Of Rights and Responsibilities

Don't you just love it when epiphany comes knocking on your door?
Often, it resembles a uninvited guest-- which means you either love it, or you hate it!

Fortunately for me, today morning was an affirmation of the former.

With exams comes a lot of stress, which means one too often one falls trap to the depression and has absolutely no motivation to study what-so-ever.
Let's just say the very act of me typing out an entry on blogger is evidence enough!

Now, have you ever wondered what our rights are, and what are our responsibilities? Who decides?
Fortunately for me, my religion serves it all in perfect proportions to me, thus contributing to my moral well-being.

We have a right to education. Basic human right, agreed? Who's job is it to provide us with education?
*bing* PARENTS!
Right?
Meh. Somewhat.

Our parents provide us with education, out of love for us. To help us build our lives when they're not around.

I know a lot of cultures do not fund their child's education past high-school.
And then there's us; the spoon-fed, whining-about-how-hard-life-is-with-parental-pressure-and-conforming-to-social-norms population, who doesn't give a rat's ass about school, whiling away their time in university abroad.
I'm not saying it's not true-- it is.
But just stop to think for a second about your parents.

They work their entire lives to support us; first feeding us as a family, then saving up from that moment for our future-- highschool, college funds, marriage funds, cars, house, license.
When do they ever splurge on themselves? When do they get a chance to finally put their feet up and relax?

Never.
Because when they do get that chance, they're old, and they die.

For people like me, who're the youngest in their family and have a considerable age difference with their parents, all we can pretty much do is wait for a job and support them. Often, we lose out on this chance.

The only thing we CAN do, is help them out-- in the following ways:
by getting good grades.
It is their right.
If they work hard to provide us with education, then it is their right to see the fruits of their labour-- our good grades.

If our rights are their responsibility, then it stands true the other way round as well.

And I'm not going to mess it up.
I'm not going to mess up my parents hard-work. The hours they worked in the heat, taking their capitalist boss' bullshit just to support us, I'm not going to let it go to waste.

My good grades, are their right.
And I will, inshAllah, make sure that I do whatever it is that is required to give my parents their right.
And so should you.

*dramatic noble music plays in the background*
*I rise on a pedastal, fiercely competitive look on face, wearing Sparta's outfit*
*Marching forward, examination hall in view, I enter, my land's flag waving proud and bright in the desert heat of the rather garishly painted school ground*

Dr. Aafia Siddiqui In Court For Attempted Murder

Dr. Aafiq Siddiqui was charged with attempted murder and was taken to court.
Let me just say this as subtly and as decently as I can: WHAT THE *beep*?

Now hold on, hold on, lemme get this straight:
You take a Muslim woman, a Niqabi Muslim woman, abduct her to Afghanistan, catch her as an Al Qaeda operative, take her to U.S., put her in men's prison, torture her, every single man has raped her there (dunno how far that is true, but even if a few did, it's RAPE and it's mental and physical abuse!), you torture her, and her health, this is her health:
-one of her kidneys had been removed while in captivity;
-her teeth had been removed;
-her nose had been broken, and improperly reset;
-that her recent gun-shot wound had been incompetently dressed, was oozing blood, leaving her clothes soaked with blood.

And you expect her to not go crazy? Not want to let her rage out? I don't even have any comments, I have nothing to say, Goddamit! This is not how you treat humans! And on top of that you expect her not to attempt to kill you? This is an outrage! Besides, she is SO weak..how can a 90lbs woman, pick up an m4 rifle and shoot him? Heck, the officer put it down with his foot in front of him. If he saw her grab it, didn't he stop her? Or are you too pigheaded and slow to move that quick? Bloody morons. I hope all of them rot in hell. People like these shot be hung to death! They don't deserve to live in this world, those inhumane animals! Taliban seems like angels in front of these inhumane sadists.
These people, I wish I could say May Allah guide them, but no. I don't, and I won't. I want these people to rot in hell, in the deepest, fiery pits of hell, and inshAllah they will.

Fa in the end, Allah is the best judge, He Alone has the knowledge of all things. And He is definetly not unjust, na3ouzubillah.