By: Mahfooz Ahmad Bakshi
Unity prevents oppression, and a nation which has unity among its Citizens will never ever be under the feet of oppressors. It’s a great quality that must prevail all around the world because people are getting out of sorts and are judging each other based on creed, color, caste, etc. There are diversities in the world and in every single nation. Diversities can be of different types be it Traditional, cultural, Gender, and so on. Human beings belonging to whatever category (Diversity) are the same, which means no one is superior and no one is inferior either. So, why should we create hostility among societies? We must accept each other and live together without any hesitation, without judging anyone. No one has to live if there is no “Unity in Diversity.” We got five fingers in our hands. Undoubtedly, there are diversities among them as some fingers are short and some long so, shall we cut off the fingers, No! Those fingers help us to form a fist and rise against injustice, rise against oppression, and rise against the threat.
Unity in diversity spreads peace and harmony. It brings different people together and creates brotherhood. During my childhood I heard an interesting story, a story of unity in which a despondent father who was fed up with his seven adult sons as there was no harmony among them, they would fight with each other and make each other wounded as the times passed by the father came up with a plan to teach them a lesson, so he called out all of them under the same roof and gave each boy a stick and ordered them to break. As expected, they broke sticks into pieces too easily, and subsequently, the father made seven groups of sticks and kept seven sticks in each group, tied them up, and ordered his sons to break them. They were unable to break because it was much harder than a single stick. He told his sons that if they keep fighting with each other then it will be easy for their enemies to knock them down. Similarly, our society has diversity, if we keep enmity everyone will lose but if we keep unity, everyone will win.
Unity must prevail in diversity so that people can live without fear. Black, white, Hindu, and Muslim are our things and because of them, we suffer. I am not saying that religions compel us to suffer, but what I’m saying is we constantly try to annoy the people of other religions, which is utterly unacceptable. Citizens from every color, every religion, and from every category formed a fist and rose against them and destroyed the British Empire. That is the power of Unity in diversity. Instead of hating each other we should live and let live, we are all brothers, all humans. How many boys and girls lived, but now they are not among us because they were forced to commit Suicide They were defamed, and their relationships broke because of the caste system. In today’s society, these things must be eradicated, then we can call ourselves civilized and modernized. Diversities add up to the beauty of a society like different vivid flowers decorating a garden and spreading aroma. Our nation will shine and become like a garden full of peace thanks to Unity in diversity.
There have been several massacres due to a lack of unity, you are all quite aware of what massacre is, and you will definitely be aware about its consequences or causes. Let me remind you that massacre is the deliberate slaughter of a group of people, which is done by their rivals! These massacres do not take place directly but bit by bit, for instance, Some people belonging to a religion compel the individual of another religion to shout the words which his religion is not allowing that individual to do so yet he is compelled to do so! This then turns into massive outrage and hence deteriorates the pulchritudinous nation’s tranquility! The riots between Hindu and Muslim commenced since the partition! We are in 2022 and still traumatizing the events of partition! But such events were unimaginable before partition as both the countries, or I should say both religions were living like brothers, there was unity! Nowadays, we see conflicts among religions, casteism and all that. Unity is the most beautiful thing and nothing in the world would ever be as tempting as unity, yet we do not understand its worth! When unity is nowhere, then it’s impossible for the Humanity to exist, recently I read a news report on a newspaper in which I had a glimpse on statistics, the statistics were like that;
In 2014, 644 incidents of religious violence took place and resulted in the death of approximately 95 individuals!
In 2015, 751 incidents happened and caused the death of 97 innocent people!
In 2016, 703 incidents and 86 deaths!
In 2017, 822 incidents and 111 deaths!
The report was long, and I couldn’t read it all as it was heart-wrenching. I was unable to do anything for that, but now I have to write something to pass the message.
To witness the existence of Humanity, unity must prevail. Why do we fight? I mean we are living in 2022, isn’t it an embarrassment for us that we are judging each other based on their color! What is important about Color? These are inhumane acts and we must stop it.
A nation is not a nation when its citizens carry enmity. Unity in diversity must prevail, is all I want to say.
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