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A Dream, A Cry, and the Lament of an Ummah<\/strong>
\n(An Address to the Muslim World in the Contemporary Global Political Landscape)
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\nIn the Name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful
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\nAll praise belongs to God, who has made us part of the community of Muhammad \ufdfa; and peace and blessings be upon the Seal of the Prophets and Messengers, and upon his family and all his companions.
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\n\u201cThe likeness of the believers, in their mutual affection, compassion, and mercy, is that of a single body.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Esteemed scholars, honoured teachers, venerable elders, courageous young men and women, and all those living souls<\/strong>
\nin whose chests not only hearts beat, but consciences still breathe;
\nwhose eyes retain the strength to behold the truth,
\nand whose hearts have not yet surrendered to moral death\u2014
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\nPeace be upon you, and the mercy and blessings of Allah.<\/p>\n

This gathering is no ceremonial assembly.
\nIt is no exercise in rhetoric, no indulgence in verbal ornamentation, no fleeting spark of emotional fervour.
\nIt is, rather, a humble yet urgent knocking upon the doors of the heart.<\/p>\n

I have not come today to speak of matters that are merely heard.
\nI have come to speak of truths that must be felt\u2014
\ntruths that do not merely engage the intellect but shake the soul;
\ntruths that do not rest upon the ear but descend into the depths of the heart and leave the conscience restless.<\/p>\n

I bring you no news bulletin, no policy analysis, no slogan fashioned for applause.
\nWhat I place before you today is a dream.<\/p>\n

And yet\u2014make no mistake\u2014
\nthis is not a comforting dream.
\nIt is not an easy question I raise, nor a question that permits peaceful sleep.
\nIt is the kind of question that robs one of rest,
\nfor today I do not offer a speech\u2014
\nI place before you a mirror.
\nAnd should we dare to see ourselves clearly within it, we may find sleep a stranger thereafte<\/p>\n

My young friends,
\nif you imagine this gathering to be an ordinary programme, you are gravely mistaken.
\nThis is a court of moral reckoning\u2014
\nand in this court, the accused are none other than ourselves.<\/p>\n

I will not recount fables.
\nI will not weave imaginary tales.
\nI will speak of a dream whose consequences are laid bare\u2014
\na dream that, for millions of Muslims across the world, is not a nightmare from which one awakens,
\nbut a daily reality.<\/p>\n

It is, in truth, our collective reality:
\na cry suppressed for centuries,
\na lament dissolved into the very breath of the Ummah.<\/p>\n

Pause, then, and consider:
\nIf tonight the roof above your home were torn away;
\nif missiles rained upon the beds of your children;
\nif your mother\u2019s scream never reached a television screen\u2014
\nwould you still say, \u201cThis is not our concern\u201d?<\/p>\n

Therefore, I ask you\u2014no, I implore you\u2014
\nfor a few moments, silence the noise of the world.
\nSet aside your devices.
\nMake your hearts \u062d\u0627\u0636\u0631\u2014present.
\nAwaken your conscience.
\nFor what is said today is not meant to be heard alone, but felt.
\nAnd it is a testimony that shall summon every one of us before the tribunal of history.<\/p>\n

This address is spoken on behalf of the children of Gaza.
\nIt is spoken on behalf of the mothers of Kashmir.
\nIt is spoken on behalf of those orphans who have known not the warmth of a father, but only the coldness of a shroud.<\/p>\n

And today, with unrelenting force, one question strikes at the very door of your conscience:
\nAre we, truly, an Ummah?
\nI have not come to deliver a political speech.
\nI have not come to chant an emotional slogan.
\nI have not come to ignite momentary excitement.
\nI have come to place before you a dream\u2014
\na dream that is, in reality, our shared condition<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

So, for one moment\u2014just one\u2014
\nI ask all those in whose chests the heart still beats:
\nclose your eyes.<\/p>\n

Yes\u2014close them.<\/p>\n

And come with me to that moment when not one individual, not one family, but an entire Ummah was forced awake.
\nImagine:
\nIt is the final watch of the night.
\nThe exhaustion of the day has settled.
\nSilence envelops the house.
\nA dim light lingers\u2014
\nthe kind that deepens sleep rather than dispels it.
\nThe stillness is such that time itself appears to have paused.<\/p>\n

