V. Makarov
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Wrote in response to @jaibi 's thread : "What are we fighting For"
His topic was mainly Pakistan-centered, but I got a bit more philosophical in trying to explain why we wage war and shed blood. Hence , I thought, the reply merited a new thread.
We don't fight for a cause. We only find excuses to initiate conflict. And this is human nature given to us by Allah.
The suffering (of the soldier and the poor) and humiliation (of women and helpless citizen) is just a side effect. We might never understand why Allah has ordained "war" between human beings. Incidentally, every major Prophet of Allah had to shed blood and conquer men, in order to establish the law of Allah on the land. If Allah did not want infighting and bloodshed, the civilizations could have been designed to retain the knowledge of the law of Allah, but only an "AZAAB" can remind them of that.
Modern humans initiate wars in order to retain economic, political, "strategic" and geographical advantage. We have created weapons to destroy civilizations yet we still do not understand why we fight in the first place.
The 8th episode of the TV series Band of Brothers is named "Why We Fight". In that episode, the Americans talk about why their men entered Europe. Why would a coal miner cross the Atlantic to sit in a trench in Bastogne under heavy German artillery fire? None of the soldiers knew except what they read in the home newspapers given to them in the morning which said : "...Germans are Bad." The episode showed the German concentration camps and the scenes of mass executions of innocent as a reason "why we fight". Then USA proceeds to nuke two Japanese cities killing hundreds of thousands of people in a few seconds.
Who owns the higher moral ground in war when the "concept" of war and bloodshed is installed in human brain by Allah. We will be fighting till the day of Qiyamat without knowing the reason. Its just how it is. From every one's point of view, they are fighting the "righteous" war.
As far as Pakistan's reason to fight war is concerned, we fight for the same reason as everyone else : to survive in the anarchic world. The anarchy of this world is a phenomenon given to us by Allah. Everyone must pursue power and arm themselves to teeth in order to retain "honour" and ensure survivability. If you suddenly think that war is not the answer to solve problems, every nation around will think that its the only possible way.
For these confusing reasons, I never usually discuss with others about why we fight. I could give them reasons such as "Kashmir lena hai" , "Afghanistan ko secure karna hai" , "CPEC ki security ensure karni hai". But everyone already knows this, yet still they are confused. Let us exist in this confusion because in the grand scheme of things, we dont know why humans must shed blood to survive.
His topic was mainly Pakistan-centered, but I got a bit more philosophical in trying to explain why we wage war and shed blood. Hence , I thought, the reply merited a new thread.
Why We Wage War?
We don't fight for a cause. We only find excuses to initiate conflict. And this is human nature given to us by Allah.
The suffering (of the soldier and the poor) and humiliation (of women and helpless citizen) is just a side effect. We might never understand why Allah has ordained "war" between human beings. Incidentally, every major Prophet of Allah had to shed blood and conquer men, in order to establish the law of Allah on the land. If Allah did not want infighting and bloodshed, the civilizations could have been designed to retain the knowledge of the law of Allah, but only an "AZAAB" can remind them of that.
Modern humans initiate wars in order to retain economic, political, "strategic" and geographical advantage. We have created weapons to destroy civilizations yet we still do not understand why we fight in the first place.
The 8th episode of the TV series Band of Brothers is named "Why We Fight". In that episode, the Americans talk about why their men entered Europe. Why would a coal miner cross the Atlantic to sit in a trench in Bastogne under heavy German artillery fire? None of the soldiers knew except what they read in the home newspapers given to them in the morning which said : "...Germans are Bad." The episode showed the German concentration camps and the scenes of mass executions of innocent as a reason "why we fight". Then USA proceeds to nuke two Japanese cities killing hundreds of thousands of people in a few seconds.
Who owns the higher moral ground in war when the "concept" of war and bloodshed is installed in human brain by Allah. We will be fighting till the day of Qiyamat without knowing the reason. Its just how it is. From every one's point of view, they are fighting the "righteous" war.
As far as Pakistan's reason to fight war is concerned, we fight for the same reason as everyone else : to survive in the anarchic world. The anarchy of this world is a phenomenon given to us by Allah. Everyone must pursue power and arm themselves to teeth in order to retain "honour" and ensure survivability. If you suddenly think that war is not the answer to solve problems, every nation around will think that its the only possible way.
For these confusing reasons, I never usually discuss with others about why we fight. I could give them reasons such as "Kashmir lena hai" , "Afghanistan ko secure karna hai" , "CPEC ki security ensure karni hai". But everyone already knows this, yet still they are confused. Let us exist in this confusion because in the grand scheme of things, we dont know why humans must shed blood to survive.
