BY: M. Anwar Wafa Samandar

For many years, there are a few questions in my mind and now I like to share them with you.

Sometimes I am thinking if we, the people of this region, forget our historical tensions and say No to controversial issues and war, what will our destiny be like?

If we leave our historical and religious anger and look at each other as divine creatures, then would we need to improve and increase our armies to fight against each other?

And if we utilize our human and financial resources to serve our lives, will we not achieve peace, prosperity and development?

Will we not witness a golden era?

I believe, all the tensions are mental conflicts.

I confess that war and tensions in this region are rooted into five emotions; anger, selfishness, greed, lewdness, and dependence.

It's been years that these thoughts and emotions have remained within and these emotions have ruled our feelings and thoughts.

I am a writer who paints with words. I have realized peace building, prosperity and development can be achieved simply; only if we listen to our heart instead of listening to our brain. Brain is driven by: publicity, profit and power. 

We need to leave our ego that has hijacked our brain even if the ego is in the name of Allah, the God or Ram. 

We are all humans and we have shared needs.

We need secure life.

We need liberty. A liberty that is safe and secure.

We all need gods who we can worship so that we have peace of mind and we need to have achievements and luxury in life.

Peace building, progress and prosperity can only be achieved by self-awareness that can be expected from a loving heart. Because heart is fed by love and love is the essence flowing to the humanity from God

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But we are still struggling.

We are struggling to get more modern weapons and achieve victory.

A fighting jet that costs more than millions are paid by millions of taxpayers (a large group who constitutes labours, farmers and intellectuals).

I have to confess that all my awareness about this is nothing but a few questions.

I ask myself, if we don't want to kill each other why are we buying F16s and MIG 28s?

If we want everyone to live in peace and health, why are we trying to make and have atomic weapons?

Doesn't it mean that all those born in this situation, are born killers?

Wherever we are from, don't we and our countries live in Pain?

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Oh God! I don't know why we human being have invested our time and resources in war?

Every day, our media displays slaughterhouses where human beings are slaughtered.  According to our security officials, they are gifted to us by our neighbouring country.  The neighbour may need my flesh to implement its plans which are driven by three Ps (i.e., profits, power and publicity), so that it can achieve its broader regional goals.

Are we not ashamed of history when we exhibit our weaponry under pictures of Rumi, Iqbal, Ghalib, Rahman Baba and other teachers of love?

When a child is being killed by suicide bomber, how can people of the country that made the bomb be proud of their humanity and culture?

The guns of our neighbouring countries  have killed me and have cut my throat more than two million times and so is the case now. I am a unique creature that I am beheaded but I still have a head and will continue to have it in the future.

It is right to claim that it has been forty years that the neighbour is trying to make my destiny, inculcate ideology and believes, and attempt to behead me so that it can project its strength to the region and world.

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Throughout my life I have sought an answer that mother earth is a place where our souls are examined. Every soul is examined based on their personal experiences. It is their personal experience that results in self-awareness and awareness about the God.

It is important to note that love has the highest marks.

It may be our fault, but the ones who should be blamed the most are those who kill us in the name of Allah. We may not be able to do anything but what we can do now is to look at each other with love and grace.

Let`s promise that we don't have anything to do but love each other.

Let’s support each other with love.

Let’s exchange love.

Let's change our region to a paradise of love.

And let`s make a life full of love, our destiny.

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As I have asked many questions, please do not ask anything because I will have more questions.

Also, I do not have any answers except love, because love is the vitamin of soul and heart.

I leave this stage by kissing your hearts individually.

be the blessing.