DRIVEN BY FAITH
Faith is a complex beast! It can make you do anything, and it could be anything — faith in a human, religion, ideology, nation, or even in science. A strong faith in something could make or break people. Is faith an inherent part of human design? How do we define faith? What does faith do? Why do we need it? How does faith affect our life? Is there good or bad faith? Derived from the Latin word fides and the old French word feid meaning trust and confidence, briefly put, faith is an abstract concept with real-life consequences. On a recent visit to my ancestral village of Saithal in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, I witnessed thousands of people commemorating the martyrdom of Prophet Mohammad’s grandson Hussain in the battle of Karbala. The tragedy of epic proportions that took place in Karbala, Iraq, arguably on October 10, 680 AD is beyond the subject of this write-up. However, the faith-driven individuals from different religions participating in the rituals on Au