May God bless adorable Malala! – S.H.Moulana – Riyadh

The United Nations General Assembly last year adopted a resolution to designate October 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child to recognize girls’ rights and the unique challenges girls face around the world.

The day will also promote equal treatment and opportunities for girls around the world in areas such as law, nutrition, health care, education, training and freedom from violence and abuse. But now in Pakistan, Malala Yousafzai, a 14-old girl is fighting for her life, being shot in the head by Taliban gunmen.

What wrong did this innocent girl do to face this ‘capital punishment’ from those, who think that they are the people who practice ‘perfect Islam’? She went to school in search of knowledge, the knowledge our Prophet (Sal) advised all his followers to go even to China, if needed, seeking it. Strangely, it is denied in Swat!

We were really touched by what Malala has recorded in her diary, way back in 2009, when she was only an 11-year old girl, it read; ‘I felt hurt opening my ward robe and seeing my uniform, school bag and geometry box. Boys’ schools are opening tomorrow. But the Taliban have banned girls’ education’.

According to doctors she is still not out of danger. While millions in Pakistan are praying for her recovery, the barbaric Taliban arrogantly have warned that they will somehow or other will get her. Taliban’s Fazlullah has also threatened to kill Malala’s father too. A killer unit of Taliban has announced that the headmaster of a girls’ school is also in its hit list.

Former UK prime-minister Gordon Brown, now the UN special envoy for global education, has said that Malala had become an icon for courage and hope for more than 30 million girls worldwide who are denied primary schooling.

He has also said that he had accepted an invitation from the president of Pakistan to lead a delegation to Pakistan in November, to talk about how he can improve opportunities for children.

This is something Pakistan urgently need now. We conclude that Malala is not only a brave young girl but she has become a heart throb of everyone the world over.

May God bless her with full and speedy recovery to accomplish her mission, for the benefit of other young girls who are deprived of education in Pakistan by the brutal Taliban!