The emergence of nations has always been linked to education strength in any epoch, and it is an ability that has remained unknown to many women and particularly to rural Pakistan. Women have always followed the dreams of literacy in their hearts in the shade of poverty and patriarchy and inaccessibility. Change is slowly forming up. In remote villages, women are now congregating on classroom floors, writing letters with shaking fingers, and are showing the world that empowerment can be achieved not through privilege, but through a pencil.
Literate and illiterate. A huge difference, indeed a very big difference, and to eliminate this difference, an invitation is given to read and write. There is hesitation in this regard, and practical steps are taken to make the illiterate literate.
To assess the importance of knowledge, it is necessary to understand the meaning of "Iqra Basim Rabbuk Al-Dhi Khalq." The Prophet of the End of Times (peace be upon him) told the literate prisoners of the Battle of Badr that they could be freed by teaching the illiterate Muslims. It is necessary to know the secret of teaching the illiterate Muslims to read and write from the infidel prisoners. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, "Get knowledge even if you have to go to China." The distance between China and Arabia, and then the religion and lifestyle of the people there, and the above-mentioned command of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) to his Ummah, can be known only by knowing this fact: the quantum of the difference between the illiterate and the educated. Thus, knowing this difference, those who know become disturbed and worried, and the intelligent and conscious people regularly fight to eliminate this difference. In this way, the sleeping fortune can be awakened in the construction and development of any nation. However, to do all this, it is very important to be educated individually, and the society as a whole is very important. Intellect, knowledge, understanding and wisdom. The matter before us is when women leaving the house was not considered a good thing and they were deprived of reading and writing, but every mother has always wanted her children to be educated, and to fulfill this desire, mothers used to sell even their ornaments, and intelligent fathers used to sell even their property so that their children could be adorned with the ornaments of education. Whenever you come into contact with someone illiterate, you realize how important it is to gain knowledge.
There was a time when we were short of resources and the infrastructure was almost nonexistent. There was no school in every village, and there was no paved road to go from every village to the city. There was no electricity, no clean drinking water, and what not; there was no one to talk to; there was a maulvi sahib of a mosque and a village chaudhri, and both of them had their own priorities; the reader should understand the rest. The conditions do not always remain the same; time moves on. Schools, colleges and countless educational institutions and children going to schools and colleges in droves, but also a revolutionary change in people's thinking about girls' education, educated mothers, home environment and children's education and upbringing. By the way, the dreams of illiterate mothers were also amazing and they also had a deep awareness to fulfill these dreams and thanks to this awareness, we have all become literate. How much an illiterate woman worries that she should also be educated—I realized this when I went to a semi-formal basic education center run by the Literacy Department in a village in Rajanpur, where 40/50 women were learning knowledge sitting on the floor in their traditional clothes and original attire.
These were not ten- or fifteen-year-old girls; they were middle-aged women, and some even had their children with them. Dr. Parvez Ahmed Khan is a retired officer, and I have worked under him during my service.
Nowadays, he is working as an advisor to the Chief Ombudsman of Punjab, and his work is also unique in its kind; that is, it is research and research on how much quantum of the performance of our institutions there is and what the solution to it is. The aforementioned doctor is a very sensitive person, and he is worried not only today but for many years. That is why there is no change in our thinking, and the reason for this is that we have not been able to make the society 100 percent literate. He has also worked as Secretary of Literacy. Recently, he came to Rajanpur to review the performance of the aforementioned centers, and so I visited the aforementioned centers with him and also saw the aspirations and desires of the women students and the nature of these desires. They desperately want us to still read and write something so that we can find a way to make our homes beautiful. We should teach our children basic things from the beginning so that they can have a good foundation. They should develop skills so that they can help their husbands in economic matters. Some very intelligent women have a keen eye on the environment around them andknow very well what their basic problems are. Their biggest problem is the lack of clean drinking water. In some areas even today girls are not allowed to go to school. Electricity load shedding is also a big problem for them; due to poverty, even today they are not able to educate their children; there are so many roles, and so on.
The need to think. Whatever one may say about social media, one quality outweighs all others, and that is that social media has forced us all to think. The wheel of life certainly moves forward gradually, but we all have a role to play in speeding it up, and there is also a great need to raise awareness among the public about this role.
In this way, the number of those who make conscious efforts can be increased. Anyway, one is one and two is eleven, and the option of multiplying eleven by eleven should also be kept in mind. Then we will come up with a way to add and subtract in the past, and then Dr. Pervez Ahmed Khan will not have to come to Rajanpur from Lahore. From here, the Messiah will be born and will also examine all diseases and will also cure these diseases. The confident women of Rajanpur and their passion to do something for themselves, their families and then for their country and nation are visible. Dr. Pervaiz Ahmed Khan's research study has reached its completion, and he has come to the conclusion that the education and training of our children and the role of the awakened brains and intelligent women of the district with the lowest literacy rate and the conducive environment for fulfilling this role are important. Dawn is near; say it from the heart, and do not be afraid. Mrs. Maryam Nawaz Sharif, the Chief Minister, has paid special attention to skill development, under which special attention is being paid to teaching writing and skills to illiterate women in the literacy department. In this way, the dream of becoming skilled and empowered women will also be fulfilled, and the quality of education and training of our young generation will also improve.
Education does not only mean being able to read and write but also being able to redefine destiny. This is the reality that is represented by the women of Rajanpur who sit with hope and courage in literacy centers. It is the dawn of a greater social change in them, their awakening, when knowledge is power, and progress can be power. With such continuous support, provision of resources, mentorship, and integration into economic affairs, such women will not only transform their families but will also be the designers of a literate and independent Pakistan. It is time to make their learning permanent.
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