our societies and another chunk who had fallen to the prey of either extremist beliefs or drugs and alcohol. And both extremes have been used by political power players to commit their crimes for them, as their personal hit men. We heard a man who is credited to bring democracy to Maldives, a champion of so many people, a president our beloved country on audio tape, claiming that he wants a bunch of youth who can beat up the cops and thats the only solution. What do these politicians think? We are their stooges. This has gone on for too long. In Maldives, the country where basic education is guaranteed to each man and woman, we are so politically unaware that the youth and even the supposed intelligentsia among the youth are being used by religious figures, by political figures to get their dirty work done for them by bribing them with money, drugs or heaven, I don't know what is worse.
FAULTY PENITENTIARY SYSTEM
Our Penitentiary system is despicable. I can't understand how the people who had such a big problem with Maumoon's torture cells, don't see how wrong this whole system is. First of all, our biggest mistake is we classify drug addicts as criminals, they are not. They are patients. They should never even be sent to jail. We are creating that mentality not only in ourselves, but within these patients and within the society that they are criminals and that they need to be treated as such. This is when they become criminals, ryloggers. At the state in which Maldivian jails are in, a person who did nothing wrong other than use drugs, after fulfilling his sentence in jail, would have a hundred more issues with him. This is not helping them to be rehabilitated. This is making them worse. Jail itself has a bigger market for drugs, than the open public. What is happening here. And because these patients are not properly rehabilitated, their thirst for drugs becomes so high that they would do anything to get the substance, and this is where another reason for murder comes into play.
Another huge problem, in the penitentiary system is, drug patients and criminals taken for petty theft or fraud etc, are put into jail cells with child molesters, murderers, highly damaged individuals. They do not deserve that, it is dangerous for them. And we must not impose that upon them.
For these reasons, among many I claim that it is our society who creates a lot of these so called monsters and we are responsible for them as much as we are responsible for ourselves. And we can't shake our hands of these responsibility by committing, yes committing, capital punishment. If the bill for capital punishment is passed, Maldivian society, all of us have failed. We have failed because we are admitting defeat. We are admitting that we can't fight the problems within our social structure, so we are just going to appease the society by paying a blood payment. The society has failed because we still don't understand. Cause, the average Maldivian is still ignorant to all the social problems that we do have. They think the problems we are facing erupted yesterday, after the democratic movement. That all of this are political murders, political reasons behind everything. That the rapist, is a different person from who we are, its just the way they are and the society would be better off, if we just did off with him.
There is one more very important reason why we as a society, condone capital punishment.
RELIGION.
This just deals with the Islamic attitude towards Capital Punishment, so any non muslims who might read this may choose to ignore this section.
The biggest slap on the face of those of us, who are against the death penalty by religious men, is that how can we while claiming that we follow Islam and we believe in Allah and his messenger (PBUH) go against such a fundamental of Islam as the death penalty. My answer to them is simple, I do not agree with your brutal interpretation of this principle. Islam has always promoted the medium standard, to accept both dhunya (world) and the ahirat (After world) Muslims are not supposed to be extremist or brutal in anything, the basic principal by which our prophet that we claim to follow as an example, lived day in and day night was forgiveness. Can any of us claim to have faced as much torture as he faced in Mecca? As his sahabas faced in Mecca? In the hands of his own people? They finally made him flee from his own home. And when he got support from other people in Medina, they came looking for him to kill him, just because he claimed that he worships a god other than the gods they worshipped. Despite all this, when he got success over these people and he entered Mecca and his rule established, what did he announce? He announced that he forgave all of them except a handful, most of whom he ended forgiving too. Or have you forgotten that? Is this not the Islam we believe in? Islam that has stood for peace and solidarity, or an abridged version of Islam given to you by Salafis and Preachers and Extremists? Is Maldivian muslims following the Sheikh Imran version of Islam now?
Yes, I agree despite all that, religion does give the right to the victim's family to allow the person to be murdered. But look closely on this verse.
We humans were born only with our animalistic instincts, just like any other meek animal. We knew nothing, but to satisfy our basic needs. Then as time grew we formed groups, we built institutions, we wrote down moral codes, we evolved into social beings, we decided what is socially acceptable and what is not, we defined the boundaries of organized social life. Time progressed and these small moral codes became legal codes, we built judicial systems, we developed penal codes, punishments were instilled on those who go against these codes.
