Community Empowerment

In a crowded world of brilliant minds and restless souls, one would expect universities to be thriving and changing the world. Unfortunately, what I witness is the opposite: universities have become places of oppression, death, and no meaningful education. I remember when we once called universities “Al-Haram Al-Jami‘i,” the sacred space. They were meant to be homes of research breakthroughs, debates that sharpened critical thinking, and lessons that pushed society forward.

Today, our universities feel like a dry well that is filthy and poisoned. Fear, competition, and arrogance have turned them into jails without walls, with 24/7 surveillance of minds and spirits. This is more than an academic crisis; it signals the fall of a nation. The fall of values, principles, morality, and courage.

We were meant to lead by example, but instead we lead with violence and hate. The dream has withered, and what remains looks more like a nightmare ; once hidden under false slogans, now laid bare before our eyes. I am shaken by what I witness each day. People elsewhere are moving forward, yet here we move backward, because we have lost dignity, integrity, conscience, sincerity, and respect for self and others.

Universities are suiciding because they are killing the very purpose they were born for. And unless we reclaim their sacred mission dignity, truth, and humanity; the death of universities will be the death of our future.

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