Dead?

Something happened that made me wonder; we live in our own little bubbles. We, in this age of global village , live lives as if we are all islands, disconnected, not effected and certainly not moved by whatever that is happening outside the boundaries of our little homes. We talk about change, and “tsunamis” and “revolution” yet we are not willing to sacrifice even our time to the very cause we think we believe in. Or are we?

I’m saying all this because this is exactly what is happening in our society. Whatever that is happening in Waziristan right now, or districts of Lyari in Karachi, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, or Palestine, how does it effect us? Do we think about them for more than two seconds? Do we even care about them more than posting a picture of it, or updating our status about it on facebook? Does it effect our lives in anyway? I don’t think so. We keep on living our lives the way we are living them, full of distractions and entertainment and we think we can bring a revolution without sacrificing our lives, careers, luxurious lifestyles just by clicking and wasting away in front of our laptop screens. We are not willing to do more than that and we believe we are doing sooo much.

Revolution, change and every word related to it looks nice and everything but the reality is much more brutal. The situation in our homeland and in the Muslim world is almost out of control. We have people who would sacrifice their lives for their leaders, but they will not unite under the one banner of Pakistan, let alone Islam. We should be ashamed of ourselves for not even feeling a pang in our hearts for those who are dying in streets everyday by stray bullets, target killers or by drones. How can we feel for the Muslims of other countries when we don’t care about the people who live around the corner from our own houses.

Do we feel for the kids that die in Waziristan by drones? Or the families that are lost in that beautiful valley of Swat? Or those who are a target in Karachi? Or any other part of Pakistan? If not how are we supposed to call ourselves alive when we are no better than the dead.

A Leader?!

I know everyone’s been calling the Prime Minister with bad names but I guess let us not make him the reason for the angels on our left shoulder to write something. I know it’s hard but it all boils down to the fact that, we, in fact have sunk to this level where we wont raise our voices against all the zulm that’s been inflicted by those in power. It’s certainly is near the end of times as been indicated by the Ahadith of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW).

On the authority of Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) who said that the Companions were sitting with the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) when a Bedouin came to the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) and asked him about the exact date of the Hour. The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) however proceeded with his speech to the audience. Some of the audience thought that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) heard what the man said but disliked his question and some others thought that he did not hear it. When the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) finished his talk, he said: “Where is the one who asked about the date of the Hour? The man informed him of his existence. The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) then said: “If the trust is betrayed and neglected, then expect the coming of the Hour”. The man further asked about the trust and how it can be wasted or betrayed. The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said: “When the matter is entrusted to those who are unqualified to implement its duties, then wait for the Hour”

(Narrated by Al-Bukhari, Hadiths no.59, 6496)

Anyway, how embarrassing it is for a Prime Minister of a country to have been asked by the interviewer to look her in the eye and answer the question… and he wont even give up his stupidity. How is it democracy when the whole country wants you dead and rotten in the grave and being tortured everyday, every second, every minute and in every possible way and how we want the pain to escalate soo much as to make him an example for everyone to not to follow in his footsteps. But then have we not the examples of Firaun, Nimrod, and others, if we ever had such understanding, we would never be where we are today… sigh.

I know it’s hard for us to keep a straight face and not get angry but if we live a life of indifference to all that is going on around us, wont we become the people who should be condemned, for not being able to feel the pain for our brothers, for not doing anything and when there are learned people out there, why being stuck with these bafffoooons.URGH!!! How I want to pull my hair watching his interview. And I keep wondering where the hell they come from?

Anyway, I read this amazing blog written in response to the interview. Click here to read it!

“Osama Bin Laden is dead”

All the news items that are there start off with the same line that he was hiding in the city of Abbottabad, 30 miles from the capital Islamabad. And all those around the world are now questioning the ever denying of Pakistan that he is not in Pakistan. The question is, who knows maybe he had been hidden there by both CIA and ISI and since Pakistan has been asking US to limit the number of CIA contractors and to keep drone attacks at bay or maybe some other thing must have come up that made US to unilaterally carry out the operation so as to show how effective Pakistan’s ISI and Army is.

