Don't mess with me !......

"Oh Please....Don't mess with me !"

"Today is my Birthday and I appreciate my parents buying me presents of my choice. It maybe just a toy gun.....but don't mess with me!"

"I can do a lot of things with this Gun. Believe me....."

I am making a guess to what he might be saying in this photograph sent by his mother to me recently this Ramadhan. No elaborate birthday do on this blessed month. A toy of his choice would do.

His name is Aqil and he is Four years old. 

A perceived "message" which I exaggerate when I showed it to my husband. If I were a kid this is what I may be saying when you hear strange things about what is happening around you. But I am not a kid.... and knowing what I believe is happening around me, I would react almost the same way. I am feeling very "uncomfortable" with the problem the Nation is facing and I feel like saying "Please somebody....make things right. Truly right....The future of my grand children is at stake,.....(to say the least)."

I wish I could cry out loud......."Don't mess with the rakyat..."
BUT.....

Aqil may be right....but as a child he doesn't hold his "temper" for long.

Look at his big smile.

He is probably saying: "I am just kidding....."

But folks, grandmothers like me, and perhaps all adults, may not be kidding.

Let us think of what we should do to help each other  make this nation a better place to live, in safety and in harmony.
May Allah show us the way and may HE be pleased with us.

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