None of these codes have remained constant, for one simple reason. Justice, as we know it has no definition. My justice is injustice for you, my freedom fighter is your terrorist, your scholar is an indoctrinator for me. But the death penalty or the capital penalty has been ever present in our societies, some form or the other. If we think about how this concept originated, I don't know what you may thing ryloggers but forgive me and correct me, if i m being one dimensional here but i see one simple reason behind this. And it is not peace, it is not justice, it is not safety and law and order. It is our innate, insatiable desire for revenge. blood for blood right? It was mainly done, so that the second murder, the murder for revenge occurs in a controlled environment, sanctioned by the state, sanctioned by the seat of power; once again society's little way of making sure its in control and giving us the illusion that we just got what we want. But the question that comes to my mind, is what would the family of the dearly departed gain from this, would the aching, gaping hole left behind by their loved one disappear because we killed the one who killed him? Would their loneliness, their misery brought about by the loss of a friend, of a brother, of a sister dissipate because we have given the same loss and loneliness to another family, maybe? And what does this speak about our humanity?
When, the whole Maldives cried for revenge when an MP was killed recently, my best friend updated this in his facebook status.
"As for death penalty, yes it will make the murderers afraid to commit another murder. But killing another human being will not bring back the loved one that died by the hands of the murderer, nor will it give you the satisfaction for getting rid of the person who killed your friend. It will not comfort you. And you will not care that the murder has got the poetic justice that he deserved later on. You will still miss them and feel the same emptiness. Sentence killers to life imprisonment and let them regret doing the deed for the rest of their life while they slowly rot away inside a cage :)" - Saif Saeed.Thank you Saif, Thanks a lot, I had started to finally give up and accept that society won't change and maybe an immediate relief is what we need, but that day when I saw your status I realized that everyone is not blind and there might be still hope. So despite what I said, in 'The Chair of Justice the only solution?' I won't support the death penalty. Here's why.
Okay, lets talk about why PEOPLE believe Capital Punishment is inevitable in the present day scenario. And I'd try to be as general as possible but forgive me, my experiences are much limited right now in the region I was born in. We live in a world where everyday a girl gets raped, for no apparent reason. We live in a world where there are a billion childhood child abuse cases, both sexually and physically. We live in a world where those who look at the society objectively has to accept the fact that most of the unregistered cases are actually about boys. We live in a world where eve teasing has reached to a point where girls can no longer work alone safely on the road, because of the fear of being harassed. We live in a world where we must fear our own family members because they turn out to be the perpetrators. We live in a world where one can not honestly hope to identify a predominant reason for murder, a world where you get killed for no good reason at all. But then again, had there ever been a good reason to get killed? The world has reached the year 2013 now, and people are tired of waiting on things to change, hoping that humanity would awake from their mistakes and live in tranquility. Even, if our own efforts towards that end has been limited, at kindest.
This has created a feeling of negativity among the masses, which is utterly disheartening. Negativity towards, the perpetrators, It has become common belief in most our societies, that these 'brutal murderers,', 'these despicable monsters' deserve to be killed in the most brutal way possible. And if we make an example out of some of them, these crimes would miraculously stop. but if we claim to be the evolved species, the homo sapien sapiens, before evoking the law of the jungle, should we not sit back and think about the finer points here. The first being Who on earth are these brutal murderers and despicable monsters. Did they come in a space shuttle from Mars? Or are they a part of a frankenstein experiment, or are they a new type of evolved beings?
No, Harper Lee has already answered this question in the words of Atticus Finch, much better than I can ever hope to answer it, in a slightly unrelated matter though.
'That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they are still HUMAN. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children. You made Walter Cunningham stand in my shoes for a minute. That was enough.'
'First of all, If you can learn a simple trick, Scout you'd get along better with all kinds of folks. You never understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb onto his skin and walk around in it.'