The kind of news items appeared soon after were much of a laughing stock for the US.  As the pictures were said to be fake, then there was this DNA test results, which take 48 hours to come out, just sprang from the scene. Plus the much hasted burial at the sea. All these things leave hundreds of questions unanswered.

There are people who are saying that he is the one man who has hijacked our beloved religion the most in the past millennium or so. Just a question to all those people out there, was it just him or even the political leaders of the Muslim world. I mean has he done much damage or has the “enlightened moderation” done more damage. When 9/11 happened and when Mulla Omer proposed to have a fair trial in a neutral country then, why did US back out from it? When the whole 9/11 sham has been exposed, okay… forget it. Was it fair on the part of US to bomb thousands of innocent civilians just to get one man killed?

Osama bin Laden went to Afghanistan two weeks after the Russian invasion, and America jumped in two years after the invasion, how can one be sure if Osama was trained and sent there by the US who knew from day one that Afghanis with few arms and almost no technology will stand their ground and keep Russia at bay for a couple of years without their help and later they’d jump in to help them first hand.

No matter what the outside world says, all I am going to say is there sure is something about those handful of people who (unlike our army, politicians and leaders), are still fighting the US and NATO troops with fewer arms and almost no technology. I side with them who live in caves, fight them and have stood their ground for ten years. US and NATO having all the technology in the world, still lacks that one thing which drags them into psychological downfalls and they commit heinous crimes against poor civilians; keeping part of their bodies as trophies, killing for no reason, sexually harassing people before shooting them countless times in their heads! Bravo!

Last but not the least, US now is saying again and again that they got clues from Guantanamo prisoners. And that be to justify all the various ways of torture they put to practice against the prisoners there. wow! How can one ever forget Abu Ghraib prison and what happened there. This is how US thinks justice should be done by treating the rest of the world like worms. They still think we, Muslims, are cannibals, whiteman’s burden that can never learn the art of being human.

For Muslims out there, read the article of Orya Maqbool Jaan. And remember this is the time when we will be tested and our eimaan would be put to test. I pray to Allah that may He keep us on the right path and may be stand our ground till the moment death seize us. Ameen

‘kundan bannay k din aa rahe hain’

http://www.express.com.pk/epaper/PoPupwindow.aspx?newsID=1101232882&Issue=NP_LHE&Date=20110504&sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4dc16ef947ada9f5%2C0

*sigh*

And we will dance and shake if we win a match…  dead nation we are!!!

 

Zig… Zag…

There are a number of things on my mind and I’m thinking what to say first.

A couple of years back when winter used to arrive in Karachi, I used to do this thing which used to make me happy and glad. The feeling was out of this world kind and it was not munching cookies with tea or coffee. It was to stand under the night sky barefoot on the cold mosaic floor and breathe deeply and I’d feel the cold and crisp air going down my windpipe and the chill that I’d feel going down my spine! I know it’s kind of weird but somehow it used to cheer me up!

And yesterday when it rained all day and the temperature was down to 8 degrees before Maghrib, I remembered how different it was in Karachi! I remember once running to the roof with our maternal uncle sneaking behind our mum’s back and getting all soaked in the winter rain. Mum eventually found out and came with the towel over her head scolding us while we tried to hide behind our mamoon who was like, “Baji, barish sardiyon ki ho ya garmiyon ki… barish tu barishh hoti hai.. janay phir kab aye!”

*sigh* good memories!

