Man! Dude! Session #343

(M)an: Dude! Karachi, Pakistan has succumbed to such severely high temperatures due to climate fluctuations that at least two hundred folks are dying every day from dehydration and heatstroke. But no one inside Pakistan’s government nor at The New York Times has put the pieces of this conundrum together, the main point being that it is Ramadan and people all over Pakistan are fasting, even laborers who carry enormous weight upon their bodies all day long with an enormous heavyhearted determination to endure the test of faith regardless of the conditions set outside.

(D)ude: Man! Their will power is commendable! Their survival in peril due to the awful heat wave that is unlike any Karachi, Pakistan has faced before, laborers deserve paid leave of absence from work during religious observances. The Muslim Clerics in Pakistan ought to pick up this issue immediately because countless underclass women and children will be widowed and orphaned as a result of their male household breadwinners dying due to the fatalistic combination of Dawn until Dusk Fasting and going to work full-time as well in such brutal weather conditions.   

M: Dude! The Pakistani Government and Muslim Clerics need to do something fast and not wait! People will be fasting until the weekend of Friday, July 17, 2015, the day when Muslims will  begin to observe the official concluding event of Fasting during Ramadan, which is Eid-ul-Fitr, the “Feast of Breaking the Fast” and I believe N. J. Dawood’s translation of The Koran addresses Fasting regulations which entail compassionate emergency mandates in case a Muslim finds himself or herself in deathly conditions like the weather-related disconcerting crisis facing Pakistan’s healthcare industry, fourteen thousand people having been hospitalized thus far in Karachi, the death toll reaching one thousand yesterday according to the New York Times article by Saba Imtiaz and Zia ur-Rehman.

D: Man! You know, all acts of terrorism are representative of a misplaced superiority complex somewhere in the mind of the perpetrator, whether that perpetrator be the GOP or ISIL. Both organizations have a shared perspective of the world being only reasonable if its’ inhabitants are fearful of the GOP or, the case of the two organizations connected intimately with the GOP since George Herbert Walker Bush and his scion George Walker Bush, al-Qaeda and ISIL.

M: Dude! Dawood’s translation of The Koran clearly identifies God as the only entity to be feared yet compassionate and merciful too, going so far as to give absolution to those who cannot carry out the specifics entailed within “The Recital.” Take the surah, or chapter, entitled “The Table” in Dawood’s translation of the Muslim Holy Book,

“He that is constrained by hunger to eat of what is forbidden, not intending to commit sin, will find God forgiving and merciful.” (page 79 from the paperback version)

“God does not wish to burden you; He seeks only to purify you and to perfect His favor to you, so that you may give thanks.” (page 80)

D: Man! Dawood’s translation also affirms in the surah which translates as “The Table” that,

“He that denies the Faith shall gain nothing from his labors. In the world to come he will surely be among the losers.” (page 80 as well)

M: Dude! That’s where Muslim Clerics come into significance as learned Koranic scholars.