Yes, at the end of the day, they came from us. It is our societies who created these people. If there is a monster here, it is our society. If our society, is considered to be the good father who teaches good morals and good ethics and good values but has also created a bunch of children, who he has neglected enough to turn out to become 'bad' in the traditional sense, at least for me it says much more about the father than the children. If we are to truly stop, these heinous crimes, we must think from the point of view of the heinous criminals too. What made them who they are? How can we stop others from becoming what they have become? Don't believe for one second, that killing a bunch of people would set an example so deep that others would stop committing these heinous crimes. No, that is never going to happen simply because of the fact that we are not dealing with a mob here, where you arrest the ring leader and the mob becomes scattered. Believing that some sort of revenge killing would ever solve this problems. I refuse to believe the cliche', kill one and they'd all learn. Its stupid. Its not about teaching a person a lesson. Hasn't religion and law been trying to do that for decades, instilling fear? has it worked. no. No, we are dealing with real issues.very real problems. These murders, rapes, violence is just the outlet we see. Behind each murder, behind every rape, there is a hidden social problem, a social disease corrupting the very essence of our social structure, which has lead to these outlets. And as I always say, if a tree is diseased, we may hack off the branches all we want, the new branches that grow out of it will still be diseased, the problem is within the roots and we have to cure the roots in order for the tree to be healthy.
The fact of the matter is this friends, Ryloggers: Every time a person is raped or murdered, all of us come together. All of us 'normal' people come together, we protest, we scream, we weep, we blame the government, we call out to kill that evil monster, we wonder and ponder how someone can be so inhumane, we demand the government to hang that monster and while we are busy about what violent things we can do to the monster, how many of us actually discuss what has to be done to the victim? Especially in rape cases and child abuse cases, No we do not give a damn about the victim. We are just here to punish the perpetrator, the essence of all evil. And once all the hue and cries down, and normal life is ensured how many of us wake up from our day to day problems look at the society, reflect and see the problems within the society that has CREATED this monster? No WE DON'T. We just eat our delicacies, drink our worth, love our beloved and wait for the existing problems in the society to create another monster, wait for another case to appear, so we can kill another person and get along with our lives. This is a vicious cycle. Brothers and sisters, the truth of the matter is that we are not doing anything for the victims or the society at large, we are just fulfilling our gut instinct for revenge, we lead by animalistic not humane need for revenge, we offer the criminal, to put in the words of one of my facebook friends, 'as a a blood sacrifice to the society to abate it.' Thats what we do, that's what our governments do. To abate the angry masses, we kill the perpetrator. But at the end of the day, friends, this is escapism from the real problems. This is state and social escapism. And how long can we go on like this.
I think I've vaguely mentioned, real problems, real issues long enough for you to wonder what real problems, what real issues I'm talking about here. My sister, (Her Beautiful Blog.) the other day very appalled (bless her), at the situation of Maldives, randomly wonders out, 'What is wrong with our country?' and my answer to her, is the real problems that I talk about. My answer being:
"There is a serious problem with our penitentiary and education system, our moral codes are hypocritical and our social system diseased. "
There are more problems today, than I can hope to write in a meekly blog post or you could be bothered to read. So here are some highlights off the top of my head in no particular order.
QUESTIONING FORBIDDEN
We live in a society where questioning is forbidden. With sex a taboo, when a child first starts questioning about sexual issues, sexual drives, impulses or even basic sexuality or the simple question, how he comes to the world he is met with repression. And I m not talking about what is traditionally regarded as a bad type of repression, this is the simple, 'Don't talk about it. You'd find out sooner or later.' One must understand is that a childhood is the most curious age, a person can ever go through. And at this age, if questions are not answered at all, if questions are completely neglected, the child does not simply withdraw his impulses and his curiosity, he seeks other means in which he can find answers. So first of all our one sided morality and taboo is making sex itself an enigma. One does not have to be a genius to figure out, that once someone is forbidden something with no proper reason, they are more prone to do it. And our sex drive, doesn't disappear. But we are making the essential part of it disappear. the human part of it. the very thing that differentiates man's sexual behavior from animalistic sexual impulses. - our common values about sexuality making the ill advised child ignorant to what is acceptable form of sexual behavior and what is not. And this is not just restricted, with parents. We have an education system, which does not allow proper sex education. So basically, in the development stage of man, a sexual being essentially, is given no proper information on the ethical or the better ways to deal with his sexual drive. And nobody, is more dangerous than an ignorant man. Can you honestly say, that this unawareness towards sexuality has nothing to do with increase in rape cases? Lets deviate from Maldives, for a minute here. If you take other countries where slums are more predominant, brothers and sisters all grow up together, maybe sleeping in the same room, using the same facilities, Isn't it natural to develop a curiosity and in the formative years, when the sexual drive is being developed, if this curiosity, is not abated properly, man is left with no cultural values just his raw sexual impulses and this is the case in some of our more rural islands too.
