Ignorance and its many facets
Tousif Raza
When someone doesn’t bother about what happens around him, it is called ignorance. When someone due to stressed life is absent minded and can’t concentrate over many things, the people around call him ignorant. When ego is the guide, people start ignoring one another due to some faults within themselves, this is also a type of ignorance. All above the words express what ignorance is, how many types it has and how it is developed.
I wonder when people due to superiority complex start thinking about people in a bad way, in a way which always is passive in nature. Each and every act we do we have to be answerable, each and every act we do affect our mind, body and soul. We need to study and analyze before we act. It is a well known fact and common experience we must be aware of.
Ignoring people can have many aspects; it is worship if done in a good way and with positive intention. Start ignoring when anyone irritates you, start ignoring when someone hurts you, start ignoring when someone tries to show you lower in society. This kind of ignorance will produce a sense of changes in ideology of the people who does like this.
It will build confidence in you and you start living what you are, you will start acting up on yourself in a beautiful way, you will start thinking about the beauty of things existing around you, you will start taking advantage of everything in your own way and ultimately you will be in a position to celebrate within yourself with your strength.
The ignorance to external world is one of the best tools to think about your inner-self. The thinking about your inner-self develops a schedule to search your lows, your errors, your sins then you will be able to correct them and you can revolutionize your inner-self through spiritual voice present in you. Ignore, if someone around you is weak but think about your weakness.
Ignore if you’re better than anyone around you because it will affect your inner-self self in a passive way, it will act as a sweet poison for you ultimately it will kill you through spoiling your inner strength of struggling with yourself to develop.
Quran is of the view that ignore your strength but never ignore you are weakness in creation. Quran says you are designed in a best way. But you can only retain your position if you will be able to judge your weakness to correct them and if you will be able to ignore your strength to revolutionize character for which you are known as the best creation.
Soch Kral Kashmiri sufi poet says in few of his lines written “OH THEY MAN OF SINS STOP THINKING AND CONCENTRATE ALL ABOUT YOUR SINFUL ACTS. YOU ARE THE MAN WHO HAS FORGOTTEN DEATH. ARE YOU IGNORANT”.
Hence we can say ignore the world and concentrate on all what you do, concentrate on the thinking you have about the people who are around you because you have to resume your life after death and you will be answerable there for all you did.
Ignorance has another dimension to discuss a very interesting and important parameter and that is ignorance is harmful. When we ignore, if someone need us, ignoring people is completely insane if we ignore anyone at the time he is suffering, ignoring anyone’s emotions, feelings, love etc is an inhuman act.
The poet of east Iqbal says “OH THE MANKIND YOU ARE MADE TO FEEL THE PAIN OF PEOPLE AROUND, OTHERWISE WORSHIPPING CREATURES ARE COUNTLESS.”
The present world is completely materialistic and the materialization has tied us from every side. We are day by day going away from our inside existence. We start concentrating about the people who are with material and we start ignoring a person with us who is less wealthy or has least materials.
Actually as per today’s thinking we have forgotten the fact that nothing around us is everlasting, nothing else without good deeds and metaphysical approach towards lord is everlasting. The man is made of two parts-one is material based and another is spiritual (soul).
One can be seen and can be touched but another can be felt only. The part which is metaphysical is more important and more strong but we have ignored all that part due to the fact our dimensions of vision are limited.
We are unable to reach the high approaches of soul so we consider body (The physical part) as ultimate. We have ignored our inner-self and are busy in think about things around and involve in building our physics strong than our metaphysics.
Ignoring was necessitated by the fact we can explore difference between some of important and un important things but we are moving in a reverse direction.
Ignorant to eternal world breaks all the bonds and creates a strong bond of love with Allah. He starts thinking about the things which is beyond books, beyond the words and different systems of living. He becomes able to form a world around him to celebrate the existence of God within himself.
Quran spells out suggestions that lord is close to you more than your breath. He exists and lives in you. The man ignorant to the external world can see and feel this existence so he starts spreading love. And as poet Rumi says “If I love you I love myself.” From negative perspective ignore the world around you. But from the positive perspective ignore the ignorance.
(The author is a teacher and hails from Tangmarg) …….to be continued.
