Being abroad for so many years, I happened to celebrate Eid-ul-Adha in 2008 with my family and couldn’t control myself seeing the filth created by the remains of the qurbani and blood/water mixed on the road and started cleaning it with whatever was available at the time.
Some neighbours, who have known me being a professional and from Canada, came out to my rescue and started cleaning the road with me. In no time, a big area of the roadway was cleaned up.
My question to my fellow citizens is: Can we not take ownership of our land and areas where we live and reduce our reliance on city government to do everything for us?
Of course, they have a greater responsibility of the city to be cleaned with the workforce that they have but what is stopping us from acting as a nation whose religion also endorses cleanliness as half of faith to clean our own created mess/garbage in our areas and roadways.
SYED FARHAN QADRI
Mississauga, Canada
