To the westernized & materialistic people

Leaving my original birth place and residing at another seems insane to me and I love my birth place and never dream of leaving because I have extra love for the soil of my birth place, which is Sunnah . Migrating for the cause of Islam is only allowed and leaving for luxury and enjoyment is prohibited by our religion. One’s birth place gets more beautified if decorated with all types of flowers along with roots. The migration trend is reversed in developed countries. They migrate from urban to rural areas for peace and harmony, the same trend will develop soon in third world countries. People will regret that it will be of no use.

People still mostly prefer to live in cities and towns which are of no use and no means in the present world of global village, the internet and cell phone have changed the situation dramatically along with traffic facilities. I’m unable to understand why pseudo-intellectuals prefer to invest their wealth in cities and develop the economy of city people rather than leaving the needy and poor from their birthplace in an abandoned situation.

The migration of the People only results in the drain of wealth from rural areas to urban areas. Which results in making poor poorer and rich becomes richer, big fishes swallow then small fishes who migrated from rural to urban areas.

However one could think about investment in real estate that is positive and good thing to earn but If you buy a patch of 5 Marla in city and sell 30 kanals of land which you got in heredity from parents how come you will be called wise.

People are nowadays in the race to be called #Eis_gaye_badal has only resulted in great loss to the economy of the rural areas besides resulting in deteriorating their own situation,  if one leaves to educate their children ,this is mere a deception. A child could learn sitting on an island with the help of the internet as we are living in a global village. I have many examples on hand. The children who were taught and sent to schools in rural areas have reached higher positions than those who studied at cities like Srinagar, Bangalore are still idle and lack moral education and ethics as well values.

Most of the employees from rural areas like Kupwara, Baramulla, Pulwama, Bandipora etc have send their wives along kids to Srinagar on rented accommodation so that the best schooling is given to kids, how come a person will be called wise who is leaving his wife alone and himself attending duties in village, is it allowed by Islam, not at all and a kid learns more in place having aesthetic value and pin drop silence. The village schools are always rich in oxygen banks and fresh air is available rich in Oxygen.

My salutation to those poor kids who qualified NEET and those who became professors, judges, doctors, teachers, KAS officers during the last two years .who live their simple life in villages but never migrate to cities. They are real heroes who deserve to be celebrated and praised.  Congratulations to their parents.  Hope this trend is given the vent to flourish.

– The writer is a research scholar in Public Administration. He can be reached at aatifabdullahkhan@gmail.com