Saturday, October 18, 2014

Behkawa, Sureh-Falaq aur Macbeth

One of our Islamiat teacher, Sir Aleem (here, here, here) used to say: "Behkawey, waswasey aur shar (evil) ki taqat ko samjhna chahte ho - aur chahte ho ke Sureh-Falaq ki gheraioN tak utar pao to Shakespeare ki Macbeth parho".

Few nights ago, as I was reading Surah Falaq to my kids - my son asked me the same question about the true nature of "shar" (evil). I bought him the children's version of Macbeth and as I read with him, I recalled my one blog post from 9 years ago (here) - : "Mujhe waswase or Behkawe ki taqat ka andaza us waqt hua jab main ne shakespeare ki Macbeth parhi !!


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