Did you read the first part of this piece? Please kindly search for it and read. Share if you can. It doesn’t matter your faith. Please do read and internalize the underlying message which is about the contradiction between what we profess as Christians or Muslims and the mannerisms we display on the road.
These mannerisms are pronounced even on Sundays when we religiously keep aside every other business to worship God in His sanctuary. The story is not different on Fridays when my Muslim brothers head to the Mosque for prayers. If Sundays and Fridays do not reflect a semblance of our faith in God, you can then imagine what happens on other days.
I know that we are a praying nation. Besides praying during service days, we pray before meetings begin. We pray before a journey commences. We pray without ceasing. Yet, traffic rules such as phone use despite its distraction is rampant. Those who are Christians are quick to plead the blood of Jesus instead of being the example of people of faith. The story is the same with my Muslim brothers.
This was exactly what I meant when last week I wrote that our highways have become strange places of worship where we pray before the engine starts. Where there is another prayer before the horn blares with a thunderous ‘Amen’. Where before we overload the vehicle and drive unlicensed, there is an ‘’Insha Allah’ ’Yet, our driving mocks the God we profess to serve and confess as every traffic rule and signs are ignored displaying the interesting contradiction.
