By Banji Ayoola
Our hearts are with the bereaved families who have lost loved ones in this unfortunate tragedy; as we pray for the dead, that their souls be granted mercy and all needed help on their paths; as we equally stand lovingly with the wounded, that they will respond positively to treatment and recover from the shock, the trauma of the deplorable horrible attacks, that they will regain their good health soonest.
Our hearts are with the Government and Peoples of New Zealand, and of all nations whose citizens were victims of hate attack by so called race supremacists.
Now, more than ever, is time to rebuild the world into a large room where harmony and peace reign, a world where all the inhabitants live together joyfully on the basis of true love, brotherhood, sisterhood, of one single humanity, regardless of colour, religion, race, class or status, or whatever other mere physical differences.
It is time to see ourselves, all the peoples, all the human beings on earth as descendants from the same stock of humanity; that same human blood runs through all of us; that we all bear and carry within us the same motive force which makes us human beings mercifully permitted to be here on earth to develop and mature, irrespective of race or colour, or zone of the earth where we were born, or the religion we chose to follow, or whatever other divisions we devise to separate ourselves from other human beings.
Fame, position, power, wealth, belief, colour and every other earthly distinction or division, we will leave behind when we are called away. Only a poor human soul, stripped of his earthly wealth, power, fame, status, colour, belief or accomplishments, will step across to face the consequences of his work that await him.
Each one will account for all his deeds while on earth, even all the ones he cleverly concealed from others. All his deeds in thoughts, words and deeds while on earth.
