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"Zindagi ke parchay ke sab sawaal laazim hain" ... Amjad Islam Amjad

بےنگِاہ آنکھوں سے دیکھتے ہیں پَرچے کو بے خیال ہاتھوں سے اَن بُنے سے لفظوں پَر اُنگلیاں گھُماتے ہیں یا سوالنامے کو دیکھتے ہی جاتےہیں ہر طرف کَن اَنکھیوں سے بچ بَچا کے تَکتے ہیں دُوسروں کے پَرچوں کو رَہنما سمجھتے ہیں شاید اِس طرح کوئی راستہ ہی مِل جائے بےنِشاں خوابوں کا کچھ پَتا ہی مِل جائے مجُھ کو دیکھتے ہیں تو یُوں جواب کاپی پَر ہاشیے لگاتے ہیں دائرے بناتے ہیں جیسے اِنکو پَرچے کے سب جواب آتے ہیں اِس طرح کے مَنظر میں اِمتہان گاھوں میں دیکھتا ہی رہتا تھا نقَل کرنے والوں کے نِت نئے طریقوں سے آپ لطُف لیتا تھا! دوستوں سے کہتا تھا کِس طَرف سے جانے یہ! آج دِل کے آنگن میں ایک سوال آیا ہے سینکڑوں سوالوں سا ایک سوال لایا ہے وقت کِی عدالت میں زندگی کِی صُورت میں یہ جو تیرے ہاتھوں میں ایک سوالنامہ ہے کِس نے یہ بنایا ہے کِس لیے بنایا ہے کچُھ سمجھ میں آیا ہے زِندگی کے پَرچے کے سب سوال لازِم ہیں..سب سوال مشکِل ہیں بے نِگاہ آنکھوں سے دیکھتا ھُوں پَرچے کو بے خیال ہاتھوں سے اَن بُنے سے لفظوں پَر اُنگلیاں گُھماتا ھُوں ہاشِیے لگاتا ھُوں دائرے بناتا ھُوں یا سوالنامے کو دیکھتا ہی جاتا ھُوں

"Majzoob-e Firangi" - Nietzsche

Only Iqbal could have made a claim like that and quite rightly so... :) This is what he had to say to Nietzsche who he considered as hakeem! Hareef-e nukta-e Tawheed ho saka na Hakeem Nigaah chahiye israar-e laa ilaaha ke liye **** Agar hota vo majzoob-e firangi iss zamaane mein Iqbal uss ko samjhata muqaam-e Kibriya kya hai despite feeling the need for translating these verses, I do not feel like translating them, lest the essence gets lost!

Wither Reality?

"Oh Allah, show me things as they really are!" I just feel disgusted about the so-called Swat drama staged a few days back... Simply at a loss of words. This says it all!

". . .Tasleem-e Jaan hai zindagi"

When death and life seem to be intertwined... Maut ko samjhay hain ghaafil ikhtitaam-e zindagi Hay yeh shaam-e zindagi subh-e davaam-e zindagi -Iqbal Decisions. Life. Times when one has to go beyond one's self. Times when one has to submit. Point where resignation is followed by resuscitation. Point where one has to submit to one's Lord telling Him that 'now, I submit'... for Love's sake. Foregoing love for Love's sake. Giving oneself over to Allah. A point where the limitations of tadabeer are made clear to us. A man's worth indeed lies in the recognition of his worthlessness... Bar tar az andesha-e sood-o ziyaan hai zindagi Hay kabhi jaan aur kabhi tasleem-e jaan hai zindagi -Iqbal

Right now...

... there is a great surge of emotions, feelings, thoughts, ideas and what not, that I want to write down. However, the intensity of this is so great that I am unable to write anything at all. I do not know if it happens with others too. But it is definitely happening to me, at the moment.

"...religion, which so enriches its followers, from the simplest hearts to the most magisterial intellects"

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In the name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate Becoming Muslim © Nuh Ha Mim Keller Born in 1954 in the farm country of the northwestern United States , I was raised in a religious family as a Roman Catholic. The Church provided a spiritual world that was unquestionable in my childhood, if anything more real than the physical world around me, but as I grew older, and especially after I entered a Catholic university and read more, my relation to the religion became increasingly called into question, in belief and practice. One reason was the frequent changes in Catholic liturgy and ritual that occurred in the wake of the Second Vatican Council of 1963, suggesting to laymen that the Church had no firm standards. To one another, the clergy spoke about flexibility and liturgical relevance, but to ordinary Catholics they seemed to be groping in the dark. God does not ch...

the day it 'fogged'

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And we could not believe that KU would ever look this beautiful :)