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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.
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