FAULTY MORALS CREATE LACK OF CONSCIENCE.
The next moral system I have a huge problem with is our very values. From day one, we are taught whats good and whats bad. And if one has the audacity to question, Why? Why is this good and why is this bad? The answer he would be met with is because we (parents/teachers) are telling you its good and bad. Or my favorite reason. Its bad because if you do that, you d go to hell. Its good, because when you do that you d be granted heaven. So basically, we grow up having a set of ethics, a bunch of social dictates and no understanding why we follow them. So, as he goes on with life and through the course of time when he is given the choice to do whats supposedly good but he doesn't know why its good, or whats easy and an immediate solution to his problem, he takes the easy way out. The point I m trying to make here is we do not tell our children what is right and what is wrong and we don't try to instill on their young minds why it is right and why it is wrong, instead we give them a hard and fast rule that something is either good or bad. Its the difference between a child knowing that if he plays with a knife, he'd cut himself and that would cause him pain and a child just being told that he must not play with a knife. It is incomplete morals that we teach our children. A person growing up, whose parents have through experience and advice instilled in him, in his conscience basic ethics would understand that he should not kill a man, because he does not have the right to take another life while a person growing up just with the dicta that it is wrong to kill a man, wouldn't have the same moral solidarity. You might say, that despite this when the person grows older he should have the common sense to know that taking a life is wrong. Yes, he should. But the fact is, he does not have the same value for life. We can see this in Maldives right now. In the gang violence, killing people just because they can. Cutting up a human being has become as simple is cutting your toast for breakfast. So it is high time, we instill upon our kids whats right and wrong, not dictate to them whats good and bad. And yes, there is a difference.
NEGLECTED SOCIAL ISSUES
Another problem I find is that we are making this whole murder/rape problem we have a political issue. It's not. It might have political basis at the face level but take it to the grass root level, and it is a bunch of social issues we have chosen to neglect. For instance, take domestic violence. Until recently, we have not even seen that this is a problem. In some households, children as young as three to four years are beaten black and blue with broomsticks or pans for small mistakes, and if one questions the parent, Why did you just beat your kid up?, The answer would be along the justification of disciplining. Yes, disciplining. Domestic Violence, physically beating up their children in our societies is a socially accepted form of disciplining. In an island, if a woman comes out with her child and beats the living hell out of each other infront of all the citizens in the island, there wouldn't be even 25% who thinks its wrong and its doubtful that there would be even one person who would oppose it. Why should they? She is the child's mother. The child misbehaved, so she is disciplining it. But at the end of the day, the fact of the matter is this. This is violence too. This goes against human rights too. But you can't even exactly blame the parents. Its what they have learned from their parents, who disciplined them in a similar manner. It has created a vicious cycle, And we don't even see how wrong it is. These small things accumulating over the years, has lead to the mentality, the decorum in society which has lead to the violence we see today. For the love of god people, we did not develop a sudden disease of rape and murder over night. This has been a long lasting process. So stop blaming any particular government for it.