Anyway, so when the news came of the earthquake last night, it was quite depressing as it took me back to the Ramadan when the northern areas of Pakistan were hit with the earthquake. I remember the horror of it! Just imagine everything gone in just a sec. At that time one of the professors at KU said that it was a reminder of the Day of Judgment as the Quran says how the mountains will become dust and cotton. I distinctly remember how people were in denial that this was not an azaab from Allah. Even with the floods, people keep denying that it is not an azaab from Allah. Or the shocks that were recorded yesterday were not a warning from Allah. Have we forgotten what’s written in the Quran. Many people wold say why are the poor people  being affected. All I’d say is that Quran says that there are signs around you for the people of understanding. Just look at ourselves, what is one gunah that we are not surrounded with? Look at our society… why are we soo blind to see it! I remember once my father telling me that the aristocracy of every nation is involved in gunaah and when the same habits are transferred to the other levels of the society, that is when the azaab comes. Just look at the number of killings, bloodshed, zulm, corruption, etc happening around us? Nobody would stand up to all these damn politicians.

Media stood up to the blasphemy law and took an aggressive stand. Calling on experts, which were not experts, and asking their opinion and whatever, the Governor was killed. Now the media has adopted a soft policy. If you see the programs closely all of them are trying very hard to be soooo subtle in their stance that people who are vulnerable to the affects of them would definitely change their point of views. Conglomerates are ruling them! And media has done an amazing job in ruining our society and spreading all the worst of things that are out there in this world!

 

Justice…

2010 in pictures… the caption said it all. The pictures were from all around the world of natural calamities and others. One of them caught my eye as I didn’t suppose that it was of that much importance but I was wrong! The background was that of a village and three girls clad in dopatta and one of them were holding a picture of a woman in her hands. The caption said that these are the of Asiya bibi, sentenced to death in Pakistan because of the blasphemy law! The whole tone was that of sympathy with the woman! I mean this and flood were not the only thing that happened in Pakistan, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui was wrongfully convicted by the US courts but they wouldn’t say that. These so-called-human-rights-activists countries will not condemn the actions of US military that changed the face and destroyed the health of a woman just because they “thought” she was helping the Taliban and they would meddle with our state affairs to save this woman who has committed a crime and a sin!

And this reminds me of the article by Shahnawaz Farooqui where he says that these Westerners won’t mind killing millions of people in the name of National Security (Iraq, Afghanistan), but they will invite this lady to come live in the US. Such justice they practice!

 

Ramblings… Again

So all the media channels and their anchor persons have invited rightists and leftists on their forum just to discuss just one question : Kia ye quaid-e-azam ka Pakistan hai? What kind of state did he dream of? Extremist? or Secular?

I am just shocked to see people coming on television saying that Pakistan has nothing to do with Islam and Quaid-e-Azam never wanted a state where religion meddled with the state affairs! Oh! Puhleez! Why then ask for a separate state when they cannot implement the Word of Allah here!

I wont go into the debate but surely would quote Iqbal’s couplet here,

“jalaal-e-paadshahi ho ya jamhooree tamasha ho
judaa ho deen siyaasat se tu reh jaati hai changaizee”

And one more thing… We all think that we are free but are we really… and this reminds me of another couplet of Iqbal,

“mulla ko jo hai hind mein sajday ki ijazat
nadaan ye samajhta hai k islaam hai azaad”

So true, it its Pakistan completely, so even after being free for more than 60 years, we still are not free. Still there are people who think that women shouldn’t wear Burqa because they are a threat to the national security just because of one Bomb Blast! I mean what about the blasts carried out by men? They weren’t wearing Burqas so how can you just think it’s the solution.

The people who think are in power and who think that because they know English and can write in the language, they have all the knowledge, intellect and they are the most sanest beings, present quite stupid arguments! The solution to suicide attacks is not barring women from wearing a veil or men from keeping a beard! The problem lies somewhere else and I wonder why are people so blind to see that and just come up with stupid suggestions as that!

If a family is attacked by a drone, and there is only one survivor, do you think he or she would be thinking of welcoming UN and it’s food program? It’s so easy for UN to come in and say, hey! we have the food, this is the love that we have brought from so far away(not to mention that you have to pay for that stupid aid). Anyway, the point is these people who have lost their loved ones, families, homes via drone attacks are most likely to come under the influence of foreign mafia (Black Water, RAW, Mossad, CIA) and I’m 100 percent sure that they manipulate these locals by abusing and torturing them by killing their families and then using them against the locals so that they can put pressure on the government and destabilize the only Islamic country that has the nuclear weapons!

