musaafir-e dasht

Extremely heart-wrenching! Death, indeed, takes us by surprise…

27.09.11, 10.16 am Just a usual morning. I am sitting in my office right now, and my mind is a hotchpotch of so many ideas. The weather is pleasant today alhamdulillah. It’s cloudy and breezy! Don’t know if it would rain today… There are so many things on my mind, that I seriously feel the need to unclutter it. Just a while ago a student came for some counselling. Now this is something I myself am in great need of all the time :D … Okay, I am not revealing any details of that matter here because it was her personal problem :) I am thinking of doing many things right now! I am thinking of getting up and make myself some tea. I am thinking of going home by the public bus and not keep on waiting for the van which is going to leave at 2 pm! I am thinking of pulling something out of the reading stack which is increasing in size with every passing day. But this is all in my head right now and due to the extreme laziness that I am feeling at the moment, I don’t think any of my mental pl...

A blogger shared the Ghazal which gives the correct version of the verse entitling the previous post. I am extremely thankful. The poet is AGHA HASHAR. تعجب ٹھوکروں سے کیوں سرِ فغفور ہوتا ہے غرورِ زور ور اس گھر سے یو نہی دور ہوتا ہے  جوانی میں عدم کے واسطے سامان کر غافل  مسافر شب سے اٹھتے ہیں جو جانا دور ہوتا ہے  ہماری زندگانی حشرؔ مٹی کا کھلونا ہے  اجل کی ایک ٹھوکر سے جو چکنا چور ہوتا ہے

A friend of mine was generous enough to lend her ‘Islamic Studies’ reading pack, which she had got from her teacher who was a student of Shaykh Kamaluddin at LUMS a couple of years back. It is probably one of the best assortments of writings that I have ever laid my hands on. Feel blessed. Alhamdulillah. Here I wish to refer to an excerpt in that pack from Imam Al Haddad’s book Knowledge and Wisdom , translated by Mostafa al-Badawi, entitled, ‘Structuring Time’. This excerpt further refers to a very moving excerpt from Imam al Ghazzali’s Bidaayat al Hidaaya (The Beginning of Guidance), which I want to share with the readers of this blog. I personally found it to be an extremely useful reminder. Imam al Ghazzali rahimahullah says, You should not neglect your time or use it haphazardly; on the contrary, you should bring yourself to account, structure your litanies and other practices during each day and night, and assign to each period a fixed and specific function. This is how you...