Children lie in deep slumber.
\nA silence so profound that even a sharpened breath would be heard.
\nInnocent smiles rest upon peaceful faces.
\nThe gentle rhythm of breathing moves like a quiet testimony to life itself\u2014
\nthose smiles which are the greatest treasure of a father, a mother, a grandfather;
\nthose moments of unspeakable joy when one beholds one\u2019s children as living dreams,
\nas the answered prayers of a lifetime.<\/p>\n

And then\u2014suddenly\u2014the eyes open.<\/p>\n

They search instinctively for the faces of the children.<\/p>\n

But what appears is no dream.
\nIt is a vision of the Day of Judgement.<\/p>\n

Faces covered in dust.
\nInnocent forms drenched in blood.
\nBodies torn by wounds.
\nCollapsed rubble.
\nFalling walls.
\nA trembling body in the cold air.<\/p>\n

The heart longs to scream\u2014
\nyet the scream dies in the throat.
\nHands tremble.
\nFingers reach out, desperate to touch the children,
\nto believe\u2014if only for a moment\u2014that they still live.
\nYet the heart recoils in terror, fearing that this touch may be the last.<\/p>\n

Pain courses through the body.
\nBones feel shattered.
\nBreath grows heavy.
\nBut above all else, one thought consumes the soul:<\/p>\n

My children.
\nWhere are my children?<\/p>\n

Then\u2014abruptly\u2014the eyes open fully.<\/p>\n

The room is intact.
\nThe walls stand.
\nThe roof remains.
\nThe children are safe, sleeping soundly in their beds.
\nTheir faces are clean.
\nPeaceful.
\nSecure.<\/p>\n

And in that very moment, the human spirit collapses.<\/p>\n

One wishes to cry aloud\u2014not because the dream was dreadful alone,
\nbut because the body trembles violently.
\nTears stream unbidden.
\nThe heart quakes.
\nHands rise instinctively in supplication.<\/p>\n

And the tongue whispers:
\nO God, it was only a dream.<\/p>\n

Yet the heart responds:
\nBut O God\u2014was it not someone else\u2019s reality?<\/p>\n

This was not the dream of a single individual.
\nIt was not a cinematic scene.
\nIt was not a fictional plot.<\/p>\n

It was the waking dream of a father in Gaza.
\nIt was Gaza\u2019s living lament.
\nIt was the sobbing night of a mother in Kashmir.
\nIt was the story of Syria, Yemen, Libya, Sudan\u2014
\na story that descends each night into the dreams of one Muslim or another.<\/p>\n

It is the daily reality of the children of Syria, Yemen, and Palestine.<\/p>\n

And yet, when we awaken, all is well.
\nOur children sleep safely.
\nOur rooms remain secure.<\/p>\n

And tears fall\u2014
\nbecause we realise it was only a dream.<\/p>\n

But for those for whom this is not a dream\u2014
\ndo we truly know their reality?
\nWho Lives This Dream?<\/p>\n

Esteemed listeners,
\nWhose reality is this dream?<\/p>\n

It is the reality of the father in Gaza, who each night presses his children to his chest amidst the thunder of bombardment.
\nIt is the reality of the Palestinian mother who, as she lulls her child to sleep, does not know whether he will awaken alive at dawn.
\nIt is the reality of the Kashmiri child who closes his eyes at night uncertain whether they will ever open again.<\/p>\n

This is the dream of children who have not known toys, but rifles;
\nthe reality of children in Syria, Yemen, and Sudan who have not seen playthings, but missiles.<\/p>\n

It is the truth of every corner of the world where being Muslim has become a crime.<\/p>\n

We shudder at a dream and lose sleep for a single night\u2014
\nthey live this reality every day.
\nEvery night they sleep without knowing whether morning will come.<\/p>\n

