To The Pirate Of The Caribbean
The Master Of His Own Fate
The captain Of His Own Soul
O’ Captain My Captain

Bcc: Ziehan Adnan

Private And Confidential

Dear Jack,

Your letter ref: “Signed, Sealed – Delivered” dated the 24th day of the Eleventh Month in the year of the Holy Lord 2006 noted with thanks. By the grace of my Master, I have been vested with the authority and liberty of an executive power to respond to you accordingly.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same GOD who has endowed mankind with sense, reason, and intellect has intended them to forgo their use. They who pretended to be intellectual are constantly betrayed by their vanities. More often, they blandly assume that honor, duty and right can best be expressed in words; whereas the things one loves, lives and dies for are not.

There is but one rule of conduct for a man ­ to do the right thing. The cost may be dear in money, in friends, in the circle of your families, in a prolonged and painful sacrifice, but the cost not to do right is far more dear: You pay in the integrity of your manhood, in your honor, in strength of character; and, for a timely gain, you barter the infinite.

Do not despair Jack. The right of prayers is always yours to make; and the answer to which is his in entirety to grant. You may not have gone where you intended to go, but I think you have ended up where He intended you to be. If you continue to live by His commands and love by your wills, you will then know which bridge to cross and which to burn.

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
Just live your life according to plan,

Pursue it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet,
His light will shine your darkest day.

You are a very brave man to speak to GOD of your anger Mr. Sparrow. I personally find you to be a man of intriguing sense of humor. No one writes to GOD but you. That’s quite naughty you know. But then again, we all know that “All work and no play will make Jack a dull boy.”

In a matter pertaining to marriage, GOD has never once outlawed it. A matrimonial vow is a union of faith between two loves. Meaning to say that it matters only to the two that matter. There is an obvious difference between ‘blessing’ and ‘consent.’ A ‘blessing’ is a consent one should seek from GOD. And ‘consent’ is a blessing that one is compelled to seek from six billions other people. Love must and should be celebrated in all its ‘Sense And Sensibilities’. Only then the sacred vow can harvest joy and happiness ad infinitum. By any other name, anything otherwise simply becomes ‘Walimatul Urus’. Of course there is nothing wrong with this. It’s just like any other ‘reunion’. If you’ve been to one lately, you should know what I’m talking about. There is only one secret to a happy marriage Mr. Sparrow. Do you want to know what it is? Come to think of it, I better not Jack. If I were to tell you, it would no longer be a secret – would it? Do not allow yourself to be persuaded by false pretexts Jack. Black has always been black and ‘purple’ has never been a new white. If GOD were to create mankind and make them only to believe and not allowed to think, I think He would rather create extra monkeys – wouldn’t He? We all have to believe in him as a Master Creator Jack. He doesn’t have to cross breed a black horse to a white one to create a zebra – does He?

Human Beings must be known to be loved; but Divine Being must be loved to be known. In an ideal world, ‘ONDE’ and ‘Goreng Pisang’ are best served HOT – Right Jack? Trust me O’ Captain My Captain, we have just the right place here – it’s called HELL. BOY will they fry in there!!

So the world is in turmoil. So what else is new Jack? We are too well aware of that. History will teach you about the two Wrights (The Wright Brothers) that made an aeroplane. But two wrongs still do not make a right Jack – Right Jack? In Hollywood they created men almost Godlike. They made a pirate out of you and then there was “Superman” and then there was “Darth Vader” and then there were all the “Jedis” and then there was “Spiderman” and then there were “X Men”. When all these characters possess an extraordinary out of the world super power, we don’t expect GOD to be entertained – Do we? Didn’t the world know of the impact of His wrath? Didn’t the world watch the movie “The Day After Tomorrow”? And then technology put a ‘soft ware’ in a ‘hard disk’; and when everything else become ‘MICROSOFT’; they called it computer. But when seven bearded men sit in an assembly of GOD, they are known as Al-Qaedah. The trouble with people nowadays is that they underestimate the power of simplicity. They have a tendency it seems to over complicate their lives and forget what's important and what's not. They tend to mistake intention for attention. They tend to mistake bad comment for intelligent question. They tend to mistake interference for duty. They tend to focus on cultures instead of ‘Hukum’. And as the pace of life continues to race along, they bestowed an executive right to make pretty upon themselves as “The Bold And The Beautiful”.

As a matter of Divine advice Jack, never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealousy, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces. There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but only one view. Thus there is no glory in conquering its height. Patience is virtue Jack; and all good things will come to he who believes.

Once again Jack, if you do not intend to incur the wraths of GOD, just do not over indulge yourself on all those Hollywood craps. They can be very misleading you know. By the way, is there going to be a sequel to “The Dead Man’s Chest”? I can’t wait to watch it. Till later okay.

Yours Truly,

Bruce Almighty