WE ALL HAVE RELATIVES AND A COMMON ANCESTRY.

Though short and poorly articulated it may seem I have to convey this piece of mine to my fellow humans wherever they may be on Earth (or in Space…)

The principles of “do unto others as you want/expect others do unto you” is unique in the sense that if only every human can stick to it, the much needed peace and progress in the world will be achieved with ease.

The minimum number of relatives one may have is a mother and a father. Even with that, the person with that minimum will have his/her two parents having relatives; many in some instances and in some cases extended family unit(s).

Look around you and see how people deal negatively with one another in most cases because they are not “apparently” related with one another; forgetting our common ancestry of Adam and Eve. People go to war because those they wage war against aren’t their relations. People terrorize and kill others because none of their relations is the victim. Rape, rob and run because it isn’t their own that is the victim. Imagine someone doing that to you, your parents, sisters, brothers, cousins, nieces, nephews, or “etc”. Just imagine it!!! Perhaps, it may sound reasonable to think before venturing into harming others who are not apparently our relatives.

Most if not all people have the urge to do what is “evil” but conscience for self-respect and/or God, deters them from any attempt to further their intent. The most heinous crimes on Earth are committed when people forget that their relatives could be victims too. Forgetting also that someday all “accounts” will be settled.

If only we could sit back and reflect on how beautiful this temporal life would be when we all remember that somewhere somehow we are all related. When you wish to harm someone because of an opportunity you have over him/her, remember that it will somehow come back to you, here or Hereafter. Simply because you are a teacher/University lecturer, for instance, doesn’t give you the mandate to exchange grades for sex or for other “illicit” remunerations. Your daughter/son/cousin/niece/nephew may be a victim too someday. Simply because you are at the “top” doesn’t mean you should trample on those at the “bottom”. Simply because you are “whatever” shouldn’t intoxicate you to do as you wish to “whomsoever” and “whenever”. Life has limits and someday THIS TOO WILL PASS.

Remember what The Noble Prophet, Muhammad (SAW), said to a man who came to him seeking for permission to go and commit fornication. That man was later made to realize the gravity of his intention when The Noble Prophet (SAW) asked him that would he want that (fornication) to be committed with his mother or sister. We all should learn to ask ourselves the question of “what if it were my relatives” whenever we wish to harm anyone. Every human killed, robbed, terrorized, impoverished, adulterated, made illiterate or sick is someone else’s’ relative; and we wouldn’t want that happening to our “own” relatives.

Our thieving elites/leaders devour our commonwealth with impunity because their kith and kin are on the shores of “ill-gotten opulence”. They care not for the downtrodden amongst them, inflicting pain because it isn’t their relatives that are harmed.

People look the other way when they come across the poor in the society, especially children whose parents are unable, just because their own is not the one involved. As long as we continue to feel and believe that “if it doesn’t concern me, it doesn’t exist” then there will never be the peace and progress that we yearn for.

Aren’t we no longer the progenies of Adam and Eve?