We tremble at imagination;
\nthey endure truth.<\/p>\n

Esteemed audience,
\nPause and consider a question that rends the heart:
\nwhat must pass through the souls of those parents for whom this is not a dream, but a daily routine\u2014
\nwho run from place to place carrying the torn bodies of their children,
\nneither granted the strength to bury them, nor even the permission to hold them close?
\nIf you wish to see calamity walking on its feet, watch the footage from Gaza.
\nIf you wish to feel pain breathing, the images from Palestine are sufficient.
\nThis is not merely war.
\nThis is the assassination of humanity\u2019s conscience.
\nThe blood that flows silently in Kashmir still cries out\u2014
\nthose who called \u201cWe are Pakistanis, Pakistan is ours\u201d were buried beneath the soil wrapped in the Pakistani flag.
\nAnd where, then, do we stand?
\nThere is an immutable law of nature:
\nso long as the oppressed still breathe, the oppressor remains an oppressor;
\nbut when the oppressed fall silent, tyranny becomes unrestrained.
\nFor years we have watched death dance,
\nwhile life gasps for breath.
\nThe question is not: Who is the oppressor?
\nThe question is: Where are we?<\/p>\n

Esteemed listeners,
\nWe comfort ourselves with the illusion that the danger has passed,
\nthat these horrors are occurring \u201csomewhere far away.\u201d
\nBut the truth is far more unsettling.
\nWe are not passing through a difficult phase;
\nwe are entering a perilous age.
\nTo claim that the danger has receded is to deceive ourselves.
\nThat moment can knock on any door, on any morning.
\nWhich border is secure?
\nWhich city is safe?
\nWhich home is protected?
\nToday bombs fall on Gaza.
\nTomorrow, on Kashmir.
\nAnd the day after?
\nHistory bears witness:
\noppression does not halt quietly\u2014it expands.
\nFrom Muhammad bin Qasim to Karbala, what does the mirror of history reveal?
\nWhen the cry of a daughter of Sindh was heard, Muhammad bin Qasim crossed the seas\u2014
\nno passport, no visa, no waiting for the United Nations, no reliance on resolutions.
\nOne truth alone propelled him: the Ummah was one.
\nAnd Karbala?
\nWhen brutality and savagery were being inscribed upon the family of the Prophet \ufdfa himself, history asks:
\nwhere were the rest of the Muslims?
\nToday, the answer to that question stands exposed.
\nIt is written plainly in our conduct.
\nWe are Muslims\u2014
\nbut only within our borders.
\nSometimes only within our homes.
\nAnd often only within the confines of our interests.<\/p>\n

In the modern world, the very concept of the Ummah is being murdered before our eyes.
\nWe are taught that the nation matters, not the Ummah;
\nthat borders are sacred, not human beings;
\nthat interest is supreme, not ethics.
\nThus, the idea of the Ummah has been buried\u2014
\nquietly, skilfully, almost beautifully.
\n\u201cYou mind your borders; we will mind ours.\u201d
\nLet Gaza burn.
\nLet Kashmir groan.
\nWe shed a few tears on our screens and then return to our routines.<\/p>\n

The naked face of global hypocrisy now stands fully revealed.
\nThe world knows who is the oppressor and who is the oppressed\u2014
\nyet the oppressor is recast as the victim.
\nThe United States stands shoulder to shoulder with Israel, fleets deployed in support.
\nIts Secretary of State invokes identity to sanctify injustice.
\nJoe Biden arrives bearing threats.
\nDonald Trump surpassed all limits in his infatuation with Israel.
\nBritain, France\u2014partners in this crime.
\nAnd we?
\nWe are engrossed in cricket.
\nEntangled in struggles for power.
\nWhen electricity fails in Ukraine, human rights awaken.
\nWhen Gaza is erased, silence prevails.
\nPerhaps because Muslims are no longer considered human.<\/p>\n

Esteemed audience,
\nThe greatest shame here is not the strength of the enemy.
\nThe true tragedy\u2014already etched into history\u2014is our apathy, our cowardice.
\nWe are busy with games.
\nWe cheer before giant screens, dancing at boundaries and sixes.
\nWe applaud in decadent gatherings.
\nOr we remain trapped in power struggles.
\nOn social media, lies, vulgarity, and deceit mislead our youth, advancing the enemy\u2019s agenda.
\nFalsehoods are spread without verification, fuelling division.
\nThis silence.
\nThis cowardice.
\nThis indifference.
\nAll of it has already been recorded by history.
\nAnd future generations will ask us:
\nWhen the Ummah was burning, what were you doing?
\nWhen Gaza, Kashmir, and others were butchered mercilessly, where were you?
\nOn the Day of Judgement, no excuse will be accepted\u2014
\nnot that borders were distant,
\nnot that responsibilities were heavy,
\nnot that we were weak.<\/p>\n