NEGLECT OF THE ABUSED - OVER EMPHASIS ON ABUSER.And here, I m talking more about rape than murder. In an year, thousands of people get molested and hundreds get raped. From this comparatively speaking, only a very few cases get reported. Why? There could be many reasons. A lot of guys, for instance do get sexually molested, some in more patronizing and impactful ways than others but the 'male ego' or 'pride', among other reasons often causes them to voluntarily not talk about it ever again because of the fear of getting ridiculed or repress these memories. Another reason, is those who get abused by family members are coerced into keeping their mouth shut in the name of family name. There could be many reasons, but the fact is irrespective of the degree of the incident, it always leaves an impact. And people are different, both in their biological and social make up. People deal with things differently. A lot of these children who get abused in their young age, without given the proper care and counseling grow up to become the 'monsters' we talk about. As much as I don't like the book 50 shades of Grey, (god this is the third blog post I'm mentioning it. But it's just a good example. I really don't like it.) it portrays a very good example. The guy, Trystan Grey was used in a bondage relationship as a child by his mother's friend and when he grows up, he who was the submissive, wants to be the dominant in all his sexual relationships. So nothing really works for him other than Bondage. Its what gets him turned on sexually. And this is a very real reason a lot of people become child molesters. Mainly, those who are abused as children are left with a complex where they have to exert their dominance over the opposite gender, sometimes even the same gender sexually. This is a reason why a lot of them actually abuse children, who will be more innocent and submissive than a child? I do not say all this to justify their action, there can be no justification but to merely explain why people become what they become. And the drastic action we must take to prevent others from becoming the same. As I mentioned earlier in the post, people do not bother about the one who really needs their attention, care and love but are too bothered in trying to punish the perpetrator. But the truth is, twenty years from now these very people become the perpetrators, I don't say all of them do. But some, do. So to prevent them, they should be given the necessary care and psychological therapy.
IGNORANCEIn direct relation, to the above point, we are also very ignorant to the plight of the abuser. We must understand, that he too is the product of the system we live in. Something must have gone wrong, in our own values and social structure, to create such monsters. He did not emerge from somewhere else, it is our society that made him the person that he is. And that is why i call it social and state escapism. Instead of, dealing with the problem we choose to send him to the chair. Commit state sanctioned murder until the next person emerges, also created by the same system. Is this the empathy and sympathy that us normal people brag about. Should we not wonder, why these people become who they are and not just end their lives, without reflecting on it. Doesn't this reveal a lot more about our humanity than his? Food for thought.
NEGLECT OF YOUTHThe heinous, sick, twisted truth is the youth of our country has been not only neglected but also used by two regimes for their political motives. Our youth population consists, of a huge chunk of people, who are not aware or does not give a damn about the social and political problems prevailing in our societies and another chunk who had fallen to the prey of either extremist beliefs or drugs and alcohol. And both extremes have been used by political power players to commit their crimes for them, as their personal hit men. We heard a man who is credited to bring democracy to Maldives, a champion of so many people, a president our beloved country on audio tape, claiming that he wants a bunch of youth who can beat up the cops and thats the only solution. What do these politicians think? We are their stooges. This has gone on for too long. In Maldives, the country where basic education is guaranteed to each man and woman, we are so politically unaware that the youth and even the supposed intelligentsia among the youth are being used by religious figures, by political figures to get their dirty work done for them by bribing them with money, drugs or heaven, I don't know what is worse.
FAULTY PENITENTIARY SYSTEM
Our Penitentiary system is despicable. I can't understand how the people who had such a big problem with Maumoon's torture cells, don't see how wrong this whole system is. First of all, our biggest mistake is we classify drug addicts as criminals, they are not. They are patients. They should never even be sent to jail. We are creating that mentality not only in ourselves, but within these patients and within the society that they are criminals and that they need to be treated as such. This is when they become criminals, ryloggers. At the state in which Maldivian jails are in, a person who did nothing wrong other than use drugs, after fulfilling his sentence in jail, would have a hundred more issues with him. This is not helping them to be rehabilitated. This is making them worse. Jail itself has a bigger market for drugs, than the open public. What is happening here. And because these patients are not properly rehabilitated, their thirst for drugs becomes so high that they would do anything to get the substance, and this is where another reason for murder comes into play.
Another huge problem, in the penitentiary system is, drug patients and criminals taken for petty theft or fraud etc, are put into jail cells with child molesters, murderers, highly damaged individuals. They do not deserve that, it is dangerous for them. And we must not impose that upon them.
