“Alhamenge Islaamee killaagai rendhu alhuvaalan ulhey ulhunthah nethi kuravvaa faandheyve” I thought a little about what the Imam was saying as I waited under the shade of the big gofi-eley tree in front of Islaamee marukazu. I looked around at the lanky youths (parteys?) clad in Billabong and Bodyglove T-shirts around me and wondered what they could be thinking about. They don’t even seem to be listening to what the Imam was chanting. Surely they couldn’t be thinking about the “islaamee killa” or the “rendhu” even if they heard what he said.
They are a very different group of people. They grew up eating pizza and sitting in front of TV and computer screens vigorously moving their thumbs. I am sure few of them ever saw a ‘mainnah fennudhey soofi’ or was stung by a ‘gaaviha mas’. I am also very much sure that they neither had a single spoonful of ‘antipaa’ nor did they rote any of the ‘dharus’ from ‘Thauleem Dhiyana’ in their childhoods.
At ten years of difference in age, for me these people seem to actually belong to a different evolutionary phase. They talk and think in a language I cannot fully understand. Had it not been for my good tech-savvy friend I would still be thinking a blog is something you get in your throat when you wake up in one of those stuffy-nose mornings. If I happen to be so ignorant about them I wonder how much apeople in their sixties or seventies would know about them. (I’m in now way comparing myself, a man with average cognitive powers to someone with a surprisingly advanced mental faculty)
They are the majority in this country. But the closest people to these little understood beings - those approaching their 30s or already counting their 30s and going into 40s even seem to understand them very little. They seem to have come out of nowhere to a country little prepared for them. I for one person don’t know what this country is going to do with them? Do we have space in our already overcrowded matchbox sized rooms for them? Do we have space for another ten thousand Sheesha-credit-financed Honda motorbikes on our roads? How many of the ten thousand ‘GCE O/A’ level graduates can we absorb into our cash-crunched and ready-to-burst civil service? What are we going to do when they start multiplying in the next few years? Are we going to count on the golden-egg-laying-chicken for money and the over four thousand Rufiyaa per square foot Hulhumale ‘row house’ for space?
Seeking answers for questions such as these seem to be of little importance to the people at the helm of this small country. They continue to speak and think in their own language – the language of ‘islaamee killa’ and ‘rendhu’. This is the same language they spoke when my father went to ‘Dhaarul Iqaamaa” to study Ahmed Kamil Didi’s poetry. Unfortunately, their language and thinking has since become almost defunct among today’s Maldivians and has lost its meaning and application in the lives of the majority of the people in this country now. Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not against preaching Islam in this country. All that I’m saying is that it’s time that we talk and think in their language about ‘cool stuff’ that has meaning and application in their lives.
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The Holy Quran, recited in a nasal tone by someone wearing a robe and a thofi to a divine tune, will offer sufficient protection against an Alien invasion.
ya..i agree with you..(like all the other times..hehehe)..the old mullahs dont speak our language (im 20yrs old this jan)...they need to know what is goingon around the globe and with the youth..its nott only maldivians..but all over the world mullahs dont know whats what in this world..they need to be 'upgraded'...and politicians must think and talk more sense (not just pro- and anti- government stuff and wealthy elites and biyaadhoo vilivaru stuff!!)...our country is no more..Aaaaaagh!!! :(
maybe if aliens really arrived maldivianss will finally address the mad preachings of the mullahs.
We certainly need somtheing that will snap the people out of this irrational nonsense.
will aliens find the burugaa sexy? I love all these women dressing in black (sexy) and declaring that their bodies are so fulla sex that you just gotta hide it or people with the trigger happy syndrome may be firing off in public places.
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