Mirza I Ashraf’s comments on 2012 American Elections
In the present elections why Romney lost and Obama won, there is no secret other than the rapidly changing time and human being’s approach. Human vision and intellectualism is being replaced by the modern IT and cybernetic communication. We have seen how in the Middle East, where until yesterday God’s Vision and Supreme intellect has been at the core of people’s heart and mind, today things are changing. I did not find any streak of intellectualism in the debates of both the candidates. Obama won because of a different face and a cultural impact as compared to the traditional imprints of Romney. I have compared the vision of intellectualism with the emerging way of the coming time in the following two shers. The first one is from my Ghazal and the second one is a parody of the same but a fact worth noticing.
(vision of an intellectual)
نگہِ جستجو ہے جہاں پڑے دلِ مضطرب میں تڑپ اُٹھے
یہاں ذرہ ذرہ نقاب ہے اسے دیدہ ور کی تلاش ہے
Wherever the searching eye falls a lightening rises in the restless mind and heart
here every particle of dust is cover [of hidden knowledge] which is looking for a man of vision.
(this is the way we are going to be)
مری فرسٹ فنگر سے کی دبے دلِ لیپ ٹاپ کلک کرے
جونہی گوگل سرچ کی ویب کھلے تو ملے وہ جسکی تلاش ہے
My first finger presses a key, [and] the heart of lap top clicks. As Google search web opens then find whatever is sought.
Mirza