For these reasons, among many I claim that it is our society who creates a lot of these so called monsters and we are responsible for them as much as we are responsible for ourselves. And we can't shake our hands of these responsibility by committing, yes committing, capital punishment. If the bill for capital punishment is passed, Maldivian society, all of us have failed. We have failed because we are admitting defeat. We are admitting that we can't fight the problems within our social structure, so we are just going to appease the society by paying a blood payment. The society has failed because we still don't understand. Cause, the average Maldivian is still ignorant to all the social problems that we do have. They think the problems we are facing erupted yesterday, after the democratic movement. That all of this are political murders, political reasons behind everything. That the rapist, is a different person from who we are, its just the way they are and the society would be better off, if we just did off with him.
There is one more very important reason why we as a society, condone capital punishment.
RELIGION.
This just deals with the Islamic attitude towards Capital Punishment, so any non muslims who might read this may choose to ignore this section.
The biggest slap on the face of those of us, who are against the death penalty by religious men, is that how can we while claiming that we follow Islam and we believe in Allah and his messenger (PBUH) go against such a fundamental of Islam as the death penalty. My answer to them is simple, I do not agree with your brutal interpretation of this principle. Islam has always promoted the medium standard, to accept both dhunya (world) and the ahirat (After world) Muslims are not supposed to be extremist or brutal in anything, the basic principal by which our prophet that we claim to follow as an example, lived day in and day night was forgiveness. Can any of us claim to have faced as much torture as he faced in Mecca? As his sahabas faced in Mecca? In the hands of his own people? They finally made him flee from his own home. And when he got support from other people in Medina, they came looking for him to kill him, just because he claimed that he worships a god other than the gods they worshipped. Despite all this, when he got success over these people and he entered Mecca and his rule established, what did he announce? He announced that he forgave all of them except a handful, most of whom he ended forgiving too. Or have you forgotten that? Is this not the Islam we believe in? Islam that has stood for peace and solidarity, or an abridged version of Islam given to you by Salafis and Preachers and Extremists? Is Maldivian muslims following the Sheikh Imran version of Islam now?
Yes, I agree despite all that, religion does give the right to the victim's family to allow the person to be murdered. But look closely on this verse.
[42:40-43] The recompense for an injury is an injury equal thereto (in degree): but if a person forgives and makes reconciliation, his reward is due from Allah: for (Allah) loves not those who do wrong. But indeed if any do help and defend themselves after a wrong (done) to them, against such there is no cause of blame. The blame is only against those who oppress men and insolently transgress beyond bounds through the land, defying right and justice: for such there will be a grievous penalty. And whoever is patient and forgiving, these most surely are actions due to courage. - Holy Quran
Allah, almighty has praised those who choose not to invoke capital punishment, as courageous and don't we claim that it is his love and admiration that we all seek, at the end of the day? He has also said, that those who forgives and makes reconcillation would be rewarded by Allah. Subhan'Allah. Isn't his reward, that all of us seek? Then I ask this question back to the Sheikhs and the preachers, why not promote forgiveness, when religion too says its the better way. Religion teaches us, that forgiveness is much better if we understand? Why do we not understand, brothers and sisters?
The Prophet Muhammad (SAW), who we believe to be the greatest man to have ever lived, his sunnah shows us that if he was given the choice, he had always chosen to forgive than to punish. I don't know why some of you choose to only accept, the more seemingly brutal parts of Islam and neglect the loving grace of god and his messenger.
For me, in my own personal belief, having been given the choice to either kill for kill or pay the blood payment, is a test our humanity by god. It is left for our choice, so that we will choose to forgive our brother. And that is why Capital Punishment will never be in my good graces.
The Prophet Muhammad (SAW), who we believe to be the greatest man to have ever lived, his sunnah shows us that if he was given the choice, he had always chosen to forgive than to punish. I don't know why some of you choose to only accept, the more seemingly brutal parts of Islam and neglect the loving grace of god and his messenger.
For me, in my own personal belief, having been given the choice to either kill for kill or pay the blood payment, is a test our humanity by god. It is left for our choice, so that we will choose to forgive our brother. And that is why Capital Punishment will never be in my good graces.
Now, to be honest I m not particularly well versed in the penitentiary and legal system. But from my little knowledge, here are some alternative ways I think we can deal with this.
- First and foremost, when a person is raped, murdered we must give immediate professional counseling to the victim (in case of rape and torture) and the victim's family.