Esteemed listeners,
\nThe injustices and suffering I have spoken of are not unknown to you.
\nYou encounter them daily in the media.
\nYou are aware of your helplessness.
\nBut must we leave our children and future generations an inheritance of despair and subjugation?
\nThat decision now rests with us.
\nWe must seek the solution ourselves.
\nNo outsider will come to wipe our tears.
\nRemember well:
\nThe solution lies neither in NATO,
\nnor in the United Nations,
\nnor in the promises of global powers.
\nIts only solution lies in the Divine command:
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\n\u201cHold fast, all of you together, to the Rope of God, and do not be divided.\u201d<\/strong>
\nThe Qur\u2019an teaches us unity.
\nThe Sunnah teaches us sacrifice.
\nAnd the Seerah teaches us courage.
\nWhen the Ummah is united, Badr is born.
\nWhen it fragments, Karbala is left to stand alone.
\nA Final Call to the Ummah
\nIt feels as though this may be the Ummah\u2019s final call\u2014
\na call that declares clearly:
\nthis is not the time to be spectators,
\nthis is not the time for speeches,
\nthis is the time for self-accountability.
\nAwaken your faith.
\nRevive your conscience.
\nRise above sects, nationalities, and narrow interests\u2014
\nbecause if we do not awaken today,
\ntomorrow this nightmare will become our own reality.<\/p>\n

Esteemed listeners,
\nWhat you have just heard was not merely a speech.
\nIt was history\u2019s lament, speaking to you in the language of today.
\nThis question is no longer only about Gaza.
\nIt is no longer only about Kashmir.
\nIt is not confined to Palestine, Syria, Yemen, or Sudan.
\nThis question is about all of us.
\nHistory\u2019s pen does not pause\u2014it continues to write.
\nAnd future generations will ask us:
\nWhen the Ummah was drowning in blood, where were you?
\nWhen children\u2019s shrouds were too small, which screen held your attention?
\nWhen the first Qiblah was burning, which interest were you protecting?
\nWhen oppressed Kashmiris in Srinagar, Shopian, Jammu, and Rajouri were riddled with bullets for chanting \u201cWe are Pakistanis and Pakistan is ours,\u201d why did you forget us?
\nRemember well:
\non the Day of Judgement, no passport will avail you,
\nno nationality,
\nno flag,
\nno alliance membership.
\nOnly one question will be asked:
\nWhat did you do for the oppressed?
\nEven now, there is still time\u2014
\nbut very little of it.
\nThis is not the hour for spectatorship.
\nThis is the hour of accountability.
\nThis is the hour of return\u2014
\nof holding fast to the Rope of Allah.
\nThe Qur\u2019an remains unchanged.
\nThe Sunnah remains unchanged.
\nThe Qiblah remains one.
\nThe only difference is that we have fragmented.<\/p>\n

Come\u2014let us pledge today
\nthat we will stand not with headlines, but with truth;
\nthat we will decide not by interest, but by faith;
\nthat we will not inherit silence, but responsibility.<\/p>\n

My youth,
\nmy brothers,
\nmy sisters\u2014
\nToday, history is watching us.
\nAnd in history\u2019s hand is not a blank page,
\nbut a pen of judgement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Remember this:
\nhistory will not record what you said\u2014
\nhistory will record what you did.
\nIf today we choose silence,
\ntomorrow our children will question us from our graves:
\nWhen the Ummah was being slaughtered, where were you?
\nOnce again, time is calling.
\nEither we shoulder the burden of our faith,
\nor history will remember us as a cowardly nation.
\nIf today we do not awaken our hearts,
\ntomorrow this nightmare will invade our homes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is not the time for tweets.
\nThis is not the time for mere status updates.
\nThis is not the time for tears alone.
\nThis is the time to stand.
\nThis is the time to set aside nation, race, language, and party\u2014
\nand adopt one identity only:
\nI am a Muslim.<\/p>\n

