On the 24th of December 2015, the BBC reported the death of a 10th month old baby girl in Pakistan’s Karachi’s Civil Hospital named Bisma Faisal Baloch. She was delayed medical treatment for her breathing difficulties for over an hour due the visit of the Chairman of the Pakistan’s People’s Party (PPP), Bilawal Bhutto. The incident has sparked international condemnation, particularly in Pakistan’s social media groups as there has been increasing criticism of Pakistan’s elite Very Important Person (VIP) culture where the needs of those not linked to the government are neglected. Doctors stated that the toddler could have been saved if she was able to access the hospital only 10 minutes earlier.
Comment:
The tragic case of the death of baby Bisma is only one of the many crimes that the ruling elite are guilty of against this people of Pakistan. The fact that there is a clear division between more and less important Muslims is evidence of the fundamental sickness that plagues the political climate in Pakistan. To add insult to injury, Bilawal’s PPP party offered the beavered father a ‘job’ as a means to ‘compensate’ for the loss of his only beloved child! Such actions speak volumes about the corruption and self-interest motivated culture that drives Pakistan’s leadership. In 2010 a women was forced to give birth in a rickshaw when roads to the Hospital were closed due to the then President Asif Ali Zardari’s presence in the area. The woman’s brother Mohammad Yaseen had told media at that time: “We pleaded with the policemen as it was an emergency but they refused, citing orders that no one should be allowed to move until the president had passed.” Such examples of placing privilege over the life and safety of the people are well known and documented throughout the despotic leadership of the puppets placed in power in all of the Muslim countries. Annually in Saudi Arabia, fatalities occur when the passages are blocked due to the Royal Family entering the Haram areas.
This elitist culture of people in positions of power has nothing to do with the Politics of Islam and if one studies the simple humble lives of the previous righteous Khalifs, such as Abu Bakr Siddiq’s lifestyle, we see that they represented everything opposite to the greedy power hungry mentalities of today’s secular politicians. When offered the position of Khaleefah he famously said:
“I have been appointed as ruler over you although I am not the best among you. I have never sought this position nor has there ever been a desire in my heart to have this in preference to anyone else… If I do right, you must help and obey me; if I go astray, set me aright… Obey me so long as I obey Allah and His Messenger. If I disobey them, then you have no obligation to follow me”. These words represent the Hadith instructing the importance of just and humble leadership manner He and his other fellow Khalif’s represented the Hadith narrated by ‘Iyad bin Himar (ra) who said the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
»إن الله تعالى أوحى إلي أن تواضعوا حتى لا يبغي أحد على أحد، ولا يفخر أحد على أحد«
“Verily, Allah has revealed to me that you should adopt humility. So that no one may wrong another and no one may be disdainful and haughty towards another.” (Muslim)
It is only with the return of the true Islamic political model in the form of the Khilafah in the way of the Prophet ﷺ that we will have leaders that act in accordance with these noble principles and the oppression of their selfishness and subservience to the western political agenda will end.
Imrana Mohammad