Distant Drums Sound Sweeter
Honorable Chief Guest,
Worthy President,
Respected Teachers,
And
My Dear Fellow Students
Assalamoalaikum!
The topic of my speech for today is “Distant Drums Sound Sweeter”.
Dear Audience, it was Francis Bacon who famously said that if you take all the vain opinions, flattering hopes and false valuations from the minds of the people, nothing will be left behind except melancholy and indisposition. Let’s have a look into our own lives, as our lives are full of desires, wishes which never end. Always we desire for more and more wealth, money, status, reputation in the society. Our desires and demands multiply geometrically. The Holy Quran has brilliantly summed up this insatiable greed of our existence in these words, “You remain preoccupied with hoarding. Until you come to the graves. Indeed you will find out. Most assuredly you will find out…You would behold the hellfire. Then you would see with the eyes of certainty. On that day you will be questioned about the blessings you had enjoyed”.
Dear Audience this is an undeniably tragic fact of our life that we always run after our distant desires and this distance lends charm to the landscape of worldly wishes. At every step, our curiosity grows and our hunger and thirst increase exponentially. We run with ever faster speed after the mirage of materialistic aspirations. After getting one thing, instead of thanking our Lord, we ignore it and start running after other things.
But all this never gives that happiness which comes only by an inner contentment. We hardly pause to ask ourselves, “Are we happy with piling up more and more possessions?” Yes Dear Audience, ask yourself, “Are you really happy?”
But I am sure none of us is happy with his or her way of life, yet we are mad about getting more, yet we are crazy about more and more money, yet we are bent upon engulfing the entire world,
Respected Audience and honorable president!
Distance enchants us into delusion,
Worthy President,
Respected Teachers,
And
My Dear Fellow Students
Assalamoalaikum!
The topic of my speech for today is “Distant Drums Sound Sweeter”.
Dear Audience, it was Francis Bacon who famously said that if you take all the vain opinions, flattering hopes and false valuations from the minds of the people, nothing will be left behind except melancholy and indisposition. Let’s have a look into our own lives, as our lives are full of desires, wishes which never end. Always we desire for more and more wealth, money, status, reputation in the society. Our desires and demands multiply geometrically. The Holy Quran has brilliantly summed up this insatiable greed of our existence in these words, “You remain preoccupied with hoarding. Until you come to the graves. Indeed you will find out. Most assuredly you will find out…You would behold the hellfire. Then you would see with the eyes of certainty. On that day you will be questioned about the blessings you had enjoyed”.
Dear Audience this is an undeniably tragic fact of our life that we always run after our distant desires and this distance lends charm to the landscape of worldly wishes. At every step, our curiosity grows and our hunger and thirst increase exponentially. We run with ever faster speed after the mirage of materialistic aspirations. After getting one thing, instead of thanking our Lord, we ignore it and start running after other things.
But all this never gives that happiness which comes only by an inner contentment. We hardly pause to ask ourselves, “Are we happy with piling up more and more possessions?” Yes Dear Audience, ask yourself, “Are you really happy?”
But I am sure none of us is happy with his or her way of life, yet we are mad about getting more, yet we are crazy about more and more money, yet we are bent upon engulfing the entire world,
Respected Audience and honorable president!
Distance enchants us into delusion,