- We must identify the social problems we face and bring about better awareness at grass roots, so not only intellectuals but the average maldivian would understand how this could be a problem.
- Educational reforms. We must give more attention to civic studies and sex education too.
- Penitentiary and Rehabilitation reforms. Drug addicts, should only be given a rehab sentence not a jail sentence. better penitentiary laws can be drafted so that each crime has a punishment in par with the crime in nature and degree.
- Instead of giving everyone a jail sentence, community service can also be an imposed punishment on more mediocre crimes
- Improve the quality of jails.
- Prevent Youth brainwashing, engage youth in productive activities, try to change the mindset Maldivians have on superior and inferior jobs. So that more job opportunities can be opened giving the youth less time to decay wastefully. (This could also in the long run, help reduce expectorate workers. but major mindset change needed.)
- Punish indoctrinators and political figures who use youth for political motives, severely.
- Rapists and Murderers to be segregated from the average criminals and special regiment camps to be created for them consisting of heavy physical labor, professional psychological diagnosis and counseling etc.
- But first of all, we seriously need to stop associating everything with a political reason and stop dealing everything with a political bias. We need to treat each problem as it is not as we are in order for this country to change.
Lewis Lawes, warden of Sing Sing prison in New York once said, "As
if one crime of such nature, done by a single man, acting individually,
can be expiated by a similar crime done by all men, acting collectively." And that is what at the end of the day, death penalty really is. A crime. Because of our own incapability and social problems, a man is created who is ready to take another man's life and instead of saving him from himself, we kill him. This is not acceptable to me. But thats just my opinion. I m as flawed as the next guy. So I just ask you all to think twice on this. And if thats not enough, think thrice. One may claim, that I am against death penalty because I do not have had someone who i know who got murdered and that claim would be wrong. My direct maternal uncle, was the first person to be murdered in the series of gang murders. And I've known someone who is really very close to my heart, who got molested and nearly raped. I do not say, what I say because I don't understand. I do not say what I say inspite of the pain of the victim and their family. I say what I say about capital punishment, because of the pain of the victim and their family and our pain as a society. Until next time, Ryloggers. Be safe and Merry Christmas.
Monday, December 17, 2012
My Favorite Dhivehi Poem :D
Hey Ryloggers,