And who trusts that UN organization that is doing nothing when it comes to Muslim genocide, be it in Gaza, Iraq, Kashmir or Pakistan! And trust me it  has no power over US or Israel or India, or any other country that is involved in the killing of Muslims all over the world! We love UN!

Random

It’s been a long time and I can’t find time to write anything. This post will also be about random things, if at one place I’ll be talking about east the next moment west will be the center of my attention. anyway…

 

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NOT EVERYTHING CAN BE TRANSLATED!

The pack of red hot dry peppers that I have holds the caption : Red Peppers (Extra Hot) and the Urdu version says “garam surkh mirch”. PLEASE… “hot” is not always “garam”… Thinking of translation theory and how all of us think that everything can be translated as it is in one langguage. It’s not always correct. I remember someone asking me if the translated version of  ”ghar kitna le jatay hain” is :take home how much… and I was going bonkers. Please always remember it is not necessary to use a foreign language when you are chatting away with friends or family. It’s better to use your own tongue. I know there are issues too in that but atleast you’d be writing your thoughts correctly and not something which the other person might not understand!

 

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Wikileaks! What’s the big deal? Don’t we already know about all those things?! My husband watches all the political talk shows online and trust me while he was watching them showing all those politicians having a cat fight over this, I was thinking; is the general public mad or something for actually voting them to be the leaders of our country who cannot even hold a discussion without fighting! But then is it us who make them our leaders?

 

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Hajj Corruption! Oh please! kuch tu rehne dete! The people in power make mistakes but some mistakes cost them their lives, their seats and their position in their country! It might as well be that this mistake would take this government down really bad!

 

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MMA ki bahali? Well if that’s the case, then jamat-e-islami would be putting it’s hand inside the hole of the snake for the second time! And snakes just don’t make friends! They BITE! Hope this doesn’t happen!

 

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Homeschooling: I know my baby is just four months old but still if I want to home-school him I’d have to prepare myself from now. I seriously need to email TZ for that! Anyway, the thing is the system being taught in our schools is not what we shoudl be teaching our kids being Muslims. We shouldn’t take dictation from the West as to how to teach my kid whatever that they want to teach him, or in what way would they want to teach him! I remember reading somewhere that Maulana Maududi has worked alot upon it and has written a book on it! I’d love to get my hands over it!

Even if I’d send my kid to some school, I would know what to do with him at home when he has returned from the institution!

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Household chores and Dawood! I just have one baby right now and still my chores are never complete by the end of the day! I wonder how my mum did it with all of us!

 

Sab Se Pehle Pakistan?!

I started writing this before the party was launched. And recent interviews have proven the former chief of army a traitor. And yet he expects respect from the people of Pakistan! And still claims to be the upholder of “sab se pehle Pakistan” while exposing country’s secrets! He should be hanged till death but no.. that would be too short a punishment. I remember once praying that may he be in such pain that he’d pray for death and death wont come to him, but now I know Allah must have saved a great punishment for him as he still walks the earth with dyed hair!

The former President of Pakistan, who’s been living in UK for the past eight years, is planning to come back and wants to help the Pakistanis in dire need. Let’s just see what he did during his rule and see why would we want him back.

1. He sold Pakistani land to the Americans and till today they have been working on this land as if it’s their own. NATO gets its supplies through our land. Shame on us.

2. Drone attacks! He welcomed them taking no action.

3. Genocide! Killing of innocent students at Jamia Hafsa and claiming to have defeated the enemy!

4. He sold Pakistanis for dollars! (and this he himself acknowledged in his biography!) beghairti ki bhi inteha hai! I’m sorry for there is no other word for it!

5. To top it all, he made Abdul Qadeer Khan a viallian!

The list goes on and on…

Oh Allah! save us from people like him and Zardari and Sharif borthers and others who are here to sell off PAkistan!