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 The lust for supremacy

History has witnessed that superior nations have always dominated the lesser nations.

BY NARGIS BASHIR

There is hikmah (wisdom) 

behind every creation of 

Almighty. 

Everything in 

this universe has been 

assigned a specific task. 

Imagine dust particles, they are 

so tiny, it seems that they have no 

worth, but Almighty has created 

even these minute particles with 

a purpose. They play an impor-

tant part in water cycle; without 

them rain is not possible. 

Inter-

estingly there is a kind hierar-

chy in the Almighty’s creation. 

Humans are the noblest. Since 

humans are blessed with the 

highest level of intelligence and 

endowed with many qualities.

In early times man’s needs 

were limited to food, water and 

shelter. Gradually human soci-

eties evolved into an organized 

collectivity. With the power of 

intelligence man was able to 

create an amazing 

world around him. 

The outcome was not 

only modern world of 

technology, but also 

destruction of human-

ity. This advanced 

world of ours is 

divided into nations 

and states, but the 

powerful don’t limit 

themselves limiting to the devel-

opment of their nations. But they 

wanted something beyond this; 

that is hegemony. 

History has witnessed that 

superior nations have always 

dominated the lesser nations. 

When European colonialism 

began, along with this a lucra-

tive business emerged called 

as slave trade. 

The Portuguese, 

Dutch, Spaniards and British 

captured African natives, and 

forcibly transported them to the 

newly discovered America as 

labourers in their plantations. 

Slave trade finally got abolished 

after 200 years but still there is 

discrimination on the basis of 

color prevalent in the western 

world, particularly in the US. 

There is a continuous tussle 

among the powerful nations to 

gain hegemony or to create a uni-

polar world. The lust to achieve 

political, economic and socio 

cultural dominance has really 

made them wild. The things have 

come to such a pass that “once 

weapons were manufactured to 

fight wars. Now wars are manu-

factured to sell weapons.”

The year 2020 is the pandemic 

year and throughout the whole 

world a large number of people 

died because of this. But human 

deaths occurring on a large scale 

is not a new thing happening. 

This year an invisible entity is 

responsible, what about those 

humans deaths that are happen-

ing due to humans every year, 

every month, every day and 

every minute in specific parts 

of the world. Those deaths and 

extreme human sufferings are 

occurring on the basis of racism, 

casteism, religion and socio 

political superiority. What about 

those blooming buds 

who are snatched 

from the lap of their 

mothers. Their bodies 

are numb, dreams 

are shattered, their 

homes and schools are 

no more just debris all 

around, their play-

grounds have turned 

into graveyards, their 

lives are confined to a tent that 

can shield them from rain and 

dust but cannot shield them from 

miseries. It seems that their lives 

have lost worth and they have 

done an unforgivable sin of being 

humans.Why is it so; because 

there are nations on a mission 

that is war on peace rather than 

war for peace.

Unfortunately the super 

powers can establish kingdoms 

on the basis of bloodbath of inno-

cent people, but they forget that 

there is someone who can crush 

their kingdoms in one stroke - 

‘the lord of the great throne’.

Nargis Bashir is PG Student 

at Kashmir University.