My youth, my brothers, my sisters\u2014
\nThe speech may be ending,
\nbut the decision begins now.
\nThis gathering will disperse.
\nThe chairs will empty.
\nThe stage will fall silent.
\nYet the question will remain:
\nDid we merely listen, or are we leaving with the resolve to change?
\nThe Ummah does not need another speech.
\nThe Ummah needs awakened consciences.
\nThe Ummah does not need applause.
\nThe Ummah needs youth who are willing to stand.
\nRemember this truth:
\nnations die the day their youth fall silent in the face of oppression,
\nand nations are reborn the day their youth stand up for truth.<\/p>\n

My youth\u2014
\nIf even today you excuse yourselves by saying \u201cWe are helpless,\u201d
\nremember this:
\ntomorrow your children will stand at your graves and accuse you.
\nThis is the time to bury fear.
\nThis is the time to shatter silence.
\nThis is the time to move beyond being warriors of social media
\nand become soldiers of action.
\nThis is the time to rise above sects,
\nto step beyond nationalities,
\nto abandon parties, interests, and positions\u2014
\nand embrace one truth:
\nWe are Muslims,
\ntherefore we cannot be indifferent.
\nWe cannot abandon the oppressed.
\nWe cannot accept a life without truth.
\nIf today we fail to awaken our conscience,
\nremember this fire burning in Gaza today\u2014
\nwhose flames are reducing the human settlements beneath Kashmir\u2019s beautiful chinar trees to ashes\u2014
\nwill knock on our own doors tomorrow.
\nThis blood flowing in Palestine today
\nwill course through our streets tomorrow.
\nAnd the extremist Hindu who repeatedly dreams of staining his impure symbols with the pure blood of Muslims and Pakistanis\u2014
\non that day, neither the United Nations will remain,
\nnor any superpower,
\nnor any treaty.<\/p>\n

Even now, there is time.
\nEven now, there is opportunity.
\nEven now, our Lord is present.
\nAnd the Qur\u2019an still proclaims:
\n\u0648\u064e\u0627\u0639\u0652\u062a\u064e\u0635\u0650\u0645\u064f\u0648\u0627 \u0628\u0650\u062d\u064e\u0628\u0652\u0644\u0650 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0651\u064e\u0647\u0650 \u062c\u064e\u0645\u0650\u064a\u0639\u064b\u0627 \u0648\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0627 \u062a\u064e\u0641\u064e\u0631\u0651\u064e\u0642\u064f\u0648\u0627
\n\u201cHold firmly, all together, to the Rope of Allah, and do not be divided.\u201d
\nCome\u2014
\nin this moment,
\nin this gathering,
\nbefore this stage\u2014
\nlet us make a covenant with Allah:
\nO Allah, do not make us spectators.
\nDo not make us cowards.
\nDo not make us a silent nation.
\nO Allah, make us the youth who stand for truth,
\nwho do not bow before oppression,
\nwho do not fear carrying the burden of the Ummah.
\nTransform our apathy into awakening.
\nOur weakness into unity.
\nOur silence into courage.
\nMake us once again an Ummah\u2014
\nnot a nation of spectators,
\nbut a nation that bears witness to truth.
\nO Allah, do not make us onlookers\u2014
\nmake us warriors for truth.
\nDo not make us a scattered crowd\u2014
\nmake us one Ummah.
\nDo not make us silent\u2014
\nmake us voices of truth.
\nO Allah, when history calls our names,
\nlet us not hang our heads in shame,
\nbut stand tall and say:
\nO Allah, we did not sleep\u2014
\nwe were standing.
\n\u0648\u064e\u0627\u0639\u0652\u062a\u064e\u0635\u0650\u0645\u064f\u0648\u0627 \u0628\u0650\u062d\u064e\u0628\u0652\u0644\u0650 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0651\u064e\u0647\u0650 \u062c\u064e\u0645\u0650\u064a\u0639\u064b\u0627 \u0648\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0627 \u062a\u064e\u0641\u064e\u0631\u0651\u064e\u0642\u064f\u0648\u0627
\nHold fast to the rope of Allah, all of you, and do not be divided.<\/p>\n

Allahumma ish\u2019had. Allahumma ish\u2019had. Allahumma ish\u2019had.
\nO Allah, be a witness. O Allah, be a witness. O Allah, be a witness<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Lecture Maulana Zafar Ali Khan Trust Lahore 24 January 2026)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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