Junk Reading ! Junk Minds ! Junk Characters !

Junk Reading ! Junk Minds ! Junk Characters !

by Nisaar Y. Nadiadwala on Friday, June 10, 2011 at 2:11am

 

   One of the most striking and common feature of 'Bed time stories' for little girls is that each of them have a beautiful girl as a central character and  wonderful things  and exciting things happen only to that beautiful girl. Cindrella, Snow white, Red Rose...... are shown beautiful and not  middle class school girls with spectacles on their noses.  Little girls identify themselves with these girls who undergo emotional upsets and lonliness and then finally end up with marrying a goodlooking prince...

   One of the most striking and common feature of 'Romantic Novels for Teenagers' and early collegians girls is that the central heroine has a rival girl who is bothering her boyfriend and undergoes emotional upsets and lonliness and finally getting her boyfriend back 

   One of the striking and common feature of ' Love/action novels  for unmarried grown up girls' is the detailed descriptions of vulgarity in bedroom by unmarried couples, thus raising up stormy passions in the minds of the girls who  should have been married and settled by now.

Obscene reading is fed step by step and it increases gradually  with books after books, characters after characters and stories after stories. Finding accurate and current statistics on obscene reading is very difficult. The patterns and the  numbers change so rapidly every day that they quickly become outdated. Infact slow romance  or orthodox romance is  not considered to be immodest or obscene any more so we have books loitering on furnitures, shelf and beds of famiies with no eyebrows being raised on the content of the cover

The way Junk food is nicely packed, widely advertised, and made tasty but no nutritive value, junk reading too is available in the same mode and no nutritive value to your morals or ethics or happiness.  Junk minds are the  results of junk books. Today  junk writers are best sellers and widely marketed. They sell millions more than dictionaries, thesaurus, scientific themes ...... Stephanie Meyer, a young American novelist wrote “Twilight”. A story about an unlikely romance between a human girl and a vampire, the book was published in 2005 and earned the #5 position on the New York Times Best Selling list. 

Many girls (include Muslims of India and Pakistan too) start reading Sidney Sheldon as young as 14 and the sex content in these books are  very high for a 14 year old to digest and ...infact girls  cover these books and keep them hidden from parents and elder brothers...

Girls who grow up reading these stories and novels look for the same qualities in their men and when their expectations in romance, looks, style and personality don't meet their dream man, they get frustrated. In many cases it ends up in affairs outside marriage or an unhappy continuation of marriage.

   Same is with boys who read the same books, read stuff about  affairs, there arises a desire to search  a perfect looking girl, tall and fair trying to match with the personalities of girls they have read and dreamt about A result of junk reading.

   'You are what you read' The books that your read are the ones that will influence your thoughts, your actions, your character and finally all of these will be combinely playing an important role in grading you on the day of judgement. That is why Allah has always revealed Books to construct our thoughts properly and shape our characters. The Qur'an is a miraculous book. Just 5000+ verses, but having a tremendous capacity to wipe out all the traces of immodest junk that you have been carrying on your minds all these years and transforming  the entire personality into a well thought, well behaved and well charactered personality,  Will you still not read it? 

Author: Nisaar Nadiadwala speaks and writes on socio-educational issues from Islamic perspective. He can be reached at nisaar_yusuf@yahoo.com

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