In the world we live in, pleasure has become the soul goal to be pursued. Lust seems to be at the root of things and human civilization is redefining itself. The values which held us together and gave meaning to our birth and existence on this planet are fast loosening their grip. The animal within refuses to be chained after it tasted the absolute freedom. The result is all the barriers that the prophets, seers, saints and sage people erected to preserve the human edifice are crumbling apart. The human greed has created havoc. Torn apart from its moral moorings and unmindful of any accountability in the world hereafter, the two-legged mammal is scripting fast his own doom. It is his rebellious activism against nature and biological imperatives that he has plummeted himself into the lowest of the low – homosexuality. That pleasure deriving madness might drive states to accord legitimacy to as shameless vulgarity as gay marriage speaks volumes about the health of the society and its ‘citizen’s right’ to choose their ‘spouse’. Perhaps the only species in the animal kingdom where ‘noblest in the creation’ has skipped to romantic coupling of this kind! That, in a sense, should make the ‘nobles’ humbled before “ignoble” beasts.
 Marriage is one, among many other institutions , which holds our family system intact and sustains human population in a legitimate manner. But sadly now this institution, thanks to permissive attitude of the state, is degenerating into ‘live-in and let live out’ relationship, just to satiate one’s sexual desires. Imagine when courts see nothing “unlawful” and “immoral” in pre-marriage conjugal relationship  between two adults. A three judges Supreme Court bench of India, comprising chief justice KB Balakrishnan , Deeepak Verma and BC Chahun ruled in March 2011, that there is no “offence” if two matured persons enter into a live-in relationship. Thus endorsing the views of film actress Khushboo about pre-marital sex. This freedom we know, has ruined the concept of parenthood and desolated families. To the extent that now the parents are taken care of at old age homes. Earlier a child would have been taking care of his parents thinking it as his moral obligation, even a saa’dat, now the state has to intervene and make a legislation like the maintenance of the welfare of the Parents and other Senior Citizens Act 2007, which Indian parliament enacted under which maintenance of those over 60 years by children is a matter of right for parents.
 Sexual anarchy has crossed all limits in western societies and those aping them. Prostitution has been legalized as a profession and streets have seen sex workers protesting for their “just” demands. Woman has been “venerated” through her exposure to call-in center. Her nudity and her turning into a salable commodity is appreciated and acknowledged as her empowerment. Contrary to this, the hijab is ridiculed and “progressive” West compares it to “muzzles” and “walking coffins”.
 Films and television serials we see are full of vulgarity and crime. They have led to the degeneration of society. Our leaders and ministers are not immune to this either. The sleazy world of politics does not leave the “august” law making bodies, where privileged motions for lowering the dignity of the House against anyone can be moved. The shameful episode in which three Karnatake BJP ministers were caught watching pornography on one of their cell phones when Legislative Assembly was in session is shocking.  It reflects the how deep the rot of moral bankruptcy has spread. The exam gate that saw one cabinet minister in JK using unfair means to prop up his son  pass 10th standard exam too shows the ugly branches of the same poisonous tree.
 Our youth have been hooked to drug addiction, alcoholism, moral turpitude, gambling and other forms of vices. The incidents of suicides and attempts to commit suicides send a chill down our spine. The crime rate is threateningly on the rise. So is the depression. Morality has virtually got reduced to  fifth wheel of the coach.
 It is in this backdrop that the endeavors of Islami Jamat-e-Tulba, to awaken the people, in particular, the youth from the slumber  and to pull them from the cesspool of moral  turpitude are to be appreciated. The Haya Week  the  IJT is organizing towards making Haya-conscious society  is laudable. Instead of doing nothing and watching our society plunge into moral waywardness as mute spectator, the IJT has, at least, stood up and pooled its efforts and resources to purge the society of this  moral pollution. God bless them. “haya”, prophet Muhamad (peace be upon Him) said, “brings nothing but khair”.

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