Disgraceful Incident

Few weeks back I had updated a blog regarding sports activity in our Khoja Community and to my surprise people showed tremendous interest in it, I received several emails for appreciation and people sent me their details to contact them once such activity begins. As I was compiling the list to put it in some shape and start making arrangements for some sporting activity under any of my short-listed organization’s umbrella, I got to know that already a group of people have started working on same direction and the good news was that they had already made required arrangements to organize a full fledge sporting event. I was more than happy to know this news and instead of organizing a separate event, I emailed all interested candidates and provided them the information about that group and suggested them to participate in that event in large numbers.

Most of you know the details about that sporting event and what happened in the closing ceremony. For those who are still unaware let me brief you that how we added one more BLACK feather in our community’s cap.

I will not go into any details of such kind that who was correct and who was wrong nor I will mention names of any group as I did not witnessed that very moment but whatsoever the case was, the overall picture was not good and did not portrayed good image of our community.

Story begins with an organization that stepped up and arranged an inter community cricket tournament, open invitations were sent to all community members to submit their teams. People warmly welcomed the idea and good number of teams were registered. A professional venue was decided and all possible professional arrangements were made for the tournament. Event started with great excitement and was commencing quite successfully and then two top teams were selected for finals.

Many respected community members, members of managing committee and few of non community guests were invited for the final match followed by the closing ceremony, everything was set to ideal condition, large numbers of spectators were present in the stadium and the match started with great enthusiasm. At one point match umpire made a decision which was opposed by one team and then the argument started between both teams and umpire, soon the argument turned up into a dispute and finally the supporters also got involved and then very thing became a great mess. Abusive language and physical strikes destroyed the entire environment and at last the match was discontinued. You can easily imagine about the closing ceremony which was arranged after the match.

As I had already mentioned that I did not witnessed that specific moment which was the root of all dispute so I cannot comment on it and ofcourse there is high chance that the umpire made wrong decision, whatever was the case, was this correct way to react? Is this called sports man spirit? Is it professionalism?

As a normal community member I was very disappointed with all that happened, we are not united on a sporting platform which was at the end a game, how do we expect community members to be united on other platforms which are more serious than a game?

After this incident I was very discouraged and seriously I thanked Allah that it was not me who arranged this event, I highly doubt that any organization will now step up to organize these kind of sporting or any other events.

Let’s hope for the best and pray to Allah on our condition! Do prayers work when people themselves don’t want to change?