Helpless

In movies, when the bad guys do something bad, I have always felt anger and in certain cases vengeful. I assume others feel too as this is a way that storytellers try to play with your emotions and pull you in, keeping you invested. The difference in movies, normally, there is payback and the heroes save the day while the villains pay. In real life, this rarely happens.

I read on facebook recently of a crime case where a group of young men kidnap a woman going to work and did the unimaginable to her and left her to die in a palm oil plantation. She dragged herself until some villagers found her and saved her. She was hospitalised for months and couldn’t go out of her house for years due trauma. The animals were caught and were still being trialled at the time of writing.

In the land between the river and the sea,🍉, kids are blown sky high and families are burned alive. Medics were shot point blanks. Babies were left headless.

In a movie, these atrocities wouldn’t even happen; they’d be stopped by ‘heroes’. But in life, villains pull the strings and we are left powerless and feeling helpless.

May Allah save the oppressed. Amin.

Thank you for reading.