Its true that we all proud on our ancestors but the important thing is we will never forgot that every one is responsible for his own deeds. You shall have what you earn and our elders shall have what they earned. No one shall called upon to answer for what the others did. We can proud on the good deeds of our elders but we shall not gain any kind of share from their good deeds. We always proud on our elders but we forgot our wrong deeds. Allah clearly informed us that we shall have what we earn and we are not answerable to the wrong or good deeds of the others. Neither we will be asked any question on the wrong deeds of offspring and neither appreciate on the good deeds of our ancestors. Every one is responsible for his own deeds. If we will submit our self to One Allah then He send His blessing on us and send us to heaven and if we did not do good deeds then we will face the wrath of Allah and He send us to hell.
Kindly read the following verse of the Holy Quran in which Allah clearly warned us about our wrong perception. I invite all of you to read the Holy Verse as mentioned below and then decide your own self.
"This is a people that have passed away: they shall have what they earned and you shall have what you earn, and you shall not be called upon to answer for what they did."
(Surah No:2 & Verse No: 134)
But we are doing we are only proud on our forefathers and forgot our wrong deeds. It is the believe of the most of the religions that their forefathers will save them from the wrath of Allah. Jews have firm believe that since they are the "Children of apostles of Allah" so Allah will not punished them but for few days. Similarly Christians believe that Christ sacrifices their self on cross and Allah forgive the sins of their followers. Similarly the Muslims have believe that they send "Darood Shareef" on their apostle so he will save them from the wrath of Allah. All the religion are standing on this believe that their elders will save them.
Similarly in Pakistan we worship our saints graves and pay the respect to their offspring like gods and goddess. We always gave them vote, money and some time our woman only to make them happy. We never watch what is their deeds.When we ask this question from the illiterate people why they gave them undue respect. The answer is very simple they are the offspring of the saints. They got the licence to do what they want. No one is safe from their wrong deeds but we never raise the objection on them. We always have one argument and that is they are the offspring of the saints.We forgot the saying of the Holy Quran that is why we are facing the wrath of Allah.