Okay so this has been my favorite dhivehi poem for a long long time. I saw it in Grade 6, and was like totally sold. I might translate this some time later, seeing that my stats show i don't have much of views from Maldives but rather from India, US and Greece O_o. And excuse the typos ^^. i still suck at typing in dhivehi.
Anyway, here you go :)
Okay so this has been my favorite dhivehi poem for a long long time. I saw it in Grade 6, and was like totally sold. I might translate this some time later, seeing that my stats show i don't have much of views from Maldives but rather from India, US and Greece O_o. And excuse the typos ^^. i still suck at typing in dhivehi.
Anyway, here you go :)
ލޭ ހުސްވެ މަރުވެ މިދަނީ މާލޭގެ ބިން މަތީގާ
ހޭ ހުރެ ކުރީމެ އާދޭސް އަހަރެންގެ މަރުމަތީގާ
އަދަކީ ތިނެއް ނޮވެނބަރ އަށްޑިހަ އަށެއް ނަވާރާއިން
އަދަކީ ފިސާރި ދުވަހެއް ދިވެހިންގެ ކުރިމަތީގާ
ދެލޮލަށް މިހާރު ފެނެޔޭ ދިވެހީންގެ ކާމިޔާބީ
މިލޮލަށް ނެތޭ ނަސީބެއް ނަސްރުގެ ދުވަސް ދުށުމުގާ
އަހަރެންގެ ގައިން އޮހޭލޭ ދެއްޔަށް ކަމަށް ހަދައިގެން
އަހަރެން ކުރާ ވަސީއްޔަތް ލިޔެލީމެ ބިންމަތީގާ
ތިޔަހެން ނުތިބެ ޒުވާނުން، ތައްޔާރުވާށޭ ޖިހާދަށް
މިޔަކީ ނިމޭކަށް އޮތް ކަމަކަށް ނުވޭ މިތާގާ
ބާޢީންގެ ރޭވުމެއްގާ ނުބެދޭށެ ދިވެހި ފަރުދުން
ބައިބައި ވެގެން ނުދާށޭ ލޮބުވެތި މިބިންމަތީގާ
މުސްތަގްބަލްގެ ދަރިންނޭ ތިޔަހެން ދެއަތް އުރާލާ
ހުސްކޮށް ނުތިބެ ހިނގާށޭ ގައުމީ ސިފައިންގެ ސަފުގާ
ބޭރުގެ އަދުއްވެ ދުޝްމިން ޢައްދާރުންނާ ދިމާކޮއް
ބޭނުން ގޮތެއް ހަދާލަން ތެދުވާށެ ދިވެހިލޭގާ
ބައިގިނަ ކުރާށެ ސަފުގާ، ނޫކަށި ޒުވާން އުމުރުގާ
ގައިބާރުގަދަ ޖިހާދެއް ކޮއްލަން ޖެހޭ މިކަމުގާ
ދަރިފަސްކޮޅާ އެކީގާ މިނިވަން ދިވެހި ކަރާމާތް
ދަރިފުޅު މެނާ ހަވާލޭ ދެން އޮތް ތަނަށް އެކީގާ
ހިޔަހާސް ފަށުން ސަލާމޭ ފަހު ނޭވަޔޭ މަގޭމީ
ލިޔެލާ ދިނުން މިއާދޭސް އެދެމޭ މަހާނަ ގަލުގާ
އަދަކީ ތިނެއް ނޮވެނބަރ އަށްޑިހަ އަށެއް ނަވާރާއިން
އަދަކީ ފިސާރި ދުވަހެއް ދިވެހިންގެ ކުރިމަތީގާ
ދެލޮލަށް މިހާރު ފެނެޔޭ ދިވެހީންގެ ކާމިޔާބީ
މިލޮލަށް ނެތޭ ނަސީބެއް ނަސްރުގެ ދުވަސް ދުށުމުގާ
އަހަރެންގެ ގައިން އޮހޭލޭ ދެއްޔަށް ކަމަށް ހަދައިގެން
އަހަރެން ކުރާ ވަސީއްޔަތް ލިޔެލީމެ ބިންމަތީގާ
ތިޔަހެން ނުތިބެ ޒުވާނުން، ތައްޔާރުވާށޭ ޖިހާދަށް
މިޔަކީ ނިމޭކަށް އޮތް ކަމަކަށް ނުވޭ މިތާގާ
ބާޢީންގެ ރޭވުމެއްގާ ނުބެދޭށެ ދިވެހި ފަރުދުން
ބައިބައި ވެގެން ނުދާށޭ ލޮބުވެތި މިބިންމަތީގާ
މުސްތަގްބަލްގެ ދަރިންނޭ ތިޔަހެން ދެއަތް އުރާލާ
ހުސްކޮށް ނުތިބެ ހިނގާށޭ ގައުމީ ސިފައިންގެ ސަފުގާ
ބޭރުގެ އަދުއްވެ ދުޝްމިން ޢައްދާރުންނާ ދިމާކޮއް
ބޭނުން ގޮތެއް ހަދާލަން ތެދުވާށެ ދިވެހިލޭގާ
ބައިގިނަ ކުރާށެ ސަފުގާ، ނޫކަށި ޒުވާން އުމުރުގާ
ގައިބާރުގަދަ ޖިހާދެއް ކޮއްލަން ޖެހޭ މިކަމުގާ
ދަރިފަސްކޮޅާ އެކީގާ މިނިވަން ދިވެހި ކަރާމާތް
ދަރިފުޅު މެނާ ހަވާލޭ ދެން އޮތް ތަނަށް އެކީގާ
ހިޔަހާސް ފަށުން ސަލާމޭ ފަހު ނޭވަޔޭ މަގޭމީ
ލިޔެލާ ދިނުން މިއާދޭސް އެދެމޭ މަހާނަ ގަލުގާ
Once again excuse the typos and other mistakes here and there :(
And I dedicate this post, to one of our greatest hero, Shd. Hussain Adam.. truly a hero that will never fade from Maldivian history.
And I dedicate this post, to one of our greatest hero, Shd. Hussain Adam.. truly a hero that will never fade from Maldivian history.
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