Ustad.
In the Eastern culture the word is an orphic denomination for a group of individuals who provide the nation with essential nutrients. These are the individuals responsible for securing our future. It is the important nature of their work that should secure them the elite class in any society. Those nations who learn to respect their Ustad prosper by leaps and bounds and those who don't suffer like ours. In our culture Ustad is more than a teacher who dispenses knowledge; he is a mentor and he is much much more.
Our nation celebrated a "teacher's day" sometime back. There were slogans raised all around the country which went "Salaam Teacher". We are ridden with an inferiority complex that compels us to degrade our Ustad by calling him a teacher. As if it we were already not too tough on the poor Ustad that our Govt. found out a new way of degrading him and making fun of him. I only ask what has anyone earned from all this exercise of fruitless slogan making. Has the present Ustad been given a break from back breaking inflation or has his status been given an improvement in the society. Is he not going to go back from school to see that his own children are unable to study because they haven't been fed for many days. Has he been given the security that when he retires he will be able to live in a place of abode that is comfortable and fit to allow his ripe brain to produce intellectual work of significance. Has he been given the courage to think that his own children will now take up his profession believing that this is the best of all. Has he been given the safety while he is walking on the road or sitting in a public place. The big answer to all these question is NO!
I pray for that day to come quickly when we really learn to respect our Ustad. For I say all this thank my Ustad who gave me all this courage and direction of thinking. For without each of my Ustad I would have been no one!
In the Eastern culture the word is an orphic denomination for a group of individuals who provide the nation with essential nutrients. These are the individuals responsible for securing our future. It is the important nature of their work that should secure them the elite class in any society. Those nations who learn to respect their Ustad prosper by leaps and bounds and those who don't suffer like ours. In our culture Ustad is more than a teacher who dispenses knowledge; he is a mentor and he is much much more.
Our nation celebrated a "teacher's day" sometime back. There were slogans raised all around the country which went "Salaam Teacher". We are ridden with an inferiority complex that compels us to degrade our Ustad by calling him a teacher. As if it we were already not too tough on the poor Ustad that our Govt. found out a new way of degrading him and making fun of him. I only ask what has anyone earned from all this exercise of fruitless slogan making. Has the present Ustad been given a break from back breaking inflation or has his status been given an improvement in the society. Is he not going to go back from school to see that his own children are unable to study because they haven't been fed for many days. Has he been given the security that when he retires he will be able to live in a place of abode that is comfortable and fit to allow his ripe brain to produce intellectual work of significance. Has he been given the courage to think that his own children will now take up his profession believing that this is the best of all. Has he been given the safety while he is walking on the road or sitting in a public place. The big answer to all these question is NO!
I pray for that day to come quickly when we really learn to respect our Ustad. For I say all this thank my Ustad who gave me all this courage and direction of thinking. For without each of my Ustad I would have been no one!
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