{"id":184754,"date":"2025-07-24T01:32:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T01:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=184754"},"modified":"2025-07-24T01:32:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T01:32:40","slug":"the-quiet-power-of-pyaliie-youth-for-justice-global-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=184754","title":{"rendered":"The Quiet Power of PYALIIE Youth: for Justice &amp; Global Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By, Waresa Azizi<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a world that often defines us by what is loudest\u2014news, power, crisis\u2014there exists a quieter,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>more resilient force: the youth of PYALIIE (Powerful Youth for Alliance, Integrity, Independence,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Liberation and Empowerment).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are not just names on a list or faces in a crowd. We are the heartbeat of our nations, silent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>dreamers beneath skies that rain bombs instead of blessings, seekers of spirituality in a world that<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>rewards iron wings and spectacle. Yet we remain believers in unseen, celestial wings. The world<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>often calls us strange names, casting foreign glances, expecting us to be full of fear, rage, despair,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>or destruction. But no. Many of us have chosen something far more powerful: self-awareness, love,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and a deep connection to the soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In these ancient lands, where prophets, companions, and saints once walked, where civilizations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>were born and destinies written for eternity, we still carry a sacred flame within. Not all through<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>words\u2014some have it through art, through prayer, through writing, through learning, and silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, we are tired. We are human. But we are not lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are a generation that prays among ruins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We may be displaced, homeless, hungry\u2014but hunger has not weakened us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We dance between peace and war in the name of justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We plant the gardens of hope where the world has cut off our water supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We sow flowers of peace and justice where the world has sown thorns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And like nightingales, we sing love songs where the world has gone silent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are learning to build peace, not with slogans, but with presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We begin from within, with endurance, with loyalty to our promises, with silent cries for justice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and global peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be young in today\u2019s PYALIIE is to live with the question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who am I?***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By, Waresa Azizi In a world that often defines us by what is loudest\u2014news, power, crisis\u2014there exists a quieter, more resilient force: the youth of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":184805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[773],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[257,239],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_2377.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184811,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184754\/revisions\/184811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/184805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}