Be it Afghanistan or some other countries of the world, some people are so much disappointed of the condition of people that they have a trademark sentence, ‘This nation will never develop and prosper because there are so many problems on all the different levels that we will never be able to finish them and in this struggle, we will finish but our problems will never finish.’ This is true in a sense that different problems on different levels are so rampant, deep-rooted and dangerous that one doesn’t see any beam of hope from future. Let’s take the example of corruption. Starting from the guard of a small office till the top ministers, corruption, bribery and different illegal and illegitimate practices are present on different levels that cannot be cured very easily. There were many optimistic and energetic politicians and reformers who tried their best to curb the corruption in different countries but they failed in their endeavor because the problem was prevalent on such a large scale and was such deeply immersed into the culture of ministries and organizations that the problem remained the same although there were some initial but temporary successes.
The great development of Europe is due to the functioning of some of its universities and political institutes. These institutes are functioning from a number of centuries and they have withstood different kind of turbulent circumstances. Their culture of service is very old and their systematic organization are so effective that many people came and went by but there was no difference to these institutes and they kept functioning to carry the West to the peak of progress and prosperity. On the other hand, in Afghanistan and some of its neighboring Muslim countries, a number of such institutes were established but they were never established so permanently that they should serve their aims with full maturity and functionality. These institutes were pioneered by a number of genius and dedicated minds of the country but when this personality passed away, the whole system crashed and after a couple of decades, the institute was eliminated.
If we assess our institutes, we hardly find any institute that should have attained maturity with time and thus emerged as a very useful institute serving the country.
Except these, let’s beam our attention towards the business organizations of the world. Siemens, Philips, General Motors, Ford Motors, and thousands of other business firms are functioning from a century or even more. They have not only made good fortune for their owners and stockholders in all those years but also added an important contribution in boosting up the economy of their countries and providing jobs to thousands of their employees and also meeting the needs of their countrymen by providing quality goods and services. Once again, the secret behind this success story is also the sincerity and dedication of all the people who were attached with these organizations in different times of history.
No doubt, there has always been success in different periods in our country and other less developed countries as well but it was just due to the effort or talent of a limited number of individuals who worked hard in their time but as they left the scene, everything was destroyed.
The reason behind this problem is the lack of personal characters in the individuals. There is a famous English quote that, ‘You can awaken a person who is asleep but you cannot help with a situation when a person is awake but he is pretending to be asleep.’
Individuals have been gifted with a number of personal qualities but if these qualities are not polished by the help of education, they slowly start diminishing and their owners start losing these finest qualities and in the end, they turn into kind of creatures that cannot be easily helped with. When a person is bearing these finest personal qualities, he or she comes into a position when he or she can show an amusing output, whatever the field he or she enters. And when every member of the society rises to this position, the society is turned into a heaven where the aggregate sense of responsibility and skills of all its members combine together to turn the society into a heaven where different forms of progress and development make available the best life for all its members.
Unfortunately, due to political instability, failure to change with the changing world of science and technology, almost all the Muslim countries and numerous other countries of the region failed to preserve the natural abilities of their members and thus faced a decline that was evident from personal, economic and behavioral viewpoints.
The only solution to this problem lies in providing its members with an education that should not only make them more skilled so that they should run their economy and country according to the changing and modern trends of the world but also develop a kind of personality that should be in the best benefit of their country and countrymen and in general, of every member of the world.