Self Defense – Not only for Learning but for Protection- in this Brutal World!

Generally speaking, every Muslim is proud to be born in a Muslim society (Mash-ra).  We are thankful for Allah Al Mighty that He selected us to be born in an Islamic home-land. Although there are many differences like cultural diversity, caste systems, Shia-Sunni disputes, everyone (with either of any societal variation) is happy & proud to say that, “yes I am a Muslim”.

Being a Muslim, every individual has a keen belief that one day, I will be in my grave with all my life’s deeds (either good or bad), I will be answerable to my Lord, of what I did for Him, for my family, for my siblings and so on & so forth. I won’t carry any belongings of my own like car/clothing/accessories/cell phones etc., what is going with me inside my grave is all my life experiences. With this belief, every Muslim is also frightened of the word “Death” (fotegi) & “Grave” (Qaber).

Well for us, this is clearly implicit & understood. But how strange, when you don’t even feel secure when you are buried in your own grave. Especially young girls/women who die cause of any other reason like any disease or mishap. A recent reading, http://is.gd/5H4OjG  made me shivered when I read that a young girl’s dead body was used with the intention of rape. Young girls does not  feel secure when they are alive in this brutal society, they don’t even have a surety of having a peaceful rest in their graves. Deeply saddened!

Another provoking reading, http://is.gd/mYuZPa, where the girl was living with all her fears in her heart. She was threatened to be killed if she said a word about the gang rape. Nobody heard her screaming, no body helped her heartily and she was straightly refused for any protection. How good it would be, if she had some knowledge of self defense? She would have strike back to the gang and shot them down, or give a slap to any annoying gazing.

This is not the end at all; my heartfelt sadden to death when I read: http://is.gd/lNLPa6  a story, where a man tried to rape his pregnant daughter-in-law. While reading I found that, “Almost 30% of women in Pakistan go through a rape or attempted rape at least once in their lives. They do survive. The pain stays, but they go on with their lives.” (http://is.gd/4KS9Jt).

Why don’t we raise our voices on the importance of Self defense training, especially for girls? They should be trained to protect themselves for any awkward situation like this. At least they should be trained the basics. We more or less hear daily on different news bulletins, that the young girl is either dead/murdered/physically tortured/raped or physically misused. To cut the level of cruelty, we should emphasize on the self defense training for our own safety and protection.

The reason of this writing was not to propagate the stories mentioned above, but to share the important of self defense training for girls. It is a huge deterrent for young girls & women of Pakistan. Its learning and practice is a positive gateway for all the young girls, to live in such a brutal society with their chins-up! 

Although such men’s insanity cannot be controlled, at least we can minimize the rate of such sacrifices. Secondly, when media will share any successful story of self defense performed by a girl, it will boost the morale of many other young girls who are not aware of self defense importance. Most probably, many families will encourage their daughters to learn about it. Let’s make it a part of our elementary education. Every school should promote the basic of self defense for its students.

The more they will learn, the more we will have a protected environment in future!