17/10/2023
Book review:
Nusrat Jahan Srabony
Book's Name: Let's Change the System
Author: Mr. Mohammad Bayazid Khan Panni
Title: If the road is curved, the car cannot be driven straight even after hundred attempts.
A novel is a descriptive literary work in which the author expresses his personal emotions, feelings, thoughts, and philosophy in the field of life. The story of the novel is created by sheltering some characters. Among whom can be seen the reflection of the writer's multifaceted thinking. But when the size of the book is small, the characters of the story are not needed to convey the author's point. One such book is 'sChangeTheSystem.
Well, how would it be if there was no injustice, injustice, war, bloodshed, strife, etc. in our world! The world would become a paradise right? Coming to the present day, we cannot even imagine such a world. But even though we cannot conceive of it due to the limitations of our thinking, a small nation called Arab made such an unimaginable impossible possible.
First come to the naming of the book. A line is mentioned on the cover page of the book - Injustice, corruption, strife, bloodshed i.e. all types of injustice - the source of unrest is the existing system or way of life. So, let's change the system. All over the world, people today are drowning in injustice, unrest, war and bloodshed. All mankind is crying for peace today. People are not getting peace in anything even after practicing it by creating one life system after another. Therefore, for this naming of the book, only peaceful and thoughtful people will be interested in reading the book.
In this book, the author has expressed his self-realization and philosophy of life. He throws a huge question mark(?) at the present progressive human civilization by saying that,
This ongoing civilization in human life is civilization at all? Is it good or bad for the world?
We can basically divide the book into two parts. In the first part, the author discusses in detail the civilization or system we are currently living in and what are its consequences. The author has presented various arguments that the conventional system is not the system given by Allah. He also said that all people want peace. Various developed countries have adopted various activities and enacted various laws to maintain peace. But there is no peace but injustice - injustice, war, bloodshed are increasing day by day. People are confused today. Everywhere in the world today is full of terrible geographical and economic injustice. Everywhere injustice prevails over justice, falsehood over truth. Because of the failure of the system, people cannot be honest even if they want to. Untruth has to be constantly fought unequally. Once people are choosing the path of corruption even if they need to survive.
In the second part of the book, the author tells the way to get rid of this injustice in the light of past history. And that is, or natural religion. Allah Ta'ala created everything in this universe within a certain rule and bound everything within this rule. Similarly, he has given a specific rule on how people can live peacefully in the world. Violation of this natural law will destroy the natural balance. As a result of which human life suffers. For example, the author presents the history of a nomadic nation who transformed into one of the most advanced nations in the world in just a few years by simply following the commandments of Allah. Here the author presents how their various social systems were.
The author has quoted a verse from the Qur'an to illustrate how perfect the system given by Allah is against the conventional system-
"He has created the seven heavens layer by layer. You will not see any flaw in the creation of the Merciful God. Look again; do you see any flaw? Then you look again and again - your sight will return failed and tired (Surah Mulk: 3-4).
In the book, the author has explained everything clearly in a very nice and fluent language so that people of all classes, professions and ages can easily understand this book. Because of its simplicity and comprehensibility, the book appeals to be read in a flash from cover to cover. The author's efforts in bringing alive such a dull subject as the present human civilization, its system and results have undoubtedly been worthwhile.