In the name of God the most Gracious and the most Merciful, tonight my wife and I attended Xpresso Night organized by al-Ghazzali to watch a show called 'Dirt! The Movie' hand picked by brother Irfan - good choice brother! Today folks my intention is not to review the show itself but rather give a general experience of the night and some lessons learnt from it - God willing.
After a quick registration (and placing our orders for our hot latte!) we found our place in the al-Ghazzali lecture room and bang got into the show and all about Dirt! As the movie slogan says 'Get Dirty!'
An interesting perspective on the basis of our current global crisis related to global warming. The movie is based around the importance of Agriculture for life and the importance of preserving earth for long term farming. We learn from the movie how large scale Monoculture is slowly depleting the soil off its nutrients and making the land barren in the long run, similar devastating effects of coal mining and deforestation.
After the show we reflected as a group on how we have so blindly let things get so out of hand and find ourselves struggling for this very Dirt which is now priceless. Its amazing to note how little in touch we are with Dirt as we leave in our so called 'modern' concrete jungle. And it seems the worse off are the kids of our time who find it hard to comprehend the fact that they can literally get their hands dirty.
So this leads to my final observation from this show and that is who is really responsible? Well folks to help us answer this question god willing, I am inclined to ask another question, did we as individuals push for the mass production of food and resources which is ultimately destoying our planet or did the concept of mass production squeeze out the traditional farming\harvesting practices which were so true to earth. It comes down to 'GREED' I guess as we strive for cheaper food, fuel etc. and the world around us finds ways of supplying even cheaper means of producing them!
Left with a guilty conscious after the show, the Mizaan Ecology - Cooks River Regeneration Project run by al-Ghazzali next weekend seems to be on the cards - God willing. So as they say in the movie 'God made Dirt & Dirt don't Hurt!'
Wasalam
Taupheeq
After a quick registration (and placing our orders for our hot latte!) we found our place in the al-Ghazzali lecture room and bang got into the show and all about Dirt! As the movie slogan says 'Get Dirty!'
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