Some news is not just information, it lifts the veil on the innermost being of civilizations. Those moments do not become history on the page of history, but become a knock on the door of moral accountability. The Epstein files are also news of the same kind. This is not a scandal of a single person, but a collective confession of guilt of a system of values that has been teaching the world lessons of morality, freedom, human rights and human dignity for years.
We were told that the hallmark of the developed world is its law, its democracy, its freedom of opinion, its universities and research laboratories. We were made to believe that man is no longer in need of God, that he can determine good and evil with his own intellect. The argument given for limiting religion to the private sphere was that the basis of morality is not revelation, but intellect.
But when this intellect, combined with power and wealth, turns the innocence of children into a marketable commodity, the question arises: what kind of morality is this? What kind of human dignity is this that becomes helpless before the will of the powerful?
Epstein was not just an individual. The real question is in which circles was he acceptable, which chambers did he have access to, which academic, scientific and intellectual institutions did he continue to fund, and which respected names protected this heinous business by their silence. History tells us that the powerful become criminals only when the powerful remain silent.
This is the same civilization that kept waving the flag of democracy over the bodies of children from Afghanistan to Palestine, and today the world is forced to wonder whether these children were just fuel for wars or even silent victims of a global network of power, lust and influence?
These are the same people who set out to teach us morality without God. Who declared religion an obstacle to progress, revelation unscientific, and man as an independent moral authority. But the verdict of history is very ruthless: morality without God eventually becomes another name for self-interest.
Now another question comes to the fore with all its intensity—and this question is not emotional but cultural. How can we unconditionally trust the universities and research laboratories that show us dreams of medicines, vaccines, and scientific progress, while these same institutions are surrounded by characters whose moral bankruptcy has now been exposed on a global scale? If leadership is a slave to desire, if funding is tainted by sexual obsession, where is the foundation of trust?
Is it not naive to say that mental and moral deterioration has no effect on science? The question is not about science, but about who controls science. When power is in hands that do not believe in the sanctity of children, it is natural for humans to ask: Do we really know what is being done to our bodies, our children, and our future?
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We are not talking about a conspiracy, we are talking about trust, and trust cannot exist without ethics.
Iqbal had warned long ago:
Have you not seen the democratic system of the West?
Bright on the face, darker on the inside than Genghis.
Democracy, secularism and human rights are all valid words as long as there is respect for human dignity behind them. Otherwise, they remain just beautiful slogans.
In this context, the discussion remains incomplete without mentioning India. In the name of secularism, India today is presenting a face where Hindu extremism is flourishing under state patronage. Atrocities on non-Hindu minorities have become the norm of the day. Under the caste system, the lives of Dalits and untouchables have been further restricted. All this is happening under the leadership of Narendra Modi, a leadership that not only seems unfamiliar with the meaning of moral values and cultural shame, but also seems to consider them irrelevant in the intoxication of power, whose name appears in the Epstein file.
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Questions are being raised about the names of some powerful world leaders in the Epstein files circulating globally. The verdict should be left to history and research, but the fact remains that when leadership suffers from moral degradation, the entire society pays the price. Pakistan lives with a neighborhood where the ruling class is becoming a symbol of this moral degradation.
At this juncture, I have a serious request to the youth of Pakistan. It is necessary to question our country, our system and our institutions, but also compare honestly. Also, see which societies and which leaderships we are safe from the shameful shame. We may be economically weak, but we have not yet reached the point of auctioning off the innocence of children in the market of political influence, research funds and power.
Our weaknesses are many, but shame is still alive.
And nations die the day they lose shame.
Finally, I have only this request to those who lecture day and night on our religion, our values and our civilization: Just stop. Knowledge is not just information, it is the process of becoming a human being. And true knowledge is that which takes a human being closer to the Creator, not further away from Him.
O people of the West, the abode of God is not a shop. The real thing that you are considering will now be of lesser value.
