Remembering a verse

* The words below is a piece of writing I came across recetny; amid various expression struggling to express about the Peshawar attack, this one seemed to resonate with what I was struggling to express. With permission from the writer (Zain), sharing the post as it is.  

 "More than 100 kids were killed today in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Muslims use the verse from Quran, Inna Lillahi wa inna ilaihi raji'un in times of death. This term, translating to "We belong to Allah and to Him we return" is used to share the feelings and ideology of being grateful and thankful to Allah for whatever happens.

More than 100 kids were killed today in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Perhaps Muslims have forgotten another verse, which says, "Bi ayyi dhambin qutilat" (81:9), translating to: "For what sin was she killed?", related to some young girl.

More than 100 kids were killed today in Peshawar, and ask the parents, they are crying the same verse: For what sin were they killed? The young ones - who are yet to learn ideologies.

People in Pakistan, who have soft corners for those who talk of the contemporary ideology of Jihad, and have soft corners for these brutal animals who kill kids because they believe it is a "retaliation" of the drone attacks or Army operation, they need to open their eyes and learn from Quetta blasts and killings. When the Quetta blasts happened targeting Hazara community, as retaliation, nobody was harmed, the bodies were put to the grounds asking for justice, something that is hard to get in Pakistan.

More than 100 kids we killed today in Peshawar. Would the parents or anyone else do a sit in and shut down to ask for justice? Probably not.

Shut down, sit ins, and rallies, are usually to secure political or religious ideologies. We have seen sit ins and shut downs in the case of Quetta killings in the recent past, but that was from a minority group, with a set goal of imposing a state of emergency and removing the provincial government.

More than 100 kids were killed today in Peshawar, and no, it is not the time of patience. It is the time to actualize who is the perpetrator, to find the institutions where soft corners are kept, where people confuse these as reactions to drone attacks and Army operation.

More than 100 kids were killed today in Peshawar, and if you still have any kind of soft corner or confused logic in your mind that this was a reaction to drone attacks and army operation, then you may wait till you lose people from your own immediate family and realize all this.

More than 100 kids were killed today, it is not just the time to say Inna Lillah wa Inna ilayhay raji'un, it is the time to question ideologies, to question the way Quran does; For what sin were these kids killed? To take up this verse and question those who justify killing as a reaction."

- Zain