Bullet-proof Aqidah

I’ve been reading and watching quite a number of war films and books lately. I don’t know why, I just feel like wanting to know and feel more. I’ve watched almost all sorts of war…what do you want? war against aliens? against human? machines? what else?

I’ve watched Apocalypto and seen how the men ripped off the hearts of their victims and presented them as sacrifices to their gods. That’s war between ethnics of native people who fought with blades and spears and their handmade pitchforks to conquer the jungle of a God-knows-where island. Do you know what the ending of the story is? There comes a ship with a big cross, shining like the sun at the offshore, like a ray of hope for the ethnics to be saved by this people.

Have you watched the film ‘Tears of the Sun’? I was traumatized, I would say, to know that Nigerian soldiers, during that long dreadful ethnics war in Africa, cut the breasts of nursing mothers so that they can never feed their babies anymore…so that there won’t be anymore babies of that particular ethnic survive…which indirectly ‘wash away’ the ethnic from this planet. Horror as it is. You can see clearly in the movie, they cut the breasts and the mother is still alive…she screamed to death. This is the true story behind the war. Go find in the books, you’ll find more of these… more horrifying stories…like the war were played by machines that has no feelings or brains. How could they do that?

God gives each and everyone of us a heart. But it seems like these people just throw their hearts away. And they go haunt for others’ hearts, lungs and even fetus in the mother’s womb.

How about Rambo? Have you watched Rambo? Did you watch Rambo 4? This one is also traumatizing. The first time I watched the film, I was in the cinema, alone, and I felt like crying (I think I did cry) because they were so many people killed. They even killed the babies…at a very close distance, they blew their short guns…their sub-machine guns were aiming the villagers who had nothing to fight with. Bullets are like rain. The only different is that once it dropped, it pours red blood on earth… The soldiers kicked the children, stepped on their faces, blew their head and chest… they used flame to burn the village down so that if anyone survived, he can never hide anywhere anymore.

And when you went by the river, the heartless pirates will stop you and behead any of you who look them in their eyes… and if you are a woman, they will rape you, more than 50 times, again and again and again, and they will still rape you even if you are already dead. They are worse, worse, worse than animals. They are the worst animals!

How about Saving Private Ryan? This one tells you a lot about what happened in the World War 2, at least a close picture of the war...when I watched a war movie, I don’t simply put myself in any party, I’m not at any side…I just want to watch, see, listen and feel the massive destruction they made when they neutralized an area. Both sides are losing. No one can claim they win a war when they killed the civilians just like that. Who are they fighting with?

Now, even when a lot of us claimed and live a happy and peaceful life, and numerous governments seem to step forward and seek for ceasefire in the West Bank, the battle is still on. The 'best' thing is that-no one really cares!

I’ve been thinking a lot about this. During battles, soldiers died in a terrifying and indescribable scene… they suffered inconceivable pains… some of them were tortured to death… to die in such conditions, I would say, is something that must be on a REAL good reason… only a clear and proper mission will lead us forward bravely… I just feel so sad that all this while, many of them died on an indistinct objective or mission highlighted by their governments but the truth was none of them really understand. They suffered a lot but for a wrong motive. They killed people who were innocent. You watch Bourne Supremacy? Or Bourne Ultimatum? Why do you think he suffered so much? Because he didn’t understand what he did. He was forced to kill. What was a war started for actually? Who started this? Who will stop this? Why is it when there’s a war, the leaders hide their heads behind the round table and pretend to talk about this and that but at the end of the day, nothing was done.

And you Muslims, do you know that they sent their rabbi and priests to drift the aqidah of the people in the war zone(especially at Muslim country)…at the time when people were under pressure and pain, they were there to give hopes and nice words which are verily needed by the people at that moment…but where are we? How many of us brave enough to save their aqidah? We are never there for our ummah. We are never there. When will we work for our ummah so that even if their hearts are pierced by the bullets, their aqidah to Allah remains ‘bullet-proof’, firm and unbreakable? When will we have some spaces in our heart for them? When will we look at them like our brothers and sisters? When will we bombard their galleons and tanks? Let us dig our heart, and see if we have the answers.